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From YouTube: English Google SEO office-hours from May 21, 2021
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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from May 21, 2021. 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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A
Maybe
it'll
start
all
right.
Welcome
everyone
to
today's
google
search
central
seo
office
hours
hangout.
My
name
is
john
mueller.
I'm
a
search
advocate
at
google
here
in
switzerland
and
part
of
what
we
do
are
these
office
hour
hangouts,
where
people
can
join
in
and
ask
their
questions
around
their
website
and
web
search,
and
we
can
try
to
find
some
answers.
A
Bunch
of
stuff
was
submitted
on
youtube,
so
we
can
go
through
some
of
that,
but
it
also
looks
like
a
handful
of
you
are
already
raising
your
hands,
so
maybe
we'll
just
start
off
with
all
of
that.
I
I
hope
you're
doing
well.
I
hope
you
caught
up
and
had
a
chance
to
take
a
look
at
all
of
the
google
I
o
stuff.
It
seems
like
there
was
some
some
pretty
neat
stuff
happening
there.
A
So
I
don't
know
I
don't
have
a
ton
of
really
super
new
insights
to
the
super
new
announcements,
but
maybe
I
can
help
if
anyone
has
questions.
All
right,
barry
looks
like
you're
lined.
B
Up
first,
cool
thanks.
I
guess
two
questions
on
io
one
is:
can
you
tell
us
what
what
you
like
most
about
the
show
like
what
maybe
session
or
what
you
found
most
interesting
about
it
and
two?
Is
there
anything
that
you
may
have
not
seen
the
community
discussed
that
maybe
should
have
been
discussed
from
the
I
o
event.
A
I
don't
know,
I
think
the
the
the
parts
I
found
really
cool
are,
on
the
one
hand,
the
the
adventure
game
which,
which
I
thought
was
done
really
well,
and
it
was
like
almost
like,
like
seeing
people
at
a
at
a
conference
like
you
run
across
names
that
you've
seen
before
not
quite
the
same,
but
it
was
pretty
good
and
the
other
one
is
everything
around
rss
where
it's
like.
B
B
A
That
announcement-
I
don't
know-
I
don't
know
it's
like
such
a
whirlwind.
I
I
don't
know
I
I'll
probably
notice
in
in
the
coming
weeks,
but
it
seems
like
a
lot
of
stuff
got
picked
up.
I
mean
some
of
the
the
aspects
were
a
bit
tricky
with
regards
to
having
to
record
them
ahead
of
time.
You
never
really
know
exactly
what
will
happen
until
then,
but
I
I
think,
like
some
of
the
cool
stuff
got
announced
anyway,
so
that
was
that
was
pretty
nice
but
yeah.
A
C
Hi
sean
john
sorry,
I
have
a
question
regarding
to
sigma
markup
data
market
structure,
data
markup.
So
I
remember
that
google
preferred
json
ld,
but
for
e-commerce
site
it
will
be
quite
hard
to
do
that.
Do
so,
because
the
review
and
the
price
are
always
changing.
So
it
is
to
some
degree
it's
more
easy
to
use
micro
data.
To
do
so,
however,
since
google
preferred
json
ld,
is
that
a
way
that
we
can
use
json,
ld
and
dynamically
inject
inject
it
without
using
javascript?
C
Because
because
I
remember,
if
we
use
javascript
there
is,
there
is
a
possibility
that
google
merchant
center
bot
do
not
grow
it.
So
we
also
don't
want
to
use
javascript.
Is
it
possible
to
do
html
based,
but
json
ld,
but
at
the
same
time
dynamic?
Maybe
some
fancy
psp.
A
Sure
I
mean
you
can
use
anything
that
runs
on
your
server,
essentially
to
generate
the
html
and
that
can
include
the
json
ld
like
that,
I
mean.
That's,
that's
usually
how
I
mean
I
haven't
taken
a
look
at
the
details,
but
my
assumption
is
that's
how
most
e-commerce
sites
do
that
that
they
look
up
the
database
information,
the
pricing,
the
availability
and
they
put
that
into
markup
in
jsnodey
or
microdata
or
whatever
format,
and
I
think
the
the
part
with
our
preference.
A
There
is
mostly
along
the
lines
that
oftentimes
people
externally
just
want,
like
one
preference
like
these
are
multiple
options
that
you
can
do
and
we
recommend
using
json
ld
because
it
usually
makes
it
easier
for
sites
to
implement,
but
that
doesn't
mean
that
there's
any
less
value
passed
with
with
like
the
other
types
of
markup.
A
So
if,
if
whatever
feature
you're
looking
for
supports
that
type
of
markup
and
that's
what
you
want
to
do,
then
like
go
for
it,
I
I
wouldn't
say
you
need
to
do
kind
of
google's
preference
right,
because
usually
people
just
come
to
us
and
say
it's
like.
Oh,
you
have
two
or
three
options,
which
one
is
the
best
one
and
if
we
just
say
oh,
I
don't
know
just
figure
it
out
yourself.
Then
everyone's
like
oh,
I
won't
do
anything.
But
if
we
say
it's
like,
oh
we
really
like
this
option.
C
A
D
Right,
hi,
john
hi,
everybody
fabrizio
ferrari
of
virtualsheetmusic.com.
Here
john,
we
had
a
quick
chat
a
few
weeks
ago
about
this
image
and
image
search
related
issue.
We
got
on
our
website
just
to,
and
I
wanted
to
know
your
thoughts
about
it.
Personally.
I
also
discussed
with
with
glenn
gabe
about
this,
and
I
know
that
he's
very
interested
in
your
thoughts
too.
