Okay folks, listen. Today I'm making my grandmama's biscuits in gravy, right? But this time I went ahead and leveled up the biscuits. Listen, super easy, and as you can see, I got some ingredients right here, right? So these ingredients are on my website, along with the full printable recipe with the direction, folks, and that's smoking and grilling with AB.com and that's W-I-T, AB.com. Now, what I'm getting ready to do is, I'm finna start by, you know, getting my bacon bits together, right? Cause we gon' put bacon inside the biscuits. Super easy, but I want you guys to pay attention. Listen, this is the beef bacon I've been talking about in all of these videos right here. This is from Porter Road. You guys gotta get this right here. Super good. You can use pork if you have pork, but I suggest you guys go ahead and get yourself some of this right here, and this will change the way you look at it. Okay, so look. Now, look. This right here is gon' move more like a little dump and go, right?  We just wanna put them in a bowl, right? No right way or wrong way. And then you wanna just add yourself about a cup of the cheese, right? Now these biscuits right here gon' be fire, folks. This is what we wanna do. Just whisk it all together, get it combined. Don't forget we put those other ingredients in there. You know what I mean? But you can see it. It's gon' have a little cheese in it. You see that right there? Then if you wanna add a little bit more to it, I just say you can. It's really, the trick here is just don't put too much in there, you know? You don't want them to be just like super cheesy, unless you do. Okay, so now you just wanna go ahead and just add in your parsley, you know, and then you wanna put your bacon in there. Now we get down to the interesting part, right? Listen, you wanna get yourself about three quarter cup of butter, but check this out, we gon' grate it, right? So I'm gon' bring this over here. I'm gon' find my, you find the size great that you wanna use, and then we just grate it. Listen, this is key. The butter needs to be frozen. Now, once you got it done, I'm not finished yet. I still gotta add a little bit to it. I gotta grate a little bit more, but what I'm gonna do is just make a little bit of room, right? So we just put this in here just like that, right? So now you guys get to see what it looks like. You see that? That's it. Now we finish this one, and then we'll have three quarter cup. All right, so now all of it is done. All right, so now I'm gonna take my whisk out, right? I'm gonna set this off to the side.  We don't wanna beat it up. And of course it's gonna start to become room temperature, right? So we just work it like this. Look, this is what makes these type of biscuits like this. You know, so far you gotta start with the frozen butter. You got to grate it, right? You're gonna watch this turn into something magical. Now my grandma made them just like everybody else. You know what I mean? She used a lot of different, I guess herbs and spices, you know, to get what she want, but just about everybody makes them about the same, but where we gonna level these up is, how we added that beef bacon. You know what I mean? That right there did it in a little parsley, gives it color and a little bit of texture and taste. You can't beat it. Okay, so look, I'll just make a little indentation here in the middle, right? That's cool. You don't have to do that, but I like doing that, especially when you're making your video so you can see it. Now this is my buttermilk. Now I'm gonna go ahead and just add that in there just like that. Now I'm getting ready to change utensils and I'm finna go with my spassler, right? Spass to help me get all of my buttermilk out also. Now we finna get this and we just take it kind of like just like work it in, just like this. Now what we doing is making a dough, folks. If we haven't said that already, or you guys haven't figured it out, but you see how I'm just folding this over just like this? You know what I mean? It's starting to absorb. Now this is gonna turn into a ball of dough, right? It's gonna be nice and tacky. I want you guys to pay attention because this part right here is really, really key. So I didn't cleaned up every, you know, all of my surroundings right here because I'm gonna be using this slate right here. You know, my countertop, this is where we're gonna kind of like make it. You know, make the dough, right? So I'm gonna put a little flour down, but I just wanna show you, when you get to this consistency right here, look at this. You see that right there? You see how that is? This is what I'm telling you. When it starts to look like this, it won't all be mixed as of yet, but it will be in just a minute, right? So I'm gonna slide that over. I'm gonna go in here, get myself a generous pinch. Let's do two. Right? We put this down so nothing sticks, right? I think I'm gonna go with the third one. Right? And this is where we're gonna make the dough ball. You know what I mean? Now you're gonna need a rolling pin for this.  However you do it. So when you making biscuits and sauces, gravy or any just biscuits by itself, you wanna have a rolling pin. Right? This is another thing you're gonna need too, which I'll leave a link and that's gonna be, I got a biscuit cutter. That right there is key. You can pick them up a dime or a dozen. They only like about $8 or $9, maybe 10 bucks. You know what I mean? You get all different sizes, right? Now get in here with my hand first and kind of like just work it so I can give me a ball, right? Now I'm gonna take it, drop it right there where you put the flour at. And here you don't wanna overwork it, right? You want it to be flaky. So I want you guys to pay attention to the way I'm gonna do this. Right? So just bring it over. There's a lot of moisture in here. So we gotta get it to lease it here so that it doesn't crack up, right? So when I have it, then I take it and I fold it over and I just give it a little try not to overwork it, right? And I'm gonna bring it over this way again. And when I see it breaking like that, that tells me we're about ready. Right? So now we wanna get our rolling pin. If you feel like it's sticking, which I feel like mine is just a little bit, when I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna put a little bit more flour down. All right, so you can see, I put a little bit more flour down because I don't want it to stick because we getting ready to roll, right? But if you got a rolling pin, you're gonna need to put a little bit of flour on here too. You know what I mean? Just to help it so that this doesn't stick you know to it, right? So we have it. I got it. Now I'm just gonna roll this out. You don't need a whole lot of pressure in the very beginning because it's gonna spray it, right? So then you come across this way. This is the way I found it to be the best. And when I see these cracks like this, I tell me these are gonna be nice and flaky, folks. All right, so now I put a little bit more pressure on it and I bring this down like this. Oh yeah, look at this right here. Now the size and the thickness that we looking for, we wanna go to about a inch and a quarter. That's good right there, you know? So I wanna bring this over this way, bring it out, put a little flour. I know I got another flour down this way because I saw it moving, right? As I was rolling, I could see the whole thing sliding and that telling me nothing is sticking. All right, so now we do it again. Beauty of it is once we get everything cut out of here, you know what I mean? Like say, I can't get nothing out of this piece, whatever's left, I work it in together, roll that out and we get some more. Now I want you guys to pay attention right here. This is the size that I'm gonna be using, right? You can see, if I open this up right now, it's got all different sizes. There's one size even bigger than this but this is a good little size right here to use, right? So I'm looking at my thickness, I look at that. I'll say that's good enough, you know? Just getting a little back going, you're gonna need to get yourself a bacon sheet, right? So look, I got a silicone mat in here so I don't have to really do nothing to it, right? You guys use parchment paper, yeah, that's okay too. So now we just take it, I'm gonna work closest to myself. I'm gonna come to the edge where I see this at right here and all I'll do is I just push down, right? When I lift up, usually it sticks. But if it doesn't, it's okay, we help it out. Look at that right there. Look, that's what you wanna get, right? So I'll just set that right there. Gotta give it some room to expand and grow, right? So we put it here, cut that out. I'm just gonna go ahead and just start cutting it out. Okay, so if you look down here, you can see I got all of these done, right? So this is what I'm talking about when you have this left over, I almost messed this up. I just wanted you guys to see how it is when I'm done, right? So if I take this, take it, just bring it over here, you know what I mean? Just try to get it to adhere again to itself. And you guys know the drill, we get this rolling pin out and we get some more out of here. Okay, so obviously you see I had a little bit of overflow, right? So this will tell you how many people you'll be able to feed with these biscuits right here. I could have needed, you know, rolled them out one more time and maybe got myself one more, but I stopped right here, right? So listen, the key to this is we gotta go in the freezer, right? Just for 15 minutes. So we're gonna do that, but I'm gonna suggest that now will be a good time for us to hit the bake. We're gonna preheat 450 degrees. We start that. Now we put this in the freezer and I'll see you after 15 minutes. All right, so listen, my timer went off. It's been 15 minutes.  But if I pick one of these up like this, look, you can feel that they kind of like just firm up, right? That's gonna be key because we don't wanna like overcook them while we have them in here for 450 degrees. Now, if you guys can see right now, I'm ready to go. Now we put these in the oven for 14 to 17 minutes, right? So I'm gonna open these up, put these in there. I'm gonna get one in my hand now so we can keep the heat in there and let's go. All right, so now that we got this in the oven, right? Let me go ahead and hit my light. So I can keep my eye on them. We got that in the oven, right? Listen, I got a little heat under the bottom. I'll show you guys right now. I got a little medium flames going and I'm heating up my pan, right? I can put a little bit, a dash of a little bit of olive oil in here, just a dash, you know what I mean? You don't need to because this is dealing with pork. Now this is an Italian mild sausage right here. It got a lot of flavor in here, but I'm gonna season this up my way.  Now you know I like to have that little bit of that Creole flavor on just about everything, right? So I use that Creole kick where I can use my age seasoning. That give it a nice little unique flavor, blends very, very well with the mild Italian sausage. You know what I mean? So let's go ahead and get this off. Let's get this little paper off the bottom. We got a little heat in this. We drop this in and we let that work. Okay, so look, if you pay attention right here, listen, I left it down there, you know, flat like that, just sort of form like a little bit of a crust. But you know what? I guess it doesn't make sense cause we gonna break it down and do it like that, right? Now when I put the butter in there, that's just like adding a little bit more flavor. You can add a little bit more of extra virgin olive oil or regular olive oil, whatever, you know what I mean?  