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A
All
right
welcome
everyone
to
today's
google
search
central
seo
office
hours
hangout.
My
name
is
john
mueller.
I'm
a
search
advocate
on
the
search
relations
team
here
at
google
in
switzerland
and
part
of
what
we
do
are
these
office
hour
hangouts,
where
people
can
join
in
and
ask
their
questions
around
search
and
we
can
try
to
figure
out
some
answers.
A
A
bunch
of
stuff
was
submitted
already
on
youtube,
so
we
can
go
through
some
of
that.
But,
like
always,
it's
always
neat
to
get
some
live
questions
as
well.
So
if
anyone
has
something
they'd
like
to
talk
about,
feel
free
to
jump
on
it,
hi
john.
B
I
have
two
questions
regarding
amp.
The
first
question
is:
is
it
a
problem
if
the
amp
version
differs
slightly
from
the
canonical
html
version
in
that
you
have
a
small
ad
in
the
amp
version,
which
is
not
in
the
html
version?
B
A
Okay,
so
I
I
think
for
the
first
one:
that's
that's
perfectly
fine,
so
the
pages
should
be
equivalent
should
be
the
same
content,
same
kind
of
images
that
kind
of
thing,
but
things
like
monetization
that
can
always
vary,
and
even
within
a
normal
html
page,
you
could
have
something
like
I
don't
know
dynamic
ads
where
sometimes
you
have
an
ad
unit
there,
sometimes
over
here.
So
those
kind
of
changes
like
totally
don't
matter
with
regards
to
largest
contentful
paint.
A
I
don't
know
exactly
when
that
starts
counting
when
it
comes
to
kind
of
the
the
crux
data,
but
it
would
surprise
me
if
kind
of
the
time
on
the
search
results
page
were
counted
in
that
that
would
seem
kind
of
wrong
way
to
set
that
up.
B
I
checked
the
head
up
display
in
in
the
chrome
canary
version
there
you
have
the
the
crux
data
that
is
transmitted
and
there
I
had
250
seconds
after
I
waited
some
minutes
for
clicking
and
when
I
clicked
immediately
it
just
where
three
a
second.
So
I
was
a
little
bit.
It
was
a
little
bit
scary.
A
Okay,
what
what
I
would
do
is
contact
someone
from
the
chrome
side
and
so
to
kind
of
let
let
them
know
about
that
and
maybe
see
if
that's
like
the
way
it's
supposed
to
be
working
or
if
there's
something
weird.
Just
with
regards
to
the
data
that
you
see.
A
Okay,
thank
you
sure.
All
right,
let
me
see
praveen.
I
think
you
have
your
hand
up
next
hi
john.
How
are
you
hi
hi.
C
So,
first
of
all,
thank
you
for
these
office
hours.
These
are
like
free
seo
classes.
For
us
a
lot
of
knowledge
is
there.
Thank
you
for
what
you
do.
So
I
have
a
very,
very
basic
question,
basically
a
doubt
that
suppose
there
is
a
website
that
is,
that
has
moved
to
mobile
first
indexing.
So,
as
far
as
I
know,
google
will
use
mobile
signals
or
mobile
content
to
rank
that
website.
A
A
So
that's
something
that's
mostly
focused
on
the
indexing
side.
It's
not
focused
on
things
like
core
web
vitals,
where
we
do
use
different
metrics
for
different
places,
but
just
purely
when
it
comes
to
the
content
and
how
we
would
rank
that
content,
we
would
only
use
the
mobile
version
sean.
Thank
you
sure,
right,
xiao.
E
Hey
john,
thank
you
hey,
so
I
have
a
question
about
a
product
variant,
so
I
read
an
article
from
google
merchant
center
guide.
They
say
that
if
you
have
like
two
products
and
have
very
different
like
different
attributes
but
the
same
product
like
green
shoes,
red
shoes
or
like
maybe
2gb,
computer
and
10gb
computer
in
google
merchant
center,
they
said
you
should
canonicalize
to
one
of
them
or
the
one
that
without
attribute.
E
But
I
am
not
quite
sure
it's
the
best
thing
to
do
on
general
search,
because
sometimes
I
think
it's
probably
better
to
index
them
separately,
because
sometimes
the
difference
do
matter.
So
I
I
wonder
what
is
the
best
practice
for
general
search
and
why
google
immersion
centers
say
say
you
have
to
canonicalize
them.
A
I
don't
know
what
google
merchant
center
says
there.
So
that's
kind
of
the
the
one
side,
but
it
is
something
where
you
can,
at
least
from
the
search
side.
A
You
can
choose
whether
or
not
you
want
to
canonicalize
them
or
not,
and
sometimes
I
think
it
makes
sense
to
have
one
strong
page
with
all
of
the
variants
on
that
page
and
sometimes
it
makes
sense,
multiple
pages,
it
kind
of
depends-
and
I
I
don't
know
exactly
how
the
the
merchant
center
side
plays
in
there,
because
you
also
have
the
product
feed
where
you
can
submit
urls
that
end
up
being
canonicalized
somewhere
else.
A
So
I'm
not
100
sure
what
the
best
approach
is.
There.
E
E
A
So
if,
if
we
follow
the
the
rel
canonical
for
that,
then
we
would
only
index
the
canonical
version.