D
D
This
search
set
attribute
fact
is
that
we
forgot
to
implement
that
and
after
two
days
we
we
had
a
drop
of
30
traffic
for
image
search,
and
we
didn't
realize
that
then,
after
four
weeks,
so
after
four
weeks
we
added
the
source
set
tag
attribute
and
and
and
so
we
are
still
hoping
to
to
have
our
traffic
back,
but
after
two
months
that
that's
not
happened
yet.
So
I
wanted
to
note
from
you
it's
just
a
matter
of
time
or
is
there
anything
else
we
can
do
about
it?.
A
D
A
Now
I
I
don't
know
so
it
it's
possible
that
that
the
two
months
time
there
is
just
like
the
the
time
that
it's
still
taking
to
catch
up
with
a
larger
site.
One
thing
you
you
could
do
is
maybe
send
me
some
details
and
I
can
look
at
that
with
the
image
search
team
directly.
A
I
I
would
also
double
check
the
details
on
your
side
with
regards
to
which
image
urls
are
actually
shown
in
image
search.
Has
it
picked
up
the
change
in
image?
No.
D
No,
I
I
still
see
that
they're
all
the
images,
but
it
looks
like
they
dropped
in
rankings
for
some
reason,
and-
and
I
think
it's
related
to
that-
because
that
happened
two
days
after
the
change.
E
A
A
bigger
bigger
e-commerce
site
or
even
medium-sized
e-commerce
site.
So,
if
you're
seeing
changes
like
two
days
after
a
change
that
you
made,
that
feels
like
it
wouldn't
be
related
to
that.
D
A
D
A
A
D
But
in
case
that
was
the
case,
should
google
pick
up
the
the
updated
version
with
the
source
set
defined
and
fix
things
later
on
that?
That
is
that
something.
A
A
A
A
Wait
to
I
mean
to
me
it
sounds
more
like,
like
maybe
a
quality
change,
where
our
algorithms
are
overall
kind
of
re-evaluating
the
quality
of
your
website,
because
that's
something
that
could
happen
from
from
one
day
to
the
next.
Okay-
and
I
wouldn't
see
this
as
something
that's
tied
to
like
a
technical
change
across
a
lot
of
product
pages.
A
F
I
got
your
name
right:
hi
john
hi,
yeah
yeah.
You
got
my
name
right.
Actually
you
were
the
first
person
to
get
my
name
right
on
the
first
instant,
oh
wow,
cool
yeah.
So
actually
I
have
some
basic
questions
that
I
have
asked
many
people,
but
I
am
unable
to
get
a
straight
answer:
okay,
okay,
so
I
have
few
questions
like
one
is
suppose
I
have
a
wordpress
blog
in
which
I
have
created
some
tags
and
categories.
F
And
if
I
delete
what
will
happen
like
google
will
down
my
rankings
or
it
will
not
so.
A
Just
just
because
there
are
no
external
links
to
those
pages
doesn't
mean
that
google
would
not
be
able
to
find
them.
So
that's
kind
of
kind
of
the
first
thing,
because,
especially
if
you
have
posts
that
have
tags
and
categories
on
them,
then
you
have
links
from
the
posts
to
the
tags
and
category
pages.
A
So
what
what
I
would
look
at
there
instead
of
external
links,
is
how
the
those
pages
are
currently
being
shown.
So
in
search
console
and
the
performance
report,
look
at
the
individual
tag
and
category
pages
or
kind
of
like
the
group
of
those
pages
and
then
based
on
that
you
can
make
a
decision.
Can
I
just
delete
these
pages?
Do
I
need
to
redirect
them
or
not?
F
Okay,
on
the
same
question,
I
have
another
question
like
like:
I
have
been
using
some
seo
tools
which
suggests
that
I
should
create
canonical
links.
F
A
We
we
usually
recommend
using
the
canonical
link
element
when
you
have
multiple
urls
for
the
same
content,
and
it
sounds
like
these
are
different
pieces
of
content.
Like
the
the
category.
The
tag.
F
Suppose
I
create
a
suppose:
it's
an
example
suppose
my
post
is
dog
food,
so
I
have
a
tag
called
dog.
I
have
a
tag
called
food:
okay
and
there
is
a
category
called
animal,
okay
or
pets.
There's
a
category
okay.
So
now
I
want
to
delete
pets
plus
food
and
dog,
because
I
want
to
create
some
different
tags
or
categories,
so
you
already
gave
me
like.
I
have
to
group
and
check
after
that.
F
So
if,
like
suppose,
let's
take
an
example
of
a
of
wordpress
using
which
we
we
can
define
the
canonical
links,
okay,
so
while
testing
the
seo
seo
for
readability
and
seo,
we
find
like
that
it
shows
like
within
the
tag
also
you
have
to
create
some
content
or
within
the
category.
Also,
you
have
to
write
some
content,
because
if
I
check
on
any
seo
tool,
it
will
suggest
that
your
tag
is
empty.
You
need
to
create
content
again.
The
problem
is
like
you,
don't.
F
I
am
unable
to
reproduce
the
same
content.
Suppose
I
have
a
content
called
food
and
I
have
tagged
it
for
dog
food
and
the
food
is
a
generic
term,
and
how
can
I
write
a
content
for
like
dog
it
canonical
will
also
not
work.
I
have
to
again.
If
I
create
a
tag,
then
google
will
expect
that
I
would
write
around
500
to
800
words,
so
I
so
so
like.
I
guess.
F
A
Usually
what
I
recommend
doing
is
looking
at
the
tag
and
category
pages
more
as
kind
of
groupings
of
categories
of
things.
So
if
you
have
a
lot
of
posts
about
different
kinds
of
pet
food,
then
making
a
category
for
pet
food
makes
total
sense.
However,
if
you
only
have
one
post
about
dog
food,
then
making
a
category
for
dog
food
is
kind
of
like
well,
it's
it's
the
same
thing.
