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From YouTube: English Google SEO office-hours from May 6, 2022
Description
This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from May 6, 2022. These sessions are open to anything search & website-owner related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.
Find out more at https://goo.gle/seo-oh-en
Timestamps:
03:07 Can I use Web Components for SEO?
05:18 Is it ok to use FAQ schema across different parts of a page?
07:34 Can bloggers plagiarize their own content?
10:23 Our site is not user-friendly with JavaScript turned off, is it a problem?
13:07 We use some static HTML pages and some WordPress pages, does that matter?
17:12 I have some pages with rel-canonical, some without, why are they both shown in search?
20:54 What can we do about spammy backlinks that we don't like?
23:51 We saw a ranking drop across domain versions. Could technical issues cause it?
26:52 What's the stand on App Indexing?
29:08 Our CDN blocks Translate, is that bad for SEO?
A
All
right,
hi
everyone
and
welcome
to
this
episode
of
the
google
search
central
seo
office
hours
hangout.
My
name
is
john
mueller.
I'm
a
search
advocate
on
the
search
relations
team
and
our
job
is
partially
to
help
answer,
questions
from
site
owners
that
come
up
all
around
their
websites
and
around
search
so
like
last
time
we're
trying
things
slightly
different
this
time,
so
I'm
still
not
100
sure
how
this
this
will
all
pan
out.
I
really
love
your
feedback
along
the
way.
A
This
time,
I'm
recording
it
before
the
official
office
hour
session
has
started.
So
nobody
else
is
in
in
this
session
now,
which
is
kind
of
weird,
but
we'll
see
how
it
goes
anyway,
that
recording
I
will
try
to
focus
on
the
submitted
questions
and
the
episodes
that
we
make
are
going
to
be
a
little
bit
shorter.
A
Maybe
about
half
as
long
and
after
the
recording
is
complete
I'll,
open
things
up
to
kind
of
general
public
as
well
to
kind
of
ask
their
questions
all
around
their
website,
and
we
can
try
to
find
things
kind
of
like
outside.
Of
the
recording
to
talk
about
the
goal
of
this
change
is
to
make
it
a
little
bit
easier
to
digest
the
recording
afterwards
shorter
is
usually
a
little
bit
easier.
I'm
also
simplifying
some
of
the
questions
here
so
that
it's
a
bit
easier
to
understand
what
what
the
questions
are
getting
at.
A
Assuming
I
get
at
the
kind
of
the
right
thing
what
people
are
actually
asking,
if
not
feel
free
to
kind
of
ask
more
in
one
of
the
next
episodes
and
yeah
and
the
the
other
thing.
I
think
that
I'll
do
is
kind
of
like
with
the
previous
sessions
when
we
did
these
live.
If
there
are
questions
that
are
submitted,
that
are
kind
of
off
topic
or
go
into
too
much
detail,
I'll,
probably
end
up
skipping
those
for
those
kind
of
things.
A
I
do
recommend
going
to
the
official
google
search
central
help
forums,
they're
product
experts
in
the
help
forums
who
can
help
you
to
kind
of
resolve
a
lot
of
these
topics.
And
who
can
you
who
you
can
discuss
these
kinds
of
issues
with?
And
there
are
lots
of
issues
around
seo
where
there
is
no
absolute
answer,
and
sometimes
it's
just
good
to
talk
with
other
people.
A
That's
also
sometimes
useful
because
you
get
a
kind
of
a
wider
range
of
opinions,
at
least
that's
what
I
tend
to
see.
In
any
case,
let's
look
at
some
of
the
questions
that
were
submitted
and
I'll
try
to
get
some
answers
for
you
along
the
way,
all
right.
The
first
one
I
have
is:
is
there
any
problem
with
using
web
components
for
seo,
or
is
it
okay
to
use
them
for
my
website?
A
So
web
components
are
essentially
a
way
of
using
predefined
components
within
a
website,
usually
they're
integrated
with
the
kind
of
a
javascript
framework
and
the
general
idea
there
is
that
as
a
web
designer
as
a
web
developer,
you
work
with
these
existing
components
and
you
don't
have
to
reinvent
the
wheel
every
time.
Something
specific
is
supposed
to
happen.
A
For
example,
if
you
need
a
calendar
on
one
of
your
pages,
then
you
could
just
use
a
web
component
for
a
calendar
and
then
you're
done
when
it
comes
to
seo
these
web
components
are
implemented
using
various
forms
of
javascript,
and
we
can
process
pretty
much
most
javascript
when
it
comes
to
google
search
and
while
I
I
would
like
to
say
just
kind
of
like
blindly,
everything
will
be
supported.