It's
not
that
we
would
say.
Oh
we
know,
another
page
has
a
real
canonical
to
this
page
and
the
other
page
is
about
red
shoes,
and
this
one
is
about
blue
shoes.
It
wouldn't
be
that
we'd
know.
This
is
also
for
red
shoes.
We
would
just
see
the
blue
shoes
page
because
that's
what
we
index.
A
Thank
you
mark.
F
All
right,
sorry,
I
got
to
mute
myself
first.
This
is
probably
more
of
an
academic
question.
When
I
got
it
right,
google
is
now
able
to
show
certain
paragraphs
of
of
her
site
as
a
search
result.
And
now
I
wonder
if
you
have
something
like
a
product
page
where
you
can
find
a
third
party's
content
like,
for
example,
recommendations
or
tests,
or
something
like
that.
F
I
mean
that
is
useful
content
for
the
user.
However,
it's
still
duplicate
content
in
a
certain
way,
so
is.
Is
there
a
chance
to
kind
of
mark
these
things?
As
I
don't
know,
do
not
index
this
paragraph
or
something
like
that.
A
Not
not
really
so
at
least
there's
there's
no
direct
way
that
you
can
do
that,
so
you
could
use
the
data
no
snippet
to
say
that
this
is
something
that
you
don't
want
to
have
shown
in
a
snippet.
A
That
might
be
enough
in
a
lot
of
cases,
if,
if
it's
really
content
that
you
must
avoid
to
have
index
there
like,
if
there
are
licensing
reasons
or
other
legal
reasons,
why
it
should
never
be
indexed
like
that,
one
of
the
things
you
could
do
is
use
javascript
to
pull
that
content
in
and
use
robot's
text
to
block
that
javascript
file
from
being
crawled.
A
So
that
would
essentially
mean
that
when
google
tries
to
render
the
page
it
wouldn't
be
able
to
fetch
the
javascript
file
and
therefore
it
wouldn't
be
able
to
pull
in
that
other
content.
I
think
that's
something
that
I
would
say
for
really
critical
situations
where
it's
really
like.
There
are
legal
reasons
why
that
must
not
be
indexed.
If
it's
just
you
prefer
that
this
is
not
index
or
you
prefer
that
google
doesn't
give
this
much
weight,
then
I
would
just
let
it
be
indexed
normally.
A
If
it's
duplicate
content
within
the
website,
then
we'll
we'll
try
to
pick
one
of
the
pages
anyway,
it's
not
that
we
will
see
your
page
as
being
worse,
because
it
also
has
some
duplicate
content
on
it,
because
that's
it's
kind
of
a
really
common
situation,
especially
with
product
pages,
where,
if
you
have
products
from
I
don't
know
various
sources,
you
often
have
the
original
product
description
on
there
and
then
that
product
description
is
duplicate,
but
that
doesn't
mean
the
page
is
bad
all
right.
Thank
you
very
much
sure
rishabh,
oh.
G
So
it's
been
a
month
and
a
half.
We
have
migrated
from
a
different
domain
name
to
a
different
one,
and
we
have
also
requested
this
change
of
address
using
webmaster
tool.
Now
my
point
is
okay.
Now
I
kind
of
convinced
my
developer
to
you
know,
remove
m
dot
and
have
a
responsive
site,
and
then
they
are
going
to
remove
m
dot
version
and
have
abc.com.
G
So
my
question
here
is
now,
since
there
is
another
redirection
going
to
be
happen
from
mdot
to
our
website,
and
since
I
don't
have
an
option
in
change
to
address
because
it
already
going
on
from
older
website
to
newer
website,
so
how
it
kind
of
impact
overall
on
seo
and
how
you
know,
google
sees
it.
I
just
wanted
to
understand
about
it.
A
I
I
think,
that's
perfectly
fine.
That's
like
a
normal
move.
Essentially,
so
that's
something
where
I
I
would
set
up
the
redirects
from
the
mdot
version
to
to
your
new
responsive
version.
What
I
would
make
sure
is
that
the
change
of
address
that
you
have
in
search
console
goes
to
the
final
destination.
A
So,
if
you
have,
I
don't
know
dub
dub,
dub
and
mdot
that
the
change
of
address
goes
to
the
www
version,
not
to
the
mdot
version,
just
so
that
we
can
really
transfer
everything
directly
to
your
preferred
version,
but
otherwise
it's
like
setting
up
the
redirects
making
sure
the
internal
linking
works.
Well.
All
of
that,
I
think,
is
fairly
normal,
so
that
should
be
fine.
G
G
A
A
A
A
H
Have
two
medium-sized
questions
I
hope
they're,
not
that
that's
convoluted
one
is
actually
regarding
the
last
topic
with
the
site,
migrations
and
one
of
your
favorite
topics,
which
is
a
subdomain
versus
subfolders,
and
this
is
with
regards
to
a
project
we're
working
on
that
is
on
a
cctld.
H
They
want
to
expand
internationally,
so
we're
going
on
a
generic
domain
and
in
terms
of
expanding
to
each
individual
country,
whether
would
and
since
for
each
individual
country,
the
services
differ
a
bit
so
they're.
It's
not
the
case
that
we
use
hreflang,
for
example,
because
there
are
different
landing
pages
specific
to
those
countries.