It's
not
it's,
not
a
group
of
things
or
category
of
things.
So
that's
something
where
I'd
say.
A
Well,
probably
you
don't
need
that,
but
from
from
purely
from
from
an
seo
point
of
view,
I
I
would
try
to
minimize
the
number
of
pages
that
you
create
across
your
website
and
try
to
make
sure
that,
for
all
of
the
pages
that
you
do
have
that
you
have
significant
content
there.
So
if
you're
saying
like
this
category,
dog
food
doesn't
have
anything
unique
on
it,
then
maybe
you
don't
need
that
category
and
that's
kind
of
the
direction
I
would
take
there.
A
F
A
G
Good
evening,
john
hi,
so
it's
the
first
time
like
I'm
talking
to
you
and
thank
you,
so
I
have
couple
of
questions
I'll
go
by
one
by
one.
So
the
first
question
is
like
my
website
is
a
100
core
web
vital
pass
and
all
the
urls
are
core
web
vital
valid.
Now
I
want
to
restructure
my
site
restructuring.
I
mean
to
say
that
I
want
to
change
the
url
to
the
better
seo
friendly
url.
G
So
earlier,
like
lot
of
sub
folders
were
present
and
lot
of
sub
directories
were
present
for
the
primary
content
which
we
want
to
rank
organically.
So
my
first
query
is
now:
I
have
already
changed
the
url.
So
will
the
core
web
vital
matrix
whatever
exist
for
my
pages,
will
be
passed
to
the
redirected
url?
This
is
the
first
question
that
should
be
the
case
yeah,
because
those
pages
are
entirely
different.
Like
page
x,
is
in
folder
xxx.
G
Now
there
is
a
new
page
which
is
not
in
under
folder,
but
now
we
have
a
redirect.
So
the
web
title
score
is
directly
captured
from
the
chrome
user
experience
report,
so
user
have
not
opened
the
page.
So,
do
you
think
that
core
web
vital
benefits,
whatever
captured
in
the
google
webmaster,
will
be
passed.
A
A
It's
it's
more
that
you're
moving
from
one
url
to
another
url,
but
I
I
would
expect
this
kind
of
a
change
whenever
you're
doing
kind
of
a
restructuring
of
a
website
internally,
especially
with
changing
urls.
I
I
would
expect
that
to
be
something
where
you
would
see:
fluctuations
in
search,
maybe
for
a
month
or
two.
G
Okay,
fine,
I
got
the
answer
so
I'll
go
with
the
next
question,
so
my
next
question
is
like
suppose,
I
have
a
website
and
I
have
only
100
pages
in
indexed,
so
google
will
capture
the
cu
x
report,
chrome,
user
experience
record
report
only
for
those
index
space
by
the
google
or
for
all
the
pages
which
are
even
not
indexed
by
the
google.
A
So
the
so
so
in
general
chrome
would
be
collecting
this
data
on
a
per
url
basis
and
be
using
the
the
usual
anonymization
techniques
kind
of
what
is
used
with
the
chrome
user
experience
report
data
to
collect
that,
and
then
how
that
would
be
applied
to
your
website
in
search
would
essentially
try
to
be
done
on
a
per
url
basis.
A
So
you
might
have
a
thousand
pages
in
total
and
if
100
of
those
are
shown
in
search
then
for
those
100
that
we
would
show
in
search,
we
would
use
those
100
pages
and
their
signals.
We
wouldn't
really
use
the
the
other
thousand
pages
that
you
also
have.
G
I
got
your
answer.
Thank
you
so,
like
my
third
question
is
like
the
third
question,
like
I
have
a
page
where
I'm
putting
like
tag
lang
equal
to
en
english
in
the
meta
meta
tag,
I'm
marking
that
language
I'm
using
is
english,
but
I
have
other
content,
also
like
in
spanish
or
french,
or
something
which
is
in
non-english,
but
I'm
not
making
this
adding
the
tag.
G
Meta
tag,
lang
equal
to
french
or
something
like
that,
so
will
will
my
non-english
language
content
will
be
used
by
google
for
ranking
factors
or
it
will
be
considered
like
okay,
I
have
other
content
also,
which
is
in
non
english
language,
and
I
still
want
to
rank.
A
Without
I
mean
if,
if
we
find
internal
links
to
those
pages,
we
can
crawl
and
index
those
pages
whoops,
and
it's
something
where
I
like.
If
we
have
links
there,
we
will
crawl
and
index
those
pages.
We
we
don't
use
the
lang
meta
tag
on
pages,
but
rather
we
try
to
understand
which
language
your
page
is
in
based
on
the
text.
A
G
Okay,
so
my
last,
the
last
question
I
have
is
a
little
bit
more
related
to
the
schema.org,
not
last.
Second,
last
so
like
we
are
a
coupon
site,
affiliate,
coupon
site,
so
we
have
seen
the
post
by
the
google
like
google
will
not
rank
the
site
which
are
which
is
which
are
having
the
thin
content,
thin
content,
most
of
the
affiliate
site.
They
have
the
same
similar
content,
not
adding
any
value
to
the
content
system
or
the
web
system,
or
not
even
adding
much
value
to
the
content
or
the
user
experience.
G
So
what
we
have
done
like
we
have
done
lot
of
hard
work
from
almost
more
than
two
years
to
think
on
that,
and
we
have
added
a
lot
of
schema.org
json
ld,
whatever
required
like
faq
page,
and
we
have
captured
almost
most
of
the
thing
which
can
add
value
to
the
users.
I
mean
forgetting
about
whether
we
are
going
to
get
a
traffic
or
not.