So as you can see, you can see a little bit of juice in there, but you gotta believe me when I tell you, look, the pork, the sauces is full of flavor and that's where all the moisture is, right?  You shouldn't see any white right here. Now right here, look, this is what I'm doing.  You can see that I got that Creole kick over there. Obviously I'm gonna use that, but you know what?  So now adding the Creole kick on here, this is the flavor that I was trying to achieve.  Most of you guys have that already, if you don't run out and copy it, it'll give you two different flavors, right? So listen, now that we have everything, you know, absorb, then we come with that milk, right? And with that flour, look at this right here, folks. I'm gonna be quiet and let you guys just enjoy this right here. But this is what thickens it up. Add this, bring it to a simmer and don't worry, it'll thicken up on its own. Look at that right there. And just wait till we, I'll show it to you again. Now look at these biscuits right here. This is what I'm talking about. Now listen, remember, we put them in the freezer. Look, that slowed them down from cooking so much so they don't get so crispy around the edges. But look at that, golden brown, you can see the bacon and all of that. And remember I said I was gonna come back to this? Look at there, that's what I'm talking about, folks. Shh, let your mind work. Let's go ahead and take a couple of these. Let's get this one, cause he look like he camera ready. And let's see, I'm gonna find another one. But you guys wanted to know how they look. Look at that. You see how they broke up like that? And that's when you don't make them too compact. And I'll probably go with the third one. So listen, I'm gonna take my ladle. And don't forget, the full ingredient list is on my website, smokingandgrillingwithab.com. And that's W-I-T-A-B.com. Now, if you wanna see how it is and how thick I got mine, let's get this. Now we put this over here like this and we just lay this right over the top. You know what I mean? Look at that. Oh my goodness. So listen, there you have it. It's all right there for you. A lot of times we hadn't even ever made this, made this before. You know what I mean? It's super easy to make. You know what I mean? A lot of talking, but I had to do that so I can explain it and show the steps, right?  This right here is fire, folks. Listen, I'm not finna hold you guys. Now you guys know how to do it. Make this, make sure you serve your parents, your grandparents. And if you're fortunate enough to have your great grandparents serve them this too, then tell me what they think. Now, with that being said, listen, if you're new to my channel, you know what to do. Like, subscribe and tell everybody out here. There's a channel out here that simplifying these recipes and taking a mystery out of cooking. Now it's time for me to get that tall glass of ice cold milk and I'm out. Peace.


Hey everyone, before I get into the rest of this video, because we'll be talking about SwitchStop, another YouTube channel. Don't talk about other YouTube channels very often, but there's an interesting thing happening with them that I want to get into, and yes, they are a bigger YouTube channel than mine, so there is that as well. But before I get into that, I want to remind you to enter our giveaway. We are giving away a copy of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles remastered this month. To enter all you have to do is comment on this video, like the video, subscribe to the channel, hit that bell icon, set it to all notifications. That gets you one entry into the contest. If you do this on every single video in this month, that's an additional entry. You can even do it on our live streams. However, you have to wait till they go to video on demand. You can't enter while it's live, unfortunately. That's just the way the program works. Beyond that though, we are on our road to 50,000 subscribers. And if we can hit 50,000 subscribers before the month of November, November's giveaway will end up being for a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Or a Nintendo Switch, choice of the winner. Anyways, let's get into this news. And this is actually an interesting situation, more so because this is just kind of a harsh reminder of how quickly things can kind of spiral out of control and you could just lose everything here on YouTube when you're not diversified. Now, I used to diversify a little bit on my channel. I would be here, I'd have live streams here as well, but then I'd also be over on Twitch a little bit. And then on Mixer for a little bit as well. And I also technically have a second YouTube channel. However, I kind of stopped pushing the Mixer. Now that's closed now, Twitch as well. I don't do anything on Twitch now. And I don't really push my second YouTube channel much either because I kind of put all of my time and energy right here on Nintendo Prime, on this channel. Everything is so focused in on this channel. The podcast is here. All the videos are here, the news is all here. If I talk about other platforms like Xbox and PlayStation, I do it here, I don't do it on separate channels. But as much as that's great to have everything focused on the one channel and I think it helps keep this channel active and alive and all that, there is kind of a alternative reality that could exist where this is actually a negative thing. And SwitchStop is another popular YouTube channel. Fairly popular. They have about 76, 77,000 subscribers. Their videos always got a ton of views. Anything from 15,000 to 100,000, et cetera. They were a quickly rising channel over the last couple of years. Maybe not rising as fast as someone like Spawn Wave or Bob Wolf from Wolf Then and all that. But still, they were a channel that was on the rise and ran by two people. I don't remember these two people's names, so I apologize for this, even though I'm literally staring at their faces right now on the screen. But what happened is their YouTube account, as you saw in the title, is terminated. Not just banned, not just locked down, terminated. And you might be like, what exactly do you have to do to get your account terminated by YouTube? It must be pretty bad. When the Jake Pauls of the world knows other people can do some crazy things. You have Logan Paul out in a suicide forest.  Well, simply put, there was a series of two livestreams that appeared on their channel that were for Bitcoin scams. Now, this isn't me saying that they were doing that themselves, the account got hacked. Well, when the account got hacked, there was a lot of reports of the channel during these livestreams for the Bitcoin scam. And they apologize, of course, if anyone fell for the Bitcoin scams. I think it's unfortunate that it happened. They didn't go into the exact details of how they got hacked.  It's against YouTube's policy. So, the interesting thing about the account being terminated is that there's no guarantee they're ever gonna get that account back. Now, we have the full story. If you wanna know their explanation, they don't really say much other than, we don't know if we're getting the channel back. They've contacted everyone they can on YouTube support. They actually have somebody on the support team that was actually subscribed to their channel say, hey, I'm gonna try to escalate this up the chain, but no promises were made that they would get their channel back. There are instances of other YouTube channels that have been terminated that have gotten their channel back, but in the quick Google search I could do on this, it looked like about 90% of cases of terminated channels stay terminated even if it was due to a hacking. So, they might never get their channel back. There's no guarantee. If they get it back, it takes about three weeks. They won't have it back till September sometime if it does come back, but they might not get the channel back. Maybe because of how it was hacked, maybe they were just being too flimsy with their passwords or whatever the case might be. So, YouTube might not give them their account back and they don't have any control over that.  So, they do have another channel. They've had this channel for a little bit. It's called Nintendo Tonight. And it's where they put up a 17 minute video explaining that basically they don't know if they're ever getting their channel back. They might get it back and until they know what's going on they're gonna keep putting their two to three videos they make a week up on that channel. They have one video up already called Changed and it's how Pikmin 3 Deluxe changes the Super Mario 2020 remaster rumors.  They had a lot of discussion and speculation around a lot of rumors and around a lot of other stuff like that. And that one's got about 18,000 views right now which is really good for their channel because Nintendo Tonight only has 2,540 subscribers. So, they're really tiny compared to the 77,000 or even really tiny compared to us. But clearly their audience is a bit wider. They have a following on Twitter and all this jazz. So, word's getting out but they're not gaining massive subscribers back. So, it'll be interesting to see how this translates for them. It looks like they just published their sixth episode of Nintendo Tonight which is a podcast. So, they separated their podcast from the channel and I am hoping beyond hope that they can get their channel back because it's pretty devastating when you work on something like this and you really get successful at it and you lose it. I kept thinking, my channel, as small as it is, my 45,000 subscribers and my 500, 2,000 average views per video, my 500 average on streams. It would be pretty devastating for all the work I've done on this channel, especially the last three years for it to get hacked or terminated and have the complete fate of everything I've worked towards out of my hands. Obviously, I would just start making content on my second channel or whatever they're doing but right now they can't make money on this channel. They got 18,000 views on that video, they can't make any money and these are people that we're likely close to partially, at least partially doing this for a living. So, yeah, they got 18,000 views but until they're over 10,000 subscribers they can't even run ads and beyond that they gotta go like a full month of data collecting to reach certain thresholds to qualify for the ad program. So, they're pretty far behind and this happened a couple days ago and Nintendo tonight was at 1,000 subs. Now it's at 2,540 but that's still really far off and it doesn't look like a lot of their audience is transitioning over. It feels like most of their audience was centered on the SwitchStop channel. Just like for me, I have 7,000 plus people following me on Twitter, probably 5,000 dead accounts or so, I don't know. My tweets don't get a lot of likes and retweets usually so I would say that if my channel would just vanished, most of my audience wouldn't be able to find me again because my audience is so centered here and it makes me wonder myself too about diversity. I'm like, I'm doing this giveaway. Should I be promoting my Twitter more?  If something ever did happen to Nintendo Prime, it would be awesome if a majority of my audience could just be told and then they could follow wherever my content goes after that and right now, that's just not possible for me. I don't have a big following anywhere else but on my channel. And so this is kind of almost an internal warning for me and maybe a warning to other YouTubers that we really should be necessarily needed to diversify your audience in terms of streaming on Twitch or Twitter like that, that's a healthy way to diversify as well but I mean in terms of making sure your followers don't just follow you on YouTube, they follow you on other social media platforms so it's easier for them to find you if something does happen that is maybe through no fault of your own, maybe YouTube's policies change one day and they don't allow these gaming commentary channels and stuff. So I don't know, are you guys letting me know? Have any of you guys ever heard of Switch Stop? Or Switch Stop, I should say not stopped. And are you hoping that they get their stuff back? I've only seen a couple of their videos and so I know that their videos are pretty decently edited and they seem to have pretty good commentary from what I can tell but you know, a lot of opinions, like how Pikmin 3 Deluxe changes to Super Mario. I'll put a link to their latest video they put up down below. Like that's a great, it's a great video. I've watched it but it's more so opinions and that's fine. What do I do with this channel? I spew my mouth off and give opinions all the time so who am I to judge?  I think that they might have existed on an island. Like an animal crossing an island but like nobody knows they're there. What I mean to say is people are aware of me because like they see me on Sponkast. They know Player Essence and I have had debates and stuff in the past. Super Metal Dave and I have had content with each other. U.S.A. has mentioned me before like, so there has been interactions with me and other YouTubers. I feel like Switchedop doesn't interact with anybody so nobody really is aware of them in the normal Nintendo circles on YouTube. So that's why nobody seems to be talking about it. And I typed Switchedop into the Google search. The only thing that pops up is their Nintendo Tonight video on it. So yeah, it's very, very curious how no one's talking about it.  Like here they are. You find them again. Enjoy their content again. They're good people. All right, folks. I'm Nintendo RoboJax from Nintendo Prime. Thank you so much for tuning in. Be sure to enter our giveaway. Plus on our road to 50,000 subscribers. And I'll catch you guys later. My stream later, something like that. I don't know. It is the weekend. You guys have a lovely day.


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Hey guys it's Nate aka The Foot Account and welcome back to the channel. EA has kept footies alive with this team 4 and especially all the footies content that they have been dropping over the past couple of days in this game. Great SBCs with a good gameplay grind with the draft and actually more XP coming today to assist with that grind. There's actually a really crazy phenomenon going on with the market right now as well after yesterday's content we're gonna break it all down and talk about it in today's video and look forward to what Sunday might bring us on Fever 23. If you're excited for the video drop a thumbs up on it, subscribe if you're new, you know what to do. Let's drop into the objective section. Actually there was nothing in objectives yesterday, yesterday on Saturday as they normally are a little bit quieter right. We did have an SBC that we were expecting though I guess there was some activity in objectives. You got some XP if you did the loan version of Joby Alonzo. Once again another cover star icon and another juiced card. They're really going all out with these which I'm happy to see right. All above 93 stats on Joby Alonzo, 93 pace being the lowest stat on his card with 98 passing, 95 dribbling and defense, 5 star 5 star on medium high what a card. Definitely an insane midfielder.  People really like these end game icon player SBCs. Now the price of this one 670k is, it's really steep. I don't know if I'm going to be doing this SBC to be completely honest just because that is a steep price tag but at least as you see 92% of people are pretty interested in this one so they're not that against the price tag. I mean it is a healthy amount of crap that you have to do, eight squads so really it's only like five squads because all of these first three are pretty easy to get done 87, 88, 89, 90, 90 so not bad. It's 600k but it's actually a lot easier than that kind of the same thing with the Rutherford Carlos so I got nothing wrong with that SBC. The only thing for me that I'm not, I'm probably not going to do that one is we just had the Marcus Llorente and I think this Llorente would go into my team before that Joby Alonzo would but regardless of the situation that Joby Alonzo is an amazing, amazing card to have and of course make sure you do the loan to get the XP. Now the other SBC that was dropped yesterday, the first of those two times 100 packs we had the 83 times 100 and the 82 times 100 both in the code we finally saw the first one 82 times 100 yet to turn 85, 86, 87, 88 and an 89 rated squad for 100 players rated 82 or above and that is coming in at a whopping 411,000 coins. This is a fun SBC and that is basically all that it is guys in my opinion because for 400,000 coins yes you can look at this insane need it's only five squads that means you're turning in 55 players to get 100 pack that's decent value right well you think about it you're turning in 85 squads and above to 89 you're probably not getting the fodder out of this that you're actually turning in yes you might be getting more players there's going to be a lot of 82s 83s 84s I would have to imagine that basically half of this pack is made up of 83s 82s 83s 84s now we can only do this SBC once so it's also kind of a novelty right it's kind of just a one one off fun thing to do I'm tempted to do it just because it's 100 players but let me put it into perspective right this SBC without crafting we just saw the price 411,000 coins that is 100 players rated 82 or above if you go to the store and you take a look at the 400,000 coin pack so the exact same price for the super ultimate pack yes it's not 82 plus but you get 250 rare gold players instead of only a hundred this is also 400,000 coins you get a really good chance of packing footies cards as you do of course in the 82 times 100 but I mean man I think I would rather have 250 rare gold items that I could craft into player picks and other sorts of SBCs like the team of the season team of the week trade will do that 400k pack method which we're going to talk about today I think I'd rather do that than do this SBC for 400,000 coins worth of value for only a hundred players but it's kind of one that is an endgame SBC it just seems fun and crazy to do because it's a hundred players inside of an SBC pack so if you want to try to craft that one it is fun but honestly for me it's not the best value game I mean I'm gonna look at this from a value standpoint once again for 400,000 coins you could end up getting 385 times 10s done from the upgrade SBC the daily refresh all three of the 85 times 10s you could do that's about 300,000 coins to complete three of these and then you could also do a 90 plus tauts shape shifters or footies player pick and get potentially a really high end player footies maybe a really great tauts card or shape shifters from that if you're looking for kind of a comparable way to look at the SBC values and where to put your fodder right now because let's be honest right fodder can be put in so many different packs and SBCs right now in this game you just kind of have to decide am I trying to get good fodder out of the SBCs and I'm doing like an 85 times 10 or am I going for the gamble and trying to pack footies cards whereas you would get those out of the 90 plus the 93 plus for footies team 1 2 and 3 and then you know even an 84 times 30 I still don't know if I'd recommend that one that's actually going away today so maybe something to refresh with this today imagine they drop the 82 times 100 and 83 times 100 like in back-to-back days I don't expect that that'd be absolutely crazy but I mean 82 times 100 just to wrap it up fun SBC a bit expensive probably not the best for fodder but if you're trying to chase those top tier footies players it is another chance to go ahead and do that now speaking of the store where we just were there's a lot of the market it's being impacted right now by a crazy phenomenon that is kind of swept over the community lately called the 400k pack method and it's all based around this 400k pack right the other 400k packs they're garbage compared to this one the 250 players pack a lot of people are openness with coins because with all the SBCs that are available that are right now that you can put those gold players that you get from this SBC into you can actually make some of your coins back tradable so you can do this SBC for 400k or sorry you can buy this door pack for 400k rinse your cards into other SBCs get tradable stuff back and it lowers the price literally it gives you some coins back and then you have so much other fodder to work with right this is actually impacting the market right now the 400k pack method got really really popular last week when team of the week cards and team of the seasons were very expensive when team of the seasons were like 40,000 coins right now they're about 35 36,000 coins and team of the weeks I believe last week at a time this method got popular were like also 35,000 coins appease and yesterday when the 400k pack came back to the store informs and team of the season prices dropped off a ton because people were very excited to go back out and to do this method to get all those gold players and then craft into those tradable team of the week and team of the season SBCs to get some coins back and this is very obvious if you take a look at informed prices yesterday when this pack dropped informs were like 28 I think thousand coins per card 28,000 coins per card yesterday they went all the way to 2223k where they are now all because of that SP of that pack right it's really it's because of that pack in the store guys because people open that pack with coins then they go back to the game in SBCs and they go craft the tradable team of the week and team of the season pack it's also maybe a little bit because Javi Alonzo and the 82 times 10 only require I think like one or two team of the weeks or team of the seasons Javi Alonzo requires in the 89 okay requires three in the 89 89 and 90 rated squads but also you could use a foot champs player in there as well so there's not as much demand for the team of the week cards because it wasn't like a player pick released yesterday on Saturday like there was on Friday where we saw team of the week cards and team of the seasons go up a lot all that supply is hitting from those team of the week and team of the season SBCs that a lot of people were doing for the 400k pack method which is crazy it's it's supplying these cards on the market a ton and that is why the prices have gone down and now there's another thing today that's going to probably supply these cards a little bit more as well and it's kind of crazy how a phenomenon like this and how the hype around potentially making some coins back from opening a store pack while also having a chance at packing footies cards and some of the best team of the years that are in the best of batch it's crazy