All right. Welcome, everyone, to today's Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout. My name is John Mueller. I'm a Webmaster Trends Analyst here at Google in Switzerland. And part of what we do are these Office Hour Hangouts. I hope if you're celebrating Christmas that you had a good break in between, hope you have a good start of the new year. And I thought it would be, I don't know, a good idea to put one of these Office Hour Hangouts kind of in the middle when we have a bit of time. Hope everything is going well for all of you. There are a few questions that were submitted. But if any of you want to get started, you're welcome to jump in and ask a first question. Thank you, John. I think my name is Armin Harian. I'm from the United States. One of the first questions that was submitted there are mine. So maybe we can take a look at that. I'm doing SEO for a large e-commerce organization in the United States. And I'm trying to help them with content, speed, and everything. John, my main question, we can take a look at the questions, is how is AMP for e-commerce websites? We know AMP because I have a news organization myself. And we have done AMP. And we have seen our traffic boosted, especially from the mobile. But I would like to know, how is AMP for e-commerce? Is it recommended? And there are a couple of other questions that maybe we can start from the AMP. I don't know specifically about e-commerce. So with regards to AMP, it's something where sometimes there are limitations on the website that make it a little bit tricky to implement AMP in a way that works well. So that might be something that you see with e-commerce, things like adding to cart and personalization and all of those things are probably a bit trickier with AMP. So that's kind of the main thing I would watch out for there. In general, making your pages as fast as possible, I think is always a good idea. And AMP is a great way to do that. One of the things that also kind of falls into this, I think, is that some kinds of pages are just easier to make with AMP than others. And on a larger e-commerce site, you have all different kinds of pages. So you have product pages, category pages, search pages. You have a lot of informational content as well. And it might be that if you're using something like WordPress as a backend, then a lot of the informational content is just a post or a page, which you can easily convert to an AMP with an AMP plugin. So if there's a simple plugin that you can install on your backend that makes it possible to move some of these things to AMP, then that's what I would do. For all of the other content, it's something where you kind of have to weigh the pros and cons yourself. I think on the pro side, it's definitely an opportunity to make really fast pages. You can make really fast pages without AMP as well. So depending on how much work it takes to implement AMP versus how much time it takes to make the pages faster in general, that's kind of a call that you have to make. There's definitely no kind of bonus from having AMP when it comes to search. So it's not that you'll rank higher, that you'll be more visible for all of these e-commerce pages. It's just one way to make your content available really quickly. So I'd see it more as a mechanism to help you speed things up rather than a magic bullet that you have to implement. I see. Thank you very much. Let me ask you a question about this, please. So if a website has already AMP implemented, let's say a news website, when I go to Google PageSpeed Insights and I put a website, under mobile, how come Google, that tool is not picking the AMP version but picks the regular version and says it's slow while the page has AMP already? Isn't it that wouldn't it make sense if the Google Speed tool would take the AMP and show the desktop version as regular? I don't know how it's implemented in the testing tool. But if you have separate URLs for AMP, then you can always test the separate URLs directly. It's also something where I believe most websites don't redirect to the AMP version. So if you use a mobile device to access the regular URLs directly, then you'll get that regular content. Whereas if you access the AMP pages directly, then you'll get the AMP version. And in search, we try to show the AMP version because we know that connection between the two. But it's not that there's a kind of a redirect that goes to the AMP version automatically. So I imagine the testing tool is just let you test the individual URLs. And since there's no redirect, they just see that. And my last question, please, with that, which I asked there. Let's say a website has lots of errors reported in Google Webmaster Search Console. Will they negatively affect the rankings? Maybe. I think it really depends on the errors that are reported there. Let's say the price is missing. Price is missing. But because some products don't have price, or yes? So what happens with things like structured data, especially product markup, if there's a price missing, then what would happen is no changes in ranking. But we would not be able to show the product's rich result. So sometimes we have the rich result with the review stars, and the price, and availability, and things. And if we can't process the structured data properly, then we just don't show that. But it would rank exactly the same as before. All of the other pages that do have the proper markup, they would be used normally. For that specific page, it looks like you want to use this markup, but it's incorrect. So we tell you that if you want it to have a tone, then you need to change that. What about breadcrumb errors? That's the same thing. So with all of these structured data types, if the markup that you have for structured data is not valid, then we would just not use that markup for rich results. Page would rank normally. It would show normally in Search. So that's something where we want to flag it as an error that you know about it. But if we say, well, I don't care. I don't need this rich result on that page, then that's perfectly fine. Thank you very much. But in case of this, links will be followed. Only structured data will be ignored. Sure, sure. We will process the rest of the page. Everything will work normally. It's really just that specific structured data type that you have that's not valid. We would ignore that. And, John, I just tried to run the MP page, and it is showing me correctly. Page speed inside tool. I just typed MP page. It is showing me the performance of MP page. By the way, I don't know how Armin checked that one. I think if you enter the URL directly, then probably it would just test that. Yes, you're correct. When I entered the MP URL, it shows correctly and shows very fast. But when I post the regular URL, let's say, it's a news article, the tool shows mobile and desktop, right? It shows mobile very slow because it's regular. But I was thinking that Google should take them M version already because M version already exists. That's what I was surprised. There's also, I think, a speed effect that these testing tools don't show, which is that with AMP pages, we can pre-render them and pre-cache them directly from the search results. So you save that round trip to your server to get the initial HTML, to get the rendered version. And that's something that we do with the AMP cache, which is not something that would be tested in any of the speed testing tools. So that's why sometimes when you look at an AMP page in a testing tool, it looks like, well, it's just as fast as other mobile pages. But actually, there is still that kind of pre-caching effect that also takes place. Thank you very much. Do you think Google will provide support for AMP for e-commerce, like more tags or more tools in the future? It would be very helpful. I don't know. I think it's hard with e-commerce. We've tried a bit with AMP for e-commerce, but I don't know what the team is planning to do there. Yes, thank you very much. All right. Any other questions before we jump into what was submitted? Short question. But speed definitely is a ranking factor, correct? Yes. Yes, thank you. John, can I ask one problem which I am facing? Sure. OK. So actually, for internal linking, I tried to see many hangouts, but I could never find if there is any page rank gets passed or not. Because you always say that Google tries to understand the context of the page from links in internal linking. But first thing, I still don't know. Probably Google does not pass page rank, what I assumed it is. The second thing I just tried to understand, I just launched one blog page for the same entity, and I have one product page for the same entity. The topics are quite different, like top 10 things before buying one product. This is blog content, and by the product is my main content or main page content. The main problem started from last three months when Google started ranking a blog page for that product name only. And my main page just disappeared. So first thing I assumed that external links don't matter in this case. Why? Because my main product page was getting links from a long time. Even I don't know from when the page was live. And hardly six months back, we launched one blog page, and it replaced the ranking. So in this case, what should we do? Because content-wise, I cannot change the content. That is very valid content. This is also very valid content. Banner, I just added that in blog page that if you want to buy this product, click here. But I believe still there is a lot of conversion rate difference. Yeah. So let me try to answer the first question. Let's see. So internally within a website, we do pass page rank. So that's something which I think is really important in that when we see a normally structured website with internal links going to different parts of the website, then that's something where we would pass page rank. And we try to understand which of these pages are more important. So internal links definitely play a big role in discovering content and also in recognizing which pieces of content are more important. So that's maybe one thing. With regards to different types of pages ranking, that's sometimes a bit trickier because it really depends on how we understand the query. And in some cases, we can understand the query fairly well and guide users to the right page. And in other cases, it's sometimes a bit tricky. So for example, if we think that a search looks more informational, that someone is looking more for information, then maybe we would point them more towards a blog post rather than a product landing page. On the other hand, if we think the page is more someone searching for buying a product, so something more transactional, I want to buy this thing, then we would send them more to a product page. And oftentimes, I think we get that fairly well. Sometimes we don't understand the query that well. And over time, we try to figure out what we should be doing there. And for cases like that, I think making it easy for users to find the product landing page is really important. But also, one thing I would consider is whether or not you're actually looking at queries that users are using and where you're sure that the intent is to actually go to a product page. Because it's very easy to get kind of hung up on specific queries where you think, for this query, I want that page to appear. And if you look at the search analytics for your website, you might notice that actually nobody really searches for this query. So it's a good match for that page, but it's maybe not something that people actually use. Or you see that when users come to your website that they tend to stay maybe on the blog post with more information on that product rather than actually going to the product page, which might also be a sign that actually they're getting the information that they need from this product page. So that's kind of taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture first and then kind of trying to go from there. I think if you're really sure that lots of people are going to your website and landing on the wrong page, then having a banner or some kind of easy way for people to find the place where they probably can get more information, that's really recommended. Yeah, and in this case, external links don't matter. If this is one domain has two pages, one page is getting links, but one page is new when new replaces the main page. So external links value is positive to that one page. They do matter, but it's not that they override everything else. We use a lot of factors when it comes to ranking. So just because one page has more links doesn't mean that it will automatically rank more. OK, thank you. All right, let's take a look at some of the submitted questions. As always, you're welcome to jump in in between and probably will have time towards the end to go through some other questions as well. For the Cloud Natural Language API, will there be more support for different languages in the future, for example Scandinavian languages? I have no idea. I don't know how the Cloud Natural Language API suddenly got so popular, but I think it's really neat to try things out with these kind of APIs to see what comes out of them. But one thing I would kind of keep in mind with all of these things is that there are lots of ways to understand pages and to understand text on a page. And it's not necessarily the case that just because we have an API for something like this that we would use this in search. We have APIs for lots and lots of different things. So it's really cool ways to build products on top of Google technology, but it doesn't mean that Google Search does things exactly like that. How can I make sure my users are having a good user experience on my site? So it kind of goes into I'm seeing lots of ranking fluctuations and not really sure. So I think that's something where there is no absolute answer that works well for every website. That's really something where you kind of have to dig in on your website yourself to figure out what you can do to improve things significantly. I think one of the tricky parts here, with at least with the sample URL that you link to, is it seems like something that doesn't really have a ton of content. And it's very easy to accidentally go forth and create millions of pages of content just with variations of keywords in the URL and by creating millions of pages of content that isn't really valuable on its own, it's something that makes it really hard for us to understand what the value of the website is overall. So one thing I would tend to recommend there is that sometimes less is more. And sometimes it makes sense to really narrow down the target of your website so that you have something really fantastic to offer that is really clearly visible to anyone who comes to your web page. And if from there they can dig in and get more information, but that more kind of detailed things aren't necessarily indexed, then you still have kind of a really strong basis and a strong foundation for people to find you. So that's kind of what I would focus on there is maybe not create so many thin pages or not have your website automatically create them that much and instead try to create something that's more structured that has a little bit more information for people. Are non-Latin characters a good choice for URL path with multilingual websites? Yes, sure. You can definitely do that. Nowadays, any kind of Unicode URL tends to work in most browsers. So I would go ahead and do that. I think that generally makes it a little bit easier for users who don't understand Latin characters. Like if you have users in countries like China or India, then maybe that's something where using local characters makes it easier for them to understand your pages. So that's definitely an option. It's not that you have a kind of a ranking advantage for doing that, but it makes URLs a little bit more understandable for users, so sometimes that's OK. We're planning a massive catalog update this month. So whether I need to redirect 301 to the new associated pages or 200 pages or create a new catalog by keeping the old catalog and keeping the canonical tag to the new catalog URL. So it sounds like a pretty big change. When you say this month, that sounds like you don't have a lot of time left, so not really sure how useful it is to change things just at last minute. But in general, anytime you're changing URLs on a website, I would strongly recommend using 301 redirect as much as possible from the old URLs to the new URLs. And if you can manage to do it somehow, then I would even try to look into ways that you can keep the old URLs. Because anytime you restructure a website like this by changing the URLs on the site, it means we essentially have to reprocess the whole website to understand it again, to understand how these pages connect to each other. So with 301 redirect, we could kind of follow that. We can re-crawl the whole website. We can see how things are reconnected. But if you don't change the URLs at all, if there's a way to do URL rewriting on the server side to reuse the old structure of the URLs, then that's something where, from our point of view, almost nothing changes. And it's a lot easier for us to just say, well, the content has updated here. And we can kind of re-crawl the individual pages and re-understand that content. But we don't have to reprocess all of the URLs and understand how these URLs are connected and how they belong together. So that's kind of my order of recommendation there. Under what first? If you can find a way to do it with 200 pages, maybe that's doable, keep the old URLs. If you can't keep the old URLs, then definitely 301 redirect from the old ones to the new ones. If you can't redirect at all because of technical limitations, then a canonical is a good backup. But a redirect is really much cleaner and much stronger sign that you're moving things to your new preferred URLs. How to write a perfect meta title and description? Oh my gosh, I don't have kind of the secret recipe for meta titles and descriptions. The one thing I would just say is there is no absolute length that you need to focus on, so no maximum or minimum length. But rather, it needs to match the content that you have. And past that, we have a great Help Center article on titles and descriptions and how they work that I'd recommend taking a look at. So that's kind of the directions I would head there. Kind of avoid artificially focusing on just pure keywords and pure character length and things like that. And instead, try to understand what it is that you're actually trying to provide on your pages and how you want that presented in the search results. How breadcrumbs errors cause my blogger? I don't quite understand the question. So what I'd recommend doing here is maybe going to the Webmaster Help Forum and trying to elaborate a little bit on what you're exactly looking for. In general, like I mentioned in the beginning, if a specific type of markup isn't valid on your pages, then we would just ignore that type of markup and not use that to show the rich results type. So if, for example, the breadcrumb markup isn't valid on your pages, then we wouldn't be able to use those breadcrumbs or that breadcrumb markup to show breadcrumbs. We would still rank your pages exactly the same as before. We just might not show it in the same way in the search results. When it comes to breadcrumbs, we're doing more and more automatically trying to figure out what the breadcrumb should be anyway. So maybe that's not that critical for you in a case like that. On the other hand, if there's a specific type of structured data that you really want to have shown like that in the search results, so for example, if you have recipes on your pages and you really want that picture and kind of the nutritional or cooking information to be shown in the search results right away, then you definitely want to make sure that your markup is correct so that we can show it like that. We would still rank it exactly the same as before. But if everyone else has this really fancy recipe rich result type and you have kind of the plain text version, then maybe that doesn't make your pages that interesting for people to click on. So it would be a good idea to focus on that. With breadcrumbs alone, I don't think that would be that big of an issue. We're migrating seven store sites to the same platform using the same content, same title tags, meta descriptions, H1s, et cetera, despite my efforts to convince the developer to create different instances of the database and allow unique content for each store. They're moving forward, essentially creating seven duplicate sites for 500 brick and mortars on the East Coast. None of the stores are in the same exact geolocation, but all of them are on the East Coast. What can be expected? What would your general recommendations be to convince the developer to allow unique titles, descriptions, meta tags, et cetera? Yeah, I think this is probably the, I mean, maybe not the specific problem, but the general type of issue is something that a lot of SEOs struggle with. Namely, you have a bunch of really good recommendations that maybe you can even back up with comments from us somehow. And developers have a very limited time, and someone has to make a call and say, well, developers should focus on this, or they should focus on implementing these SEO recommendations. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. And so that's something where I think having clear data in your favor makes it a little bit easier to make that decision, where if you can really say, well, if we do it like this, then this is something that we would expect, then that's something that makes it a little bit easier to make a call there. But sometimes that's not so trivial. With regards to this specific situation, what I expect would happen here, I guess, first of all, I'm not quite clear how these seven sites for 500 businesses would work out if that's like 500 sites, or if that's just seven websites, and just local addresses. I think seven sites versus 500 sites is a significant difference. And so that's something where, depending on how that is set up, that might play a role there. With regards to multiple websites that have exactly the same content in general, there are two things, or I guess a few things that could happen here, I'm going to assume that these seven websites look slightly different. They have different titles on them. It's like, I don't know, website A, website B, and the products themselves are exactly the same. And maybe the categories, the search pages, all of those things are exactly the same. So at first, what would happen here is we would index all of these sites individually. We would recognize that the page as a total with the title, with the branding, with the logo, things like that is different across these seven sites. So we would be able to index them individually. However, we would also see that the primary content or large chunk of the content for individual pages is the same. And then in the search results, when someone searches for something that's within just the primary content of the page, like if you have, I don't know, blue shoes in your shop, and the blue shoe pages are exactly the same, and if someone searches for blue shoes, we would see that the snippet that we would show to users would be exactly the same. Therefore, it doesn't make sense to show multiple copies of this site. So in practice, what would happen is we would pick one of these sites and show that to the user. Looking at this from a business point of view, that's not necessarily bad. If someone is searching for blue shoes and one of your pages shows up there in that query for blue shoes, then you kind of have that opportunity to get that click, to get that user to come to your site, for that user to do a conversion on your site. And if these sites are all the same, then everything after kind of going to your website is essentially the same. So that's probably not that problematic in the sense that one of your pages is shown in search, and we can kind of show that properly. The alternative, if all of these pages were unique, if there were kind of different product descriptions across these different versions, it could potentially happen that we would show two, three, four, maybe up to seven of those sites in the search results and say, well, these are other sites on the same topic. From a purely ranking point of view, one of the things that can help here is if you pick a canonical version yourself. So maybe that's an option from the developer side in that if you pick a canonical version on your own, on your website, then what will happen is that canonical version will be much stronger than the individual version. So kind of if someone searches for blue shoes, then if there is a bit of competition out there, then we would know this is a really strong page on blue shoes, and we'd be able to rank it a lot better. So that's kind of one way to kind of mitigate this problem with regards to multiple sites showing the same content, to pick a canonical and kind of help us to rank that one a little bit better. You can do this canonical thing on multiple levels. You can do it per product if you want. For example, if you have one site that is focused more on garden furniture and another site that is focused more on maybe indoor furniture, then maybe you make the canonical for garden furniture products be your garden furniture site, and you do the other for the indoor content. That might be one thing to kind of do there. So that's kind of, I think, a smaller approach that I would take there is to do the real canonical. The other problem that can happen with a setup like this with seven sites, I'm not sure it would happen if you have significantly more than seven sites that are set up exactly the same way, then it most likely would happen is that we would recognize at some point from crawling these sites that actually these sites are the same, and we would completely skip over all of these sites except for one. So we would try to recognize, well, here's kind of the content and all of the other websites that the full content is exactly the same as what we already have. Therefore, we don't even need to crawl or index all of those other versions because they're really exactly the same. And in a case like that, we would automatically pick one of those sites kind of as a canonical and focus our crawling and indexing on that one completely. That can sometimes be a bit problematic in the sense that if you have different variations across these different sites, then suddenly they would not be indexed at all. So for example, if these seven sites are kind of like how I mentioned like garden furniture and indoor furniture and actually they show exactly the same content, if someone is searching for the garden furniture variation of that site and we think it's actually exactly the same as the indoor furniture version of that site, then we would show the indoor version instead because that's the one that we kind of picked as a canonical for that setup. So that's kind of the risk that you go there in that you create these seven sites and then in search, we just pick one of them and we focus on that one. So that's, I don't know, with seven sites, I suspect it might happen, might not happen. If you have significantly more than seven sites and they're exactly the same, then that's pretty certain that that would happen. If these sites are all equal from your point of view, if you don't care which one of them is shown in search, then maybe that's fine. On the other hand, if they're slightly unique and you really want to make sure that kind of things are uniquely available across these sites, then that's something I would try to avoid. And the best way to avoid that is really to make sure that they don't show exactly the same content. So that's kind of the worst case scenario. I'd say if you have seven sites that show exactly the same content, we would just pick one of those sites and we would not even bother crawling or indexing the other versions of those sites. So many things to keep in mind. Seems like it can get pretty complicated. But I guess to sum up, the one thing I would try to figure out is if you can at least get a real canonical for these individual pages. And if you plan on going to significantly more than seven sites, then you really, really need to make sure that you have unique content across those seven sites. One of my pages has been ranking number one for a number of times by Google. And now when I've fetched a page, I get an error. The URL is not on Google for indexing errors. So I didn't see the URL itself in the questions. So it's really hard for me to say what exactly you'd need to do there. My recommendation would be to take this and go to the Webmaster Help Forum and post the URL where you're seeing this problem and get some input from the community on that. Sometimes these are simple technical things that are going wrong on your website that you can easily fix. Sometimes these are just fluctuations that happen that can go away over time as well. A question, a long question on headers and H1, H2, H3, like what is the best setup? I think in general, headings are a bit overrated in the sense that it's very easy to kind of get pulled in to lots of theoretical discussions on what the optimal heading should be. We do use headings when it comes to search, but we use them to try to better understand the content on the pages. So this question of how should I order my H1, H2, H3 headings, and what should the content be? That's something that, from my point of view, isn't really that relevant. But rather, what we use these headings for is, well, we have this big chunk of text or we have this big image. And there's a heading above that. Therefore, maybe this heading applies to this chunk of text or to this image. So it's not so much like there are five keywords in these headings. Therefore, this page will rank for these keywords, but more here's some more information about that piece of text or about that image on that page. And that helps us to better understand how to kind of frame that piece of text, how to frame the images that you have within those blocks. And with that, it's a lot easier to find kind of the right queries that lead us to these pages. So it's not so much that suddenly your page ranks higher because you have those keywords there, but suddenly it's more, well, Google understands my content a