Opinionated SEO - Digital Marketing News
Opinionated SEO - Digital Marketing News
Google Office Hours with John Mueller Jan 14th, 2022 Recap
Today I’ll be recapping the Google Office Hours with Google’s John Mueller from January 14, 2022. I’ll provide a synopsis of the question and answer, my opinion, and a link to the question in the video. The video was an hour, I summarized this for you in 15 minutes.
Full Show Notes / Blog Page @ https://opinionatedseo.com/s2e11
Are there any negative SEO effects with a large robots.txt file?
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=45
If we don’t include the sitemap in the robots.txt, is there any negative SEO implications?
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=118
How does Google handle non user relevant HTML fragments, and AJAX calls.
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=134
Is there any guideline to the robots.txt file as far as file size.
https://www.robotstxt.org/
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/robots/intro
https://github.com/google/robotstxt
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=285
Heading Text: How important is it to use hierarchical vs just however you want. Does size matter?
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=375
Adding a new domain for a new service offering. How long until we start seeing the traffic looking like our current domain.
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=528
Custom content or rather a custom page that is geo-located by state.
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=854
The questioner is seeing good conversion rates on their app, but not so much on mobile website.
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=1228
They wanted to know if the pages had to be exact but different currency and language.
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=1500
This question was about backlinks and removing spam backlinks once you hit the 2MB file size limit on the disavow.
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=1643
Do I need to mark up content on my page with HTML semantic elements for example, footer?
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=1789
Should we expect a drop in traffic if we remove AMP?
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=1845
https://kinsta.com/blog/disable-google-amp/
They’ve got a few thousand links that they’ve disavowed, but they’re worried they may have done some legit ones.
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=2014
Seeing knowledge panel on mobile but not desktop and does Wikipedia influence when someone would be shown?
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=2117
Jason Barnard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OFPrIcv7_8 - mentioned by John.
Synonyms - The entire system is automated, there’s nothing manual.
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=2284
Several locations, what is the best way to include local schema?
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=2410
15-20 FAQs on my page, should I include all the questions?
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=2440
Can Google use content that is initially hidden for structured data.
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=2494
Product reviews:
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=2776
Coverage issue - crawl currently not indexed, discovered, not indexed.
https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=3109
Should I add unique content to my ecommerce site?