We
have
considered
that
okay,
the
user
experience
and
it
should
add
the
it
should
benefit
like
if
user
is
browsing,
our
site
or
browsing
our
page.
G
Let
him
benefit
from
the
site
first.
So
considering
that,
like
I
have
a
page
like,
I
am
listing
a
walmart
sale
event,
so
the
sale
event
like
have,
they
can
have
n
number
of
sale
event
like
black
friday
sale
or
a
new
year
sale
or
christmas
sale.
So
can
I
have
a
page
on
my
site
where
I
list
all
the
sale
events,
and
I
can
can
I
also
mark
them
with
the
sale
event
schema?
G
Is
that
allowed
because
I
have
seen
on
the
google
like,
we
should
not
add
a
markup
and
it
can
bring
down
our
ranking
and
can
analyze
if
those
if
we
put
a
wrong
schema
or
something
which
is
not
misleading
the
user
or
the
system.
So.
E
G
Question
is
like
I'll
summarize:
I
want
to
list
down
the
sale
event
for
particular
merchant
and
I
want
to
mark
those
sale.
Events
like
what
is
the
sale
event
name
like
say,
black
friday.
What
is
the
time
period
of
that?
I
just
want
to
mark
them
in
the
form
of
schema.org
json
ld.
So
is
that
fine?
Should
we
go
ahead
and
make
this
change.
A
I
I
don't
know
of
hand
the
the
requirements
for
for
that
type
of
markup.
My
my
understanding
is,
if
you're,
using
the
event
markup
that
would
not
be
suitable
for
this
and,
in
general,
the
kind
of
the
structured
data
on
the
pages
should
be
applicable
to
the
primary
type
of
of
content
on
the
page.
So
I
suspect,
listing
a
bunch
of
events
from
one
vendor
on
a
single
page
and
marking
that
up
would
would
not
be
in
line
with
with
the
guidelines
for
for
structured
data
on
our
side.
A
But
I
I
don't
know
all
of
the
guidelines
by
heart,
so
I
would
recommend
checking
out
the
documentation
and
just
double
checking
before
you
implement.
It
also
keep
in
mind,
there's
a
lot
of
structured
data
in
schema.org,
which
we
don't
necessarily
show
in
search,
so
it
might
be
that
the
the
sale
event
structure
data.
I
I'm
not
aware
of
it.
It
might
be
something
that
we
don't
even
use
at
google.
G
Okay,
fine
I'll
check
the
double
check
the
standard
and
okay.
So
the
last
question
is
like
what
is
the
importance
and
significance
of
making
page
as
a
corner
store
content.
G
How
do
you
mean
I
I
didn't
quite
understand?
I
mean
we
in
the
plug-in
like
a
seo
host
plugin,
we
can
mark
a
post
as
a
cornerstone
content
cornerstone.
I
don't
know.
G
Okay,
okay,
the
okay:
the
thing
is,
like
I
mean
we
are
still
like.
We
have
followed
the
best
practices
and
considering
the
user
experience
and
bring
adding
the
best
content,
so
we
are
still
struggling
with
some
traffic.
So
if
we
can
get
some
pointers
like
what
is
what
is
causing
the
issue
with
our
site
or
something
like
what
is
what
is
exactly
making
our
site
to
struggle
to
rank
organically
instead
of
like
after
we
have
put
a
lot
of
efforts.
A
You
won't.
You
probably
won't
find
like
this
one
thing
that
you
need
to
do
to
improve
your
ranking,
but
they
might
be
able
to
give
you
advice
and
say:
oh,
it
looks
like
this
is
just
a
collection
of
affiliate
links
or
it
looks
like
there's
not
a
lot
of
enough
content
actually
on
these
pages
and
that
I
think
that's
the
kind
of
input
that
can
be
quite
useful.
A
For
all
the
answers
and
a
long
question
yeah,
thank
you
sure.
Let
me
run
through
some
of
the
submitted
questions
and
then
I'll
get
back
to
to
all
of
the
the
hands
that
are
raised
as
well,
just
so
that
we
don't
lose
track
of
the
submitted
things.
A
Let's
see,
we
have
different
types
of
pages
on
our
site
contract
pages
vendor
pages
we
recently
released
product
pages
and
category
pages.
After
our
release
of
product
pages,
we
saw
meaningful
site
traffic
decrease,
as
product
pages
were
being
frequently
ranked
above
supplier
pages,
any
tips
on
how
to
indicate
to
google
what
product
pages
are
less
relevant
than
other
types
of
pages
other
than
de-indexing
our
product
pages
yeah.
It
also
mentions
the
priority
in
the
sitemap.
We
don't
use
the
priority
in
the
sitemap
file.
We
originally.
A
With
regards
to
a
general
website
where
you
have
different
types
of
pages-
and
you
want
to
have
one
type
of
page
kind
of
ranking
above
another
one,
there's
no
html
markup,
where
you
can
kind
of
specify
this
is
my
most
important
type
of
page,
and
this
is
less
important
type
of
page.
But
what
you
can
do
is
create
the
web
structures
such
that
google
will
recognize,
which
pages
you
care
about,
most
in
particular
for
most
websites.
A
We
tend
to
look
at
the
home
homepage
as
something
that's
the
most
important
part
of
the
website
and
from
there
we
see
kind
of
the
links
that
lead
out
to
the
rest
of
your
website
and
then
kind
of
all
of
those
individual
steps
of
links
like
going
to
the
first
step
and
then
going
from
there
to
the
next
step.
All
of
that
essentially
gives
us
a
little
bit
of
a
guidance
on
what
you
consider
to
be
the
most
important
part.