So
in
terms
of
subdomain
versus
subfolders,
and
how
the
whole
website
like
the
menu
and
everything
internal
linking
is
structured,
does
google
have
any?
H
Does
google
treat
like
the
silos
like
these
services
are
specifically
for
this
country
different
from
a
sub
domain
to
a
subfolder,
or
is
it
just
in
search
console?
You
set
up
the
geo
targeting
and
that's
basically
it
and
it's
the
same.
A
H
And
when
it
comes
to
internal,
linking
there's
no
difference
if
the
url
points
to
like
in
the
menu,
if
you
link
to
a
url
that
has
a
subdomain
that
is
on
a
subdomain
or
is
on
a
subfolder,
it's
it's.
The
same.
Internal
link
in
google
treats
it
the
same,
no
yeah
that
should
all
be
the.
A
H
Yeah
we're
looking
towards
subdomains,
since
the
services
again
are
different
for
each
country.
So
it's
not
the
same
page,
just
translated
or
anything
like
that.
So
I
think
it's
much.
It
makes
more
sense,
even
from
a
user
experience,
point
of
view
to
kind
of
see
that
sub
domain
there.
H
But
it's
good
to
know
like
there's
not
much
of
a
difference
anyway
and
the
second
one
is
regarding
geo-targeting
gip
redirects,
and
that
one
is
so,
let's
say
the
main
site
targets
a
specific
country,
and
then
you
have
sub-domain
that
targets
a
different
country.
But
you
don't
want
people
from
you
know,
let's
say
from
the
uk
to
type
in
the
main
domain
name
which
is
targeted
to
the
us
and
try
to
purchase
something
there.
H
Ip
redirects
aren't
the
best
solution
when
it
comes
to
indexing
and
everything
and
ranking
in
those
specific
other
non-us
countries.
So
with
something
like
I
don't
know,
maybe
disabling
the
cart
for
somebody.
Who's
so
kind
of
use
still
use
the
ip
and
detect
that
the
user
is
not
from
the
us
and
then
disable
the
cart
or
do
something
that
disallows
them
from
actually
purchasing
from
a
different
country
or
anything
like
that
sure.
A
A
Usually,
the
recommendation
I
have
is
to
only
do
that
on
the
generic
home
page.
So
you
have
like
www.yoursite.com
that
one
redirects
to
the
different
country
versions
and
the
individual
country
versions,
don't
redirect
that
way
like
the
the
generic
home
page
can
be
linked.
We
can
kind
of
crawl
that
we
can
see
the
href
laying
annotations
things
like
that,
but
essentially
the
redirect
goes
to
whatever
country
version,
but
the
individual
country
versions
don't
have
any
problems
with
like
redirects
blocking
indexing
or
crawling.
A
So
we
we
would
follow
the
redirect
initially
and
we
we
would
probably
see
whatever
us
redirect
that
you
have
there.
But
if
you
have
hreflang
across
the
home
pages,
then
we
would
be
able
to
treat
that
as
a
cluster
and
say
well,
it's
like
we
swap
out
the
url.
We
do
the
ranking
first
and
swap
out
the
url.
Essentially,
so
that's
so.
A
Google
understanding
yeah,
I
mean
it's,
not
it's
not
a
guarantee
like
someone
can
still
go
to
the
wrong
version
and
having
a
backup
like,
like
you
mentioned,
I
think,
is
something
you
should
always
have.
A
lot
of
sites
use
something
like
a
javascript
banner
or
something
that
shows
like
your
wrong
country
version.
Here's
the
right
version
for
you.
Essentially,
you
can
also
block
the
the
cart
like
blocking
the
cart.
I
think,
from
our
point
of
view,
would
almost
be
invisible.
A
I
think
the
the
google
shopping
side
might
might
check
things
like
the
cart
to
kind
of
just
make
sure
that,
if
you're
submitting
something
with
the
feed
that
it's
actually
matching
what
what
you
can
purchase
but
from
from
a
search
point
of
view,
that's
it's
like
one
internal
link
that
doesn't
work.
It's
like
whatever
and
usually
the
cart
is
blocked
from
robots
text
or
no
index
anyway.
H
Right
or
maybe
allow
the
card
but
disallow
people
from
choosing
an
address
outside
that
country
or
payment
yeah,
but
if
our
main
site
is,
for
example,
on
the
united
states,
it's
it's
or
exists,
and
it's
expanding
into
the
uk
and
using
the
home
page
as
a
general
page
to
use
those
redirects
would
kind
of
modify
the
whole
us
structure
that
has
been
in
place
until
now
and
is
ranking
fairly
well.
A
I
Hello
good
morning,
hi
how's.
I
I'm
good
actually,
so
I
have
few
questions
related
to
my
e-commerce
store.
Actually,
I'm
working
for
a
medical
equipment
store
like
I
have
a
medical
website
equipment
store
and
I
I
have
done
so
many
tactics
for
it
like
to
get
the
traffic
and
to
enhance
number
of
new
users
for
the
website,
like
I
did,
company
listing
forum
posting
review
listing
and
so
many
techniques
I
did.
