Website Is Down Temporarily Q. There isn’t really a way to tell Google that the website will be temporarily down without getting dropped out of the index. 304 Response Code Q. Google doesn’t change its crawl rate on the website based on existing 304 pages. 301 Redirects Q. It’s okay to have a lot of […]
Same Language Content for Different Countries Q. It’s more reasonable to have one version of the website targeting different countries with the same language, rather than different versions of the same language website. Image Formats and Image Search Q. The way the format of images on the website is changed defines whether or not there […]
2021 was a unique year for businesses – retail sales were crashing before picking up steam this October, and the economy was in decline up until that point. This sudden reversal in buying behaviour and business trends highlight the importance of identifying potential areas of growth and capitalizing on opportunities this 2022. So, how do […]
Mobile Friendliness Q. Pages that are not mobile-friendly don’t fall out of being indexed Title Length Q. On Google’s side, there are no guidelines on how long a page title should be URL Requirements Q. Length of URL and words contained in URL matter mostly for users, not for SEO Doorway Pages Q. If a […]
No-Index and Crawling Q. If a website had no index pages at some point, and Google hasn’t picked up the pages after they became indexable, it can be fixed by pushing the pages to get noticed by the system Canonical and Alternate Q. Rel=“canonical” indicates that the link mentioned is the preferred URL, rel=“alternate” means […]
Core Updates Q. Core Updates are more about website’s relevance rather than its technical issues Indexing On Page Videos Q. Google doesn’t always automatically pick up videos on a website page that work on Lazy Load with facade, and there are other ways to get those videos indexed Discover Q. Discover is a very personalised […]
Landing Page, AHREF Lang Q. If you have a doorway page to different country options, set that up as the X-Default (apart of HREF Lang tags) so Google use that URL where there isn’t a Geo targeted landing page No-index pages, Google’s evaluation Q. Google doesn’t take no-index pages into account when evaluating a website […]
Core Web Vitals Q. The weight of Core Web Vitals doesn’t change depending on what kind of website is being assessed. Reviews from applications Q. Google doesn’t pick up reviews left on Android and IOS applications Crawl Request Q. The number of crawl requests depends on two things: crawl demand and crawl capacity Search Console […]
More indexed pages – higher website quality? Q. A website having a higher number of indexed pages doesn’t affect its authority Error page redirects during crawling Q. Sometimes there can be issues with rendering a page that leads to the crawling running into error pages Pages for different search intents Q. Website pages for different […]
Internal Relative URLs pointing to absolute canonical URLs Q. When we have internal relative URLs pointing to the canonical absolute URLs, is that fine for Google? Other questions from the floor: MUM and BERT Q. So a couple of years ago Google noted that when it came to ranking results, BERT would better understand and […]