Google Office Hours with John Mueller Jan 14th, 2022 Recap
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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? https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=3404
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