So it looks like a camera work. All right, we've added a lot of questions. So we'll take them one by one. We'll start with some of the questions on the community page and slowly go on, if you don't mind. OK, happy new year and good morning, everyone. Welcome to this 2017's first Hindi and English Hangout from Asat Hyderabad. All right, thanks, Arjun. OK, we'll start with a bunch of questions on different areas, one on the community page, some on the collections page, and some live ones. We'll start with the first question from Arjun. Many times, Google said, adsense ads do not affect ranking. But in one page in Google said, if page A and page B have similar content, then page A requires less data to load information, then page A gets higher score than page B. So you'd think adsense slightly affects in ranking as per the speed algorithm. Or Google simply avoids block because it is blocked by rewards.txt. So one thing regarding page speed, I want to say, so it will affect sites that are slow. If your site is super fast and some other sites are just fast, it won't really be a big difference between those sites. The effect will be for if your site is very slow, then page speed will affect your ranking. But if two sites are super fast and it's just like 0.1 nanosecond difference or something, then it doesn't really matter between both of those sites. We'll take a question from, by the way, guys, we see a lot of people watching. So if you can join the hangout, that'd be pretty swell too. I have a question from Ramesh Singh. Will limiting link count on pages, especially from navigational links, benefit other links present on pages to pass link juice? I'm not sure if you have only five links on one page, that means those five will get a lot more page rank instead of if you have 20 links. I honestly don't think that's the case. It's not about how many links you have on one page. It's about if those links are taking you to relevant sources and if your page itself is authoritative. Based on that, the landing page, whichever it is, and based on the other different links they get, we calculate link score. But just because you have five links, if you cut down two links, doesn't mean more ranking factors will go into those three links. We have a question from Avinash. I have following questions about a client. Client agrees that important pages have to be linked from home page, but he won't use the menu bar, instead uses photo links and second fold of page. Is there a difference between having links in menu bar and having links in the second fold of content from home page? From Google's perspective, it's not very much different. We crawl all links on your page. But from a user's perspective, it's not really search related, but think about it, if those links are important and if they're like shoved down at the bottom, then it's problematic for many users. So look at it from that perspective. Sorry, we got muted. From Google's side, we'll crawl all links on your page, so it's not really an issue for us. OK, we have a question from Josh. Is relevance and quality the same terms? For example, I have a page ranking number one and receives a lot of search traffic for a long time. Is it relevant and quality for Google at the same time? Or the fact that it's ranking number one doesn't mean it's also high quality content at the same time. It could mean both. Relevance and site could be both relevant and high quality content, but it could also be relevance is more for a perspective of a query. So a page which is relevant for Salman Khan biography may not be very relevant for just a movie that Salman Khan did. So if that makes sense. So I mean, a better international example would be like if you're searching for information about a car, which you have quality content about a particular car on your page. But if someone's searching for secondhand prices of that car, which you do not have on your page, even though you talk about the car a lot. So there your content may not be relevant even if it's high quality. So it depends on the query. OK, take another question from Arjun. I want to display my site on specific days, Christmas only. For example, by using no index tag on rest of the days. So Google will consider it is normal to show up on first page of specific day because in one of the Google patrons, Google uses historical rank information as well to detect spam. So by using no index tag in most of the days are generally safe. I honestly wouldn't recommend that because when you say no index, we generally remove that document from our index. So any signals or any links or anything for that document, we have to recrawl the document again once you put it back in the index. So it can take some time for it to get back to the top of rankings maybe. Of course, if it's very relevant and it has really good content, sometimes it could come up quickly. But still, I wouldn't recommend no indexing and putting it on just one day. Arjun, if you have any follow-up questions, you can just add to the chat. You have another question? We'll take another question from Google+. We have a question from Mihal. He says, would you say that in an ideal situation if the content on the website that is indexed and receives search traffic should make the users want to come back to the site plus recommend it to others or link to it? So I'd say every content on the website that's indexed should be good quality content. And it should serve the purpose. If you're serving content on a particular topic, as long as it's good and relevant for that particular topic, users will come back because they'll expect similar quality content from your website. So that part, I got it. But if you mean in every content, you should also make sure you recommend it to others and link to it. If you mean adding social buttons and signals by that, then that's always a good practice, but it doesn't really affect ranking. So Mihal, as I understood your question, you're basically asking if every piece of content that you have on your website should be such that when users come to your website, they are compelled to recommend it to others and link to it on their own blogs and websites. So basically, as Ashish mentioned, look at it from this perspective that it should be of high quality and should serve the purpose. Meaning when somebody is landing on your page, looking for some information, if your page is giving that information to them in the manner that it should be, then I think that's the whole point. So I mean, it may depend on how compelling it would be for sharing. And I mean, some users may have this one-time requirement of such type of content. So they may not really come back to your site again, but some users may come back to your site for different types of content and stuff like that. So the main question here is what kind of experience you give when the user is on your site. So if you can focus on that, then I think that would be great. OK, take another question from David. Do you track if a specific piece of content was the answer to user's query, like the result was the last or only click user made for a specific query? So this page must be really relevant for the topic. Definitely, looking at the content that was served for a particular user, the content that a user is looking at, it's very, very important. In fact, we consistently keep saying content is the number one thing that you should focus on. So as long as the content is relevant, that is definitely a very good ranking signal for you. So if your content is relevant and if it's serving for that particular query, serving relevant content for your targeted queries, then there's nothing else better. No question from mom. There are so many ranking algorithms to score any particular document. So all score value are combined into one to rank the final document. And how often the document score changes with time? You store PR value for one month and then recalculate the same value based on what new links Google discovers while crawling. So is it true for other metrics like freshness score, page speed score? Does Google change the document score value? So is the document score instantly changing after every crawl? So it may not change after every crawl, but we make tons of changes to our algorithms every year. So I think every year we have almost 500 changes to algorithms or even more. So definitely scores will change. There will definitely be fluctuation, some fluctuation in ranking. It is part of the organic ranking process. But there's no specific timeline that for every two crawls, it will change once or anything like that. It depends. So whenever we crawl your pages, if we find new information about your page or if we find more links or less links, these kind of things may affect how we store your page, what kind of information we are seeing at that moment in time. But again, while ranking, there are more than 200 factors that we consider to determine if your page should be ranked for a particular query, for a particular user, and stuff like that. Yeah, but like you mentioned, page speed score. So if your site had a really slow speed previously, but now it's improved it and it's ranking, like it's loading pretty quickly, then that will definitely affect your score. So now you'll definitely not have that speed penalty kind of thing. Take another question from, so there doesn't seem to be any questions in the collections page and community page. Let me look at the YouTube live. OK, I have one question from the live section from Ravi Ahuja. If someone is copying my content and I'm getting a link to my site from that copied content, will