SEO

Google: Translated Content & Garbage Parameters In URLs

You may end up confusing Google when you have "garbage" parameters trailing in your URLs, espesially when it comes to translated content parameters. There is this interesting conversation when a large multilingual site found its translated content excluded from Google Search with a "crawled currently not indexed" status.

from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/41FmVIH

Google Business Profiles May Require Additional Verification

Google has updated the help document on how to verify your business to say "we may require you to verify by more than one method." So if you verify using one method, Google might decide it needs you to verify again but using a different method.

from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/ipvUged

PSA: Blocking USA Users But Allowing Googlebot Is Against Google's Webmaster Guidelines

Google sends its crew of crawlers, Googlebot, from the United States. That is where 99% of the crawling originates from. If you are not allowed to show your website to users based in the United States, then you also cannot show that website to Googlebot.