English Google SEO office-hours from December 11, 2020

This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from December 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!

[princesswanted]

Why do you not have a disclaimer in webmaster tools to say that the amp report only shows a sample of pages?? Why does google not show all amp indexed pages, surly the whole point of webmaster tools is to show which urls are indexed by google !!!!

[chris-palmer]

Excellent as always many thanks John and team from #chrispalmerseo

[princesswanted]

Why are all the search results full of forum spam since the update????

[kirillbelousov]

would like to look site with after-migration drop in traffic...

[badvoc]

20:50 interesting about how new websites and pages are handled over time from first Google Crawl discovery, so-called Google Sandbox Effect perhaps?!?

[Makeybussines]

That's how it adds up to an e-mail once a week :) GSC is not spamming me from one property, our agency just have a lot of clients.

I can see that Google can handle the errors, they disappear again after I ask GSC to validate the fix.

Your tools are working as intended.

Your answer implies that if a page 404's or is redirected, which is the case for most of the data-vocabulary warnings I've gotten, you will keep the most recent version.

When does that version expire?

As for examples: They disappear after 3 months and the example URL's aren't shown in GSC once the fix is validated, which we of course do, when there is an error :)

Thanks again John, hope it clarifies things :)

[ExposureNinja]

35:15 Should I need to be worried that all my traffic is from desktop users? - Great advice here!

[kmxmbrl]

Did anyone catch the video description used "duplicate content" twice LOL

[robderoy]

Hi John, is there a possibility to redirect thousands of URLs according to a rule scheme (.htaccess), so that a manual redirection does not have to be set up for each individual URL?