how that is impacting the market that much at this stage there but honestly whenever there's a store pack that is like halfway worth it to buy for coins to because you get some coins back and then you just get a bunch of fodder in general a lot of people are going to end up doing it now the 400k pack method honestly with informs being 23k and team of the season is being 35k it's not the best method i'll be completely honest i don't know if i'm going to open any 400k packs this week you're going to make some coins back from it but it's not going to be a lot unless you get lucky with the team of the week or most likely get lucky with the team of the season pack poll doing those sbcs but you do get a lot of fodder back i still think that's the best sbc or sorry i keep saying sbc that's the best pack to open in the store to then go and craft into sbcs because you get so much fodder but i don't think i would expect to make over 150,000 coins back or even 100,000 coins back from that just with how the the prices of the fodder are on this game especially if you hit a taut's moments instead of a team of the season those cards are like 22k, 23k or even cheaper than that whereas team of the seasons are required for sbcs so they're a little bit more now that's kind of the 400k pack method that's been shaking up the market a lot as we saw there on those graphs now today as well squad that are rewards which i think i even have some squad that are rewards from last week which i should probably claim but i barely played any games a lot of people have been playing squad battles right to get the objectives done that are all surrounding the footies players and xp and stuff like that and today's squad battle rewards get paid out again which is probably going to bring some more supply for team of the seasons especially and team of the week cards and fodder in general on the market i do expect fodder to dip in the early hours of today guys for sure it happened last week with team of the seasons like pretty drastically i think last week team of the seasons went from like 30 i think they were actually like 33 or 34,000 coins and then went all the way down to 30k keep an eye on team of the season cards today i would think there could be a potential investment opportunity for just a flip or if you're buying these cards and listing them for lazy since so many people are doing sbcs right now that is a pretty good trading method with team of the weeks and team of the seasons that could be a place in the market that you wouldn't watch today and then also with the gold fodder cards as well right this was what we talked about in yesterday's video buying some of these cards a lot of these went up right last night we had 86s there were like 6,000 coins look at the spike shesney was 9k yesterday at content that is crazy how high he went with all the other sbcs that we have out not even just the content that was released yesterday but probably that 82 times 100 is garnering a lot of hype just because it's a crazy pack right now these cards are back down 7,000 coins but they're not as low as they were if these 86s if the 85s the 84s go to the prices that they were almost 85s are actually not that far off of the price that they were last night they were in the low 4k range these guys were all of almost 6,000 coins cost it right now shows at 4.3k maybe squad that a reward today is a decent opportunity to stock a few more of these in your club because again this is the part of the fodder market that moves the most at the moment and this would be the part of the fodder market that I've been investing in once again if you guys made coins off of like the 85s 86s yesterday they could go up again like they did yesterday not just today but throughout the rest of the week so I would definitely keep an eye out on that and then of course team of the week and team of the season cards might be a decent time to stock up on some of those same thing with some of the footies cards as well I think last week too you had some cards on Sunday that dipped down pretty low in price on that kind of squad that a rewards time frame I'm looking at Alaba right now who last night was like 900k and right now he's 640,000 coins or Mbappe who's actually on the market now who is extinct at 15 mil wow and now he's 11 million coins right so he's on the market now lucio is like 1.7 mil and he was 2.1 or something like that yesterday so a lot of these cards have dipped down in value if we're talking about the team four of footies and you know squad that rewards could impact that again today and these cards will probably get decently low today at some point on Sunday Dean Natali is about to go he is under a million coins it's the lowest that I have seen him oblox like 140k he's down a good amount so watch out and be careful with those team four cards there's probably going to be some of the normal drops today but could fluctuate a bit with some of those squad battle rewards and that extra supply coming in now let's talk about Sunday content a lot about the market a lot about what happened yesterday let's talk about today on Sunday first thing I want to talk about is we still have one unknown release of a cover star icon where and when is this ruicosta going to get dropped we're not sure we do know about chef shanko right chef shanko is the only other guaranteed card that is again kind of like an objective so it's like leaked about ea it's kind of like a tease for an sbc it's going to be coming on Tuesday for chef shanko but this ruicosta he's leaked but we don't even know when he's going to come out we don't know if he's an objective we don't know if he's an sbc um so could it be today maybe is ea just going to go all out and drop three cover star icons back to back to back days to start off this week of footies that'd be awesome why not who says no if they do it great if they don't I would expect to see some other sort of footies player today right the Saturdays and Sundays almost always bring player sbc's um I'd be surprised if we didn't have anything today in terms of a player sbc of course we had your rentay on Friday and uh then yesterday on Saturday all we had was the Javi Alonzo so potentially someone coming today as a player don't know that maybe you see a leak today maybe sheriff or one of the other leakers on twitter post something before content so watch out for that and then upgrade packs like we said uh a couple sbc's are expiring today the 84 times 30 is going away and also the 90 plus icon player pick hopefully this icon player pick is not going to return all right I'd be fine if this did not return to be fine if it was gone ea bring back the 92 plus or bring back a 92 plus icon player pick that only contains team of the your trophy titans and shape shifters those newest of the icons that would be great up that rating a bit but to be honest a 92 plus icon player pick even if it just continues or contains those different icons I mean it isn't that expensive of an sbc most likely it would be coming today but these icon player picks just kind of seem behind man I would rather open a 93 plus or even a 90 plus tats shape shifter or footies player pick almost before opening one of those just because I have a chance at packing footies and shape shifters instead of like some icons that at least shape shift their icons if you hit one of those w but I don't know man it feels like we're at the point of the year where the icon sbc's for the upgrades are really falling behind in terms of hype compared to the other footies and stuff like that uh sbc's that we have out in this game right now but that could make some fodder move because as we know people in this game I mean icons are fun we always love an icon game sbc so hopefully there's something to replace that today and maybe the 84 30 refreshes maybe it doesn't not really sure what's going to happen with that today as well we'll have to keep our eyes out for that but that's why another reason to watch fodder all these sbc's man if they drop more they're going to keep moving those fodder prices for sure and the last thing for today maybe one of the most important things footies uh xp home of xp week two or I guess objective two it's going to be coming out today on sunday if you did the world of football kit if you bought that from the store we're finally going to get the second batch of 1500 xp that will unlock today at content time of course um the home of xp was the very first one right you had to buy the kit from the store 50k whatever it was and now uh you're we're going to be able to get that second set of 1500 xp to progress and whatever ever level you are right now in this season so that's kind of the content for today what pack did I just get I just got something in the store premium loan roll all that's wow war squad battle rewards for me bronze three a loan pack I absolutely love it but that's kind of the content for today guys hopefully EA surprises give us a good sbc for a player we would all love that and uh yeah the market's a very interesting place right now if you're still trading if you need fodder stock up a little bit on it and um yeah EA surprises that it gives us something nice it's what we keep saying but they've been delivering honestly that jabi lanza was sick the player sbc's recently have been really really sick so that's why I want to get into fodder because if they're dropping good sbc's that's going to make fodder keep going up so that's the video for today guys if you did enjoy smash a thumbs up on a comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe 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All right. Welcome, everyone, to today's Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangouts. My name is Joe Mueller. I'm a webmaster trends analyst at Google in Switzerland. And part of what we do are these Office Hour Hangouts, where people can jump in and ask their questions around their website and web search. And we'll try to come up with an answer.  