it be considered as low quality or spammy links? So basically, when you're getting links from other websites, we also look at the quality of that page that is linking to you. So if the page that is linking to you is of high quality by itself, then it may be seen differently. It may be seen as a high quality link. And if that page is not of great quality, then it may not be seen as a high quality link. So it's as simple as that. I think, yeah, another question. How to make dynamic search results page to index? I'm not sure what you mean by that. But you can check if your pages are being indexed using Fetch's Google in Search Console. Generally, there's almost all pages are indexed, even if you have JavaScript or anything. It's not really an issue. So just check using Fetch's Google to see if your page can be indexed or not. And if it can't, if you're getting an error, then you'll get instructions to fix that absolutely. Once you do that, you should be able to go on. Yeah, just check your pages if they're indexed as they should be indexed. If not, then probably you can post on our Google Master Forum that we have. And people can help you with specific things. So there's a question, is the 200 ranking score criteria published? So 200, it's not a score. It's sort of just the number of signals that we use to rank a particular page. And it's not a definite number. It is more than 200. I honestly don't know what the exact number is. Hey, Birad, you can join the Hangout. We posted a link on our Google Press Community page and on the actual collections page. So I'll just post it here too. OK, we'll take another question from Arjun. In recent Hangout, you said Google doesn't have Geo-based crawler, but they can crawl from almost any IP. So what if first time Googlebot comes from US and next time it comes from Indian IP and sees different pages? Do you think Google will consider that as cloaking? OK, first answer is yes. So we do not want to see different content for different crawlers. So the only good way you can implement is you can do that using the Vary header for mobile pages. But for general content, I wouldn't recommend you guys to serve different content on different IPs. OK, what you can do is you can actually set up internationalization. So you have like, and you can let Google know that this is the page for this locale and this is the page for this particular locale. If that makes sense. So in a scenario where you may have a page, for example, the home page, which is not catering to a particular country or a language, for example, it is a generic page from where you redirect your users to their destination pages. So when a user lands on your home page from India, you may redirect them to Indian pages, your Indian version of your website. And if somebody is landing from US, then you redirect them to US version of your website. So there is something called X default attack that you can use to tell Google basically that this page is not by itself serving any particular locale, but it's generally being used as a global page to redirect users to their destination pages. Next part of the question is, another thing is that if my extra flag is set to Germany, then will Googlebot come from Germany for better crawling? Because I may redirect US Googlebot to another web page. It's really interesting to know how Google comes. So basically, Google may not come from different, posing as coming from different countries and stuff. It may come from US, for example. And when you're serving the pages, as I mentioned, if you are serving different content to different countries, then it is best to have different versions of your pages and then to have a common page which you can use basically for users to redirect to those pages. So having different URLs for your different language pages is the best thing to do here so that Google knows you have different versions of this page and then also interlinking your pages using the extra blank tags, which I think you're doing. Now, we will also tell Google that, OK, there are multiple versions of this page available in these languages, and Google is able to crawl those pages as well and expand. We have a question from Suresh. How do I download multiple countries in Search Console? So you can simply add, have a separate URL or a subdomain for different countries, or you can even have a separate top level domain. So you can have Google.co.in for India, and go to UK for UK and just make sure you verify both of those separately in the Search Console. And even for a single site, you can still have something like Google.com slash ENGV per day and then Google.com slash ENGV per day. And you can verify those two. You are the secretary. So you can tag it then. As long as you have set up the extra blank tags properly and set up the canonicals properly, like, shouldn't be fine. OK, Biraj asks, I want to set up my site to Webmasters. Can you send me any links? So Google.com slash Webmasters is our Webmaster site. I can just type it down here. So this has all the information you need to sign up to Search Console. Let me just take a look at that. So Ravi asked, should I dissolve links that are coming from copied content? It's up to you, Ravi. Sometimes, you know, copied content isn't necessarily bad. So they may, like, copy some part of your content and they may actually, you know, write a review or some, like, they may talk about the content that you're providing and then attribute it to you. So that's not necessarily bad. So it depends. Like, look at where the link is coming from. So in some cases, some people just to, you know, try and harm you with bad links, they can, like, spam your website with many bad links coming from, like, very cheap domains. So you just, like, download the link report and take a look at what kind of links you're getting. And if you're seeing very, links from very, very bad sources, then, like, you can dissolve them. Generally, it is not something to be worried too much about disarming your links, unless you think there are too many bad links coming to you and you're not comfortable having them, then you can use the disarming tool. So we have a question from Shamim. Ask, how Googlebot crawls JavaScript? So we are able to, like, render JavaScript now pretty well. I mean, I think, like, you know, as long as it's not too heavy and it doesn't slow it down, we're able to render JavaScript pretty well. So we can crawl JavaScript. Can I ask a question? Yeah, go ahead. If you have any live questions, go ahead. Yeah. See, we are planning to set up Hindi content. Like, we already run an English website. So to have this Hindi content, should we have it on a subdomain like xyz.com slash xyz? Or should we have, like, xyz.com slash category slash Hindi? What is the best approach to go for? So are you just going to add Hindi articles on your website? Or are you going to have, like, for every English article, like, their respective Hindi translation content? For every Hindi, English article, we're going to translate it into Hindi. That's what we are planning to do.  Then I'd say, like, make sure, maybe, have something like a subdomain, like, hi.example.com slash, you know, how to buy a car, like, how to buy a car, something like that. And have your content on that. That is one way. Or you can also have, like, if you see, like, it's easier to track and maintain if you also can have a different site. Something like, example.com is for English, and example.co.in is for Hindi. Like, it's up to you. You can use either subdomains, or you can use a different TLD. Or you can, like you mentioned, you can use a separate directly also. So example.com slash how to buy a car is the English one. And example.com slash hi slash, you know, how to buy a car is for Hindi. So anything is fine. So it's like, you have multiple options. You just have to see, like, you know, how many resources you can devote to this, like, you know, if you can set up site maps and HF lines and everything properly. So that, like, if it's between different domains, it's easier to maintain, but it's more expensive. But if it is on the same domain and, like, you know, just a different directory, it's not as expensive. But, like, to maintain and to track, it's probably much harder. So, like, you just look at the trade-offs and decide. Yes. So, Tarun, from the ranking perspective, it is not going to make any difference whether you have it on a subdomain or a sub directory. But separating different language content on different subdomains or subdirectories, or maybe even on separate domains, is what is recommended, basically. There's also good for your users and good for maintaining your content well as well and probably tracking as well. So all of these things become easier. Thanks. I have one more quick question. People are usually, rather than typing on Hindi, people are typing it in English, you know. So would you recommend me to go for that English kind of language, or should you, would you advise me to stick with the proper Hindi language? So Google, we've gotten pretty good at, like, transliterating and understanding Hindi content. So in fact, like, we've launched tab searches in some regions, like, I think in some states, I'm not sure of the exact states, but we've launched tab searches. So if you type in English, Shah Rukh Khan, K-Ghane, like, K-E-N-G-A-N-E, Google, in another tab, it will, like, you know, translate that query into proper Hindi script and you'll see Hindi results. So we are pretty good at understanding the query in terms of, like, Hindi script. So even if you have Hindi, proper Hindi content on your website, like, if the query is in English, you'll still be able to understand and, like, serve your content for that particular place. One thing important to note, Tharon, is to understand who your users are and to see what they prefer. So if you think your users are using the proper Hindi script, not in Hindi script, then you may want to provide your content in, you know, a transliterated form. But if you know that your users are comfortable reading Hindi, but they are not able to type in Hindi, then you may provide your content in Hindi and then we have basically launched this app search in the Hindi belt in the northern part, middle northern part of India, where Hindi is the primary language of the states. In those regions, the user will be able to see results in both English and Hindi. When we see that the intent of that query is basically Hindi, for Hindi content, then we could serve them Hindi results and English results, both of them, and users can choose between them, whatever they like. We have a question from CricketCop. We have a question from CricketCop. I'm seeing too much difference in mobile and desktop ranking. I'm ranking well in mobile, but not even in the top 100 and top top. Here's the reason behind that. So, again, like, you know, unless we actually look at the URL, we'll not know what's the specific reason behind, like, you know, why something is ranking well and not ranking. And so, like, maybe, like, you know, push, put that question in the community or the forum and maybe we could take a look. Yeah, we have a question from Yogesh. How do I check ranking for AMP-enabled pages in Google? So, I'm assuming you mean, like, if there's, like, say a Guardian article and it's the AMP-enabled and it's coming in the AMP carousel, you also want to know its ranking pollution and gluelinks, right? Is that what you mean? Yogesh? Okay, just type in the chat if, like, this problem is there. So, we have a question from Keith and Jani. Does DNS change effect ranking or not? So, it depends if you have, like, if your site is down, I mean, like, the actual DNS change doesn't affect ranking, but if your site goes down because of that and it goes down for a really, really long period of time, then it could affect it. But if it's for a short period of time, we understand that, you know, some sites can have some issues so that, so generally doesn't have any issues. So, how this works is basically when you change DNS, nothing is going to change from the ranking perspective. But if that change is hindering our crawling or in indexing, then primarily we won't have data about your website. So, we may not be able to serve your pages in the searches. Otherwise, in the purely ranking perspective, there is nothing going to be affected. Even then, if it's for a short period of time, it's generally fine. Yeah. We have a question from Kristin. I'm in America and I help manage a Facebook business page for a friend in India. Could you please speak up at the best way I could help my friend with getting his business page link index? So, I'm assuming you're talking about Facebook pages. So, Facebook pages are like somewhat hard to index properly for us. We cannot really, it depends on like, you know, how Facebook allows us to crawl their web pages. But if you, like, you know, you can create a separate, like instead of Facebook, maybe like help with him create an actual web page because it's far easier to for us to index actual web pages. Sorry, not, I mean, Facebook is also a web page but like a regular web page with like proper links and so on and like, you know, link the Facebook business page there. Maybe that could be easier. Yeah. So, Kristin, basically, when you're using third party platforms, it depends a lot on them, how they allow us to crawl their pages. So, it is heavily dependent on that factor basically. So, what Ashish is recommending is if you can provide an alternative source of that content in formats that are Google crawlable friendly, like search engine friendly, basically, where we are able to crawl them easily, then that could be one of the options that you could use to provide your content to search engines. So, we have a question from Nimesh. How do I rank locally for my business on first page of Google? So, like, I mean, if it's a general ranking question, I'd say, like, you know, follow all our guidelines so that, you know, your content is pretty relevant. But apart from that, there's also, you can also leverage our Google My Business platform to make sure you have a local listing for your website. So, if you do, and get, you know, as long as it's relevant, it will show up in the local listings section of the search page. I have one more question. Can I ask? Yeah, go ahead. We get lots of user comments. So, is it mandatory to allow their date and time on the comments? Like, we get, like, almost 100 plus comments on certain news articles and all. So, should we allow the date and time? Will it hamper the Google indexing or whatever it is, like, as in, like, the quality of... When people are commenting, do you mean, yeah, should you also show the date and time of those comments on your pages? Correct, correct, right. Yeah, and your question is basically, is that going to hinder in our crawling process? As in, like, will it have impact on the quality of the crawling process or something? Like, the freshness of the content or something? Like, will it have any problem with that? Not really, Tarun. So, basically, I mean, comments, when you provide that information for comments, it will be seen like that. And I'm assuming when it is news articles or whatever you have on your website or that sort, you also have a date of when the content is published or maybe the date of when it is being updated, right? So, those dates will be considered for your primary content, and these dates are basically associated with comments, so they are not basically going to hinder our crawling process. Okay. I have a question from Suresh. Do I need to add sitemaps and robots.txt files for different countries? So, as long as you verify all the different sub-domains which you have for different countries or different TLDs, one sitemap is good enough, but when you're saying, do I need to add sitemaps, I'd recommend adding sitemaps because handling href lines in sitemaps is far easier than actually doing it manually for each page. So, sitemaps help you manage content in different countries and help Google understand which content is, which is the canonical for English and which is the canonical for some other different languages or so on. Okay. I have a question from Arjun. My sites, English content sites appear in code.int, but they do not appear when I select India as my country from advanced search tool. It means Google have not distributed their cloud data to India's data center. When I publish new blog post, then I see my title and meta description is only indexed by Google in the first day and inside the blog post does not appear in, for example, first paragraph. Even which, sorry. Even when I try with site operator, like my first paragraph content and my site domain name, it means Google crawls only half page or they index only half page. So, can you post an example of this happening? I mean, I'm not sure, just listening to your question. So, Arjun, if you mean, Okay. Sorry, did I post that? No, he's saying it's indexed now, but previously it was not indexed in the first day. So, I'm not sure, like, you know, what happened just from listening to your question. Sorry. Maybe, like, you know, if you see this happening again, like, if you can document it and submit it, maybe it'd be pretty good. Okay. We have a question from CricketCup. I got penalty and recovered it successfully, but after that ranking is not as before as Google won't rank site having penalty in past, does past penalty have any effect? Said that's a very good answer for you. No, so basically it is not going to affect you in any way, your previous penalty. However, depending on what kind of manual action was taken on your website, and what changed on your website as a result of that, may of course affect how you appear in the search. So, for example, if you have had, for example, a lot of pages that were not really great, or maybe you had a lot of backlinks which were basically not genuine or organic, you know, and... Sorry, we were muted there for some reason. Okay, so yeah, so apparently we were muted. So yeah, I was basically, okay, sorry about that. Yeah, I was basically telling that it depends on why the manual action was taken on your website. So they could have been some things that were not really compliant with our quality guidelines.  Now, when those factors are now removed, your ranking may be adjusted to where it is actually supposed to be. So you may see some fall in your ranking there and traffic there. And I think this was the position and this was the traffic, your content basically deserved in the first place. So it is adjusted like that now. So you may not see what you have been seeing previously. However, if you continue to focus on providing great quality content and building your website further, then I think accordingly you should see the increase. We'll move on to, we have a question from Swathi. What is structured data in SEO? And should we have to create structured data for every page to increase ranking? Okay, first, structured data is nothing but so for like specific components of your page, you sort of like add tags that tell search engines like Google that, okay, for an event's page, this is the title of the event, this is the time that the event is happening, this is the participants of that event, this is when it will close and so on. So this information is sort of like a benefit or an add-on to your search snippet. So instead of simply like showing a snippet that talks about the event, we'll provide more useful and actionable information for users in search. So it's like instead of, so let's say if you're making a recipe for Python and you, instead of simply showing a snippet that directly pulls a paragraph or some content from your page, now we show that this snippet, sorry, this recipe has, it takes four hours to make the dish, it has like so-and-so ingredients and this particular recipe has some ratings that your users give you and so on. So that information is, for some users looking at search results, that information would be more useful and they could be, they could tend to click on that link rather than a simple snippet link. So indirectly it will help you but there's no direct ranking benefit. So just look at our structured data, help center article and see if the content on your website falls into the types of structured data schema that's being supported right now and if it is, you can maybe implement structured data and see, you know, keep testing to and what kind of changes you're seeing on your search result pages. You're seeing more clips and stuff like that. We have a question from Rakhibur, he's asking in Hindi, can you, how do I open official Facebook new page? Okay, we'll, you know, we cannot, we don't need to talk much about Facebook because, you know, we can work with people and we can speak about Google related stuff. We are not experts on Facebook but maybe we can speak. Yeah, so, I mean, this is more of a question for folks at Facebook and frankly, I don't know how you do stuff at Facebook. So we may not be able to guide you. Yeah, I mean, as far as, you know, it's pretty simple to create a page on Facebook but yeah, I think you can take this question to them and I'm sure they'll have some help center document that can tell you the process or maybe somebody who can guide you. We have a question from VPN reviews. I have a page with 5,000 words content. What is the best way? Should I use the 1,500 words in page and then give an option to download the full content by PDA? Okay, if you feel like, you know, if you have 5,000 words content on a page and it won't be indexed properly or something, then you don't need to worry. Like just leave all the content on your page. Just, you know, maybe I structure it well so that it's easy to read in the eyes of your users. Like look at it from a user's perspective. Like, you know, if he looks at that content it's all just in a single blurb and maybe it's hard for him to go through it but it's separated into nice little paragraphs and, you know, highlighting some specific content or something like that. Like just from a user's perspective, look at it but from Google side, there should be no problem with us indexing your content. One thing you can also do as Asish rightly mentioned, I mean, I don't think we would have any problem crawling or indexing like big articles on your website but the speed of the page may get affected or some other factors like the usability as Asish mentioned may get affected. One other thing you can also do is divide that content into multiple pages and then indicate to Google that, okay, this is one article divided into several pages. So you can use the link rel tags to do that. The previous and the next tags. So from Google side, we should be able to crawl it and reflect in the searchers accordingly but from the user's perspective, see what is best for you. I mean, do they like to download your content and read or do they want to read your content online itself and based on that, you can see whatever fits best. Okay, I have a question from Nimesh. I have a brand new site. If I blog regularly and write high quality content in times quickly, can I get my blog on Google? How much time will it take? I mean, this is like really subjective. So it depends on what other content is there, how relevant that particular content is to a single query. I mean, like everybody wants to get their content on the top and get people to watch it. So just look at like, for that, if you're like maybe selling a shirt on your web page with everything e-commerce related, but like I'm sure there are tons of people who think, right now there are like many of these e-commerce websites at Amazon, so on and so forth. So maybe your site may not get ranked for that particular page. But on the other hand, if you go for something like very specific, like that's a shirt created by you and it's not present on other e-commerce platforms and so on, then there's a very good chance that you rank on top because that's what users search. Like say, for a specific comic book character, there are no shirts in India or something like that. So for a new site, I think from Google search perspective, you need to make sure that you're able to crawl your pages and index your pages. Make sure that your pages are getting into Google search. And you can do this and you can check if everything is right by signing up for search console and then seeing if we are showing you any errors or anything like that. If you're not showing you any errors and everything looks fine, then it's great. Otherwise, whatever errors you see, if you can fix those. So at this point in time, if you can make sure that we are crawling your website and mixing your website and continue to provide a good quality content to your users and also along with that, building a community around your content using social media and other things, engaging with your audience, I think that will help you in the long term. And initially, I'd say like ads help also. Like if you can advertise your content, I'm sure there are like tons of Google generally gives a free, I'm not an expert, so I'm not sure, but like generally ads also help. Rona, so if you have a question, we can ask quickly here. So Arjun Singh asks, does Google use latency and time to first byte and speed tracking algorithm? So Arjun, generally for page speed, we look at how quickly the page is loading in general. So like, you know, it's more of, if we look at if a page is taking too long to load rather than how fast it's happening. And it's also about like, say on mobile, we'd like the user to see the content as quick as possible. It's more from like, say above the full content on a mobile device, if that content is appearing in under a second, then that's pretty good. Does that make sense? So talking about latency, I think this may affect your, basically not your ranking, but your crawling and indexing. So when Googlebot comes to crawl your pages, if your pages are not loading, or if they're very, very slow, so for example, we may not be able to crawl or index them. Right? So it may be affected like that. It means like, it means if site A loads in two seconds and site B loads in three seconds, get same value, not necessarily. So I don't know the exact numbers, but generally, if I think under a second, if a website loads under, like five, six websites load under a second, then there shouldn't be much difference between them in like it's negligible in terms of ranking from page B. So it's also not only about the speed, right? So it's also about like the relevance of your content to that user for that query and a lot of things. So if the site is more relevant to a user than another site, but this site which is more relevant is a little bit slower than the other site, we may still show the more relevant site to that user. Also like one thing, like Syed said, so page speed is good until a certain point, like if like five, six websites are all very, very quick, then it does, the reason for us actually adding a page speed, like ranking thing is so that people are encouraged to make sure their sites load quickly. In fact, there are a lot of research, there's a lot of research that says, if user, if a page takes more than seven seconds to load people abandoned, like 65% of the people abandoned a particular website. So it's more on like, providing a good user experience. So whenever a person clicks a search result on Google, they get that page loads quickly. That page loads quickly, but the problem is even in case someone starts serving, like say he wrote a big article on a huge issue that's happening in a particular country or something and that content is mostly present only on that particular article, then even if that page takes a lot of time to load, we'll still serve that page at the top because that's what the user is searching for, that's the content he wants. But if it's between three different sites that have about the same content, then page speed can make a difference. Okay, a question from Shamim Adhikanth. Is it possible to customize site links on Google search decisions? How do site links work? So not really, I mean we used to have an option to demote a site link that you didn't like, but we removed that recently because we've noticed that not many people are using it. So there's not really much option to customize site links, but Google does it automatically for you based on like how we call your website and what are the other important pages that show up for your website? Hi, Sashish. Yeah, sorry, we'll just take this one question from Sanjit and then. Yeah. Um, Sanjit asks, I have seen some sites have added keywords in footers with links on it. Does it help in any manner for SEO? No, it depends. So if the keywords with, you know, if they're very relevant to that particular website, you know, if that footer links are generally links that show up on almost all pages of your website. So if those links are like useful to users, then they definitely help. But if they're just there to sort of like spam Google and make sure those pages rank for those keywords, then it doesn't really help. So it depends upon the intent and like general quality and relevance of those particular links. Okay, Nina, go ahead. Can you hear me? Yeah. Okay, regarding site links, I just wanted to ask actually, so for a brand name, when Google has decided that automated site link will turn up. So in such case, what happens is some pages that we don't want user to come but to go, those pages are ranking or coming up in a brand name search query and the pages that we want to show the users, they are not appearing. And because we don't have anything to manage this kind of thing in Search Console, the traffic is going to different pages. In such case, what would you recommend? Can you? So Neeraj, if I understood your question correctly, you're basically saying there are multiple pages on your website, of course. And then there are some pages you weren't targeted for certain queries. And what you're seeing is when those queries are typed in by your users, the pages you have built for those queries are not ranking. Instead, some other pages from your website are ranking for those queries. Is that correct? Yes, Sayyar. Correct. In fact, I am not talking about some queries. I am only talking about brand name. If somebody is searching for my brand name, my cancellation kind of pages are appearing as site links. Cancel tick, talk to customer care while I want my product pages to come for brand name search queries. So in such case, I have interlinked those pages. Still, Google is not picking up those pages. Okay, okay. So Neeraj, I'm not sure. I mean, probably we may have to look at your website and understand how your website is structured and stuff like that. But a couple of things that Google considers when picking up site links is it looks at like what are the pages that are linked from, for example, your home page, you know, because that may represent the importance of those pages, you know, and from the main navigation of your page. And if there are any duplication of keywords on your page linking to multiple pages, these are some of the guidelines that we have on health center as well. To make your site structure more search engine friendly, basically, right? So if you can just go back and check your pages against these guidelines that we have in structuring your website, then that may help, you know, to help Google in understanding. And if you want to make adjustment accordingly, then it may help Google understand the prominent pages as being prominent. You know, so I mean, for example, pages linked from footer may be treated differently from pages that are linked from the main navigation on your home page, for example, right? And if you have, if you're using the same keyword to link to two different pages, then Google make it confused as to like what exactly is more relevant for this type of a word or a query or whatever, you know? So just look at those guidelines and try to identify if there is any issue in your architecture of your website. And you can also seek help from the Master Forum that we have if you can post specific pages, then people may be able to point out specific things that you can tweak. And you mentioned that like for RedBus, print SMS ticket is coming up as a site link. Yeah, so I mean, I guess like a lot of people are looking at those particular URLs and Google finds it useful to serve those URLs. So here means that whatever pages will have the most traffic or most queries, they will rank no matter what intelligent I have. Not really. It's a combination of all these factors basically. So we are not just going to ignore your site structure or how you have linked your pages completely. No, we are not going to do that. We are going to, I mean, the algorithms basically look at all these factors combined and determine like what site links to show for a page at what time to what users and things like that. So it's very dynamic in nature and it may change as well from time to time. Yeah, but having a good site structure can help. So Arjun asked nowadays many Twitter snippets appear in Google for brand name. Does Google use Twitter signal in ranking? It's less of Twitter signal in ranking more like if you find that someone's verified on Twitter and it's the exact same query and we just find it useful to show their tweets in search. But it's not really a ranking kind of thing. So if you link something from your Twitter page to your website or something, that really doesn't matter. But it's just that we show, we find it for particular brand names or particular users. We find it useful to show tweets. We just have one last question. Sorry, guys, we are out of time. So we just take this one. I have a question from Avinash. Is there a way I can connect to discuss some issues one-on-one or will there be a recorded version of this? There will be a recorded version of this Hangout on Google Webmaster's YouTube page. Regarding one-on-one, unfortunately, we don't really do that. But you can post questions on forums and communities, maybe plus Sayada and me. We can take a look at your question. So Google is showing different description than meta description. How do I fix this? So regarding meta description that you add on your website, Google doesn't necessarily pick and show the exact description that you have. Sometimes we feel like depending upon the query can also change. That's one thing. So depending upon what user is searching for, we may probably show a different meta description for that particular URL. And also sometimes if we feel that the description you've given is high quality or not relevant enough, then we tend to pick from maybe the links pointing to your page or the anchor text or links pointing to your page or maybe the content on your page. So meta description, what you add as meta description is more of a guideline to Google than a must show. So sometimes we pick snippets from your meta description, but sometimes we may not. So basically, Avinash, Google tries to pick the part of your page or the snippet to show in the search results that can basically tell the user given insight into your page to the user on the search results page in relation to their query. So when they have typed in a query, if Google finds there is a snippet which reflects very well to the query's intent, then it may pick that as a snippet. So actually, it's a good thing that Google tries to do. And as long as these snippets are relevant to the queries, I don't think there is a need to worry about this. Ashish, yes, please. Sorry. We'll just take one last question. Really sorry. I have a question from Cricket Cup. Like, how do I come in Google's quick answer box? Basically, feature snippets, I'm guessing. So the thing is, feature snippets are picked up automatically. And if you think a source is reputed enough, if you think it's authoritative enough and it answers the question that user asks, we'll generally pick that up. But there's no manual process where you can submit your pages for being shown in feature snippets. It's more of an algorithmic action. And we decide based on authoritativeness and if we think a particular page has a good enough answer. But again, it doesn't mean we're always right. Sometimes we can make mistakes and we may not show the correct answer. But if you have any, if you see anything like that, please click on the feedback button there. Ashish, before you leave, can I ask very small kind of a mobile first? OK, thanks. Ashish, when mobile first index is coming, so everybody saying hreflang canonical will be mobile pages. In such case, XML site map and this kind of things should be in mobile first, then desktop. How will Google recommend for XML site map? Because we are not using any XML site map for mobile site. OK. So as long as the page is a link from your desktop to mobile, so if you have a proper canonical mentioning that this is the desktop page and this is the mobile URL for that particular desktop page, we'll understand and index accordingly. You don't need to change all your site maps and anything like that. So it's like from your perspective, if you want to be more organized and set everything up properly, maybe you can go ahead and start creating new site maps. But honestly, there's not much to do. Regarding mobile first indexing, we are hoping that most of it is not really a headache to many webmasters and everything just gets done in the background without any action from your site. So Neeraj, we are still experimenting with this, first of all. The second thing is our recommendation is not to change the canonical. You can still keep your desktop pages canonical for now. So that is not something to be worried about, at least as of now. And as Asish mentioned, we are looking at how we can do this without impacting a lot of webmasters. So as smooth as possible. So this is still in an experiment phase and we are seeing how this will work out. So there is nothing really for you to worry about at this point in time. OK, so it means more to watch. Yes, absolutely. Yes, how it develops. And hopefully I think there will be not much effect on webmasters, you know. All right. Thank you. Thank you guys. If you have any more questions, the recorded version of the session, you can get it on youtube.com slash webmasters. You'll find Google webmasters is the name of our page. Great. Thanks for joining. Have a great day. See you guys. Bye-bye. Thank you.