A
A
A
I
would
also
keep
in
mind
everything
around
the
so-called
eat,
so
the
expertise,
authority,
authoritativeness
trustworthiness
and
to
kind
of
make
sure
that
the
the
site
that
you're
providing
represents
like
a
really
high
standard,
that
that
the
content
is
of
really
high
quality,
that
it's
put
together
by
really
people
who
who
understand
what
they're
doing
that.
It's
not
something
kind
of
like
run
out
of
a
garage
kind
of
a
site,
and
that's
something
that
I
think
especially
for
for
the
medical
area
is,
is
super
critical.
A
We
we
have
a
blog
post
that
goes
into
some
of
that
specific
for
the
decor
algorithm
updates
that
we
did.
I
think
last
year,
at
some
point
where
it
goes
through
a
bunch
of
questions
that
you
can
ask
yourself
and
it
also
links
to
the
raiders
guidelines
that
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
these
kind
of
sites.
A
So
we
we
call
them
ymyl
your
money,
your
life
sites
and
I
I
would
see
kind
of
a
medical,
ecommerce
site
kind
of
falling
into
that
category
as
well,
and
there
are
various
things
that
you
can
think
about
there
and
I,
I
don't
think,
there's
like
one
simple
trick
to
make
it
look
official.
You
really
have
to
make
sure
that
you.
I
As
per
my
experience,
I
did
research
on
it.
I
got
very
less
techniques
for
it
for
medical
sites
for
others
or
related
categories.
We
can
go
for
lots
of
techniques,
but
for
this
medical
equipment
stored
we
have
very
little
like
not
much
techniques
for
it
to
get
the
traffic
and
to
enhance
the
number
of
uses
for
the
website.
I
Unlike
content,
posting,
I'm
doing
like
high
quality
content,
I'm
doing
in
different
different
sites.
I'm
posting
like
content
syndication,
also
I'm
following
for
it
and
forum
posting
these
all
techniques
I'm
following,
but
I'm
not
getting
good
results.
A
Yeah,
I
think,
yeah,
I
I
don't
think
there.
There
is
like
one
simple
approach
to
that,
and
I
I
think,
especially
when
it
comes
to
medical
content.
I
I
think
that's
super
important
that
our
algorithms
are
very
picky
there
with
regards
to
what
we
show.
So
I
I
would
look
at
the
the
quality
rater
guidelines
and
really
think
about
how
your
site
might
be
perceived
by
the
quality
raters.
The
quality
raters
don't
make
the
algorithms,
but
they
do
give
us
a
lot
of
insight
into
what
what
we
might
do
in
our
algorithms.
A
I
So
I
have
one
more
question.
It
is
also
related
to
e-commerce
store,
like
I'm,
facing
some
issues
like
product
issues
and
schema
issues,
breadcrumb
issues
and
like
core
vehicle
issues
like
for
ecommerce.
Apart
from
these
techniques,
which
factors
matters
for
the
e-commerce
store,
which
we
have
to
focus
to
enhance
the
visibility
of
the
store.
A
I
in,
in
general,
e-commerce
sites
are
normal
websites
for
us,
so
that's
kind
of
the
the
starting
point,
so
anything
that
you
would
do
on
a
normal
website
would
apply
for
e-commerce.
I
would
also
look
into
everything
around
google
shopping,
where
you
can
go
to
the
like
the
merchant
center
and
submit
a
feed.
I
think
submitting
a
feed
is
for
free
now
pretty
much
everywhere.
A
I
Okay,
so
fine
so
can
I
know
about
brand
monitoring
mentions
brand
monitoring
mentions.
I
A
I
don't
know
I
don't
know
how
they
what
they're
looking
at
there.
So
that's
that's
hard
to
say
I
I
think
it's.
It's
also
worthwhile
to
to
keep
in
mind
that
a
lot
of
these
seo
tools
use
kind
of
analysis
that
don't
match
what
google
uses,
so
just
because
it's
flagged
in
the
tool
as
something
that
you
should
be
looking
at
doesn't
necessarily
mean
that
it's
something
that
is
critical
for
your
site.
I
Okay,
so
one
more
thing
I'm
facing
in
google
search
console
google
search
console
I'm
facing
like
hry,
fling
tag,
errors
issues
so
which
factors
we
need
to
consider
to
resolve.
Hry
fling
tag,
errors,
issues.
A
Yeah,
it
depends
on
the
the
type
of
issue
that
you
see
there.
Usually
the
atrial
flang
annotations
are
things
that
so
so
the
idea
is
that
it
connects
the
different
language
and
country
versions
of
your
pages
together
and
in
many
cases
I
think,
if
you're
not
aware
of
the
specifics
there,
it
sounds
like
your.
Your
content.
Management
system
is
doing
that
automatically.
A
So,
if
you're
seeing
issues
in
search
console
about
that-
and
you
never
set
anything
up
yourself
around
hreflang,
then
I
would
check
in
with
the
people
who
are
making
the
content
management
system
or
whatever
plugins,
that
you're
using
there
just
to
kind
of
see
what
what
they
they
might
say.
But
it
might
also
be
that
this
is
something
that
has
just
been
on
your
site
for
a
long
time
and
essentially
the
errors
there
just
mean
we
don't
use
that
markup.
F
Yeah,
okay,
just
in
here
because
she
raised
a
really
interesting
question:
okay,
sure
I've
got
kind
of
the
same
issue
as
ritu
does,
and
it's
about
writing
in
the
medical
area.