You
can
test
this
and
you
should
test
this
and
the
best
way
to
test.
A
If
you
think
that
some
of
the
important
information
is
missing,
then
you
can
drill
down
and
try
to
figure
out
what
is
getting
stuck
there
and
we
have
a
lot
of
documentation
on
javascript
websites
and
web
search
nowadays.
So
I
would
double
check
that
also
martin
split
on
my
team.
He
has
written
a
lot
of
these
documentations
he's
also
findable
on
twitter.
He
sometimes
also
does
office
hours
like
this,
where
he
goes
through
some
of
the
javascript
seo
questions.
A
So
if
you're,
a
kind
of
a
web
developer,
working
on
web
components
and
you're
trying
to
make
sure
that
things
are
being
done
well,
I
I
would
also
check
that
all
right
is
it
okay,
that
is
it.
Okay
to
use
the
faq
schema
to
markup
questions
and
answers
that
appear
in
different
sections
of
a
blog
post
that
aren't
formatted
as
a
traditional
faq
list.
A
For
example,
a
post
maybe
has
10
headings
for
different
sections.
A
few
of
those
are
questions
with
answers,
so
I
double
checked
the
official
documentation.
That's
where
I
would
recommend
you
go
for
these
kinds
of
questions
as
well,
and
it
looks
like
it's
fine.
The
important
part
when
it
comes
to
faq,
snippets
and
structured
data
in
general
is
that
the
content
should
be
visible
on
the
page.
A
So
it
should
really
be
the
case
that
both
the
question
and
the
answer
is
visible
when
someone
visits
that
page
and
not
that
it's
kind
of
like
hidden
away
in
a
section
of
a
page,
but
if
they
the
questions
and
the
answers
are
visible
on
the
page,
even
if
they're
in
different
places
of
on
the
page,
that's
perfectly
fine.
The
other
thing
to
keep
in
mind
is
that,
like
all
structured
data,
faq
snippets
are
not
guaranteed
to
be
shown
in
the
search
results.
A
Essentially,
you
make
your
pages
eligible
to
have
these
faq
snippets
shown,
but
it
doesn't
guarantee
that
they
will
be
shown.
So
you
can
use
a
testing
tool
to
make
sure
that
everything
is
implemented
properly
and
if
the
testing
tool
says,
that's
okay,
then
probably
you're
on
the
right
track,
but
you
will
probably
still
have
to
kind
of
wait
and
see
how
google
actually
interprets
your
pages
and
processes
them
to
see
what
is
actually
shown
in
the
search
results
and
for
structured
data.
A
Okay,
next
question
is
kind
of
a
different
one.
Is
google
okay
with
publishers
plagiarizing
their
own
content?
For
example,
I
wrote
an
affiliate
article
suggesting
something
for
mom.
Can
I
copy
the
content
of
that
article
to
write
more
articles,
for
maybe
a
sister
or
a
wife,
or
an
aunt
or
a
grandmother?
A
A
So
that's
something
kind
of
like
from
a
strategic
point
of
view
that
I
would
recommend,
but
purely
from
from
a
policy
point
of
view,
I
don't
think
there's
anything
specifically
in
the
way
of
you
taking
individual
articles
and
then
making.
I
don't
know
a
handful
of
copies
of
that.
So
that's
something
where,
like
from
from
a
purely
a
practical
point
of
view,
that's
kind
of
up
to
you,
but
my
recommendations
really
kind
of
make
fewer
articles
that
are
actually
really
good.
A
The
one
extreme
case
here
that
can
pop
up
if
you're
like
really
intensely
copying
your
own
content,
is
that
you
end
up
creating
doorway
pages
and
that
is
essentially
taking
one
piece
of
content
and
creating
lots
and
lots
of
variations
just
with
different
words
in
it
and
that's
something
that
would
be
against
our
webmaster
guidelines.
So
that's
something
I
would
watch
out
for
and
also
that's
something
where
you're
creating
a
ton
of
really,
I
don't
know
lower
quality.
A
A
All
right
next
question
I
have
here
is:
our
website
is
not
very
user
friendly
if
javascript
is
turned
off.
Most
of
the
images
are
not
loaded.
Our
flyout
menu
can't
be
opened,
however,
the
chrome
inspect
feature
in
their
all
menu
links.
Are
there
in
the
source
code?
Might
our
dependence
on
javascript
still
be
a
problem
for
google
cloud?
A
There
are
lots
of
kind
of
variations
on
things
that
we
recommend
with
regards
to
improving
things.