But if any of you want to get started with their first question, you're welcome to jump on in. Joe, I have a couple of questions regarding internal linking. OK. So one would be whether, let's say you have an architecture of categories that you use in your main navigation. And it's one way on the desktop side. So for example, you might have some dropdowns, some mega menus, things like that, that you can hover with your mouse, the dropdown shows. But you can also click on the link and go to that top category if you'd like. However, on the mobile, since you're kind of limited both interface and functionality, maybe that top category is still there with our HTML link. But when you tap on it, it just lowers a dropdown or something like that. So my question is, if Google treats the fact that, well, there's a link there in the navigation. But when users tap on it, it doesn't actually go to that page. It just launches a dropdown or something like that, even though there's an HTML link. So the behavior of the link is not actually acting like a link. It just shows you a dropdown and things like that. Does Google treat those in any way? I guess it depends on how that is modified on mobile. Because if we render that page and essentially that HTML link is swapped out with a JavaScript event and that HTML link is no longer there on the rendered page, then we might not see that internal link. But if the HTML, if the link element is still there, if it's just something like a span on top of the link element and that catches the click and does the JavaScript fanciness, that's perfectly fine. OK, so there's no worry that, oh, it's not taking into account or anything like that in terms of crawling. OK, a second question is kind of related to how there's been this information that when Google sees multiple links going to the same page on a given page, it only takes into account the anchor text for the first link that sees on the page and kind of stores the rest. I'm not sure if that's kind of exactly true. And whether, so for example, if you have a link in the menu, but then you write an article about it, then you might reference the same page with a different anchor text. Does Google understand that and see, well, it's in the main content? So even if you have it in the menu, I'll take a look at that anchor text in the main content because it seems more important. Does that play a role? I don't think we have that defined, like that behavior. So it can go either way. And it can be that we take kind of the multiple links that we find and we combine the signals from that. So that's something where that kind of misconception that if you have multiple links to the same page on one page, then you need to make sure that the most keyboard-wrench anchor text is the first one on the page that is not taking place. So from that point of view, it's not that you need to artificially tweak the order of the links on a page. But it's also not the case that we have kind of this one defined way that we always treat things when we find multiple links on a page. OK, I was mainly asking for e-commerce website. They usually have a big menu with categories and things like that. They don't have a lot of space to use kind of very keyboard-wrench anchors in the menu. So you just have women or men or anything like that. But in the content, let's say you have a blog and in those articles, you kind of reference those pages with more relevant anchor text. So I was wondering if Google could also take those anchors into account. No, from my point of view, we could take those into account. It's just not, I clearly define, that we will do exactly one-to-one. I think for the most part, with normal websites, there are so many different links going to every page with internal linking that it's not critical, like which anchor text you use from this one page to this one other page, because we have so much other information from the rest of the site. OK, last one. So let's assume that certain pages are linked from multiple sections that are site-wide. Like you have one in the main navigation, but you also have one in the footer, like let's say through the contact page or through the FAQ page or anything like that. And since page rank usually works by also counting the number of links on the page matter and the time you link to a certain page also matter, is that something like, webmaster should take that into account, like maybe don't have four links to the privacy policy page on every page on your site, because that kind of takes away from the rest of the links you might have in your navigation, or is that too little of a factor for the father? Yeah, I don't think that would play a role. So I mean, I'm tempted to see if I can play with something like that, maybe on our blog or something, where we put links to, I don't know, maybe a privacy policy 10 times instead of one time. But my feeling is that wouldn't change anything at all. I'm only asking since certain tools like Screaming Frog, for example, that calculate the link score in a very basic way, similar to how page rank works. So you might see like a link, the FAQ page or the privacy policy page having a very, very high link score over some of the pages that you might want the better internal link. So I'm just wondering if Google, I know it's a very basic calculation that they do versus what Google does, but I was just wondering if it's something that you could kind of try to tweak maybe if you're in there or not really bother because Google kind of doesn't really care about that. Yeah, I think for the most part, it's wasted time to do that. I think it's important that these tools show this kind of score internally because sometimes you do kind of lose track of pages and you think this one thing is really important, but actually your only link to it once on your whole website. And then kind of getting that highlighted is really useful. But for the most part, I wouldn't really worry about those details. Also, the follow-up question from there is sometimes, should I no follow the links to my privacy policy page because I don't want it to rank? And we have a lot of practice with privacy policy pages and similar pages where we understand they're linked from everywhere within the website, but they're not the most important piece of content on the website. So we kind of understand these kind of relationships. But I think kind of having some kind of score, having a way to look at how a crawler would look at a website in a naive way I think is really useful. So I wouldn't discount those tools just because they don't map one-to-one to what Google does. Got you. OK, thanks. I'm done. Sure. Cool. Anyone else before we get started? Hi, Joe. I have one. OK. So yeah, yeah, that's me. So I asked you last hangout question about that one of our websites kind of duplicating home pages, where I'm from one Japan one from Brazil, but they're kind of holding together and Google thinks they are duplicating. So just want to follow that part. Like, I mean, is there something that we can do from our and that can make it Google for quite, you could say, visible-wise, the other different pages, or how we should go about that part? I don't remember the details there, but was that something like you have the same English content on the page for Japan as well as on a page for another country? No, they are different. Both pages are different. OK. I don't know. I probably need to take a look at the examples again. If you want to drop the links into the chat, I can pick that up afterwards. Sure, thank you so much. Maybe add a comment as well, then I know exactly what to watch out for. All right, cool. Thanks. And links in the chat don't pass any page rank. All right. OK, someone else had another question as well. Hey, John, how are you? Hi. OK, I have two very, very small questions for you. One is regarding this Search Console inside that Google recently launched on Google Search Console. It seems that data that Google shows is based on Google Search Console plus Google Analytics. So just wanted to confirm if your website doesn't have Google Analytics account. So will that insights will still be there, or you need to have Google Analytics account for that? My understanding is you need to have it tied in with Google Analytics because the Chrome. So I haven't been following all of the details with Search Console insights. But my understanding is that the idea is to provide a mix of the data from Analytics and Search Console in a way that it's a little bit easier to understand for people who don't spend their whole life in Google Analytics or in Search Console. So that's something where we really kind of need to have both of those data sources so that we can show that simplified data there. OK. The second question is regarding nofollow. Like, it is believed that Google doesn't pass PageRank to a nofollow link. But recently, Google decided to crawl if the link is even tagged as nofollow. So if this Google decides to crawl that URL, will it pass PageRank to that URL after crawling? Or if Google thinks that this URL is good enough to be crawled and indexed, but we should pass the PageRank or not? I don't think you can simplify it that much. There are multiple aspects with regards to nofollow there. On the one hand, like you mentioned, we decided to start trying to treat it as a hint rather than a clear directive. And that can result in us following links that have a nofollow to discover new URLs. So especially if there's something that we haven't seen before and we see there is a nofollow link there, then we might go off and try to crawl that page. And if we think it's worthwhile, maybe we will index that page. So that's kind of the one aspect. But the aspect with regards to passing PageRank and passing signals, that's something that's totally independent of that. That's something where we also need to take into account a lot more rather than just, is this a new page or not? So just because something that crawled that has a nofollow link doesn't mean that we're going to start passing all kinds of linking signals to that page. It can, but it's not necessarily required. Trying to follow up on that, last I heard from Gary was that it's just currently a policy change around the nofollow, but nothing really has changed practically yet. Has that changed? This is possible. I don't know. Gary would be following up there more. But I mean, this is essentially the direction that we could be heading, where we have kind of those nofollow links, we could theoretically use those to pass signals. I believe we are using them for discovery already now. But I don't know, Gary would know more. All right, thank you. Maybe I should drop him a tweet and find out. OK, let's jump into the questions. We have the top question from Barry. Can you comment more on the August 10th indexing system failure and maybe what happened this past Saturday? See your favorite SEO blog for more details. How do you know what my favorite SEO blog is, Barry? It's like, are you reading my email? I have a little mail where I'm still on the computer. OK. OK, well, it's just that. Bye. I don't have any more information. So my feeling is with the August 10 issue, that's something where it got resolved reasonably quickly. And I don't know if the team would have more information to share on that publicly. And with regards to the one on the 15th, I don't know the details of what happened there. But that also seemed like something where even you kind of didn't really see what exactly was changing, just like everyone was complaining and then suddenly it was gone. So maybe that was just something really short. I think technically it was only short because I didn't get back online until Saturday night. But I think it happened Saturday morning. OK. And then there were some screenshots from like Glenn Gave and other people where it shows some pretty significant changes. And then things went back sometime or at night, at least Eastern time. Are you aware of anything that went wrong? Not specifically telling me what went wrong, but did something go wrong? I don't know. It's like there are lots of systems like Google. I don't know that I can't comment or I don't know. I don't know. I really don't have any additional information on that. So I mean, there are lots of systems at Google. And sometimes when something kind of quirky happens for a really short period of time, they just go off and fix it without letting everyone know. I think the earlier issue seemed to have been a bigger one. And that's kind of also why it took a little bit longer to get everything redone. And we ended up tweeting about it briefly. OK. Thank you very much. Now, sometimes we don't have a lot of internal details to share. OK. Now, question about pagination, or five questions. What's the importance of pagination? Are there issues with pagination? What about infinite scrolls? Should paginated pages be indexed? What is the best practice of pagination? So lots of questions. I don't know. Let me see if I can run through them briefly. So essentially, when