Google’s John Mueller Providing Webmaster Support On Christmas

Yearly, John Mueller, Senior Search Analyst / Search Relations staff lead at Google makes a big effort to assist reply to Search engine optimization-related questions on Christmas. He has carried out this since no less than 2007, so sixteen-years and counting, and has carried out it once more this Christmas.

Listed here are the earlier years of John providing help on Christmas. He did it final yr in 2022, then in 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007.

This yr, he appears to have stayed off X (previously often known as Twitter) seemingly for good motive, and posted totally on Reddit. Listed here are the Reddit threads and responses he posted on on Christmas day:

• Hreflang rendering – head or body? – “It seems like (because you talked about “rendering”) you are including hreflang with JavaScript. Technically, that is potential, however debugging goes to be painful. I’d think about that many hreflang testing instruments may have hassle seeing it, for instance. Hreflang is tough by itself, I’d strive to not make it even more durable. It sounds such as you’re up to the mark, simply understand that if the js injects an iframe within the head, it’s worthwhile to ensure the meta tags that you just want for search are earlier than the iframe. (The iframe will usually cease processing of the pinnacle at that time).”
• Robots.txt unreachable – “That is nearly definitely your server blockinng Googlebot, for instance with a very spicy CDN configuration. This isn’t a bug in Search Console. In case your robots.txt just isn’t accessible to Googlebot, nothing will get crawled. The contents of the robots.txt file does not matter for this concern – the issue is that Googlebot cannot even have a look at the file, so it assumes that your server needs to dam all site visitors.”
• Google Cache is different from Search Console Live Inspection – “The cached web page just isn’t reflective of what is listed – the JS may not “run” there for technical causes. Use Search Console as a substitute.”
• What SEO myths are you tired of hearing of? – “That some issues are myths and may subsequently by no means be adopted / used.”
• Any point in putting brand name on meta title for website pages? – “I like cheese, sorry.”

A pair days earlier than the vacation, he posted his annual year-end Search engine optimization meme on X, click on via to undergo all of them:

As I wrote final yr, there are additionally tons of volunteers, Google Product Specialists, and different volunteers which have answered dozens and dozens of questions all through Christmas eve and day and over the weekends. Like I mentioned final yr, this reveals how John deeply cares about site owners. He is aware of that if a webmaster, website proprietor, or enterprise proprietor is posting one thing regarding their web site over the vacations, this webmaster have to be in some misery, and he’s there trying to assist. We mentioned this a bit after I interviewed him on my vlog – test it out over here.

In any occasion – John – thanks for the whole lot you do, and wishing you, your loved ones, and your colleagues a cheerful, wholesome, peaceable, and profitable vacation and New 12 months.

Listed here are some posts from different search reps wishing everybody a cheerful holidays:

And completely happy holidays to everybody on the market!

Discussion board dialogue at posts above.