Category: Search Engine Strategies

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Googlebot crawling AMP pages

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Googlebot is crawling my AMP pages more than they are crawling my desktop pages. I have the appropriate canonical from AMP to desktop and amphtml from desktop to AMP. The desktop version also has a self-referencing canonical. Only canonical pages are in the sitemap.

This is a concern because less than 10% of our traffic is from mobile devices (unique, I know), yet it's more than 50% of our crawl budget.

The one thing that we do, which I'm not sure if this is appropriate or not, is whenever a desktop page 1 links to an internal page 2, the AMP version of page 1 links to the AMP version of page 2. Therefore, there are internal links pointing to AMP pages, but only from other AMP pages.

The other thing I was wondering is whether anyone has heard of Google serving AMP pages to desktop users behind low bandwidth connections, where they could benefit from AMP. Supposedly AMP doesn't have to be for only mobile anymore, but Google hasn't really demonstrated this. We don't get a lot of mobile traffic, but we do get a lot of third-world / low-bandwidth traffic.

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How to remove content from Google?

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I am trying to remove an entire folder of thin content from Google to help me recover from a Panda/EAT-related penalty. I want to keep the content on the site for the benefit of users, but not waste crawl budget or have Google think that we have so many pages of thin content.

I added the folder to robots.txt quite a few months ago. While some pages are showing up as "Blocked by robots.txt", the majority of pages now show up in my coverage report as "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt". About 2 months ago, I submitted a removal request for all URLs that begin with the prefix, but there's been no change. Google Search Console's report updates every few days, but the number of URLs that say, "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt" is increasing, even months after the removal request for those same pages.

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Googlebot ignores robots.txt

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I'm noticing Googlebot is not respecting my robots.txt. I'm seeing Googlebot's user agent crawling pages that have been in my robots.txt file for many months. Some of them are showing up in GSC as "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt" with Last crawled dates indicated as recent as yesterday.

Additionally, I'm seeing Googlebot crawl my robots.txt file a few times a day, and the URLs are definitely blocked per the Google robots.txt tester.

My robots.txt is in the following format:

Sitemap: ...

User-agent: *

# ...

Disallow: ...
Disallow: ...
etc. ~ 40 lines

# ...

Disallow: ...
Disallow: ...
etc. ~ 60 lines

# ...

Disallow: ...
Disallow: ...
etc. ~ 20 lines
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Rebranded my Website but I don’t want my SEO to be Ruined

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Hi!

Recently I have decided to change my website from Fred's Fashion Boutique to Fred's Fashion (because the URL became available) and I was in the process of a redesign so I thought it would be a good time.

My website is only about 3 months old so wasn't receiving a lot of organic traffic (around 20 a month) but it was on the rise. I was wondering what I need to do in order for my organic traffic to not halt completely.

Also, I had a few backlinks to my website and was wondering if I created a permanent redirect whether the backlinks would be redirected to my new URL which would give it some authority?

I'm still fairly new at SEO and all that so any general tips that you think would help me my SEO for my website would be much appreciated! Also, I am wondering what is the best way to build backlinks and general tips in getting a good domain authority.

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Hello. I’m Niun

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Hello. I'm Niun. No joke, this is how they call me IRL :x

I got into web developing arround 5 months ago, and currently am trying to learn React.js

I just finished (i hope i finished) my first project, and i think it is pretty much what i wanted it to be. I have been working on optimisation of the site and ,ofcoure, SEO.
multiple sources including google say that Text to HTML ratio should be 7:3 or similar which is difficult to achieve given the nature of my website, so i ended up adding a bunch of useless text at the bottom of each page, because in google it says that hiding the text with css rules will get me penalised.

The website covers mobile gaming, more specifically mobile MMO, MMORPG and Multiplayer Online games.
I was wondering if hiding this much text would be a 100% penalisation from google, or should i keep it there like that?
this is the site https://www.teletappie.com/

The topic of the site is not original and competition fot it is rather big but, my main purpose is creating a gamelist ( https://www.teletappie.com/Gamelist ) where all of the mobile games that have some multiplayer function would be sorted, and the user could easily and quickly get the suggestion.

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Discoverability with infinite scroll

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How do you handle your link discoverability when also using infinite scroll.

As we know, Google has been ignoring link rel=prev/next for years.

A lot of my older content is showing up with no internal links.

I do have HTML page navigation but its hidden with display:none

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Noindex AMP pages?

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Is it appropriate to noindex AMP pages whose desktop canonicals are noindexed?

Currently, my valid but low-quality pages are noindexed. They point to an amphtml version, and that AMP page is noindexed as well.

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Submit AMP page to Google Sitemap

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Is there an advantage to submitting my AMP pages to my Google sitemap?

I am using <link rel="amphtml" ... but I was wondering if submitting them lead to faster discovery?

My AMP pages are starting to show up in Google Search Console Coverage for "Indexed, not submitted in sitemap"

However, I cannot confirm that their non-AMP canonicals are in the latest version of the sitemap that Google has crawled and parsed.

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Mobile-first Indexing

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Just got a popup notification in my Google Search Console that says:

Your site has been switched to Mobile First Indexing
The majority of Google's crawl requests to your site will be made using a mobile crawler.

Switch date: July 10, 2018

The notification is just a little late to the party.