A
A
So
if
you
have
a
structure
where
you
have
like
category
pages,
subcategory
pages
and
then
product
pages
and
they're
kind
of
linked,
like
a
tree
structure
from
there,
usually
we'll
see
kind
of
the
the
category
pages
as
being
kind
of
more
important
and
kind
of
less
importance
as
things
kind
of
fan
out
a
little
bit,
and
you
can
also
control
that
a
little
bit
yourself
in
that
you
could
kind
of
individually
take
individual
products
where
you
say.
Oh,
this
is
my
most
important
product
either.
A
Maybe
it's
a
new
product
or
maybe
it's
a
product
where
you
sell
a
lot
of
things
or
where
you
have
a
kind
of
a
high
roi
on
the
specific
products,
and
you
could
specifically
mention
those
on
the
home
page.
So
when
we
crawl
your
site,
we'll
see
oh
category
pages,
but
also
these
five
products
are
mentioned
on
the
home
page.
Therefore,
those
five
products
must
be
really
important
and
you
can
apply
the
same
thing
with
your
specific
kind
of
site
structure
there.
A
So
take
the
urls
that
you
care
about
the
most
make
sure
that
they're
linked
from
kind
of
the
root
of
your
website
and
then
from
there
think
about
like
what
the
structure
for
the
rest
should
be,
and
especially,
if
you
have
kind
of
like
a
medium
to
large
size
website,
that's
something
you
can
probably
pull
together
fairly
nicely.
A
A
My
website
has
limited
traffic
within
a
threshold
and
I
didn't
get
a
notification
in
search
console
about
page
experience
and
I
couldn't
get
any
field
data
from
any
of
the
tools
like
page
insights
or
chrome
user
experience
report
just
wondering
how
to
find
the
field
data
of
the
website
benchmark
and
work
on
that
so
yeah.
I
I
think
this
is
a
super
important
question,
because
we
do
use
the
field
data
as
essentially
the
metric
that
we
would
use
for
search
when
we
start
rolling
out
the
page
experience
update
for
rankings.
A
We
would
base
that
on
the
field
data
and
if
your
website
doesn't
have
any
field
data
available,
then
of
course
we
don't
have
anything
to
work
on,
but
that
doesn't
mean
that
you
don't
have
anything
to
work
on.
On
the
one
hand,
you
have
the
different
lab
tests
that
you
can
use
to
try
to
figure
out,
like
which
pages
you
need
to
work
on
most.
On
the
other
hand,
you
can
also
use
snippets
of
javascript
on
your
pages
directly
and
collect
the
field
data
yourself
and
by
collecting
the
field
data
yourself.
A
You
also
kind
of
go
around
that
28
day
time
period
of
like
the
time
that
it
would
take
for
google
to
collect
the
data
and
show
it
to
you
in
search
console
as
well.
So
that's
kind
of
direction.
I
would
go
there
on
the
one
hand,
use
the
the
lab
tools
to
test
immediately
and
then,
if
you
really
need
or
feel
the
need
to
collect
field
data,
even
though
your
website
doesn't
have
a
lot
of
traffic,
then
make
sure
to
implement
kind
of
those
those
scripts
on
those
pages
to
collect
the
field
data.
A
For
yourself
there's,
I
think
an
article
on
web.dev
where
essentially
it
uses,
I
think,
analytics
to
collect
the
the
field
data
on
a
website.
So
that
might
be
an
approach
you
could
take.
A
A
couple
of
months
ago,
I
used
the
yoast
video
plugin
to
submit
a
video
sitemap
for
my
recipe
site.
Since
then,
I've
seen
a
dramatic
decrease
in
click-throughs
on
my
recipes.
My
rank
itself
has
stayed
the
same,
and
impressions
are
about
the
same,
but
now
in
mobile,
I'm
seeing
recipe.
Videos
start
auto-playing
a
few
seconds
in
the
search
results.
I'm
wondering
if
that
is
contributing
to
the
drastic
decrease
in
click-through
rate
on
my
recipes.
A
So
has
a
little
bit
more
in
the
question,
but
essentially
I
think
there
are
a
few
parts
here
on.
On
the
one
hand,
it
is
possible
that
if
your
site
is
being
shown
in
a
different
way
in
the
search
results
that
people
are
interacting
with
that
slightly
differently,
it
could
be
that,
like
especially
if
you
have
a
video
snippet
shown
in
the
search
results,
maybe
they
look
at
the
video
and
they
say.
Oh,
this
isn't
actually
what
I
was
looking
for
and
then
they
tend
not
to
go
to
your
site.
A
A
The
other
thing
with
regards
to
video
sitemap
and
the
video
snippet
in
general.
There's
a
robot's
meta
tag
that
you
can
use
to
control.
Whether
or
not
you
want
to
have
a
video
preview
shown
for
your
pages
and
if
you
do
want
to
have
a
video
preview
shown
how
long
that
preview
should
be.
So
that's
something
you
can
control
there.
A
The
other
thing
is
with
regards
to
kind
of
removing
that
video
snippet
completely.
Just
removing
it
from
the
video
cycle
file
won't
necessarily
remove
the
video
thumbnail.
So
essentially,
if
we
spot
a
video
on
a
page-
and
we
think
this
is
a
relevant
part
of
the
page-
we
can
still
show
that
video
thumbnail
in
the
search
results.
A
My
my
general
recommendation
here
is,
if
you're
seeing
a
decrease
in
traffic
to
your
site
based
on
that
video
thumbnail,
then
I
would
consider
that
maybe
this
is
also
a
sign
that
you
need
to
improve
that
video,
so
that
it
actually
is
a
better
representation
of
what
you're
providing
on
your
pages
so
that
users
look
at
the
video
and
say:
oh,
this
is
actually
fantastic
and
then
go
off
and
look
at
your
site.
So
that's,
I
think,
kind
of
the
the
long-term
recommendation
that
I
would
take
there.