If
you
run
into
problems,
so
I
would
double
check
our
guides
on
javascript
and
seo
and
think
about.
Maybe
I
don't
know
trying
things
out
making
sure
that
they
actually
work
the
way
that
you
want
and
then
taking
that
to
improve
your
website
overall,
and
you
mentioned
user-friendly
with
regards
to
javascript.
A
A
A
So
I
think,
first
of
all,
it's
important
to
know
that
these
are
essentially
just
different
platforms
and
essentially
with
all
of
these
platforms,
you're
creating
html
pages
and
kind
of
the
background
or
the
the
back-end
side
of
your
website
that
ends
up
creating
these
html
pages.
That's
something
that
googlebot
doesn't
really
look
at,
or
at
least
that's
something
that
googlebot
doesn't
really
try
to
evaluate.
A
So
if
your
pages
are
written
in
html
and
you
write
them
in
an
editor
and
you
load
them
on
your
server
and
they
serve
like
that
like
we
can
see
that
they're
html
pages,
if
they're
created
on
the
fly
on
your
server
based
on
a
database
in
wordpress
or
some
other
kind
of
platform
that
you're
using
and
then
it
creates
html
pages.
We
see
those
final
html
pages
and
we
essentially
work
with
those.
A
So
if
you're
seeing
kind
of
issues
with
regards
to
your
website
overall,
when
it
comes
to
things
like
crawling
indexing
or
ranking,
and
you
can
kind
of
exclude
the
the
technical
elements
there
kind
of
that,
googlebot
is
able
to
actually
see
the
content.
Then
usually
what
remains
is
kind
of
the
quality
side
of
things
and
that's
something
that
definitely
doesn't
rely
on
the
infrastructure
that
you
use
to
create
these
pages.
But
more
it's
about
the
content
that
you're
providing
there
and
the
overall
experience
that
you're
providing
on
the
website.
A
So,
if
you're
seeing
something
that,
for
example,
your
blog
posts
are
not
being
picked
up
by
google
or
not
ranking.
Well,
google
and
your
static
html
pages
are
doing
fine
on
google.
Then
it's
not
because
they're
static,
html
pages
that
they're
doing
well
on
google,
but
rather
because
google
thinks
that
these
are
actually
good
pieces
of
content
that
it
should
recommend
to
other
users
and
kind
of
on
that
level.
A
That's
that's
where
I
would
take
a
look
and
not
focus
so
much
on
the
infrastructure,
but
really
focus
on
the
actual
content
that
you're
providing
and
when
it
comes
to
content.
It's
not
just
the
text.
That's
like
the
primary
part
of
the
page.
It's
like
everything
around
the
whole
website
that
comes
into
play.
So
that's
something
where
I.
A
A
Overall,
let's
see
I
have
a
set
of
canonical
or
I
I've
set
canonical
urls
on
five
pages,
but
google
is
showing
it
a
third
page
as
well.
Why
is
it
not
only
showing
the
urls
where
I've
set
a
canonical
on
it?
For
so
I'm
not
100
sure.
I
understand
this
question
correctly,
but
kind
of
paraphrasing.
It
sounds
like
on
five
pages
of
your
website.
A
You
want
to
have
indexed
like
that
or
essentially
which
address
you
want
to
have
used,
so
in
particular,
if
you
have
one
page,
maybe
with
the
file
name
and
uppercase,
and
one
page
with
the
file
name
and
lowercase,
then
in
some
situations
your
server
might
show
exactly
the
same
content.
Technically
they're
different
addresses,
uppercase
and
lowercase
are
slightly
different,
but
from
a
practical
point
of
view,
your
server
is
showing
exactly
the
same
thing
and
google.
When
it
looks
at
that
says.
Well,
it's
not
worthwhile
to
index
two
addresses
with
the
same
content.
A
I
really
want
you
to
use,
maybe
the
lowercase
version
of
the
address
when
you're
indexing
this
content,
you
might
have
seen
the
uppercase
version,
but
I
really
want
you
to
use
the
lowercase
version
and
that's
essentially
what
the
rel
canonical
does
it's
not
a
guarantee
that
we
would
use
the
version
that
you
specify
there,
but
it's
it's
a
signal
for
us.
It
helps
us
to
figure
out
all
things
else
being
kind
of
equal.
A
You
really
prefer
this
address,
so
we
will
try
to
use
that
address
and
that's
kind
of
the
the
preference
part
that
comes
into
play
here
and
it
comes
into
play
when
we've
recognized.
There
are
multiple
copies
of
the
same
piece
of
content
on
your
website
and
for
everything
else.