Without
being
a
doctor,
you
mentioned
an
interesting
link
to
a
blog
post,
which
could
be
very
helpful.
Could
you
could
you
just
post
them
in
the
comments
somewhere.
A
F
Yeah,
the
the
your
money,
your
life
site's,
been
very
hit
very
hard.
I
saw
that
so
my
side
well
went
down
to
a
middle
line
which
might
be
fair
enough,
but
still
I
want
to
kind
of
improve
the
performance.
Obviously,
and
so
any
tip
is
work
on
really.
A
Yeah,
I
so
my
recommendation.
A
That
gives
you
some
ideas
of
what
what
you
might
be
able
to
do
differently,
and
sometimes
those
are
small
things
like
just
highlighting
better
who
is
creating
the
content
where
it's
coming
from,
who
has
reviewed
the
content?
Sometimes
it's
bigger
things
where
you
kind
of
realize.
Well,
actually,
if
I'm
writing
about
medical
topics,
maybe
I
should
make
sure
that
I
have
a
doctor
or
some
medical
professional,
actually
review
the
content
kind
of
changing
the
the
perspective
there
a
little
bit.
A
But
all
of
these
things
are,
I,
I
think,
trickier,
because
it's
not
a
pure
kind
of
like
yes
or
no
kind
of
situation.
You
kind
of
have
to
look
at
your
your
site
and
think
about
what
what
variations
might
there
be
that
I
could
do
or
where
might
I
be
kind
of
running
into
issues
unexpectedly,
there
are
also
a
handful
of
really
smart
seos
that
have
focused
on
the
whole
eat
topic
and
they
write
about
this
regularly.
They
they
present
at
conferences
about
this.
A
I
I
would
definitely
also
look
into
that
kind
of
the
some
of
the
case
studies
that
they
have
shown,
I
thought
were
really
insightful
super.
Thank
you
very
much
sure
all
right,
let
me
run
through
some
of
the
submitted
questions
so
that
we
don't
lose
track
of
them
completely
I'll
have
more
time
for
live
questions
afterwards,
as
well
and
probably
have
a
bit
of
time
to
stick
around
longer
if
needed.
A
The
first
one-
and
I
think
the
second
one
are
both
like
hreflang
questions
as
well,
so
the
the
first
one
is
from
from
a
hosting
company.
Basically,
the
indian
home
page
no
longer
ranks
in
the
indian
search
results,
but
rather
the
generic
homepage
does
rank
and
the
indian
one
is
as
a
cycling
and
they're
trying
to
figure
out
what
what
might
be
the
problem
here.
A
I
took
a
quick
look
at
this
before
they
hang
out
and
I
actually
didn't
see
what
what
exactly
is
happening
here
either
so
that
they
didn't
figure
it
out
kind
of
means
they,
like
I
don't
know
it's
it's
a
it's
a
tricky
problem,
so
one
of
the
things
that
I
tend
to
do
with
regards
to
ahreflang
is
first
figure
out.
If
there's
some
kind
of
canonicalization
issue
happening
in
that,
maybe
the
indian
version
has
the
same
text
as
the
generic
version.
That
could
be
something
that
could
happen
in
this
case.
A
Both
both
of
these
home
pages
are
indexed
normally.
So
that's
something
where
like
easy
to
check
with
the
inspect
url
tool,
you
can
double
check.
Are
these
pages
indexed
individually
or
is
there
some
kind
of
different
canonical
associated
with
them?
Sometimes
you
also
see
that
they're
they're
both
indexed,
but
one
of
them
has
a
different
url
as
a
canonical.
So
maybe
like
a
trailing
slash
or
some
extra
parameter
in
the
url
somewhere
in
this
case,
both
of
these
are
fine.
The
other
thing
is
looking
at
the
search
results.
A
Usually
what
happens
when
we
have
hflang
annotations
that
we
have
processed?
Then
we
just
show
one
of
these
urls
in
the
search
results,
so
we
would
either
show
the
generic
english
one
or
the
indian
english
one
and
in
this
case
we're
showing
both
of
them.
So
to
me
that
would
point
at
us
not
being
able
to
process
the
atrial
flange
annotations,
for
whatever
reason
I
I
noticed,
the
hreflang
annotations
here
are
in
a
sitemap
file
and
it
looks
like
we
can
process
the
sitemap
files.
A
So,
theoretically,
we
should
be
able
to
figure
this
out,
but
for
whatever
reason,
we're
not
picking
that
up
properly.
So
I
passed
this
on
to
the
team
here
to
double
check.
I
haven't
heard
back
from
them
yet,
but
I'll
see
if
they
have
something
to
bring
back.
Usually,
the
other
thing
that
I
recommend
for
this
kind
of
situation
is
that
you
always
have
a
backup
plan,
because
you
never
know
how
people
might
be
reaching
your
site,
and
in
this
case
there
is
also
a
backup
plan
in
place.
So
it's
it's
kind
of
a.
A
I
think,
a
geo
ip
redirect
scheme
similar
to
what
mihai
mentioned
and
that,
if
you
go
to
the
generic
homepage,
it
redirects
you
to
a
country
version
so
it
for
me.