A
Why
does
the
crawling
request
for
my
homepage
fail?
This
has
started
happening
in
the
last
two
weeks.
A
If
you,
if
you
don't,
have
a
way
of
kind
of
giving
me
those
urls
directly,
essentially
in
the
help
forum,
the
folks
there
have
a
lot
of
experience
with
with
different
kinds
of
website
issues,
and
they
can
probably
help
you
to
figure
out
like
this
is
a
technical
problem
and
if
so,
where
could
it
be
coming
from
and
they
can
also
recognize
when
it's
an
issue,
that's
on
google
side
or
probably
on
google
side
and
escalate
that
to
to
the
google
team
that
is
kind
of
monitoring
the
forums.
A
Are
google
currently
testing
a
new
search
result
layout
for
local
businesses
on
mobile,
we're
seeing
instances
of
the
google
my
business
listing
showing
for
brand
search
in
top
position?
Then
there's
no
organic
listing
underneath
I
don't
know
what
is
happening
with
local
search
results.
I'm
not
involved
on
that
side
at
all.
That's
usually
kind
of
more
something
on
the
map
side,
so
I
honestly
don't
know
I
I
have
seen
some
tweets
about
changes
in
the
kind
of
google.
A
A
We've
been
previously
told
that
the
impressive
organic
visibility
growth
of
domains
at
google
has
nothing
to
do
with
its
owner
and
the
fact
that
the
folks
who
work
on
seo
at
google
almost
have
a
disadvantage
compared
to
other
people,
and
then
it
goes
on
into
fairly
long
discussion
of
like.
Why
is
this
website
ranking
like
it?
Is?
A
I
I'd
love
to
kind
of
dig
into
this
and
give
some
more
input
here,
but
in
general
we
don't
talk
about
like
why
other
people's
websites
are
ranking
the
way
they
are,
but
rather
we
try
to
focus
on
like
what
you
could
be
doing
to
improve
the
visibility
and
the
quality
of
your
own
website,
so
just
kind
of
like
why.
Why
is
this
website
ranking
like
this?
Why
are
they
showing
like
this?
A
I
I
want
to
add
a
page
on
my
site
where
I
list
all
sale
events.
Oh,
I
think
we
talked
about
this
one
briefly.
My
crawling
has
been
slowed
since
the
new
search
console
was
launched.
I
see
sites
take
longer
now
to
index.
A
new
site
could
take
two
to
three
days
versus
the
minutes,
with
the
older
search
console.
A
Also,
is
there
any
way
to
limit
the
amount
of
interactions
you
can
have
with
search
console
limits
seem
to
be
unseen.
Also,
where
can
you
see
your
daily
credits?
A
So
I
I
think,
there's
some
confusion
with
with
the
question
itself
in
terms
of
search
console
is
essentially
mostly
a
reporting
tool
for
what
is
happening
in
search.
It
doesn't
control
what
is
happening
in
search.
A
So
it's
not
the
case
that,
like
when
a
new
search
console
is
launched,
then
all
of
google's
search
systems
are
changed,
but
rather
the
new
search
console
is
kind
of
a
new
ui
uses
new
systems
to
display
information
about
your
site
and,
if
you're,
seeing
changes
that
were
crawling
your
site
slower
than
before,
then
that
would
not
be
related
to
search
console.
So
that's,
I
think,
the
the
most
important
aspect
here
with
regards
to
limiting
the
interactions
that
you
can
have
in
search
console.
I'm
not
aware
of
any
limits
like
that.
A
I
could
imagine
that
if
you
use
a
script
to
automate
search
console
that
at
some
point
are
kind
of
denial
of
service
and
a
view,
systems
will
kick
in
and
just
say,
hey
whoa.
This
is
not
the
way
that
search
console
was
meant
to
be
used,
but
essentially
for
normal
interactions.
There's
no
like
limit
or
credits
that
you
can
get
with
regards
to
how
to
use
search
console.
A
Let's
see
we're
still
experiencing
a
canonical
issue
with
our
international
sites.
Currently,
our
page
so
and
so
is
indexed
and
canonicalized
to
the
dech
version.
I
have
no
errors
in
search
console
for
my
atria
flying
site
maps,
but
I
do
find
the
urls
in
duplicate,
submitted,
url,
not
selected
as
canonical
session.
Is
this
a
bug?
Is
there
something
I
can
do
to
fix
this?
A
So
I'd
probably
need
to
take
a
look
at
the
examples.
What
is
it?
What
exactly
is
happening
here,
but
it
looks
like
one
url
is
the
german
for
germany
version
and
the
other
one
is
a
german
for
switzerland
version
of
the
same
page
and
what
what
often
is
done
across
websites
that
target
different
versions
of
the
same
language
is
that
they
use
the
same
content.
A
And
I
I
don't
know
if
that's
the
case
here,
but,
for
example,
what
we
would
often
see
is
that
a
page
in
german
for
germany,
austria
and
switzerland
might
have
exactly
the
same
content
and
in
a
situation
like
that,
our
systems
would
try
to
recognize
that,
even
if
their
the
pages
are
like
only
mostly
the
same,
we
would
try
to
recognize
that
and
pick
one
of
these
urls
as
the
canonical
for
indexing
and
the
advantage
there
is
that
it's
a
lot
easier
for
us
to
focus
on
one
url,
rather
than
to
focus
on
three
separate
urls.
A
We
can
recrawl
reprocess
that
one
url
a
lot
faster
than
we
can
three
individual
ones
in
practice
with
the
atrial
flange
annotations
on
those
pages.
What
would
happen
is
that
we
would
still
process
those
hreflang
annotations
and
we
would
still
be
able
to
kind
of
like
replay
those
url
changes
in
the
search
results.