We
will
just
try
to
index
it
to
the
best
of
our
abilities,
and
that
also
means
that
for
the
pages
where
you
have
a
real
canonical
on
it,
sometimes
we
will
follow
that
advice
that
you
give
us.
Sometimes
our
systems
might
say
well.
A
Actually
I
think,
maybe
you
have
it
wrong.
You
should
have
used
the
other
address
as
the
canonical
that
can
happen.
It
doesn't
mean
it
will
rank
differently
or
it
will
be
worse
off
in
search
it's
just
well.
Google
systems
are
choosing
a
different
one
and
for
other
pages
on
your
website,
you
might
not
have
a
real
canonical
set
at
all
and
for
those
we
will
just
try
to
pick
one
ourselves
and
that's
also
perfectly
fine,
and
in
all
of
these
cases
the
the
ranking
will
be
fine.
A
So
if
you
have
the
canonical
set
on
some
pages
but
not
on
others,
we
will
still
try
to
index
those
pages
and
find
the
right
address
to
use
for
those
pages
when
we
show
them
in
search.
So
that's
kind
of
like
it's.
It's
a
good
practice
to
have
the
real
canonical
on
your
pages,
because
you're
trying
to
take
control
over
this
vague
possibility
that
maybe
a
different
address
will
show,
but
it's
not
an
absolute
necessity
to
have
a
real
canonical.
A
Let's
see
a
bunch
of
questions
here,
what
can
we
do
if
we
have
thousands
of
spammy
links
that
are
continuously
placed
as
black
backlinks
on
malicious
domains?
They
contain
spammy
keywords
and
cause
404s
on
our
domain.
We
see
a
strong
correlation
between
these
spammy
links
and
a
penalty
that
we
got
after
a
spam
update
in
2021.
A
We
disavowed
all
the
spammy
links
and
we
reported
the
domain
which
is
listed
as
a
source
of
the
links
spam.
What
else
can
we
do
yeah?
I
think
this
is
always
super
frustrating
as
a
site
owner
when
you
look
at
it.
You're
like
someone
else,
is
ruining
my
chances
in
the
search
results,
but
there
are
two
things
I
I
think
that
are
important
to
mention
in
this
particular
case.
A
A
The
second
part
is
you
mentioned
you
disavowed
those
spammy
backlinks,
and
especially
if
you
mentioned
that
these
are
like
from
a
handful
of
domains,
then
you
can
do
that
with
the
domain
entry
in
the
disavow
backlinks
tool
and
that
essentially
takes
them
out
of
our
system
as
well.
So
we
will
still
list
them
in
search
console
and
you
might
still
find
them
there
and
kind
of
be
a
bit
confused
about
that.
But
essentially
they
don't
have
any
effect
at
all.
A
A
Probably
those
links
are
not
doing
anything
negative
to
your
website
and,
if
you're,
seeing
kind
of
significant
changes
with
regards
to
your
website
in
search,
I
would
not
focus
on
those
links,
but
rather
kind
of
look
further
and
that
could
be
within
your
own
website
kind
of
to
understand
a
little
bit
better.
What
is
actually
the
value
that
you're
providing
there?
What
can
you
do
to
really
stand
up
above
all
of
the
other
websites
with
regards
to
kind
of
the
awesome
value
that
you're
providing
users?
A
How
can
you
make
that
as
clear
as
possible
to
search
engines
that's
kind
of
the
direction
I
would
take
there
so
not
lose
too
much
time
on
those
spammy
backlinks.
You
can
just
disavow
the
whole
domain
that
they're
coming
from
and
then
move
on,
there's
absolutely
nothing
that
you
need
to
do
there,
and
especially,
if
they're,
already
404,
linking
to
404
pages
they're,
already
kind
of
ignored.
Let's
see
since
the
end
of
january,
we
see
a
massive
ranking
drop
for
our
dot
d
e
domain
and
then
later
also
on
further
international
domains.
A
A
There's
no
manual
action
or
security
issue
in
search,
console
lots
of
minor
technical
aspects
have
additionally
been
fixed
and
we
double
check
the
common
seo.
Mistakes
like
robots
text,
robots,
meta
tag,
canonical
hreflang
et
cetera,
but
nothing
has
fixed.
So
could
it
be
like?
Are
we
on
the
right
track,
or
is
there
some
something
else,
so
I
I
think
kind
of
from
taking
a
step
back
without
looking
into
the
the
specific
site.
A
A
To
me,
that
kind
of
suggests
that
there's
not
a
kind
of
a
simple
technical
tweak
that
you
need
to
do
on
your
website,
but
it's
rather
more
a
matter
of
google's
understanding
of
your
website
overall
and
in
particular,
the
ssl
certificate.