little bit better, and therefore it can send users who are explicitly looking for my content a little bit more towards my pages. So obviously, there's a little bit of overlap there with regards to kind of Google understanding my content better and me ranking better for the queries that I care about. Because if you write about content that you want to rank for, which probably you're doing, then being able to understand that content better does help us a little bit. But it's not that suddenly your page will rank, number one, for competitive queries just because you're making it very easy for Google to understand your content. So with that said, I think it's useful to kind of look at the individual headings on a page, but it don't kind of get too dug down into all of these details and variations. And instead, try to find a way to make it easy for people and for scripts to understand the content and kind of the context of things on your pages. How can I get in touch with Search Console? I'm interested in website optimization, which increases the results in the search results. So what I would recommend doing here is maybe going to the Webmaster Help forums and chatting about specific issues that you're worried about or that you have questions about. The folks there are generally pretty helpful and can help you to kind of figure out which directions you should be looking there. How to copy content without copyright and rank at the top? I don't know. This sounds kind of sneaky, kind of like something that doesn't make that much sense in the sense that if you're copying content from other websites, then why would Google want to kind of highlight your website on top when the other websites already have that content? So my general recommendation there would be to kind of create unique and compelling content of your own rather than just to copy content from other websites. And it doesn't matter so much if you're allowed to copy it or not. But if Google looks at your content and says, well, I've already seen this, and I already know that this is kind of the best place to send people for this content, then why should we focus on showing your version of that content as well? And the same thing applies to when you take and rewrite content, when you rewrite it yourself manually, when you rewrite it with a script, in that we would look at that and say, well, we already know this is kind of the content that is out there that people trust, that people go to, why should we show your version of this content? And kind of going from there, obviously, if this is a topic that you really care about, then I would try to make sure that you can create kind of unique and compelling content of your own on this topic rather than copying things that other people are doing. And if you want to write about what other people are doing and you want to include a quote on your website, that's perfectly fine. But really make sure that the rest of your website has something that is significantly different, where when people search for information that we would be able to say, well, this is, by far, the best source of information on this topic, it's not just the same as all the other ones, but rather it's really significantly better. And that's kind of the direction that you should be having. What's the best way to distinguish the name of the business for Google My Business? I have no idea how Google My Business works, so I can't really help with that. Last month, we migrated our server and the number of indexed AMP pages increased from 1,700 to 7,000. And then from 4th of December, the number started to drop without any issue. And now we just have 3,700 AMP pages left. The mobile usability graph is going down the same pattern. We have more than 20,000 pages indexed, and all of them are mobile friendly and have an AMP version. Why is there a drop? So sometimes this can be a little bit tricky in that for all of these aggregate reports in Search Console, we focus on a significant sample of the pages from your website, and we report on those. So just because you have 20,000 pages indexed in total doesn't mean that you would see a total of 20,000 in the AMP report or in the structured data report or in the mobile usability reports. But rather, we would try to take a significant sample of your website and we would use those kind of as the baseline number for these other reports. And the idea here is not so much that these numbers should not match up and it should be as confusing as possible, but rather that we try to highlight issues that you should really care about. And if from all of the pages that we have sampled in your report, there are no issues at all than your all set. Probably none of the pages have significant issues that you need to worry about. On the other hand, if a large part of the sample of URLs that we test for your website do have issues, then that's something that you should focus on overall. And usually, those kind of issues are not things unique to individual pages, but rather unique maybe to a template or to a significant part of your website. So fixing the baseline problem with your website that's causing this issue would fix it across all of the pages of your website. So with that said, if the total number for these aggregate reports goes up and down a little bit, I would not worry about that at all. Instead, what I would look at is kind of the ratio of the number of errors that we flag for your website. So kind of not expect the total number to match the index count, but rather this is a sample that we picked to test for these issues. And of that sample, we found so many issues. And kind of that ratio of the number of issues that we found there versus the number of pages that we have as a total for that report is what I would focus on. URL removal tool, removing a folder that has more than 10,000 pages is considered a single removal or not. That is a single removal from our point of view. If you remove a whole folder or a subdomain, that's one removal request from our side. It can cover a lot of individual URLs. So there are limits to the number of requests that you can make with the URL removal tool. So if you have thousands of URLs that you need to have removed, then if you can narrow that down to a specific folder structure or kind of a URL prefix on your website where most of these are included, then submitting that as a removal request will save you from having to do all of the individual ones and the individual ones you can still use to clean up the details. Let's see. Then there's one about images with product images where you see the big version on click. I didn't check out the sample URL that you have there, so it's really hard for me to say. But in general, when it comes to images, we want to be able to recognize the large and high quality images on your website so that we can use those in image search to send people to your site. And if you have multiple resolutions, multiple variations of images on your website, then it's fine for us to recognize all of them. We'll try to treat them appropriately. There are ways that you can use responsive images to let us know about that. So that's kind of the direction that we usually recommend. Using responsive images means that you send an image that matches what the user might need to see at the moment and still have the ability to point to the higher resolution or lower resolution images as needed otherwise. So usually, that's a pretty good approach to take there. Oh my gosh, we still have a bunch of questions left and we're running low on time. So maybe I'll just open it up for questions from you all first to see if there's anything urgent on your mind that I need to get through. Yes, John. I'm Sanjit. Hi. Yes, so actually, John, what I did actually, in the crawl budget section in our master tool, I limit my crawl rate to, obviously it was maximum. And I changed it to many minutes medium. And suddenly, our number of crawl pages dropped from six million to part A, six million to 600K per day. So after seeing that, again, I make it high. But our number of pages crawled per day not increased. So could you please help me on that? OK. So the crawl rate setting is really for when you need to limit the amount of crawling. It doesn't increase the amount of crawling. And there is, I think, a maximum that you can set there so that even if you set it to the maximum, it might be that that maximum in the setting is lower than what we would naturally crawl. So in a case like yours, where you're saying, usually I'd have a million pages crawled per day, then I would recommend taking the crawl rate setting out completely and not using that and just letting Google figure that out directly. Because even if you applied the maximum setting there, then what would probably happen is that it's less than we would crawl naturally from your website. OK. But I have another question, actually. But the DA actually limited it to medium. From a couple of days, it's completely lost means number of pages crawled per day. But it never gets back if I set up the setting to the pH for your issues. So usually what happens with the crawl rate in general is that we try to adjust it automatically over time. So we'll go up to the maximum of the setting that you have set there. And if you don't have a setting set, then we will try to go as high as we can. And this is something that happens over the course of several days or maybe even weeks or longer in that over time, we will test the website and see that actually it returns results very quickly. There's a lot of content that we want to have crawled. And over time, we will increase the crawl rate again. So I could imagine if you set it to something much lower for a short time that it just takes a couple of days, maybe a couple of weeks to get back to the previous maximum that used to be. Thank you. John, I have a question about Google Search Console. I see a discrepancy between in the last six days. In Google Search Console, it said that I have 64 clicks and I want to see the queries and I can't see them. And in Google Analytics, it said it only see 10 clicks. So I don't understand why there is discrepancy and how I can solve it. So maybe you can give me some advice about it. OK. In general, Search Console tracks things differently than Analytics would. So I would expect to see some amount of difference between those two versions. And especially when you're looking at fairly low numbers like 60 visits a day, that's something where I could imagine that the differences are pretty significant across the tools that you use there. So in general, I would expect the trend to be fairly similar, but the absolute counts would definitely be different. Because in Search Console, we track what people use to go to your website, what they click on. And in Analytics, it tracks things a little bit differently. And depending on how your website is set up with redirects and things like that, it might be that it loses the refer. And then it doesn't know that actually this came from Search or this came from organic traffic. So that's something where I would always expect some differences. Yes, but I want to ask. I see 64 clicks. I can't see the queries. You see me like I can only see five or three queries like what people clicked on.  