4-day loop in the Julian Alps – Stara Fužina to Triglav and back

I hiked a 4-day / 4-night loop from Stara Fužina to Triglav to Stara Fužina in July 2023. I’m writing this up in early March 2024, because it’s taken me a while to get round to it!

I was frustrated when planning my trip by the lack of good resources for longer independent hikes in the Slovenian Alps, even though the area is well suited to them. I ended up relying on personal accounts such as:

So, hopefully I can add one of my own.

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Testing (no)followed links

Original text (24th January)

This page is explicitly “noindex,follow”.

Here are some links to pages that (at the time of writing) are not and have never been linked to anywhere else:

In about a month I’ll remove that robots.txt rule, and see if Google crawls the previously blocked page. If it does, that means that this page is still being treated as “noindex,follow”. If it doesn’t, and that remains the case for a reasonable period of time, that indicates that this page is being treated as “noindex,nofollow”.

I’m using robots.txt to do this because it means I don’t have to update this page to change what it (follow) links to – so if this mechanic described by John Mueller refreshes when the page is updated, that won’t invalidate my methodology.

Here’s a link to the Screaming Frog output as it currently stands.

Update (29th January)

Here’s the site: search result on January 29th (I forgot to check sooner):

Site search for tcapper.co.uk, showing the homepage, a paginated page that shouldn't be there, and the "perfectly normal page" linked to from the test page

This is behaving as expected, with two of the pages linked to from here both found, but not the one that I’ve linked to with a “nofollow” attribute.

In addition, I decided to add this link, in case I need a 2nd robots.txt blocked URL to play with later: