Category: Webmaster Hangouts

WebMaster Hangout – Live from November 19, 2021

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 […]

WebMaster Hangout – Live from November 12, 2021

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 […]

WebMaster Hangout – Live from November 05, 2021

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 […]

WebMaster Hangout – Live from October 29, 2021

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 […]

WebMaster Hangout – Live from October 22, 2021

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 […]

WebMaster Hangout – Live from October 08, 2021

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 […]

WebMaster Hangout – Live from October 01, 2021

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 […]

WebMaster Hangout – Live from September 24, 2021

Blog Pages are Ranking, while Product Pages are not Q. If on a website certain types of pages rank well, while others don’t, it might be about the user query that lands them on the website Building Visibility Q. It’s more reasonable to build visibility by first trying to rank for more specific unique keywords […]

WebMaster Hangout – Live from September 17, 2021

Quality of Old Pages Q. When assessing new pages on a website, the quality of older pages matters too Link Equity and Backlinks Q. Links from high value pages are treated with a little bit more weight compared to some random page on the Internet Other questions from the floor: Category Page Dropping in the […]

WebMaster Hangout – Live from September 10, 2021

Quote Websites Q. Websites with the same quotes rank separately and don’t get penalised for having the same quotes Geotargeting Q. To target different countries, create subdomains or subdirectories and set geotargeting on Search Console individually New CSS Property Q. New CSS property might have only indirect effect on Core Web Vitals and subsequent ranking […]