But if I said 64, so I don't understand why I can't see exactly where the queries that people click or in order to get into my website, why this kind of thing happened. OK. What we do is we filter some queries out for privacy reasons, especially things that are not used so often to access your website for, which with 60 clicks probably covers a lot of queries, we would not show those. So that's something where over time, as more and more people search for your content, you would start to see more and more of the queries as well. OK, thank you. John, can I ask two quick questions, please, before we end? OK. In the HTML, is it important that title tag is above the meta description tag? Because I've seen some sites doing that, but news websites always have the title tag on the top. So it doesn't make a difference? No, it doesn't. And second question, maybe you have an answer. I know this is a difficult question. In e-commerce, let's say a vendor which sends a product to a retailer's website, they come up with a description of this product and they're not always great, but let's say it's OK. But they send, because it's a large website, large vendor, they send the same product description to 200, 300 websites. And Amazon and others and everybody may have the same description, selling the same product. Now, when a retailer's website is dealing with 1 million products or 2 million products on their website, what is the best thing they can do? Because it's impossible to sit down and write each because they add like 5,000 products every day. What they can do to improve the content as much as possible? I know the reviews are part of the main contact also, to improve the EAT factor. What can they do? What are the some best practices? I don't know specifically about EAT for e-commerce. EAT is something that we have in our Quality Raider guidelines and more focused on websites where the type of information is critical for the user, where they really need to know that they get the right information there, so probably less the case for most e-commerce websites. In general, what I would recommend doing is trying to find ways to improve or expand the content that you have otherwise on these pages. So you will have this one block of text, which is the same across lots of different websites from the product description. But kind of like you mentioned, you have reviews where people write about this product in their own words, where they write about how it worked, how it didn't work, where they give some additional context for the product. You might have people within your organization that can give more information about a general class of product, for example. Where maybe you have comparisons between different products or you have more information on what to watch out for when you're buying running shoes, for example. Kind of this informational content that you can reuse across your website, which is unique to your website. That's another approach that you can take there. Sometimes local information helps as well, where if you can tell that someone is looking for some local supplier of this content, then making sure to highlight that on your pages makes sense as well. I think this is something that particularly plays a role when it's multi-country targeting that you're doing there, where maybe, I guess, users in Switzerland, if they want to buy something, they try to find a local supplier of that content, and they specifically try to find a local website. So if you can highlight that on your website, if that's a critical factor, then that's another thing that you can do. But all of these things where you essentially provide more context is something that would add value there. In that we understand this piece of text is the same, but actually there are lots of other elements that are unique to your website. And if someone is searching for some combination of something in that shared piece of text, plus maybe implying that they're looking for something local, and maybe asking for more information, maybe asking for reviews, then suddenly your page is not the same as all of the other ones, but rather it's the unique version that has that chunk of text, but also has a lot of other things. Thank you. John, a quick question. Sure. The crawl setting page says the settings would be valid for, it will start getting validated from two days after now. And it will be valid for 90 days. Can you explain to me what does that mean? So it takes a while for the crawl rate setting to be applied. We usually take the settings, I think, at midnight in Mountain View, or one of those time zones, and we reprocess that. And so those two days are kind of the maximum time that it takes for us to pick up those new settings. And the 90 days limit is there so that if you accidentally set a wrong crawl rate setting, then after 90 days, our systems will go back to automatic, and we'll try to figure out how much we can crawl from your website. And that could be that maybe it goes down because we see that your website is fairly loaded and we can't crawl as much as we want. It could also be that it goes up again, where we see, well, actually, your website is very fast. And you artificially limited the amount of crawling that we can do to the detriment of your website in general, where you could be much more visible with your newer content if we can pick it up faster. OK, OK. So in that 90 days, I can still change the crawl settings, right? And it will start from there. OK, that works. Thank you. All right, let me take a break here and pause the recording. You're welcome to stay on a little bit longer if you want. We can chat kind of off the record, I guess. Thank you all for joining in. Thank you for all of the people who joined in over the course of the year. It's been fantastic again and been really helpful for me as well to kind of understand where the problems are, what we should be focusing on more. So I'm looking forward to more of these hangouts next year. I'm sure we'll find different variations over the course of the year, but looking forward to doing more. All right, and with that, let me pause here.


What is going on everyone welcome back welcome back to the last video of the day last last martial and Lynch video the day and Well, what a story what a story we're about to see how this whole story unfolds this weekend But before we do I've actually got one one last video that I do need to watch before I Enjoy this comeback by martial and Lynch and that is okay. I need to see What this play is that they keep talking about I feel like it was in Super Bowl 49 49 51. I'm not actually sure what it was, but I think the Seahawks were playing I think the Seahawks were playing the Patriots and I think they were probably about five yards out Maybe one of the last plays of the game Martian Lynch is on the field.  I think that's what happened, but we're gonna find out finally. So let's do it Let's just write in martial and Lynch and see what see what comes up martial and Lynch Stephen a I Probably should have watched Stephen a to be honest. Oh Well, oh, maybe I should martial and Lynch in his first practice for Seahawks in nearly four years There's actually three more videos. I want to watch I want to see what Stephen a Smith is gonna say about martial and Lynch I really do So, you know what we're gonna watch it I love beast mode and I love his mentality and I think that that is the kind of thing that is good for any football team Particularly one is quality is quality is Seattle Seahawks. No question And I will give mad love and respect to Martian Lynch from this perspective six of the last seven seasons He's played in the NFL. He's average better than four yards to carry. We keep getting that twisted It's not like this brother fell off the map I mean six of the last seven years He has been running the football in the national football league before he disappeared after 2018 This guy has averaged at least four yards to carry. So it's not a matter of that I'm just saying that when you look at what Chris Carson gave you before he goes out with his hip injury The three-headed monster that is Seattle were Carson proceeds and a penny More so more cost than anybody else because he's the one that's ran for over a thousand yards The last two seasons has 1200 yards as we speak before it ultimately go down the three-headed monster that they were I don't think Martian Lynch makes up for that if we're looking at one guy And this one guy was running the football for them and he's averaging four yards to carry and we said yo, okay All right, kid Martian Lynch replace that guy for two games We can't rule that out But when I think of the three-headed monster that they are and the kind of mileage Seahawks have three awesome running backs that I don't know about That they put on those dudes because I got three of them to lean on as opposed to one I don't know if Marshawn Lynch makes up for that is he's better than nothing He's obviously quality, but I don't know how far I can go looking at the rest of the NFC Thinking how much of a difference he's going to make over two games, but