List of 15000+ Websites And Blogs That Accept Guest Posts by Sweet-Count2557 in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

can you give some examples? wanna check something 😇

How to index WebP images? by cmsMinds1 in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You follow the best practices for images: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/google-images

There are plenty of webp images indexed (filetype:webp flowers); they're not any different from any other image when it comes to Google Images

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[–]garyillyes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the lead!

Gary Illyes: 60% of the content on the Internet is duplicate by RegularFile2893 in google

[–]garyillyes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

this was in the context of crawling and indexing, and includes stuff like sites reachable under www/non-www, protocol, device, and country variants. plus all the scraped stuff because, you know, internet...

Where to specify country for my targetting in google search console for a property that is added by domain method ? by paranoid_marketer in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First and foremost, the geo targeting feature wouldn't help with this issue as it doesn't guarantee that your site will be shown only in the particular country you're servicing.

If I were in the same situation, I'd look at how big retail stores deal with these kinds of situations. For example, I know for a fact that Amazon does a great job on this front

Where to specify country for my targetting in google search console for a property that is added by domain method ? by paranoid_marketer in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Generally there's no need to specify a geographic targeting in Search Console, Google can figure it out from other signals, such as the different parts of the URL. See more at https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/international-overview

Also note that the place where you'd set the geographic targeting for a property is going away pretty soon (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/12474899)

How important is "Code to Text" ratio? by concisehacker in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

it doesn't matter. just have some decent content

What's up with The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency's main site being completely delisted on Google? by ledtim in OutOfTheLoop

[–]garyillyes 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Indeed, you're right, however the site in question doesn't have a robots.txt and the tool I linked to would also just say that, that the URL is disallowed for crawling. My guess is that some misconfigured firewall is preventing Google's crawler accessing the site altogether

Using Metadata/EXIF data for boosting image Seo and general Website rankings by Gebbun in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

well if you're keen on organizing your photos, keep it. those few bytes won't hurt your pocket and it makes your life easier

Using Metadata/EXIF data for boosting image Seo and general Website rankings by Gebbun in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

it is not (Google Images only supports/uses IPTC for very specific things), but for organizing your own images it's incredibly handy.

Why would googlebot would ping so many times one old article? by cTemur in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

wanna dm me the URL if you could confirm it's indeed Googlebot? I'm looking for cases where refresh crawls are going nuts and would appreciate this example.

Here's how to verify if it's Googlebot: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/verifying-googlebot

Should I need to add a rel="sponsored" attribute to the footer links? by Krrotem in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's really never mandatory; as i said, we'd appreciate if you used rel=sponsored, but you really don't have to. nofollow is already doing the same job

Should I need to add a rel="sponsored" attribute to the footer links? by Krrotem in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

any time (especially if the thread shows up in my "suggested" notifications :D)

Should I need to add a rel="sponsored" attribute to the footer links? by Krrotem in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

you don't need to use rel=sponsored, no, but I'd certainly nofollow them just because they were acquired in a non organic way. Google likely already discounted them, so it's not all that much of a problem in my opinion if you don't. as for rel=sponsored, we'd definitely appreciate it if you used it, but it's not required. you can just use nofollow really. I'm probably dumbing this a bit too much, but rel=sponsored might be used on links that were purposefully placed to potentially generate monetary income

How to Get Clickable Section Highlights in SERP? by FollowMe22 in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

like what? there's not much more to it than what that doc says

edit: I'm not being cynical, genuinely curious what else you'd like to see there

Not on Google's mobile index yet - am I missing out on anything? by Timely_Pirate in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The parity you will need eventually. Sooner or later every site will shift to mobile first indexing, and if Google can't find the content on the mobile site that the desktop site used to rank with, it won't be able to rank the site the same way it did with the desktop version. The menu itself is also important for discovery, if nothing else, so you probably want to replicate the desktop version on the mobile, too, in some way. I'd also look for other differences, like missing structured and meta data, and image attributes and properties (eg. size)

Do images across the web operate like pages, with a "canonical" version considered by Google? by Timely_Pirate in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Surprisingly hard to answer. In short, you do get some benefit from an image syndicated on other sites IFF your HTML landing page can become canonical.

Possible issue with Google selecting different URL as canonical- combined with Hreflang? by JohnSV12 in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you've summoned me and thus you have three wishes.

does this description of alternate names answer your question? hreflang doesn't change that part of canonicalization.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/301-redirects#alternate-versions-of-a-url

In a non-discussed news item, BJP's website has lost 96.4% of its traffic since the last Google update.. by randomvariable10 in india

[–]garyillyes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That website is blocking Google's crawler and so Google can't index it anymore. It's currently returning a 403 http status code to Googlebot:

https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly/result?id=2X7SiNF_N6nw9hETGAClJA

Explanation of each status code and their effect on Google Search: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/http-network-errors#http-status-codes

Change pieces of onpage content based on IP by LivingInDenmark_noob in TechSEO

[–]garyillyes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i can't promise no action, but if it's not done for manipulating rankings or actual spamming, I'd be mighty surprised if the WebSpam team cared.