John Mueller

@johnmu
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he/him - Search Advocate / Developer Relations at #Google in #Switzerland. Personal account, posts are my own. Likes search engines, #SEO, #coffee, #cheese, #microcontrollers, #electronics, #cycling, and #Zwift.

Sometimes annoyed, sometimes annoying.

For Google official guidance, check out https://developers.google.com/search/ & https://goo.gle/seo-oh - my team does awesome stuff over there.

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Githubhttps://github.com/softplus
@mariachiaramarsella @geekonaut Since we index the video as "one blob" (is that a technical term? idk), we'd just index the web page with the content & the video embed. I'm not sure how paywall markup would fit into that. Maybe I'm missing something though :-)
@shameem No, if it's the same URL, then it doesn't do anything. You need unique URLs per locale, and they need to be crawlable from anywhere (Googlebot generally crawls from one location; it wouldn't notice if you changed content dynamically, and would not be able to index the dynamic parts that it doesn't see.) If these are really different contents, I'd suggest using separate URLs, cross-links, and hreflang.
@shameem We don't have public numbers on that, but I like the fact that you can pick the kind of search that you want, and change from search to search. Do you find the forums mode more helpful for your searches?
@tifozy @searchliaison @dannysullivan @rustybrick Nothing has fundamentally changed, but it's important to remember that redirects are just one part that goes into canonicalization, it's good to be consistent with all the signals, including all internal links - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls has a bit more. Just redirecting and leaving everything else alone isn't always going to be convincing to Google's systems.
How to Specify a Canonical with rel="canonical" and Other Methods | Google Search Central  |  Documentation  |  Google for Developers

When a site has duplicate content, Google chooses the canonical URL. Learn more about canonical URLs and how to consolidate duplicate URLs.

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@mcoughlan If they 301 it's probably ok, but ... it sounds like it might be worth figuring out how to automate it so that you don't need to manually track & tweak these. Clean links make tracking with tools easier, and reduce chances of "miscanonicalization" (not a ranking issue, but tracking is challenging)
@geekonaut Did you take this photo with an opensource camera?
@guaca @geekonaut I don't know! But, I think Search Console gives you errors fairly quickly, so it should be possible to just double-check.
@simoncox @frank @rustybrick It's fixed now! I think. (I hope. (at least for my site (on my computer)))
@ilovechoclates_ Just checking to see if people are watching ... :-). Sorry!
@ilovechoclates_ I don't think I would ever have made videos - they're so much work and it always feels weird to see me on video :-). I'd probably watch them though - food + storytelling sounds like a calming mix.