A
So
practically
speaking,
we
would
index
one
of
these
versions
as
a
canonical.
Then,
if
a
user
from
the
other
location
is
searching,
then
we
would
swap
out
the
url
that
is
shown
based
on
the
hreflang
annotations.
A
So
practically
speaking,
the
atrial
flange
would
be
working
technically
speaking,
we
would
be
indexing
just
one
version
and
the
I
think
the
most
confusing
part
of
all
of
this
is
that
search
console
tries
to
be
smart
about
this
and
focuses
on
the
canonical
url.
So
it
doesn't
report
to
you
that
we're
showing
kind
of
like
these
different
language
or
these
different
country
versions
to
users.
So
in
the
performance
report,
you
would
only
see
performance
data
for
the
canonical
in
the
indexing
report.
A
A
What
I
recommend
doing
in
a
case
like
this
is
just
searching
with
those
country
settings,
so
I
use
the
hl
equals
for
the
language
parameter
and
gl
equals
for
the
country
parameter
and
the
url
parameters
when
searching
and
search
for
something,
like
I
don't
know
some
title
from
the
page
and
then
just
double
check
to
see
that
it's
actually
swapping
the
urls
and
if
it's
swapping
the
urls
and
everything
is
fine.
It's
like
the
reporting
side
is,
is
completely
messy
and
hard
to
trust.
A
But
at
least
from
a
search
point
of
view,
it's
working
well
and
if
you
need
to
change
that
so
that
we
absolutely
index
these
versions
individually,
then
they
absolutely
need
to
be
different
and
it
needs
to
be
something
where,
when
our
systems
look
at
these
pages,
they
can
say.
Oh,
this
is
really
a
completely
different
page
and
then
we'll
index
them
individually,
we'll
report
on
them
individually.
All
of
that,
from
a
an
seo
point
of
view,
you're
not
going
to
get
any
advantage
by
having
completely
separate
urls
indexed
is
really
just
like.
A
We
operate
an
online
reading
platform
for
books
when
you
search
for
a
book
book
schema
for
google
search
can
pull
up
the
book
in
in
a
section
below
the
knowledge
graph
on
the
right
hand,
side
to
submit
the
books.
You
need
to
implement
the
schema
and
submit
your
books
through
a
form
to
a
team
at
google.
We
followed
all
the
documentation
submitted
a
number
of
times,
but
we
haven't
had
any
progress.
A
What
can
we
do
there
yeah
so,
especially
for
some
of
the
kind
of
newer
or
less
used
features
we
we
tend
to
have
this
set
up
where
you
submit
your
site
and
then
someone
at
google
will
will
take
a
look
at
that
and
see
if
it's
aligned
and
if
everything
is
okay
and
we're
still
adding
new
sites
to
that
part
of
search,
then
we'll
kind
of
like
activate
that
for
that
site,
but
the
I
guess
there
are
like
two
situations
where
sometimes
that
doesn't
work
that
directly.
A
On
the
one
hand,
if
there's
like
not
a
big
team
that
is
working
on
this
feature
at
the
moment,
then
maybe
they
won't
be
processing
those
submissions.
A
But
if,
if
you
want,
if
you
can
give
me
the
maybe
some
sample
urls,
maybe
some
information
about
what
you
tried
to
submit
there,
I
I
can
try
to
find
a
team
internally
and
pass
that
on.
I
can't
guarantee
that
they'll
be
able
to
activate
this
for
your
site,
but
I'm
happy
to
let
them
know
like.
Oh,
this
site
has
been
kind
of
like
trying
to
get
into
this
feature
for
a
while
and
hasn't
had
any
response.
So
far,.
A
E
A
So
it's
it's
something
where,
if,
if
you
know
that
in
the
past
you've
kind
of
bought
links,
then,
like
that's
worth
kind
of
disavowing
or
if
you
look
at
it-
and
you
say
anyone
from
google
when
they
look
at
this,
they
will
think.
Oh,
I
bought
these
links.
A
All
right
tom.
H
I
Hello,
john
hi,
I'm
just
a
quick
question.
Actually,
so
I'm
I'm
here
with
pocket
pills.
We
are
one
of
the
biggest
online
pharmacists
here
in
canada.
We
serve
the
whole
country
and
we
are
debating
this
question
which
I've
tackled
as
well
before.
I
know
you
probably
have
covert,
but
I
wanted
to
bring
it
up
once
once
again.
So
it
is
very
interesting
for
us
to
be
able
to
obviously
target
the
term,
for
instance,
online
pharmacy
plus
a
particular
geo
target
or
province
or
city
such
as
maybe
ontario,
british
columbia
or
whatnot.
I
So
the
question
here
is
really:
should
we
aim
to
have
separate
landing
pages
for
each
province
and
potentially
each
city,
or
should
we
just
stick
to
our
main
home
page
right?
The
the
issue
here
is,
of
course,
from
the
data
that
we
see
coming
in
from
our
current
and
existing
users.
I
I
Some
medications
are
more
popular
than
others
in
different
areas
of
canada,
and
so
we
really
want
to
serve
the
user
in
that
way
and
that's
what
we
thought
about
you
know
separate
landing
pages,
but
at
the
same
time,
of
course,
we
are
concerned
about
you
know,
keyword
kind
of
vitalization.
So
could
you
give
us
any
input
on
that.
A
Now
I
I
think
the
the
aspect
I
would
worry
about
more
is
doorway
pages
kind
of
everything
around
like
I.
A
Well,
maybe
it
makes
sense
to
have
something
for
those
provinces
for
kind
of
like
a
global
company,
where
you're
really
saying
this
is
actually
unique
information
for
people
in
that
province
and
information
that
they
need
and
not
just
like
popular
popular
products
from
your
region
kind
of
thing,
but
rather
it's
like
actually
something
useful
from
there
on
on
a
city
level.
