English Google Webmaster Central office-hours from September 11, 2020

This is a recording of the Google Webmaster Central office-hours hangout from September 11, 2020. 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.

Feel free to join us - we welcome webmasters of all levels!

[PVAriel]

Hi John, good to know about link algorithm updates, internal linking and various other related insights.

Indeed these are really very
helpful insights to know more on connection of links and core algorithm updates.

Thank you so much for your valuable time to answer our questions and doubts.
keep up the great work.
Philip

[Halaqa]

So domain names do not play a role in search engine rankings? Correct?

[iminathiMusic]

During site migration, we copied all files from domain A to domain B and then added the redirect rule to the htaccess of domain A. The traffic went normal after a month but then the site went down so much with almost 90% traffic drop on google search.

Now many seos are saying since both domain and contents are on same IP address, that google treated this as duplicate contents. Is that true?

How can I fix this?

[unmiss-com]

John Mu always proclaims that you should create high-quality content for ranking. However, the problem is that there is a lot of other high-quality content. So, instead of competition with others find topics with a lack of quality content and jump there.

[SandeepKumar-smld]

Thanks for answering the questions asked by me and others.

Love from india ❤

[israralam]

Hi John,

How Google differentiate between Paid links and organic links? And which one will have more significance in the eyes of Google.

Thank You,
Md Israr Alam
Carney Technologies Services