Google: We Do Not Trust Links From Spammy Sites

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter, “when it comes to web pages in Google Search, hashtags are just words, they have no special meaning or effect.” So if you are big into #hashtagging everything, Google will consume it as just content on the page.

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These new reasons include video outside the viewport, video too small and video too tall.

John explained, “a simplified way to see it is if Google doesn’t think it’s worth showing large parts of a site in search, it’s not worthwhile to spend time crawling and indexing it all.”