I hope I'm wrong because I love him So I think Marshawn is your coach Dave and I think so because I was looking at it last night Everybody logs Russell Wilson as a guy and to a degree rightfully so but the Seahawks are running team Let's not get a twisted Carson He was fifth in the NFL and rushing the Seahawks are a running team first and their four losses They only average 100 yards rushing and their 11 wins 158 yards rushing Marshawn is the type of guy that can come in he averages 4.3 over his career last year He's still averaged 4.2 like max. You've said if this was week two week three I'd be like no I'm out. I don't want any parts of it But all he needs to do is give you four or five games at the most I might not even say I'm out. I might still take him if that's the best I could do But I wouldn't be sitting here saying he could be the difference But at this time of year see I've said this about Brady against the Bills And and this goes in the fight game. It goes in a lot of sports a one-time great Still a lot of times has it in him somewhere to be great in a moment again or over a game or two And Marshawn Lynch, I know he's not the greatest running back of all time But on my all-time team he might have a spot and because he there was something about him you wanted on your team Almost more than anyone else when he was at his best and I think there's an emotional component I'll tell you what that thing is It's called beast mode and only some players even have the physical attributes To produce that let alone the attitude to go with it. Oh, and we all get it Like oh Marshawn. He might give the seahawks some some juice. That's just the narrative that we try. Oh, who's that girl? That's what I want to know it created times right if you're in the locker room What does Marshawn actually do well as a defender now you got to respect the fact that beast mode is in the back field So the linebackers they're going to play downhill a little bit more Which lets Russell Wilson eat if Russ doesn't have a running game his passing game is severely depleted So Marshawn makes you the defender say oh god. Is this dude back? Is he for real whether he is or not just oh god Marshawn plays having a game plan for him. Yeah I mean the other piece being down three running backs. I know that's major for seattle But on a positive note it looks like they're getting today be on clowny back If you need a first down Like the thing about the beast quick right is the way marshawn runs the it's a it's an act of will You know and if you need a first down in a playoff game or to get home field in the playoffs He's like if he's still you can't do better than him off like right now anyway But if there's a guy who might still give it to you it's him Tell me this steven. Okay, so say for example You had seattle booked to go to the super bowl with chris karson now with marshawn lynch How much does that downgrade them? How much of a difference is it not having any other chris karson? I'm sorry guys. We're gonna have to look this guy up first time. I've actually heard his name He like literally it's he killing it. Is he killing it? He's 25 100 kilos six foot tall Seattle seahawks 278 attempts for 1,230 yards four four point four yards per carry seven touchdowns So he isn't played as a passing option too often What is his injury monday nights reunions with marshawn lynch and robert turbin became official on Tuesday, which meant that the seahawks had to make a pair of roster moves to create space for the old friends of the franchise The moves for the ones most were expecting chris karson chris karson and cj pro cease Pro size were placed on injured reserve. karson injured his hip in last sunday's loss to the cardinals and Pro size broke his arm which left rookie travis homer as the only running back on the active roster The seahawks moved quickly to bring lynch in for for a physical And they had turbin in make sure he was in condition whose turbin is turbin a running back Okay, so the three-headed monster is back All is not lost. Okay, chris karson bowling out haven't seen him play at all might do in the future But not today. I think that depends on marshawn lynch because we don't know what he's been doing Um, we know that he wouldn't be on the team if he wasn't in good enough physical condition You know to be there, but in the same breath as you well know You're just because you're in shape don't mean you're in football shape And what you can handle I don't know the answer to that question because he hasn't been around What I would tell you is that it's hard as moxie all of that stuff I absolutely love and as much as I respect the hell out of p caro I got a lot of love for p caro. He and I've had conversations in the past. I'm very very fond of him But what he did and what darryl bevel did and that's superbowl in 2015 against new anglin Was unconscionable to have marshawn lynch rush for a hundred and a hundred This is going to be perfect for my next video because we're going to we're going to watch that exact play Let's charge in that game to have him make the plays that he did late in that game to have him get Literally run from the five-yard line to the half-yard line and then to Bypass giving him the football so I can throw across the middle pass from russia wilson and somebody It's unconscionable and they won't admit it. I'm telling y'all right now There's going to be a book that comes out someday. I don't know whether it's about a legion to do Yeah, why did he choose that? Why did he do that? Is that because he didn't like marshawn lynch? Because if it is that's really fucked. It's gonna be my somebody where everybody's gonna go like this There was no reason that should have happened They gave the ball to russia wilson because they russia wanted russia wilson to be the hero not beast mode I happen to believe that's a big reason why he wanted to leave seattle to begin with when he initially retired Before he ended up coming out of retirement to go to open. I don't care what anybody said That's that's like there have been plenty of people who disagree with you. I'm on the same side of you here As you here. Unfortunately. This is a debate show, but we agree about this You give the ball to marshawn like there've been plenty who have said no a pass play was the right call right there Okay About marshawn lynch as I just mentioned is if there's almost anyone who ever lived Who you think you have a half yard to go give it to him Even if they know it's coming. It's him now I will say this though They're gonna need a lot more than a half yard A lot more than three yards to carry to carry them to the super bowl because steven a hit it Not in the nail on the head early ron chris karsten was elite like the dude was special He wasn't just some running the middle back. He had 12 that 1200 yards already this season Marshawn max is gonna have to give me not win the super bowl But it could be the difference between you getting knocked out in the first round and make it a little run We won't have you here with us on friday. What do you expect in this niner seahawks game sunday? Do you think seattle can get it done? I think the niners got it done The niners are a little hungrier of a team to me when you look at seattle the nucleus of seattle They they got complacent now this year. We've seen the complacency dissipate. This guy's great But earlier on over the last several years, they've been complacent when you look at the niners They're young. They're hungry. They're scrappy on defense. I'm not sold on jimmy g.  I'm not sold on jimmy g. But seattle is a whole. I think they're a little hungrier Thanks for watching espn on youtube for more sports highlights and analysis Be sure to download the espn app and for live streaming sports and premium content subscribe to espn plus Well, it looks as if I could just go through Channel after channel after channel after channel watching people's reactions reacting to people's reactions As stupid as that sounds to this story, but we're going to stop it there. Steve and a always a pleasure. Thanks, mate In the next video we have to go marshall lynch super bowl 51 best comments during super bowl 51 Oh, no super bowl 49 Marshall lynch talks Super Bowl 49 pass. That's going to be fantastic, but we got to watch it first Super Bowl 49 The whole fourth quarter It was the worst result of a call ever Four years ago. Okay. Yep. We're gonna watch that too Sherman reaction priceless. Oh, we saw that before it's just Oh, it makes you sick. It really does Oh, man, the joy the ecstasy went to agony and we're going to watch it all in the next video So guys, I hope you've enjoyed these ones if you love marshall lynch if you love the seahawks If you love the bills if you love the Raiders and if you just love NFL as a whole, please hit that like button Please subscribe for more and I'll see you in the next one. There's no time to lose. Peace out