In the last 24 hours, 49,000 new COVID cases were recorded in the UK. It's a figure that once would have shocked us, but we've become used to high rates for a while now. We also have a government telling us there's little reason to worry now that vaccines have weakened the link between infection and hospitalisation. This was Pretty Patel speaking to Andrew Ma on Sunday. I think it's important to reflect as to where we are now compared to where we were.  It was absolutely difficult. Parts of the country were locked down. We were taking very, very strong measures. I think the biggest change, of course, now, Andrew, from where we were last year to this year, is that we are living with this virus. We are all living with this virus. And of course, this year has been dominated by the vaccine rollout programme, which has fundamentally shifted the landscape and where we are literally looking to, I think, the next few months on the virus. That was Pretty Patel saying rightly that the vaccines have transformed the landscape when it comes to COVID. That doesn't mean high infection rates don't come with a cost, though. 869 people have died from coronavirus in the past seven days. 7,000 are currently in hospital. Pretty Patel also rightly points out that these are nowhere near the catastrophic figures we faced last winter. Hospitalisations and deaths were way, way higher there. What we're seeing in a week we saw in a day back then. But perhaps the best comparison to present is not the UK 10 months ago, but rather our European neighbours right now. On this front, Britain has become quite the outlier and not in a good way. Over the past seven days, the UK has had an average of 620 new daily cases per million people. That's six times higher than the rate in Germany, nine times higher than the rate in France, 15 times higher than the rate in Italy, and a massive 20 times higher than the rate in Spain. This is, as you would expect, translating into higher rates of hospitalisations. Hospitalisation rates in the UK are four times higher than France, five times higher than Germany, eight times higher than Italy, and 16 times higher than Spain. This is not a graph that makes the UK look good. We're not handling this well. A similar gap can be seen when it comes to deaths as well. Daily deaths as a proportion of the population are 2.5 times higher than in Germany, in the UK, and three times higher than Spain, Italy, and France. So what is going on? Speculation has focused on the looser restrictions we have in the UK when compared to the rest of Western Europe. For example, in most of Europe mask mandates are still in place, whereas in England, many people stopped wearing them after the government made them optional. There probably is something to that.   There are a few downsides. However, there is reason to think that the impact of masks might be overstated. John Byrne Murdoch at the Financial Times has pointed out that Scotland kept mask mandates in many public places, yet they have even higher rates of Covid than in England. The free charts you see here show rates of Covid in the over 60s, hospital admissions per 100,000 people, and weekly deaths per million people. In each of these respects, Scotland is having an even worse time in England. And that's with masks. So what is going on? Why are both Scotland and England doing so much worse than countries on the continent when Scotland has masks and England doesn't? One potential explanation involves looking at broader categories of behavior. Again, this is from John Byrne Murdoch in the FT. These show that while Scotland and England differ in terms of the proportion of people no longer wearing masks, in both nations, over 25% of the population are no longer avoiding large events. That's the third chart you can see there. That compares to 15% in Germany and France, and less than 10% in Spain and Italy. So you can see the real difference between England and Scotland and countries on the continent is not so much masks. It seems to be socializing, or at least socializing in large events. However, if you are a fan of nightclubs like me, other explanations for our high rates are available. That's because, as Byrne Murdoch points, out Britain's biggest problem might be something unrelated to our behavior, but rather our levels of immunity. To be precise, vaccination rates we have among children and waning immunity we have among our elderly population. On vaccinating teens, we are way behind our peers. England has vaccinated only 25% of those aged 12 to 17. In Spain, France and Italy, the corresponding figures are between 60 and 80%. On waning immunity, the problem is a little more complex. That's because on one level here, we are victims of our own prior success. We vaccinated people earlier than our neighbors, which means our collective immunity will have waned more. It's also because we used a slightly less effective vaccine, AstraZeneca, instead of the Pfizer and Moderna jabs, which were more universally used on the continent. So we now have a population which has less vaccine-induced immunity than our neighbors. Ash, I've got a tough question for you. Does this information about immunity mean that I, someone who quite likes to go out to nightclubs every now and again, am absolved from guilt? I think that you should feel very guilty for what you go up to at nightclubs, but I'm not sure how much that has to actually do with coronavirus. I think that it's, as you say, it's a combination of factors. You've got mask wearing, you've got the waning immunity that comes from having vaccinated lots of people very quickly with AstraZeneca, which we know has got diminished effectiveness when it comes to the Delta variant. We've also got low vaccination rates amongst children. And yes, we've also got people going out to nightclubs. I also think with schools now being in attendance again, and you're seeing infection rates climbing up amongst school-aged children, and of course that's an age group which has got much lower vaccination rates than the rest of the population, I don't necessarily think that nightclubs are going to be the main site that you want to tackle. Basically, I think that we need to get our heads around the fact that vaccinating children is a good thing. The risks from vaccination are relatively low. The risks from coronavirus are that much higher. And also what that does is that it prevents that first vector of infection, your snotty school-aged kid from infecting the rest of the family when they come home. But maybe I'm just saying that because I'd rather jab little Tommy in the arm and give up clubbing. I should make clear, if they decided a couple of weeks, the nightclubs have to close for a couple of months. I'm not going to be out protesting in the street. If that's the decision that's made, fine, so be it. But it does seem like there