If
ssl
works
well
in
a
browser,
it
will
work
well
for
indexing.
That
would
not
be
a
cause
of
that
kind
of
a
drop
of
visibility
in
the
search
results
and
a
lot
of
the
kind
of
you
mentioned
them
already
as
minor
technical
things.
A
So,
for
example,
if
you
had
your
robot's
text
file
completely
wrong,
and
it
would
not
be
a
case
that,
after
one
or
two
years
then
suddenly
google
would
react
and
say:
oh,
we
can't
deal
with
this
website
anymore.
It's
really
like
that's
a
clear
technical
issue
and
that
would
have
been
a
technical
issue
from
when
you
uploaded
that
robot's
text
file,
whereas
if
you
later
on
over
time,
see
that
actually
the
visibility
of
the
website
overall
is
changing.
A
A
A
The
the
one
thing
that
you
can
do
with
regards
to
any
kind
of
an
app,
be
it
in
a
mobile
phone
smartphone
app
like
these
things
or
a
desktop
app
that
you
install.
You
can
absolutely
make
a
homepage
for
it
and
that's
something
that
can
be
shown
in
search
like
anything
else
and
for
a
lot
of
the
kind
of
smartphone
apps.
There
will
also
be
a
page
on
the
play,
store
or
the
app
store.
I
don't
know
what
they're
they're
all
called,
but
usually
they're,
like
landing
pages.
A
That
also
exist,
which
are
normal
web
pages,
which
can
also
appear
in
search,
and
these
things
can
appear
in
search
when
people
search
for
something
around
your
app.
Your
own
website
can
appear
in
search
when
people
are
searching
for
something
around
the
app
and
especially
when
it
comes
to
your
own
website.
You
can
do
all
the
things
that
we
talk
about
when
it
comes
to
seo
for
your
own
website.
So
I
would
not
like
say:
oh
app.
Indexing
is
no
longer
the
same
as
it
was
10
years
ago.
A
A
A
A
So
I
think
there
are
different
ways
or
different
infrastructure
on
our
side
to
access
your
pages
and
there's.
On
the
one
hand,
google
bot
and
the
associated
infrastructure-
and
I
believe
the
translate
systems
are
slightly
different
because
they
don't
go
through
robots
text,
but
rather
they
look
at
the
page
directly
kind
of
thing,
and
because
of
that,
it
can
be
that
these
are
blocked
in
different
ways.
A
When
it
comes
to
seo.
Google
just
needs
to
be
able
to
crawl
with
googlebot,
and
you
can
test
that
in
search
console
to
see
like
does
googlebot
have
access
and
through
search
console.
You
can
get
that
confirmation
that
it's
it's
working,
okay,
how
it
works
for
the
translate
this
page
kind
of
like
back-end
systems-
I
don't
know,
but
it's
not
critical
for
seo
and
the
the
last
question
like
how
can
you
block
that
kind
of
translate
this
page
link?
A
There
is
a
no
translate
meta
tag
that
you
can
use
on
your
pages
that
essentially
tells
chrome
and
the
systems
around
translation
that
this
page
does
not
need
to
be
translated
or
shouldn't
be
kind
of
offered
as
a
translation,
and
with
that
I
believe
you
can
block
the
translate.
This
page
link
in
the
search
results
as
well
and
the
no
translate
meta
tag
is
documented
in
our
search
developers
documentation.
A
So
I
will
double
check
that
cool
okay,
so
we
made
it
to
the
end
of
the
session.
It
feels
kind
of
weird
to
do
these
without
anyone
else
in
in
the
room,
but
oh
well,
we'll
kind
of
see
how
it
goes
see
how
the
recording
ends
up
and
if,
if
you've
enjoyed
this
feel
free
to
drop
in
your
questions
for
one
of
the
future
seo
office
hours,
you
can
also
help
out
in
the
help
forums.
A
If
you
like
answering
these
kind
of
questions
yourself,
I
appreciate
your
feedback
on
the
kind
of
the
format
like
this.
If
this
is
okay
for
you,
if
you'd
like
it
slightly
differently,
I'm
also
going
to
continue
recording
the
ask
google
about
video
series
where
we
just
go
into
one
question.
One
answer
type
thing:
maybe
that's
also
an
approach
that
we
should
take
for
these
kind
of
things
too,
we'll
see
anyway,
thanks
for
sticking
around
until
the
end
and
hopefully
see
you
all
in
one
of
the
future
episodes
bye.
Everyone.