We have six ingredients here and compared to Gatorade which has you know dozens and dozens of different chemicals Who knows what else is in there? This is so much healthier for you just from a removing negative component perspective So we have coconut water here, which is mainly for the potassium and the electrolyte content This is where we are getting the electrolyte So if you want more potassium if you want more magnesium You want to go with the coconut water this stuff? I've had it on its own. It's not good So we're adding you know apple juice the sweetener the vitamin C the lemon juice to hopefully offset the taste of This coconut water that we need as the only real natural source of high electrolytes. We got two cups of coconut water and Then you want some flavored juice. I have this on hand. It's a biodynamic organic Apple juice and it is pasteurized So if you want something really special maybe get some grapes or oranges and juice them yourself The thing is that raw fruit juice is a bit harder on the stomach than pasteurized fruit juice So keep that in mind with this as a performance drink if you're gonna have it, you know before you go do something You don't want your stomach cramping up So it's equal parts coconut water and apple juice I just emptied both of the containers out because they happen to have the same amount in each one Just so I don't waste it so for a bit of flavor We're gonna squeeze in three lemons All right, this picture. I think it's cracked so we're gonna have to switch over I was wondering why this was leaking all over the counter All right, so when you have an electrolyte mix you want equal parts potassium and sodium So you want a decent pinch of salt in there to counteract the high sugar content We need anti-scorbutic properties and I'm using a scorbic acid stuff like a sterile cherry powder Camel camo powder. There's a lot of anti nutrients in those fruit powders and to me. This is a lot easier on the liver So you want maybe a quarter teaspoon of a scorbic acid per serving that you're gonna put in here So there's seven cups here We got the three and a half cups of coconut water three and a half cups of apple juice and that's quite a bit of sugar already So we want maybe four tablespoons of flex strokes for this whole batch And that matches the sugar content of Gatorade The electrolytes bring out the flavor in this so much And you just want to keep drinking it it has that like energy drink tinge to it Well, that's my version of Gatorade for you guys and if you did that with fresh squeezed orange juice Grape juice or like one of the actual Gatorade flavors I think it would taste just the same your kids would love it anyone that likes energy drinks would love it and keep in mind This is not like a you know drink this then go sit at a desk The sugar the glucose content the electrolyte content of that is so high You don't want to drink too much of it at once and you want to be working out or sweating or After you work out or sweat then you could drink some of this But if you guys could please drop a like on the video leave a comment down below Subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week and be sure to check that notification bell So they don't notify you of my videos Therefore you guys can go to frank-dash-the-fond.com where you'll see Frankie's range foods. We have the flextrose available We have salt available on Frankie's range foods as well and a variety of other products that you guys can check out Thanks again for joining me guys, and I'll see you tomorrow


Welcome to another rational. I'm not really sure what to call this show. So let's call it rational show I am joined at the table today by two extraordinary people Both live locally and they're very much involved in the community first allow me to introduce Sante did I get it right this time? You did? Sante tell us you you are the founder of share. I am yeah. Tell us a little bit about share Yeah, share is Colorado's non-monogamy community and really our mission is to normalize Non-monogamy as a valid relationship choice for all adults.  Wonderful. Wonderful. AJ is wonderful to see you back at the table again It's great to see you Nigel. I hope that everyone watched our first show that we did just in case they didn't Why don't you give us a little brief overview of yourself and what you're doing in the community? Well, my name is AJ Fox. I am an event coordinator and Creative Solutioner as I like to call it living out here in Colorado I've been working on events for the last several years and Been very excited to partner with Sante on a couple of amazing projects that I think really deserve a lot of attention Now you've you have both come together under this partnership. I think we desperately need to talk about what is happening on November the 17th November the 17th. We have no co-exchange Which is like shares cool sibling kind of of event We have a lot of people who? travel from up north and go all the way to Denver to make events in Denver for these type of like lifestyle community focused events and They are just kind of tired of that drive. I know that I am I've been driving to Denver for four years for multiple weekends in a row every month and it gets tiring So I've definitely wanted to create more opportunities and spaces for people like me and the communities that I'm a part of To enjoy themselves a little bit closer to home It's kind of interesting that you say that because you have earmarked the Dickens And I should give it its full name the Dickens Opera House here in Longmont, which is a fantastic old building to start with How did you get involved with the Dickens? Well the Dickens and I have a very Long love affair. I love the Dickens so much. It was the first venue I ever Got started doing events that ever actually like years ago in my early 20s when I was a junior wedding planning junior wedding planning assisted So now I'm excited to come back into the space and to bring more experience and passion and focus to create Events that everyone can enjoy And I think you're doing a wonderful job. I mean the fashion show that you did this just this last week Talk a little bit about that because I want people to understand that there are real things going on here in Longmont There are I mean Longmont has grown like exponentially even since like We went through the pandemic and everything I feel like there's so many people in Longmont now And there's a lot more culture and a lot more diversity than what I've seen like my entire life growing up in this area I love to see it And I think that we need to bring those communities together and show them that you can hang out in Longmont and have a good time and That the communities that you're interested in learning more about or that you're a part of are here And that they're represented by people who care and who are a part of it as well So on the 17th, what will people expect to see? Well, we have an incredible headliner confirmed as our emcee and headliner We have Jessica Lahore who is just one of my favorite drag entertainers in the industry itself We've hired her for past events. She's been in Denver with us She's been in Vegas with us and she does a lot of like drag events at left-hand brewery here in Longmont as well So I thought she would be the perfect fit because she's familiar with the city and the city's familiar with her And we can just give her an extra venue to like just put her magic all over And then so she'll be headlining and performing and emceeing and we'll have a couple of Cool performances after that as well, which I'm really excited about actually next Thursday October 19th from 6 to 9 p.m. We're hosting a casting call and a community meeting to Just cast talent that's here locally and we're trying to find northern Colorado talent Yeah, we really are trying to focus more on people who live locally, right? I mean people who are willing to travel to Longmont are more than welcome to join But I am a little biased in that sense. Well now I understand that but I mean you're you're really looking for northern Colorado And I think that's that's the key there So, you know Loveland Greeley Fort Collins. Yes, Windsor all the little yeah, all of that Yeah, we'll just but the focus isn't because there's so much going on in Denver already Yes, and this is an opportunity to showcase all the amazing talent that we have in northern Colorado, right? And I know there is some being involved with the Longmont Theatre Company I mean we've got some absolutely amazing talent in this area and that's not just acting that singing That's across the board. Yeah So one of the really great things is even after the performances like not only do you have an opportunity to enjoy like the show You can also get a dinner ticket with your ticket and enjoy a dinner and a show cabaret style So I'm really hoping to get some burlesque along with the drag because I just feel like that fits the Dickens vibe Like so well it does and then after the dinner in the show We have an after-party with one of my favorite DJs whose local as well DJ Nate Anomaly and he is just a really good friend some really good friend of mine really good friend of Sontes as well and Yes, he's No, he's super talented He does something really great with his mixes where he brings a lot of like Latin infusion into it Which I think is so important because I go to clubs all the time. I never get it here And either I get done I never get to hear anything that has more of like that cultural Influence and he takes it from different parts of The world in different countries and he's really good at marrying those together and getting people to move so excellent Yeah, you've got me excited to see this show already Of course you did mention drag artists, which is a bit of a shame because it means this show will immediately get banned in Florida Oh We've had folks from Florida come to our events and say that they they came specifically so they could be expressed without being arrested Absolutely, and it's it's amazing that in 2023 we still have to deal with that in the wild that art could be illegal So we're here to do anything to like support and to give more opportunities for people Yeah, as well fortunately here in Longmont. We have a different view on that.   