we talk about pagination, we mean you have one thing that is really large and it doesn't fit on one page. So you split it across multiple pages. And that could be maybe one long article where you say, well, it's worthwhile splitting this. It could be a list of individual products, maybe in a category, where you say, well, I have 5,000 products. I can't put them all on one page. I will put them on five pages or 1,000 pages or whatever. So that's kind of where pagination comes in. And from our point of view, it's important that we can recognize this kind of pagination and essentially index those individual pages so that we can pick up all the content or all the links to individual items that you have on the paginated pages. Usually, with pagination, one of the questions that comes up is, well, this creates a lot of new URLs because you have to go through all of these pages to get all of the content. And yes, it does generate a lot of URLs. And we have to index a lot of different pages. But if we want that content in our index, if we want to understand those internal links to your other pieces of content, we kind of have to do that. Infinite Scroll is a way of doing pagination without the user having to click Next. The important part there is that you do Infinite Scroll in a way that works for search with regards to crawling and rendering in particular. And we have some guidelines on how to do that. So in particular, one recommendation is to have separate URLs for each page so that you can still go to the individual pages to have links to those individual pages. And for the user, if they scroll down to the bottom, then it's fine to load the next page kind of thing. Should all paginated pages be indexed? Yes, kind of like I mentioned before, if there's something on there that you want to have known by Google, which could be a link to a different product, which could be a part of a longer piece of content, then it has to be indexed. And the best practice is kind of following up on the other steps there. We have to know about these paginated pages so you have to link to them, usually with a Next and a previous link. And with normal HTML links, we can pick that up fairly easily. You don't have to do anything special for this kind of pagination. So just kind of link from one page to the next and link to the previous page as well, then we can crawl through all of those paginated pages. I can't around through this. And I know there is a lot more depending on what kind of setup you might have. So this is something where we will probably have a bit more information, in particular, for e-commerce sites to make it a little bit easier to understand what exactly should be indexed with pagination. In general, we find that most sites implement pagination in a way that just works. So we've kind of stepped back from saying, we need to define exactly what people need to do for pagination. But rather, if you understand these pages need to be indexable, then you understand they need to be linked. You can test them with a local crawler. And usually, that just works out. Google is indexing pages with parameters. Is this considered duplicate content? Should I use the URL parameter tool in Search Console to fix it as a method? So in general, pages with parameters aren't necessarily bad. It's something where in the past, maybe going back, I don't know, 15, 20 years, like a really long time, search engines were kind of reluctant to index URLs with question marks in them because it's easy to create a lot of URLs that way. But that has since changed. Since a long time, and URLs with parameters in them are perfectly fine. Sometimes, they can lead to duplicate content. And in most cases, we figure that out ourselves. We recognize this URL with this parameter is the same content as the different URL with a different parameter. And from our point of view, that essentially just works out. If you find that within your website, you have a significant amount of duplicate content and a significant amount of pages so that you can assume that crawling is really hard within your website. So say, for example, you have, I don't know, 100 million pages. And you recognize with the parameters that you're linking within your website, you're creating 10 times as many URLs as you have pages, then those numbers are really, really big. And that's something where it definitely makes sense to go off into the parameter handling tool to resolve that, also to think about your internal navigation, where are these parameters being picked up on, and to improve that. So that's kind of, I guess, the extreme situation. Most sites are somewhere in between. Some have just a few pages with parameters. And at that scale, I really wouldn't worry about those. Any comments on Google blocking new publishers since December 2019? So I saw a bunch of your tweets as well. I don't have any insight on that. It's definitely not the case that we're blocking any new websites from appearing in search. There have been lots of new websites since then, and they do appear normally in search. But it is something where you mentioned a bunch of examples where you thought things weren't working as well as they should, specifically for Google News. And I forwarded that out on to the Google News team to double check to see if there's anything that we could be doing better there. One of my websites. I think that was related to the News Publisher Center. If you submit it to your bear, it's not getting. I'm not even sure. But it sounds like it's all around the new Google News Publisher Center. So I don't know if that provides more of something for you to let me do. I don't know. I don't really have any insight into the news side. But since crawling and indexing kind of is combined when it comes to news, if we can pick it up for search, then we should be able to pick it up for news as well. I think most sites don't do anything special to be picked up in news. Right, yeah. No, I'm just, yeah. I don't know if there's anything specifically buggy with the News Publisher Center, like the Google Search Console for News Publishers. I'm not sure. It's always possible that there's something buggy. But it would surprise me if it were completely broken since December 2019. It seems like a pretty long time. Yes. One of my websites got backlinks from a domain that embedded my Twitter page feed. And the backlinks are coming from that tweet link. I don't think embedded feed content links are followed by Googlebot. Please enlighten me. I don't know how these tweets are embedded. But in general, when we see things that are embedded with JavaScript or with an iframe on our website, it is possible for us to say that this part of the content could be seen as a part of that page. And it is possible that we will pick up links in tweets like that. That said, my understanding is that Twitter pretty much uses nofollow links everywhere. So essentially, those would be nofollow links pointing to your website there where, for the most part, we wouldn't be passing any particular signals there. So from that point of view, I don't see anything particularly positive or negative with regards to SEO if you get a link from one of your tweets that was embedded on another person's website. Usually, it's a good sign that people like the tweets that you're writing, and maybe are OK with the content that you're providing on your website, assuming they're writing about it in a positive way. But essentially, that's independent of any kind of SEO effect from those individual links. The thing to also keep in mind is that, in particular, in Search Console, the links that we show there are just all links or a sample of all of the links that we know from the web for your website. So it's not that we would only be showing you links there that pass any signals or that have any special weight. It's very possible to show things there that are maybe even disavowed, maybe that have a nofollow, anything like that, too. How does Google know about the category of a new URL being added later? So the URL wasn't mentioned in the sitemap. I don't know how you mean the category of a new URL. But assuming it's just generally, how does Google know about this new URL that I added to my website? And I didn't put it in my sitemap file. We use lots of things to pick up new URLs, but we don't make them up. So essentially, somewhere, there must have been a link to this page within your website that could be within your own content that could be within a sitemap file, within an RSS feed, maybe someone else, maybe a tweet, anywhere, essentially. And if we spot a URL and we think, oh, this might be something that's useful, we might go off and look at that page and see if we can index it. And if we can index it and we think it's something useful, then maybe we will index it. So that's essentially the story of where the URLs come from. It's not that we have any kind of magic backdoor to your server and can look at what you're doing on your server or anything like that. We really kind of have to follow those links. And sometimes the links that we find are a bit surprising to people in that they don't realize that maybe a link is included in their RSS feed, even if they don't manually include it in a sitemap file, or maybe they don't realize that someone else has tweeted a link, or maybe you shared a link by email and the email address you shared it to is actually a public mailing list. And suddenly that link is in a public mailing list where we could also pick that up. Our website and our blog have an English and a Spanish version. In Search Console, we have a property for each language where we upload the sitemap separately. While the pages related to our service are translation and therefore through hreflang, we indicated clearly the English blog and the Spanish blog are not linked as they have different contents. And we try to track traffic by offering different contents and different experience for each language. In the blogs, we implemented AMP versions for the articles. Here are some questions. Is it necessary to define the articles as canonical URL since I commented there the AMP version? Yes. So for connected AMP pages, I assume this is the case that you have one traditional page and the AMP page and you link to them. With that kind of a setup, you need to use the rel canonical. That's kind of the definition of these pages. Even if you have standalone AMP pages where you just have AMP pages and no traditional content, you need to have a rel canonical on that page pointing to itself. So that's independent of any translations, independent of any hreflang. For the AMP setup, you need to have the rel canonical. Is this configuration correct? It's essentially fine to have it set up like that. So if you have some pages that are localized and you have the hreflang links between them and other pages that are just in different languages but not localized versions of each other, then you don't have the hreflang there. That's perfectly fine. hreflang is a per-page annotation. You don't have to do it on all pages. You can do it just on the home page, do it just on an about us page. You can pick and choose however you want. We have some concern that URLs don't have an AMP page, can't be fast enough. Canvas generate problems for the ranking of the blog articles. So we do use speed as a ranking factor, but it's a fairly small factor. And you can make really fast pages that are not AMP. And you can also make slow pages that are using AMP. So just because one part of