{"id":14057,"date":"2019-10-18T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T08:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/?p=14057"},"modified":"2019-12-18T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:22:13","slug":"google-webmaster-hangouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/14057\/google-webmaster-hangouts\/","title":{"rendered":"28 Intriguing SEO Facts Exposed by Google on Webmaster Central & Hangouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each and every day that passes, another fact about SEO is revealed, another important tip is told, another story is learnt just by opening our email, twitter account, or\u00a0our smartphone. We have the information at hand. Lots and lots of news from the internet marketing world go by our ears and our eyes.\u00a0Make sure to listen to the right one.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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And, speaking of important stuff, we\u2019ve searched and scooped through the Webmaster Central Hangouts to reveal the most intriguing facts about SEO Google has ever said.<\/p>\n

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Google Webmaster Central Hangout is an important source of information you should always keep an eye on. It is available\u00a0for everyone, you can send questions or address them live directly to experts, and find insights straight from Google.<\/p>\n

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You can check Google’s working hours directly on their website<\/a><\/strong> and listen to all recorded videos, starting with 2012, regarding all kinds of topics, offpage\u00a0SEO and onpage SEO facts included. Yet, we thought you wouldn’t want to listen to all the recorded hangouts, therefore we’ve made a summary for you as we’ve curated the most interesting of them all and tackled the following:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. You Can Get a Site Architecture Penalty<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Mobile PageSpeed Is Not Yet a Ranking Factor<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Search Console Doesn’t Count Knowledge Graph Clicks<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Don’t Canonicalize Blog Pages to the Root of the Blog<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Applying Multiple Hreflang Tags to One URL Is Possible<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. No Limit on the Number of URLs That Google Bot Can Crawl<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Now You Can Get ‘Upsetting-Offensive’ Content Flag<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. Disavowing Is Still Necessary for a Post-Penguin Real-Time Era<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. URL Removal Tool Affects All Domain Variations<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. No Specific Limit for Keyword Density in Content<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  11. Content Duplication Penalty Doesn’t Exist<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  12. Better to Add Structured Data Directly on the Page Than Using Data Highlighter<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  13. Have Relevant URL to Rank Your Images Higher in Google<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  14. Low-Quality Pages Influence the Whole Domain Authority (DA)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  15. Google Works With Over 150,000 Users and Webmasters Against Webspam<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  16. Google Knows Your Work Place and It Isn’t Afraid to Admit It<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  17. Personal Assistant Search Optimization (PASO) Might Be the Future of SEO<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  18. Google Search Console’s Metrics Get Fully Integrated Into Google Analytics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  19. Object Recognition Works in Combination With Image Optimization for Better Results in Google<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  20. Google Site Search and Custom Search Within Site Will Become One<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  21. HTTPs Ensures That the Information Users See Is What the Owner of the Site Provides<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  22. URLs Should Have Less Than 1,000 Characters<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  23. You Can Have Multiple H1 Elements on a Page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  24. New Content Should Be Linked High in the Site Architecture<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  25. Google Says It’s Ok to Have Affiliate Links<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  26. Google Will Treat Nofollow Link Attribute as a \u2018Hint\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  27. The Number of Words on a Page Is Not a Ranking Factor<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  28. Google Does Not Render Anything Unless It Returns a 200 Status Code<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. You Can Get a Site Architecture Penalty<\/h2>\n

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    Does Panda take site architecture into account when creating a Panda score? was one of the questions answered on a\u00a0Google Webmaster Central Hangout.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    Google Panda is an algorithm that looks out to the overall quality of the website and its content. In a previous blog post, we detailed how this Google update (the Panda algorithm) can affect websites and how it could actually be a topical authority<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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    From a Google point of view, Google Panda is more of a general quality evaluation and it takes into account everything. The site architecture is included. If somehow it affects the quality of the site overall, you might get a Google Panda penalty for bad site architecture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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    Panda penalizes websites for \u201clow-quality sites\u201d or \u201cthin content sites\u201d and aims to return results with higher-quality sites near the top of search results. Let\u2019s say, for example, that your website has issues that affect the quality of the site, such as a bad structure – then you should take some time to improve that.<\/p>\n

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    If you are in the position of making a website redesign, creating a new site from scratch or doing something similar that might affect the architecture of your website, you should take into consideration what John Mueller said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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    Follow the full conversation in the next Google Webmaster Central office-hours hangout with John from February 24, 2017\u00a0at 9:06:<\/p>\n

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