It
redirects
me
to
a
swiss
version,
which
so
I
assume
that
a
user
in
india,
if
they
clicked
on
the
generic
home
page,
they
would
be
redirected
to
the
indian
version
as
well.
A
A
But
it's
not
critical
on
your
side,
because
users
are
still
going
to
the
right
versions.
Your
pages
are
still
ranking
properly
for
those
queries,
all
of
that
is
essentially
still
working
so
I'll
see
if
I
can
come
up
with
something
there,
but
essentially
this
wouldn't
be
something
I
would
consider
as
being
critical
or
problematic.
H
Really
quick
regarding
that
in
my
example
earlier,
where
the
main
domain
is,
let's
say
for
the
u.s
and
you
want
to
expand
to
the
uk,
but
your
main
domain
is
already
geo-targeted
towards
the
us.
That
means
that
subfolders
are
kind
of
out
of
the
question
right,
because
you
cannot
geo-target
the
main
domain
on
the
us
and
then
you
just
a
subfolder
for
the
uk.
You
kind
of
have
to
use
it.
H
Do
that
you
could
do
that
yeah?
Okay,
so
you
could
have
the
subdomain
the
the
main
domain
on
the
us
and
a
subfolder
on
for
the
uk
or
something
like
that
yeah
yeah
yeah.
I
did
not
know
that
yeah.
J
Just
just
a
comment
here
in
terms
of
like
critical
that
users
can
get
to
the
right
site,
but
certainly
a
worry
to
the
seo
team
that
they're
not
getting
credit
for
the
sale,
because
it's
no
longer
showing
up
as
like
an
organic
visit
and
all
of
a
sudden
they're.
Seeing
traffic
going
down
and
sales
contributed
to
organic
going
down.
G
J
Mike
that's
what
my
guess
would
be
that
the
geo
redirect
would
pick
it
up
and
then
it
would
be
kind
of
like
self-referral.
So,
like
you
know,
a
direct
visit
at
that
point.
A
Okay,
yeah,
oh
okay,
yeah,
it's
that's
kind
of
awkward.
Okay,
I
mean
I
I'll
double
check
to
see
what
what
we
can
do
on
our
side
there,
but
in
in
general,
with
all
of
these
atrial
flang
annotations.
It's
always
something
where
you
kind
of
have
to
take
into
account
that
sometimes
we
we
get
them
wrong.
A
So
if
there's
a
way
to
make
sure
that
kind
of
the
organic
search
referrer
stays
in
place
over
a
redirect,
then
that
would
be
something
I'd
try
to
get
set
up.
There.
C
Hi
john,
just
adding
to
this
code
id
problem
just
wanted
to
ask:
is
it
like?
I
have
checked
the
robots.txt
file
and
seems
like
they
are
mentioning
multiple
instruction
single
line.
I
think
it's
very
unusual
format
for
me
to
see
robots.txt
in
that.
In
that
way,
like,
usually
we
have
one
in
section
per
line,
but
they
are
using
like
multiple
like.
Can
that
be
an
issue?
A
A
So
that's
something
if,
if
the
robot's
text
file
is
not
perfect
and
we
can't
crawl
everything
properly,
that
would
be
affecting
more
the
rest
of
the
site
and
not
not
the
home
page
so
that
wouldn't
be
affecting
that,
like
one
url
is
less
visible
in
search,
it
would
either
be
not
visible
at
all,
because
it's
blocked
by
robot's
text
or
would
be
visible
in
search
because
it's
not
blocked
by
robot
stacks.
A
Okay,
sure
I
think
the
the
next
question
I
have
on
my
list
is
is
the
other
version
of
the
hreflang
issues
where
I
would
say
well.
This
is
kind
of
the
way
that
it's
supposed
to
be
working.
So
here
what
what's
happening
is
we
have
a
slash
d
e
version
of
a
page
and
it's
no
longer
being
indexed.
So
if
you
look
at
it
with
the
inspect
url
tool,
it
says
it
probably
says
something
like
it's
not
indexed
at
the
moment
and
what
is
indexed
instead
is
the
at
version.
A
So
that's
that's
what's
happening
here.
In
this
case,
however,
we
we
are
picking
up
information
that
these
are
for
different
country
versions.
So
if
you
search
with
the
kind
of
the
german
parameters
in
search,
then
you
do
see
the
german
version
and
you
also
see
the
austrian
version
separately.
So,
while
we're
just
indexing
one
of
these
versions,
we're
actually
showing
the
individual
country
versions
and
usually
that's
from
from
our
point
of
view-
that's
that's
fine,
because
the
href
laying
annotations
are
working
there
and
we
we
can
show
the
different
versions.
A
So
it's
it's
confusing
when
you
look
at
it
in
search
console
individually,
because
it
looks
like
oh,
it's
not
being
indexed
and
also
in
the
performance
reports
and
all
the
other
reports
in
search
console.
It's
confusing
because
we
show
the
canonical
only
there,
but
in
the
search
results
we
show
both
of
these
versions.
So
it's
still
essentially
working
properly.
It's
just
confusing
with
all
of
the
reporting.
K
Hello,
john,
what
I
wanted
to
add
here
is
that
we
consider
this
to
be
hreflang
folding
at
first,
but
the
odd
thing
is
that
when
we
checked
in
search
console,
we
had
no
in
in
no
index
http
header.