your site uses AMP and another part doesn't necessarily mean that the part without AMP is slower or in any way treated less favorably compared to the rest of your content. So I wouldn't primarily worry about this difference AMP and not AMP, but rather think about speed overall. And you can test speed on your site as well using the various speed testing tools that are out there. So instead of just purely AMP or not AMP, I would look at the speed overall. Are the AMP versions used to measure and rate the URL speed performance of our articles? So in particular, with the new core web vitals that is coming to search, we don't have a date for that yet, when that will be used as a ranking factor. We'll let you know at least six months ahead of time. But with that, we look at the page that users actually see. So if users see the AMP version of a page, and that's essentially the main version they see, maybe on mobile, then we will use that when it comes to our speed calculations. On the other hand, if people see the traditional HTML version, they have to click a link to go to the AMP version or something crazy like that. Then we would use that page that we showed the users, which in that case would be the traditional HTML version. We used to have pagination on our main blog, but we realized that they were indexed in Search Console by mistake. The same pages with different URLs for pagination. We removed the pagination, and it looks like the issue is solved. We need to de-index those mistaken URLs. So wow, more pagination questions. No, you generally don't need to do that. Usually what happens when you have pagination activated like that on kind of a blog setup, then it's just like paginating through different previews of articles on your site, and it's just a parameter that's added to the page. And if you disable that, then essentially going to those URLs just shows the home page again. So if we re-crawl and reprocess those URLs over time, we will see the home page, and everything will be fine. If on the other hand, it results in those URLs returning 404, then we will re-crawl and reprocess them and drop those URLs out of the index as well, which is also fine. So either way, it's not that you necessarily need to do anything to remove those URLs from the index. Can monetizing your website with an ad partner potentially hurt your rankings in Google? Because after signing up with these partners, what I realize is they like to show more ads on your website. So I'm just worried if it will cause a drop in my ranking. Well, I guess in general, if you add monetization to your web pages, then that monetization has to be visible somehow, which can result in ads being shown on your pages. So that's, on the one hand, kind of to be expected. On the other hand, with regards to Google rankings, we do have some things that we watch out for. So in particular, the above-the-fold content is something where we want to see some actual content, not just an ad. Depending on the way that you have monetization set up, you might need to watch out for that. Then there's a better ad standard, which is something that, particularly from Chrome, they look at for some pages, where if they realize that a site is significantly not compliant with the better ad standard, then Chrome might decide not to show ads on that site at all. So that's something to look at. That's not necessarily related to SEO, but it kind of falls into the same category of types of issues. And I think that's pretty much it. I think, in general, when it comes to monetization on your site, it's important that you do that in a way which is long-term sustainable so that you don't drive users away. Because if you drive users away from your website, then they're not going to be out there recommending your website to other people, which is something that indirectly we might pick up on in search with regards to kind of SEO things. So if you do decide to work with monetization on your website, which, from our point of view, is perfectly fine, it's like you have to pay for your website somehow. You have to pay for your time and your work somehow. So it's not that monetization is bad. But if you do decide to implement some kind of monetization, kind of make sure that it's implemented in a way that you can stand behind, where you can say, well, this is really the way I want my website to be presented in search with the way I want my website to be presented to new users when they come and visit from the search results. Second question there, cross-posting my article on another forum with a canonical URL. Will that downgrade my ranking? My blog is all about programming, and I do like sharing my posts with a canonical URL on other developer forums. So is that going to hurt my ranking? Because the other forums are very authoritative and ranks very well on Google. So in general, there are, I think, two situations that can occur here. And it's something which our systems can't guarantee one outcome or the other. It's possible that we will index both of these pages individually. If we look at these pages overall and it looks to our systems like these are significantly different pages, then we may index them individually. And we may end up showing them in the search results separately, which could mean that the website that is syndicating your content is ranking above you. So that's something that theoretically can happen. The other alternative is that we recognize that these pages are significantly the same. And in that case, we will try to pick one canonical URL. And the URL canonical does help us to understand which of these pages you prefer to have being chosen as a canonical. And in that case, we will concentrate all of the signals on that one canonical URL. And we will use that one for indexing and ranking. The thing to keep in mind is that the URL canonical is just one of the signals that we use for canonicalization. So there are also things like internal and external links, sitemap files, the hidden links within a website, all of those things which play a role in determining which URL we should choose as a canonical URL. So it's not always guaranteed that we will pick your URL as a canonical. But those are the two situations that can occur. And like I said, it's not guaranteed that it'll happen one way or the other. So if you do choose to syndicate your content like this, I think that's just something to keep in mind in that it's possible that your information will be shared more broadly and your information will be findable on other people's websites and that maybe we will show the other website as the one in search results ranking a little bit higher. So that's something where you kind of have to think about, is it important that my page is visible in search? And if that's the case, then maybe make sure that you're just publishing content on your website. Or is it important to you that my information is available in search? And in that case, maybe it's fine to publish it on multiple different websites. So those are kind of strategic decisions that you can make there. And I don't think there's one answer that works for all websites. If you have security reports in Google Search Console, after some submissions, Google will start to review them after a couple of weeks. Will this reflect other crawlbots, like desktop, mobile, et cetera? So I'm not quite sure how you mean there. So it's really kind of hard to say. Usually, if there are security issues, for example, reported in Search Console, that would mean, for example, that maybe your website is hacked. Maybe there is malware that was found on some of your pages. Maybe there was some phishing that someone hosted within your website. Then those issues wouldn't affect how we crawl the rest of your website. It can affect how we show it in search, in that if we understand your website is hacked, then maybe we need to be more careful with what we show your pages for. So that's something that can play a role there. But I don't think it would affect how we would crawl your website overall. But regardless of any effect on crawling or indexing, if your website does have security issues, I would recommend resolving those as quickly as possible and trying to figure out where they came from. So if your website got hacked, then don't just fix that hack, but rather think about how we're hackers able to actually get into my website and add that hacked content. And what can I do to prevent that in the future? Do backlinks from guest posts have any ranking value? Or are we wasting our time for the sake of ranking and not for traffic? I don't know. It feels like this topic comes up every couple of weeks. We've kind of had our stance on this since a number of years now. And essentially, the idea is if you're doing guest posts just for those links, then for the most part, I would assume that those links have no value at all. So that's essentially our stance there. And there are lots of kind of fine details there. But we've talked about them so often. There's lots of information out there to kind of check into as well. I work on a UGC website with more than 30 million pages of content. Main content of the pages does not change much, but the auxiliary content, like reviews and comments, are added frequently. We don't track very well when each content is updated. Our site maps are updated daily with current value URLs, but setting last mod for them as the current day. We also set priority and change frequency to static values. We suspect we're being limited by crawl budget, counter-site map structure, negatively be affecting how Google is crawling our website. So yeah, I think there are multiple things that come together here. In general, if you always have the same date in your site map file for all of your URLs, we're going to be ignoring that date. So if you're doing something like you mentioned here, where you're taking 30 million pages and saying all of them changed today, then we're probably going to be looking at your site map and saying, well, we're just going to look for new URLs within the site map file. We're not going to look at the date because the date doesn't give us any more information. It's not that we can go off and recrawl your whole website every day. So that's kind of the main thing here. The priority and change frequency settings are also settings that we generally ignore because we found that they don't provide a lot of extra information. If we have a date that we can use, then we don't need to know how frequency of page might be changing. With regards to kind of setting a date as a change date in a site map file, we recommend using the date that is really significant for a change on your pages. So if things like just a number changes on your web page, that's not usually a sign that this page needs to be recrawled and re-indexed. But if something significant changes on your website, on those pages, then that's something where I'd say it's worthwhile picking that up and using that as a new change date. So that's kind of the recommendation with regards to change dates in general. The last modification, if you don't do that, if you have it set up like you have here, we will ignore the last modification date, essentially. And we will just use the site map file to try to recognize new URLs on a website. But we don't kind of penalize a site for this kind of site map file. It's not that we would crawl less frequently or we would crawl worse if you have a bad site map file like this. We would just crawl naturally like we would any other