are a number of lower cost interventions that could be made first. I suppose it is worth saying that if the problem is immunity in the country, while it is disappointing and a massive shame that we dragged our feet when it came to vaccinating teenagers when they rushed ahead on the continent. And that means that way more kids have got COVID and some of them will have got long COVID. It means more people will have caught it from kids in school and that would have passed up the age groups and you will have had people hospitalised and some people dead. The fact that we are low in that respect means that maybe we can get some easy wins when we increase vaccination among those age groups. It was announced on the weekend, which is a good thing that instead of having to wait for a whole school visit from vaccinators, kids in England, it was always the case in Scotland, can just turn up to their local vaccination centre. They don't have to wait for it all to be arranged via school. So we could see a bit of an increase in the speed of vaccinating kids there. When it comes to the booster campaign, this is particularly disappointing, I think, especially compared to our rollout at the start of the year. It's been especially disappointing and I mean, I'm sure very scary for people who are extremely vulnerable. On that front, the Guardian report surveys by Blood Cancer UK and Kidney Care UK found that for both groups of patients, so that's blood cancer patients and kidney patients, between 55% and 60% had yet to be invited to get a third injection that's seen as particularly vital for conditions which affect people's immune systems as they are generally less protected by two jabs. The charity said many of those who responded were desperately worried and were struggling to get information about a third vaccination. Some people with blood cancer had resulted to go into vaccination centres without an appointment pleading for a third dose, Blood Cancer UK said. Now, this to me just seems like a massive abdication of responsibility from the state. We had a system at the start of the year where we were vaccinating 300, 400,000 people, 500,000 people a day. Now, I think we're vaccinating 150,000 people a day. And one, that means that we have higher overall rates of COVID in the country, but it also means that you've got, as those quotes there indicated, you've got lots of people who are severely vulnerable to COVID-19, who are twiddling their thumbs, waiting, they see that there are, today almost 50,000 cases of COVID in the country, but you're not going to feel safe if you have waning immunity because you got vaccinated back in January or February. And now you're just waiting to receive a letter asking you to get that vaccine.  We know we have the vaccines, right? There isn't a shortage of overall vaccines. So that to me seems no justification whatsoever that this booster campaign has been so slow. I did ask for explanations on Twitter today. So a couple that were mentioned was that, they did have to take lots of nurses and get them to do that roll out and now they're back in hospital. Although, I mean, we had more people in hospital with COVID back in January and February than we do now. So I find it a little bit inexplicable. I want to discuss one final potential explanation as to why we might have higher rates of COVID than our neighbours. It's less discussed than usual and that's because it's structural. For example, the UK has some of the lowest sick pay in Europe. That obviously means people will be less able to self isolate. So that means that even with a similar amount of restrictions, we will probably have more COVID circulating. We also, and this is something I didn't realise, have the highest levels of pension of poverty among the big European countries. As you can see here, 16% of pensioners in Britain live in poverty. That's defined as less than half the median household income or the average household income. That's higher than any of our big neighbours. We know the correlation between poverty and catching COVID and being hospitalised with COVID. Obviously, if you're short of cash, it's going to be harder for you to stay in the house. You won't have that extra money to pay for deliveries or the various insulations from the vagaries of life that a decent income provides you. And also, you're more likely to be in poor health, which means you're more likely to end up in hospital. But it does seem like we do it... This is something everyone recognises. You ask Boris Johnson that. He'll say, yes, of course, these terrible inequalities, which mean that we're harder hit by COVID. But it does seem like nothing is being done about it. And actually, we're going in the opposite direction with things like the 20-pound universal credit card. So, I mean, I'm feeling a bit depressed about this. I don't know if you've got sort of how the pandemic can be mobilised to actually fight for a more equal country instead of, you know, I'm in a zone of disappointment at the moment. I think the best realistically, you're going to get out of this Tory government when it comes to dealing with the forces behind those health care inequalities is a bit of tinkering around the edges when an issue becomes so politically toxic that they have to then, you know, make the U-turn. You saw this with free school meals, for instance. But ultimately, one of the reasons why they're never going to be able to get to the core of the issue is because that means dealing with and confronting how our economy is organised. So, there's one way of looking at health care outcomes, not just simply as a reflection of our body, but as a manifestation in the body of what we value and what we don't in society, particularly with respiratory illnesses. So a friend of mine who's a doctor and also that given the kind of poetic ways of phrasing himself, one of the things that he says is like, well, the lung is kind of the interface between the body and the rest of the world. You know, whether or not we're poor, whether or not, you know, we live in an area which has got, you know, a high amount of air pollution, whether or not we live in overcrowded accommodation. That's not a reflection of something that is within our bodies. That's a reflection of how society has decided to treat us. And so if you wanted to deal with the things which made this country so structurally vulnerable, the fact that you had a high number of elderly patients in hospitals because perhaps they couldn't afford the kind of care that they needed either at home or in a residential setting. The fact that we have so many people who are in overcrowded housing, multi-generational housing, where it's likely if a young person has got coronavirus that you're going to pass it on.  And we haven't dealt with any of those things and that's because this government simply won't.