So
we
looked
at
the
page.
There's
nothing
there!
K
Nothing
in
the
as
an
html
tag,
nothing
in
the
header,
then
we've
checked
every
other
signals,
and
then
we
saw
that,
for
example,
we
have
a
referring
page
that
does
have
this
and
it's
a
302
which
makes
me
believe
it
kind
of
became
permanent
red
direct
and
now
I'm
thinking
are
we
in
a
case
where
we
have
inherited
that
no
index
x
robots
tag
from
the
site
that
is
redirecting
to
us,
because
that's
quite
an
odd
one.
A
A
K
Yeah
that
was
an
odd
one
and
completely
different
from
what
we've
seen
before,
because
this
folding
has
happened
in
the
past.
But
after
resubmitting
it
a
few
days
later,
the
pages
were
re-indexed.
We
know
the
content
is
similar,
so
we
know
what
we
what's
the
best
practice
here,
but
usually
this
would
be
fixed
in
a
few
days.
Now
it's
been
more
than
a
week
and
it
hasn't.
A
So
it's
it's
possible
that
you
would
be
able
to
achieve
kind
of
like
a
temporary
like
it's
indexed
individually
thing,
but
from
my
point
of
view,
our
system
should
be
able
to
pick
that
up
again
fairly
quickly
after
it
gets
indexed
and
say:
oh,
it's
actually
the
same
thing.
We
should
fold
it
together
again.
K
A
I
don't
know
I
don't
know
so
for
for
canonicalization
we,
we
use
a
lot
of
different
factors
which
which
do
include
things
like
external
links,
but
also
internal
links,
sitemap
files,
lots
of
other
things
come
into
play
there,
and
my
assumption
is
that
these
are
fairly
seen
as
being
fairly
equivalent
and
then
it's
kind
of
hit
and
miss
like
if
it
falls
this
way
or
that
way.
A
So
that's
that's
kind
of
from
from
my
point
of
view,
the
situation
there
and
I
think,
like
you,
could
go
into
there
and
say
I
will
change
the
text
significantly
so
that
they
don't
get
seen
as
duplicates.
K
A
K
G
K
Thinking
the
pages
to
be
considered
equal,
the
signals
are
not
there
at
least
not
the
ones
we're
looking
at.
A
Yeah
you're,
probably
looking
at
the
signal
slightly
differently
than
we
are
yeah
yeah.
I
mean
it's
it's
some
like.
Like
this
kind
of
thing
I
I
could
send
to
to
the
team
that
works
on
the
duplicate
content,
detection
on
our
side
and
canonicalization,
to
see
like
why
we're
doing
it
exactly
like
this,
but
I
I
don't
see
them
saying.
Oh,
it's
like
something.
We
should
change
it
because
they
would
look
at
this
and
say
well.
These
are
equivalent
enough.
A
It's
like!
Obviously
you
see
some
slight
differences
there,
but
for
kind
of
the
the
bigger
web
context
we
would
say:
well
it's
the
same
content
like
we
picked
this
one.
We
picked
that
one.
It
doesn't
really
matter.
A
So
that's
some.
I
mean
from
from
my
point
of
view.
If
you
wanted
to
have
them
indexed
individually,
making
sure
the
text
is
unique
is
is
definitely
an
option.
I
I
don't
think
you
would
have
any
big
effect
from
that,
though
otherwise,
so
that's
that's
kind
of
the
the
trade-off
that
you
would
have
there
like,
invest
a
lot
of
time
to
make
the
text
unique
or
just
keep
them
like
that
and
focus
on
some
some
bigger
problem.
Instead,
it's
hard
to
say.
A
And
another
hreflang
question:
wow
it's
like
day
of
the
hreflanks.
Recently
you
mentioned
atrial
flang
is
not
needed
for
translated
pages
because
they're,
not
duplicate,
would
you
still
recommend
using
ahreflang
for
translated
pages
anyway
for
geotargeting,
so
for
so
geo
targeting
is
different
than
hreflang
with
hreflang?
We
essentially
don't
change
anything
with
the
rankings.
We
just
swap
out
the
urls
with
geotargeting.
We
do
use
the
location
as
kind
of
a
ranking
factor,
especially
if
we're
thinking
that
the
user
is
looking
for
something
local,
so
geotargeting
is
not
the
same
as
a
trifling.
A
A
I
don't
know
I.
I
would
like
a
a
blue
running
shoe
of
this
brand,
then
that
query
itself
is
already
in
a
specific
language
and
based
on
the
query
alone,
we
can
recognize
well.
This
is
that
language-
and
those
words
are
on
this
page
and
we
can
map
this
page
to
that
query
fairly.
Well,
then,
the
language
usually
is
going
to
be
the
same
thing
across
those
two
pages.
So
for
that,
from
from
my
point
of
view,
hf-lang
is
less
critical.
A
It
all,
I
think,
depends
a
little
bit
on
how
people
are
searching
for
your
site,
but
also
how
what
what
options
you
have
available
for
your
site.
If
it's
a
case
of
like
either,
you
turn
on
ahreflang
for
everything
or
you
don't
turn
it
on
then.
Obviously
turning
it
on
for
an
international
site
definitely
makes
sense.
