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In your response to Fabio's question, you said, ' nobody gets to choose or control where traffic or links are coming from, so that's not something Google Search will look at to judge a website's trustworthiness.' How does this square with the Spam policies for Google web search, which say that Google uses links as a factor in determining the relevancy of web pages?
The full question had details from specific tests (which we tend to remove to avoid blaming), it mentioned in the context of SEO that CSS/JS should to be minified. It's great to minify CSS/JS, to make your pages faster for users, but this will not have a visible effect on SEO. It's possible to test automatically for many things, but much of that is not going to have a direct SEO effect, so it's good to be critical before you spend time blindly following an automated test result.
🙋 Do you have a question about Google Search or SEO?
It might be a good fit for the office hours.
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Really helpful content especially got clarity on how Google treats 404 error.
Google Search Central, you're making CZcams a better place
Google Search Central, cool content keep it up dude
How to do SEO of any international website. On what topic I should more focusly worked whether on- On page seo, Off page Seo or Technical SEO
The circle question was top!)
But it was so confusing. Also, it's not nice to have questions that you can't answer with "it depends".
In your response to Fabio's question, you said, ' nobody gets to choose or control where traffic or links are coming from, so that's not something Google Search will look at to judge a website's trustworthiness.' How does this square with the Spam policies for Google web search, which say that Google uses links as a factor in determining the relevancy of web pages?
Finally! Thank you!
Thank you for the updates, Q&A
as on 12:36 you said minifying Javascript does not effect direct SEO. Are you saying it to particular or it is for all of us?
The full question had details from specific tests (which we tend to remove to avoid blaming), it mentioned in the context of SEO that CSS/JS should to be minified. It's great to minify CSS/JS, to make your pages faster for users, but this will not have a visible effect on SEO. It's possible to test automatically for many things, but much of that is not going to have a direct SEO effect, so it's good to be critical before you spend time blindly following an automated test result.
@@JohnMueller thanks Sir.
for 2:14, if i don't have 404 page, but i redirect the 404 to homepage, is it okay?
Redirecting to any page, including to your homepage, would be considered a soft-404, and is discouraged. Ideally make a normal 404 error page.
Great 🎉
Great
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Anon has been asking quite a few questions, innit? 😅
Is it you, @NathanVeenstra ? :-) Anonymous questions are totally fine.
Agreed @@JohnMueller, and I’m totally fine with having my name mentioned. I like mine better than Anon 😊
Anon is going to be a smart cookie. They're very curious, have a lot of good questions.