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The June 4, 2021 office-hours hangout delivered some excellent discussions from Google’s preferences on word count and long-form content, how Google treats UGC and rel=sponsored links to more reminders about disavowing, anchor text and the URL removal tool.

The May 28th transcription of John Mueller’s Office-hours hangout is out for our premium subscribers and we’ve highlighted key discussions on the topics of translated content, best practices for in-text citations and ranking fluctuations.

There were some good chats in the May 21st Office Hours Hangout episode and we have it all right here for our subscribers only. This week John touched on doorway pages, handling category pages, spammy links and more.

The May 14th episode brought us lots of detailed insight on topics from improving thin pages, reindexing after having a noindex tag, to beefing up category pages and losing link equity.

Dr. Marie Haynes shares her thoughts on whether or not there is benefit in using Google’s disavow tool today.

In this latest episode on May 7th, there were a lot of indexing questions, along with reminders to use rel=nofollow for affiliate links, to beware of intrusive interstitials and more.

This hangout transcription covers discusses the product review update, optimizing your website, expired domains, unwanted redirects pointing to your site, passage-based ranking, and lots more!

John Mueller recently tweeted saying that most likely there is overlap between what the Federal Trade Commission keeps an eye out for and what Google’s algorithms look at as well.