A
A
So
those
are
kind
of
my
my
thoughts
there
and
yeah.
I
think
I
kind
of
answered
that
question.
Do
you
recommend
a
short
url
structure
without
directory
depth?
In
my
understanding,
it's
not
bad
to
show
users
where
they
are
yes,
absolutely
so,
if
essentially,
the
url
structure
that
you
have
on
your
site
is
something
that
you
can
use.
However,
you
want,
google
does
not
count
the
number
of
slashes
in
your
urls
and
say:
oh,
this
is
like
five
levels
down.
Therefore,
we
will
not
show
it
as
visibly
in
search.
A
So
from
that
point
of
view,
if
you
have
a
directory
structure
that
users
can
recognize
and
where
you
can
tell
that,
sometimes
people
are
like
even
typing
in
the
url
or
copy
and
pasting
parts
of
a
url
together.
I
I
think
that's
perfectly
fine.
There's
no
need
to
hide
that
kind
of
url
structure
from
users
by
doing
url,
rewriting
anything
like
that.
A
A
Can
we
spend
a
few
minutes
talking
about
sitemaps
and
sitemap
index?
Files
specifically,
is
a
rule
of
thumb
around
when
an
index
is
appropriate
and
does
sitemap
naming
kind
matter
like
url
structures,
so
we
just
said
url
structure
essentially
doesn't
matter
you
can
use
whatever
you
want.
You
can
also
use
whatever
you
want
for
sitemap
file
names.
Also
for
the
contents
within
the
sitemap
file,
totally
up
to
you,
some
people
have
a
lot
of
urls
in
a
sitemap
file.
I
think
you
can
have
up
to
50
000.
A
Some
people
have
a
lot
fewer
urls
per
sitemap
file,
the
the
trade-off
there
is
essentially
having
a
lot
of
sitemap
files
versus
having
fewer
sitemap
files
having
more
sitemap
files
makes
it
easier
for
you
to
drill
down
on
specific
sitemaps
in
search
console,
so
that
can
be
useful.
It
doesn't
change
anything
at
all
for
search
if
you
have
so
essentially
what
happens
in
our
systems?
Is
we
process
these
sitemap
files
when
we
get
a
ping
and
we
throw
them
all
into
the
same
database?
And
then
we
crawl
the
urls
that
we
find
there
altogether.
A
So
it's
not
the
case
that
any
kind
of
sitemap
file
structure
that
you
have
changes
anything
with
regards
to
how
we
crawl
the
urls
on
your
site.
I
think
if
you
have
one
sitemap
file
per
url,
then
you're
probably
overdoing
it,
because
it's
like
we.
We
have
to
crawl
almost
twice
as
much
to
get
all
of
the
urls,
but
anything
between
like
several
urls
per
sitemap
file
and,
like
all
urls
on
one
side
of
my
file.
That's
kind
of
up
to
you
just
wondering
if
you
have
any
insights
on
what
impact
switching
from.
A
Www.Indexation
so
essentially,
this
is
kind
of
like
a
side
move
but
you're,
seeing
within
the
same
site
and
for
that
you'd,
essentially
just
set
up
the
redirects
and
make
sure
that
all
of
the
signals,
all
of
the
information
that
you
give
us
aligns
with
your
new
preference
there
so
making
that
kind
of
a
change
is
something
that
will
take
a
while,
but
probably
it'll
be
pretty
straightforward
and
pretty
smooth,
because
everything
stays
within
the
same
site
and
you're
just
kind
of
shifting
urls
around.
A
Question
is
about
offering
relevant
content.
As
you
say,
google
gives
priority
to
relevant
and
unique
content,
but
in
the
tourism
sector,
when
we
change
content,
so
it
affects
the
google
ranking
as
well.
Please,
let's
see,
is
it
puzzle
to
maintain
the
same
position
by
changing
the
content
as
well?
A
So
I'm
not
quite
sure
what
you're
referring
to
here
so
that's
kind
of
tricky,
but
in
general,
if
you
change
the
content,
then
I
would
expect
to
see
changes
in
search
because
we
should
be
reflecting
what
the
content
is
on
your
site.
So
from
from
that
point
of
view,
it's
like
I
I
don't
know.
If
you,
if
you're
changing
things
on
your
site,
then
usually
you
should
see
changes
in
how
we
show
that
content
in
search
and
if
you're
working
to
kind
of
improve
things
on
your
site.
A
That
means
you
would
see
improvements
in
search.
Of
course,
if
you
just
swap
out
all
of
your
content
against
something,
that's
less
useful,
less
relevant
for
users,
then
maybe
you
don't
see
improvements
with
that,
but
there's
no
kind
of
I
don't
know
magical
trick
to
going
in
and
saying
like.
I
want
to
change
all
my
content.
I
don't
want
to
see
any
changes
in
search
because
that
wouldn't
match
what
we
would
see
on
your
site.
Then,
okay,
wow.
A
A
We
can
continue
to
chat
about
these
things
and
go
through
like
some
of
the
remaining
questions,
but
thanks
for
submitting
so
many
questions
for
coming
over
hanging
around
so
long
asking
so
many
live
questions
as
well
and
hope
to
see
some
of
you
again
in
one
of
the
future
ones.
All
right.
Thanks
a
lot
and
let's
see.