Channel: Google Search Central

Category: Science & Technology

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Description: 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. Find out more at goo.gle/seo-oh-en Feel free to join us - we welcome folks of all levels! 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?