I
think
that's
going
almost
like
way
too
far,
because
then
you
suddenly
have
like
hundreds
or
thousands
of
these
pages,
and
you
can't
realistically
provide
unique
guidance
on
a
city
level.
A
If
you're
a
kind
of
a
global
or
country-wide
company,
so
that's
something
where
I'd
say
like.
If,
if
you
end
up
with,
I
don't
know
10
20
different
versions
of
these
pages.
That
seems
like
something
reasonable.
A
If
you're
going
way
past
that
then
you're
essentially
going
into
the
area
of
doorway
pages,
where
you
create
a
lot
of
pages,
maybe
they
they
map
to
individual
keywords
but
you're
diluting
the
value
of
your
site.
On
the
one
hand,
which
means
kind
of
like
the
the
bigger
mass
that
you
already
have
built
up
is
kind
of
like
diluted,
which
means,
if
there's
a
lot
more
competition.
I
imagine
there
is
then
that
makes.
A
I
Perfect
john,
thank
you
so
much.
I
have
another
quick
question:
if
you
don't
mind-
and
this
is
regarding-
I
think
this
topic
has
also
been
covered
as
well
before-
I'm
bringing
it
up
once
again
and
it
is
the
the
matter
of
how
to
handle
on-page
citations,
and
this
is
just
to
give
you
a
specific
example
pretty
quickly.
I
We
sometimes
have
to
reference
certain
details
from
the
manufacturer
or
pharmaceutical
that
we
we
get
pretty
much
our
medications
from,
and
so
we
obviously
would
like
to
provide
a
link
and
a
source
to
your
visitors,
so
they
can
always
go
back
and
check
the
manufacturer's
details.
I
So
the
question
here
is:
how
should
we
handle
this
this
idea,
just
on
our
page?
Is
it
best
to
have
them?
For
instance,
obviously
you
know
using
something
like
chicago
style,
I'm
right
so
I
mean
at
the
bottom
of
the
page.
Perhaps
food
noters
right,
but
this
should
they
be
follow,
link
attributes.
Should
they
open
on
a
separate
tab?
Should
they
have
an
existing
tab?
Should
they
be
in
an
accordion?
Should
they
not
be
like?
How
do
you
suggest
we
handle
those.
A
Thank
you
so
from
from
an
seo
point
of
view,
I
would
make
these
normal
links
so
not
with
a
nofollow,
because
it's
essentially
information
that
you're
providing
so
as
long
as
those
are
not
affiliate
links,
then
it's
not
that
they're
paid
links.
A
It's
it's
more
information
that
is
organically
provided
within
your
website
and
how
you
structure
that
within
your
website,
is
more
something
I
would
look
at
from
a
user
experience
point
of
view
and
maybe
do
some
tests
with
users
to
see
like
which
way
works
best
for
them
how
they
can
best
recognize
that,
like
these
are
useful
links,
these
are
authoritative
links
because
they're
from
the
manufacturer
and
all
of
these
kind
of
like
subtle
details
from
from
an
seo
point
of
view,
I
don't
think
it
matters
if
they
open
in
the
same
tab
or
a
different
tab
or
if
you're,
like
you,
have
an
accordion
or
whatever,
it's
really
more
the
user
side
that
I
would
worry
about.
A
I
Perfect,
okay,
just
I
wanted
to
add
to
a
previous
answer.
You
you
may
sorry
you
brought
up
because
yeah.
I
think
it
actually
might
be
helpful
for
everyone
here,
and
it
was
the
notion
of,
for
instance,
sometimes
adding,
of
course,
category
pages
to
your
home
page,
perhaps
the
most
important
products
that
we
would
like
to
have
feature
right
on
our
homepage.
So
this
is
something
that
we
experience
quite
frequently
because
we
may
add
new
medications
onto
our
product.
Catalog.
I
The
the
issue
or
the
question
we
have
here
is
what
sometimes
swapping
out,
for
instance,
some
of
the
feature
products
on
our
homepage
in
favor
of
having
some
of
the
newer
products
that
we
add
to
the
catalog.
You
know
for
us
to
get
them
indexed
first
of
course,
and
then
ranked
by
google
as
well.
Would
it
somehow
dilute
then
the
the
perhaps
even
the
ranking
or
the
credibility
of
the
previously
submitted?
You
know
important
products
as
well
that
we
actually
have
on
on
our
pharmacy.
Can
you
give
us
some
input.
A
Yeah
I
mean
if
you,
if
you
change
the
structure
of
your
website,
then
we'll
try
to
reflect
that
in
search.
So
if,
if
you
previously
said
this
product
is
one
of
the
most
important
ones,
it's
linked
from
the
home
page,
you
remove
that
link.
Then
suddenly
we
say:
oh,
it's
no
longer
one
of
the
most
important
ones.
A
A
So
with
that
in
mind,
it's
like
usually
what
I
see
on
e-commerce
sites
is
that
they
have
different
sections
kind
of
in
that
homepage
area
where
they
say
it's
like
most
popular
products,
newest
products,
something
like
that
and
and
that
kind
of
works
for
users,
because
they
go
to
your
home
page
and
they
say
oh
new
products,
I'll
take
a
look,
and
it
also
works
for
search
engines,
because
we
can
pick
up
oh
most
popular
and
it's
like.
We
can
also
see
kind
of
the
newest
products
as
well.
I
A
Okay,
let
me
take
a
break
here
with
the
recording
and
I'll
I'll
be
around
a
little
bit
longer,
so
we
we
can
continue
to
chat
but
kind
of
make
sure
that
the
recording
is
a
reasonable
length.