English Google SEO office-hours from April 1, 2022
This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from April 1, 2022. These sessions are open to anything search & website-owner related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.
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Timestamps:
00:55 Why do the server logs not match the crawl report?
03:10 Why did our Discover traffic drop?
07:05 When you redirect a domain, does it show in the links report?
08:40 A spammy site copies us, is the DMCA form relevant?
11:52 Will our site see a traffic loss when migrating?
14:55 We moved in 2020, can we still fix the robots.txt for redirects?
17:28 What’s the optimal content length per page?
18:54 Some of our blog posts aren’t indexed, what can we do?
22:13 What’s Google’s position on autogenerated content?
26:06 Does using a span tag in a heading affect SEO?
27:28 Can a low PageSpeed score affect my site’s ranking?
31:02 Is a hidden navigational link on mobile affect my site’s SEO?
32:10 Is using abbreviations like “eg” a problem?
33:15 A competitor uses structured data incorrectly, should we do it too?
34:24 Our chat-tool shows a “bubble” on pages, is it a problem?
38:14 Search Console shows AMP articles, but uses non-AMP URLs. Why?
39:51 Can Google crawl pagination with “view more” buttons?
42:34 To what degree does Google follow the robots.txt directives?
44:25 Can I sell Fireworks on my website, even if it’s considered dangerous for Ads?
45:23 Can I launch a new shop with all products at once?
46:52 Google says max 16 words in an alt text, what does it mean for usability?
49:16 Some content is hidden until a user clicks and runs JavaScript, is it indexable?
53:27 If 40% of your content is affiliate, will Google consider your site a deals website?
54:45 Does it matter if publishers outsource content vs if it’s written by staff writers?
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