website. And usually what that means is we will just go off and crawl pages on your website, try to refresh them, and cycles that we think kind of make sense. And we will just use the site map file to recognize new things on your website. This doesn't affect crawl budget at all. So crawl budget is specifically more of a kind of foundational technical thing, which is based, on the one hand, on the demand that we need, that we have on our side with regards to crawling and indexing, like how many pages do we think we need to re-crawl from this website every day? That's kind of the one thing. We would like to do this much. And on the other hand, we kind of have the limits, which can be the limit that you set in Search Console. It's also based on kind of the server capacity, how quickly do we think your server can respond, how much, I don't know, how many requests can we send it every day, those kind of things. And those are all independent of the site map file. So just because just if you have a bad site map file, doesn't necessarily mean we will crawl. Less frequently, we'll just crawl a little bit kind of more organically rather than direct, based on your site map file. Is canonicalization a best practice, or is not having duplicate content at all a best practice? I think a little bit of both. So not having duplicate content makes it easier for us to crawl and index kind of the primary content that you want on your site. But it's kind of impractical for all websites to not have any duplicate content at all. It's essentially normal part of the web. So because it's such a common thing on the web using the rel canonical, using proper canonicalization, just makes it a lot easier for us to focus on the good parts of your website. So reducing the duplicate content on your site is good. Using rel canonical is also good. Wow, lots of questions left. Let me just double check to see. There's one other crawl rate question. Can you suggest an optimal crawl limit for Googlebot? If I set a limit of 30 requests per second, is that enough? That's totally up to you on your website. So we don't have any specific limits that we recommend. Usually, with regards to the search console setting, we suggest that you just leave it as, like, Google aside. Because the search console setting is more of an upper bound limit. It's not that you're saying Google will crawl this much, but it is that Google can crawl at most this much. So for most websites, you don't need to set an upper limit. We will figure that out ourselves. If you do notice that we're killing your server and causing you a high bandwidth bill or something like that, then setting that upper limit is definitely a good idea.  Maybe I'll switch to any questions from you all. Is there anything left from your side? I just wanted to quickly confirm that this person is saying not a single website since December 19, 2019 has been indexed or ranked that is new, like a new website. And I asked on Twitter, has any SEOs had any new websites indexed or ranked since December 2019?  So there you go. OK, OK. I mean, maybe it's not a general issue, but it's still worthwhile looking at these things. Sometimes they're weird quirks. John, can I ask another one on internet linking really quick? So assuming, let's say you've changed something like the CMS of your website or something like that, and you have to use a 3.1 redirect, and maybe because of some issues like the design or anything like that, you kind of have to link using those 3.1 redirects. You cannot link to the final version. Your navigation and most of your internal linking still goes to the old URL, which then 3.1 redirects the new one. For users, you kind of add that extra step of a 3.1 redirect. Does that affect Google in any way? I know that Google kind of can pass over it and doesn't. So I mean, it's not great, but we work around that. So essentially what happens there is we try to understand what the canonical is. So we'll follow that redirect, and usually we'll pick the destination of the redirect as the canonical URL, and then we will treat that link as being between the source page and the canonical destination. So just because there's a redirect in between doesn't mean that there's any value loss. It's still linked between the source and the canonical destination. And just to be sure of that 3.1 step, that 200 milliseconds, 300 milliseconds that the user gets in addition, that's not happening on Google's side because you kind of pick the URL separately. You don't follow it like a user. Yeah, yeah. So the one exception, I think, is if you have more than five steps, five redirect steps in between, then that's something where we'll have to recrawl that in the second round. But otherwise, we will follow those steps. We will index the destination page. Probably we'll pick the destination page as the canonical. And if we pick the destination page as the canonical, then users, when they come from search, they go directly to that canonical. They don't even follow those redirects. So even from a speed point of view, users would be going directly to that kind of canonical URL. And from that point of view, it's more that you're adding a little bit inefficiency and it's like you're keeping these things along where if you crawl the website on your own, then suddenly you have all of this crux that's kind of collected over the years. But it's not that it'll cause any problems with regards to search. OK. And one last thing is we have a weird case where it's also related to pagination, where the link to the next page is one URL and it goes to the next page. But within a few seconds, the link changes. I think it's using the history API, the push state, or replace. I don't remember exactly what it was. How does Google interpret that? Does Google see this URL change even though there's no refresh of any kind of gun? Or what exactly is happening on Google's site? And I'm not 100% sure. Yeah. So we do watch out for this kind of when we use a history API to change the URL, because we do understand that some JavaScript-based site, you click on a link, and then it uses the history API to change the URL. And in that case, we should treat that as a link. And similarly, on some sites, you load one URL and it uses the history API to change the URL, and that should be treated like a redirect. So that's something where we try to figure out what it is that you're trying to do there, assuming that we can process the JavaScript that is doing this. So that could be that we would treat that as a redirect to the URL that you're changing it to, which I don't know if that makes sense in your particular case, or if that simplifies the URL, or if that, you know. So that's it. We move some of the extra parameters that don't really are just for the CMS to understand you want the next page. And it can remove the only page it was to. Yeah. Probably you would see that if you use inspect URL, and you saw that we chose as a canonical the simpler URL. So that's something where you can check both of those URLs manually with inspect URL. If we've seen the simpler URL, perhaps we have chosen that as a canonical for that kind of setup. So if you check the more complicated URL, and you see we picked the simpler one as a canonical, then it's definitely the case. Cool. Thanks. I'll try that. Cool. Hi, John, if I may. Sorry. I thought if you remember me, we spoke a couple of weeks ago. And I'm just really simple chasing up, really. Sorry to do this. On the outbound link, unnatural linking reconsideration saga, which we're going through. And I just wanted to see if you managed to take a look for us. Which site was that? Oh, I think you posted it as well. The career site, right? Yeah, that's correct. Yeah. I passed that on to the search spam folks, but I didn't hear anything back. So I don't know. Is it still pending the reconsideration request? That was a long time ago, right? The reconsideration request. Initially from the 7th of May, the initial notification. So from the last status we received, which was the processed notification, it's been 14 weeks. OK. That seems too long. OK, I'll ping them again to see if they can double check to see what is happening there. All right, brilliant. What's your recommendation for how long we should wait, anyway, because it's been 14 weeks since we received the process notification. And we follow up a few times since. I think it's been around four weeks now since our last follow up, but we spoke about this on the last one, so I won't bring it up again. But what's your recommendation for the wait period at the moment? I don't know. I don't know what the current queue there is. I mean, your site, I think it was in English, right? So it's not. Yeah, it's in English. Yeah. Sometimes it's a bit different across different languages where someone from one of the local teams has to double check. But it feels like, especially with English, we should be fairly up to date. I'm kind of curious to see if those kind of extra submissions that you did after the main one kind of block things on our side, but even that shouldn't be making it take that long. All right, thanks for that. No, it's just because you said that you feared last time it could be stuck. This is why we're wondering still what to do. So yeah, if you could do something about it just to get some response would be brilliant. All right, WD40. Cool. OK, we're kind of at time. I'm sure there are still more questions, but feel free to maybe drop them into the next session on Friday. And hopefully I'll see some of you all there, or at least in the next Tuesday one, depending on the time zone, whatever works better for you. All right, thank you all for joining. And I wish you all a great week in the meantime. Thank you. Bye, everyone. Thank you, bye.


James Monroe is a very interesting character because he started off his career as a noted Virginia anti-federalist allied with Patrick Henry. Murray Rothbard discusses him in his fifth volume of Conceived and Liberty during the Virginia ratification debates and some of the politics surrounding that. So he started off as a Virginia anti-federalist, but as time went on by the Jefferson administration, he becomes more and more nationalist. He becomes more and more influenced by Madison. And then he becomes Madison's secretary of state. And by this point in time, he's sort of an establishment Republican, so to speak. So he's a classic moderate Republican during the Madison administration. And then later on becomes really one of the preeminent nationalist Republicans. So these are the big government Republicans. They're very similar to the federalists in policy, but they wanted to be in control of things instead of the federalists. So Madison, excuse me, Monroe is in charge of the country now. This is the so-called era of good feelings. It's really more accurately described as an era of corruption because the national Republicans are in total control. And they're using this time to sort of continue to fasten various crony special privileges onto the American economy. So Monroe is kind of in charge of this. He's not necessarily a major player, but he is a president sympathetic to central banking, tariffs, internal improvements, foreign interventions, and so on. So in many cases, unfortunately, he starts off as someone who is ready to reform the system. He's fighting the Constitution. He supports states' rights and small government. But given enough time in the swamp, so to speak, he soon becomes just a standard Madison disciple, so to speak.