From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Mr. Dollar attorney for Sheldon Forbes. Oh, hello, Mr. Gumbay. How are you? Okay, I'll be there no need to particularly I told you yesterday he requested me to wave trial and plead yelling Well, won't he be sentenced today? The court will simply consider the waiver and inform him of his rights today. Oh anything I can do And get him to reconsider the waiver I doubt I'll have much luck, but I'll try all he has to do is return the money Well buck up, Mr. Gumbay if he won't return it, maybe someone else will What do you mean? I'm gonna try and find out what he did with it. My company wants it back Sure, but we also want Forbes to have a fair chance And every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-pact Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to the Continental Adjustment Bureau 418, Elizabeth Avenue Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of expenditure is during my investigation of the Forbes matter embezzlement and a very frustrating case Expense account continued item six three dollars and fifty cents lunch for myself and a mr. Arnold Haven head of the accounting department For Century Styles Incorporated Mr. Haven a tall balding man in a dark suit had ulcers his poached egg and dried toast didn't interest him too much And what's going to happen to Forbes? Oh, I don't know mr. Haven that depends on several things Right now. I have to tell you that it looks like he'll go to prison Worse than that it looks like he wants to go to prison. He's waved trial prison That's too bad too bad. I always liked Sheldon Forbes. You were you hired him. Did you mr. Haven? Yes, I hired him. He was a good man right from the start. He did his job and he did it well I never had a complaint against Forbes.  You've got me mr. Dolly we paid him the going rate. That's a good salary for accountants He seemed happy enough with it when he knew he was in line for substantial raises I could understand it in a way if he had a family and heavy responsibility Or if he played the market or if he gambled but Forbes He just baffles me baffles me too Hey, oh, yes, well the people around the office. They're they're pretty upset about this any particular people mr. Haven everybody but anyone in particular a girl for instance Oh girl, yes, I see what No, did he go out with any girl in your office? No, no most of them are married No, at least as far as I know Forbes didn't go with any of the girls there. He kept to himself Oh, he might have lunched with one of the other now and then but No, no he more or less kept to himself. Uh-huh all the reason I asked you mr. Haven is that what little I've been able to find out about his personal life isn't very helpful My company wants the money back. We're willing to give him a fair break if we can get it back He's pretty stubborn about cooperating. Yes, we know about that mr. Dolly, but how can we give him a break if he doesn't want us to and we can't find out anything about him? Look if there's anything you can think of any any reason he might have had for taking the money I've wracked my brain. I can't think of any reason I Oh No, wait a minute. Just a minute. I did notice a change coming Forbes. It was about a month or six weeks ago Oh, it was nothing really. It was just I guess an anxiety about him Well, he took all the money within the last four weeks with that correspond Roughly yes. Well, that's a start. I hope I I Returned to the accounting offices of Century Styles with mr. Haven and spent two hours questioning different members of his staff regarding Sheldon Forbes His habits and his personality were pretty much the same as Haven himself had described Expense account item seven four dollars gasoline I put a tank full of gas in my rented car and went over to an apartment on 59th Street where Sheldon Forbes had lived According to the pencil note above the first door to the right of the entrance Mrs. Anastasia Kanopka was the manager What is please you're Mrs. Kanopka? Yes What do you want, mr? I understand mr. Sheldon Forbes lives here. Is that right? Oh, I hear he's still money's He not in I in the jail I think yes, I know about that Mrs. Kanopka. I'm from the insurance company And we're involved in this case. We're trying to recover some of that money if we can I wonder if you'd help me I fix dinner for my husband. He's come home from work. It won't take long What I do well, I want to know about Sheldon Forbes what the works Mrs. Kanopka Did he drink? Gamble these stay-in nights or go out did he pay his rent? He always pay his rent You are police and insurance investigators Please sometime else. Maybe you speak to my husband. He's big much better than me But it's important now. I talked to mr. Forbes on telephone. He called me from jail He said I no have to answer any questions. No, you don't have to answer any questions, Mrs. Kanopka But I'd sure appreciate it if you would My husband home pretty soon you ask him you can help him possibly now. Would you like to help him in this trouble? How I know these things you ask about men who live well Look, how about his friends who visited him? I cannot say no visitor Was he a good tenant? No trouble like mr. O'Sullivan on third floor mr. O'Sullivan always drunk call police twice Mr. Forbes not drink whiskey Did you ever meet his girl? Sure. He had a girlfriend, didn't he? Oh, I think you mistake. I know ever see girlfriend here All right How long have you known him? Five six here maybe ever since he moved in here to this place, but no girl No Well, how do you spend his time work? He worked very hard. No, I mean besides working at the office How else did Forbes spend his time? He poor fellow that one huh sure he steals money, but he poor fellow just the same for him I feel yeah, mr. Forbes see quiet and he think I know he live up in that little room quiet and think He does all time think No whiskey no girls or he paint some time listen to music think My husband in a burn, please you go just a minute. I'd like to see his apartment if I can Oh, no matter here. You bring that key. Please sure. Thank you, Mrs. Canofka The apartment Sheldon Forbes called home was as dismal as the neighborhood a Tiny closet kitchen a bed that came out of the wall and a pair of grimy windows that looked across the court onto another pair of equally grimy windows The furniture was threadbare and dusty a small ironing board and iron attested to the fact that Sheldon Forbes laundered his own shirts Other small evidences of frugality were about the premises a hot plate and a can of souring cream Two suits of clothes neatly brushed and pressed but inexpensive The record player in a collection of a half of dozen good albums were the only sign of material accomplishment The painting materials easel canvas and oils were also inexpensive no liquor and no jewelry no expensive clothes Nothing that cost four thousand two hundred and eighty five dollars or anything like Here's your key, Mrs. Canofka. Thank you very much. Thank you. Yeah. Hey, thank you What you think I think he's had a very lonely life here The word lonely Wait has he got a car in back through Ellie. Thanks. It was a Ford vintage of 1946 tightly locked up The paint was skinning away the tires worn down the mileage seventy seven thousand miles He certainly hadn't blown the money on a fancy car Now I felt completely frustrated Expensive count item eight seventy nine cents dinner I had it in a neighborhood restaurant called the 79er a place I learned where Sheldon Forbes frequently took his evening meal the restaurant manager a man named Alexander Dupoulos Remembered Forbes. He liked him a woman who ran a bakery shop across the street Also remembered him as the young man who bought a roll there every night Probably the roll to go with a lonely cup of coffee in his room the next morning. She liked him too All in all I was getting a composite picture of Sheldon Forbes. It didn't look quite right Whatever he was to the people who knew him casually He wasn't a man who ever had any money to spend I dropped in at the city jail about 730 and I was surprised to find lawyer Edward Gumby sitting on a bench briefcase in hand Hello, Mr. Gumby Nothing new, huh? Yeah, that's the way it goes I guess We had some action today. Oh, yeah The hearing was this afternoon man from the district attorney's office took about 15 minutes to lay out the evidence against four And make the charges. Uh-huh. I spent the whole time pleading with Forbes not to go ahead with the waiver Did I miss anything? No, he wouldn't open up at all Just said he'd spent the money. I couldn't talk him out of the waiver. So it went through When will he be sentenced? They set the date for Friday. I don't know whether they'll get around to it or not I'd like to talk to him again. Has he been moved yet? No, I thought he'd be transferred to the sheriff's office Ordinarily would but since he waived trial they announced bail its proper procedure in cases like this gives him a couple of days to straighten out his affairs Why somebody bail him out. I did. Oh Has he left yet?  That's when the shift changes. I think it's worth trying to see him Yeah, I think I'll stick around Mr. Gumby. I'm gonna find out something about this case An hour later when Sheldon Forbes emerged from the doorway and turned right. I was following him When he caught a cab and headed uptown I caught one and stayed right with him When he got out at the Empress theater and walked around at the stage door. I was standing by the alley entrance Ten minutes later. He came back out hailed a cab once more. I followed this time I followed into his apartment on 59th Street. I waited 15 minutes before I went in Forbes Forbes Hey Forbes, it's me journey dollar. I want to talk to you Took me a few seconds to understand what it was I got a couple of whiffs of it coming from under his door The room was accurate stinging with gas fumes and Sheldon Forbes was stretched down on the floor of a six-foot kitchen When I picked him up and carried him up I didn't know whether he was alive or dead There'll be another intriguing episode in our story of the Forbes matter tomorrow tomorrow a switch in the case that Starts a real chase and a race against time Join us won't you yours truly Johnny dollar Starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood written by John Dawson. It is produced and directed by Jack John Stone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking


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