This is a recording of the Google Webmaster Central office-hours hangout from November 15, 2019. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.
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0:50 – My site has moved to mobile-first indexing but I’m seeing the Google Desktop crawling more, is this a bad thing?
2:40 – How do I handle the URL parameters/canonicals between m dot and desktop sites?
6:21 – Should I create a separate sitemap for my m dot site to make crawling faster?
6:52 – How can I get my rich results to appear?
11:37 – Can I use the indexing API for an ecommerce site?
12:40 – When will product schema be scaled for global ecommerce sites?
17:12 – If we add FAQ schema to our page, will FAQ schema show every time in the search results?
17:52 – European Data protection requires overlays (for cookies), how does Google handle these?
21:12 – How does Google treat templated content like on ecommerce and real estate sites where there are hundreds of thousands of pages being generated?
23:30 – What is Google Discover and how it’s different from Google News?
25:44– How can we integrate affiliate marketing with news websites?
27:03 – My company formerly engaged in JS attribution links, how does Google read this?
29:02 – The amount of (not provided) in GA is steadily increasing, how can I improve if I don’t know?
30:47 – The Google BERT update affected two of my websites dropped in traffic and rankings?
34:31 – Search Console is showing different results for mobile/desktop for site speed, how can I go about fixing this?
37:33 – Google says JSON-LD is preferred but Google also says JavaScript is bad, can you explain this further?
38:41 – Is there a length to maintain for product description schema; is there a length to maintain for meta description?
40:21 – If a site has over 70% duplicate H1 tags, does that harm SEO?
41:59 – How do we handle different URLs between languages?
44:35 – How long should a URL be?
46:13 – We took pages with a deeper level depth and moved them up a directory level, how long would it take Google to understand this?
47:57 – A lot of old pages are in internal linking results in search console, should I be worried about it?
49:33 – In search console, there’s a delay in sitemap being crawled, correct?
51:38 – Our pages were hacked, we fixed the content, and have not been reindexed for 3 months, what can we do?
53:05 – Are reviews in Google my business a ranking factor?
54:05 – We have old low-volume pages with mobility issues, how can we get the flag to go away?
54:47 – How does BERT affect Chinese queries?
55:48 – Does Google strip off internal URL parameters on its own?
57:26 – What are Google using for speed rankings, performance? Score?
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Hi John, how can it be that you are getting younger and younger? Which algorithm do you use for this :-)?
Thanks John! Sometimes you don’t have answers, but when you have it’s so valuable! 76% of all traffic is mobile, however, content creators continue producing desktop version primarily )
Google help to grow your site traffic.
Nice answer