Google Office Hours with John Mueller Jan 14th, 2022 Recap

Today I’ll be recapping the Google Office Hours with Google’s John Mueller from January 14, 2022. I’ll provide a synopsis of the question and answer, my opinion, and a link to the question in the video. The video was an hour, I summarized this for you in 15 minutes.

Full Show Notes / Blog Page @ https://opinionatedseo.com/s2e11

Are there any negative SEO effects with a large robots.txt file?

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=45

If we don’t include the sitemap in the robots.txt, is there any negative SEO implications?

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=118

How does Google handle non user relevant HTML fragments, and AJAX calls. 

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=134

Is there any guideline to the robots.txt file as far as file size. 

https://www.robotstxt.org/

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/robots/intro 

https://github.com/google/robotstxt 

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=285 

Heading Text: How important is it to use hierarchical vs just however you want. Does size matter? 

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=375

Adding a new domain for a new service offering. How long until we start seeing the traffic looking like our current domain.

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=528

Custom content or rather a custom page that is geo-located by state. 

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=854

The questioner is seeing good conversion rates on their app, but not so much on mobile website. 

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=1228

They wanted to know if the pages had to be exact but different currency and language. 

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=1500

This question was about backlinks and removing spam backlinks once you hit the 2MB file size limit on the disavow.

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=1643

Do I need to mark up content on my page with HTML semantic elements for example, footer?

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=1789

Should we expect a drop in traffic if we remove AMP?

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=1845

https://kinsta.com/blog/disable-google-amp/

They’ve got a few thousand links that they’ve disavowed, but they’re worried they may have done some legit ones. 

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=2014

Seeing knowledge panel on mobile but not desktop and does Wikipedia influence when someone would be shown?

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=2117

Jason Barnard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OFPrIcv7_8 - mentioned by John.

Synonyms - The entire system is automated, there’s nothing manual.

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=2284

Several locations, what is the best way to include local schema?

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=2410

15-20 FAQs on my page, should I include all the questions?

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=2440

Can Google use content that is initially hidden for structured data. 

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=2494

Product reviews:

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=2776

Coverage issue - crawl currently not indexed, discovered, not indexed.

https://youtu.be/GZ_wSeQqPZk?t=3109

Should I add unique content to my ecomme