Google Webmaster Hangout Notes: January 21st 2020
https://www.deepcrawl.comDeepcrawl’s notes from the Google Webmaster Hangout on the 21st of January 2020
- Including Has no Impact on Search as it is the Default Value
- Options For Out of Stock Items Include Noindexing, Returning a 404, Adding Schema or Redirecting to a Replacement
- JavaScript Redirects Take Slightly Longer For Google to Process Than 301 Redirects
- Hreflang May Not be Necessary For Translated Versions of Pages
- Keep One Version For Image File Names Rather Than Having Multiple Translated Versions
- Blocking Crawling of Parametered URLs in GSC Will Mean PageRank Will be Lost
- Safe Search Issues Can Now be Submitted to a Forum Rather Than Directly to Google
- Check if Site is Impacted by Safe Search by Seeing if “&safe=active” URL Parameter Changes Results
- Upper Limit For Recrawling Pages is Six Months
- Check Cached Page to See if Redirect Has Been Picked up by Google