Ask Me Anything Google SEO Podcast (Jan 22) Notes for Affiliates

[Honeybadger]

Google posted its weekly SEO podcast
went out yesterday from Switzerland
here is the video and my notes for affiliate publishers

1. Internal affiliate webpage links carry the same weight on different parts of a web page
2. Affiliates who publish paid links on webpages - even millions of paid backlinks - are not automatically deindexed by Google if their overall content is of a high quality and these affiliate websites can still rank number 1 in Google organic results
3. Google doesnt index everything on the web --> it prioritizes high quality relevant content
4. Use the reporting tools in Google Search Console to check and fix errors including for structured data
5. Images appearing on an affiliate content webpage should be highly relevant to the meta title and h1 title as any images on a webpage can appear in a featured snippet not neccesarily the featured image or top image (I would add to this the same advice for images appearing next to sub headers like h2 and h3 to make these images highly relevant to the individual headers and ideally also unique and not used frequently by competitors or if you must use image stock libraries to use the very latest added or less frequently used images)
6. Use Google My Business to help Google differentiate between different websites with similar content for example an affiliate website with similar services at multiple locations
7. Featured images on affiliate webpages should be at least 1,200 pixels wide and aspect ratios of 1:1 (example --> 1200x1200) or 16:9 (example --> 1200x675) or 4:3 (example --> 1200x900)
8. Googles impression of quality of content on an affiliate website can change dependent upon country or language so what is considered low quality in one country can be considered high quality in another country
9. Google Search Console treats an affiliate website URL with a trailing forwards slash as a folder and without as a webpage
10. Affiliate webpages can be indexed and deindexed or served and not served on a regular basis
11. If your affiliate website or webpage has a technical problem its best to serve a 503 redirect code to avoid deindexing and which you can perform for the entire website from robots.txt file and Google spiders will read this code and revisit the website later to reindex content --> this should not be in place for an extended timeperiod longer than 48 hours

 

[xentropy]

Hey, that sounds awesome!

 

[oghemalish]

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[Honeybadger]

Its so simple
if you submit to google
and follow google indexing rules
you get traffic
it will be ultra boring
but you get traffic
or become a black hat spammer
waaaay more entertaining
amd waaaay more risky