Is that I don't really like they're putting a lot of things in consideration But I mean human nature is an interesting thing when you look at recorded history, right? I can't say it's surprising but Shocking, I know right. I just don't get it. I don't get it either I found the whole thing so amusing because back in the 60s and the early 70s we every Saturday night There used to be a performer called Danny LaRue. Guess what he was? He was a dried artist He was on mainstream television eight o'clock Saturday night. Yeah, and everyone loved the show Yeah, because it takes talent. Yeah to do that. It does. Yeah, I mean drag has been around since before Shakespeare so I Mean I'm true. Yeah, if you what if you actually Probably shouldn't say this, but if you watch any show at all on say ancient Rome. They were all in drag. Yes Yeah, they're at the bar We don't even get the people But I mean one thing about Longmont is that there's a lot of opportunities to be creative and to be a part of these I mean, I even hate to say that they're alternative communities because they're really not I would say that they're probably more of the majority And it that's just the norm. Yeah It's 2023 and people shouldn't be scared to be themselves or to make the art that they want to make in the world and I'm very happy to highlight summit tacos for Hosting drag Queen Loteria. That's something that I think is incredible and highlight left-hand brewery And now to add a third spot on the map in town is just a huge goal of mine So absolutely. It's amazing. It really is now. I wrote a note down here sex on site and I can't remember why I wrote it down Clickbait I know you wanted to talk about it. So could you help me out of the hole? I think you're missing a couple of words there is no sex on So while there might be You know participants of like Swinger communities or other kind of non-monogamy communities. We're all sexy people We all have the drive to be in these communities. However Control yourselves at the Dickens Opera House. It's a classy space. We do have Some great hotels nearby that you can get a room at Especially if you're coming from down south or some from somewhere farther away And you want to have a space to crash in Longmont at the end of night There's tons of hotels like less than a mile away. Yes, that you could get a stay at. Yeah, so These are nice hotels. They are. Let's just talk about that. I mean these are not sort of like a little motel No, no, no, these are real hotels. It's a trick. That's right. I just wanted to get that cover And it's I mean the after-party we're leaving up to guests to create their own after-party We're one of the stigmas. I mean one of the big missions of share is to reduce stigma Yes, around non-monogamy and one of the biggest stigmas we see is that it's hyper sexualized people think that if you're non-monogamous That you're sleeping with everybody Right that you have a sex addiction There's just all sorts of stigma around that we want to reduce right and so this event Specifically it's designed to be accessible to people who are just curious who may not even know if non-monogamy is for them But they can come out here and connect with a real community of great people without any pressure to you know It's not like going to a sex club or something like that right which in a lot of cases the only first step That's been available. So this is a place where you can just come learn. They'll be people there with just information Yeah, it's a lot to walk into just going to like a sex club or something like that, too You don't know like what to do with your hands or where to look You know who to hang out with or who's okay or how do you approach someone? So it's just that's why these events there It's smaller. It's more intimate. It's not a nightclub experience at all It's very just focused around connecting with your no-co lifestyle communities Yeah, right and really like interacting with maybe some familiar faces, but meeting fresh ones in your circles We all kind of get stuck in our own circles. So it's great to make new connections and to network quite some time ago April teas She used to have a burlesque well, she still does right burlesque group Yeah, and she used to put on a lot of performances at a little club south of Denver called squirrel Creek Yep, uh-huh great little club, right? I did a lot of photography there for April photographing her shows videoing her shows, etc One thing I discovered everyone everyone in that building was friendly If you were feeling a bit lonely and just wanted to go and talk you could just literally walk across to anyone And and they would talk to you. Yep, and it was an amazing feeling there It's sort of I know it's strange, but it reminded me of being in a British pub Yep, because that's exactly the same thing will happen. Yeah exactly the same thing The other thing I'd like to say at this point is I hate the word Alternative in this context, right? I really do Alternative society what the heck does that mean? Right never normalize this if that's how it's always looked at right?  I wish we could all drop it from our vocabulary in this context Yeah, because it does have a real meaning and it can be used in a real way, right? But not in this context because we're all human beings. We are one of his is human beings We all have feelings, you know, but we're all built differently. Yeah, you know what may turn you on won't turn me on Yeah, what turns me on may not turn Ajax AJ on Myself Oh How do people get tickets? Yeah, you want to tell me Jay? Oh my goodness. Yeah, you can go to no co exchange calm and it'll take you to Brilliant little page that explains our itinerary Who we have booked what's going on and have a lovely little button that says it buy tickets and you click that We have early bird seating right now And I would highly recommend getting your seating sooner than later because they are tiers and each tier means that the ticket prices go up Higher understood. Yeah It's just it helps the restaurant plan ahead for knowing who wants to get dinner as well And I feel like it's better just to get the dinner and the show ticket because you're gonna be in there Without dinner watching everyone else eat dinner and then you're gonna want to get dinner in ways Yes, so you might as well just get the whole package You know and we do have a limit on the number of tables Available inventory at this point so as we're filming this so Definitely if you want dinner in a table book sooner than later. Yeah, otherwise standing room, which is great, but not as great as I am so pleased to hear 50% yeah Yeah, I mean Yeah, we know a lot of people in the community we have some people driving up from Denver We're gonna be getting hotels Are we gonna allow them in though?  We just wanted to do something up north Yeah, and we definitely want to showcase talent from up here, right? And the whole point is like you have to show up to each other's events in order to get people at events It's a reciprocal ecosystem, you know, that makes sense. We talked about that in our last interview about just people are like How do you get people to your events?  We've been meeting and talking with lots of community leaders people who have like Facebook groups for Lifestyle groups and everything and we have some leaders committed to coming and they'll be bringing their people So it's gonna be a lot of fun in a really good way to meet new faces and have delicious food and enjoy yourself And just unwind after like such a serious week. I feel like things have been very heavy in the world lately So it's nice to connect with others and to be present in the moment and to enjoy What is right in front of you? They're in for a treat. It's gonna be wonderful. It's gonna be absolutely wonderful It really is you're bringing all your favorites, too. I'm so excited For a long time To do So so with the rehearsals being are not rehearsals may be a casting on the 19th of October I guess you're gonna be adding people that get into the show. You'll be adding those onto the website Yeah, we'll have the performers confirmed a week after that next Thursday So they'll get to know within a week what we're thinking and we're still gonna keep everyone's information Who shows up to the casting call so that way we can pull from that in the the future for future events as well Okay. Yeah, do you have any closing thoughts? Boy put me on the spot That's my job. I think I just I want to drive home that we want to make this accessible to everybody And really it's not just that there won't be sex on site for a lot of people who are ethically Nominogamous or curious about non-monogamy. It's not about sex at all. No, it's about connections and even with for the people who Are getting something sexual out of it. It's still mostly about connections and friendships human connections and really Our goal is really just to let people know they have a choice so many people feel their only choice is to stay in an unhappy monogamous relationship or in fidelity and There's another option. So if that's you and you're stuck somewhere in here, yeah, this is a place that'll help you get on the court and learn more Yep, that's superb. Yeah, thank you for summarizing it like that. Yeah, that was excellent AJ. Do you have any closing words? Yeah, I mean just Going underneath what Santé was saying This is just an opportunity to take a step deeper into the life that you want to be living We can all stand to be more authentic, you know in a lifetime where social media and Making sure that the appearances and the likes and all that are like lined up it's really important to have face-to-face interaction with people and to practice, I don't know being people with one another having conversations like there's a lot of Passion that's being put into this project not only from like me and Santé but from like the venue That's been so helpful and supporting us. They really want to be a part of supporting communities That haven't really been supported historically in the past and they want to be leaders in that as well So I really feel like we just have a whole team Who is passionate about creating spaces for creating spaces for people that have been meeting spaces to meet and to enjoy themselves at Right. There used to be a great TV show called the red-green show Whether you've ever seen or used to be on PBS. Yeah Canadian show Okay, one of his catches catchphrases was always and don't forget. We're all in this together. Mm-hmm, and we really really are Yes, yeah, people are people. Yeah, treat them like people treat them like human beings It doesn't matter what their personal lives are. Yeah, they're still human and they still deserve representation Thank you both for coming in today and talking about this I'm really excited to see to see what happens on October the 19th That's too and meeting those people which will be great But of course November the 17th. Don't forget November the 17th write it in your diaries order tickets I'm going to be really wonderful to meet all these different different people Of course, if I'm behind my camera, which I probably will be I won't get to meet too many I'll make sure I do pre-show and post-show. Yeah, great, which is is to me is important It really is because um, yeah, you never know. I'm an old dog, but I'm even I may learn something new Yeah, well, you're really great at connecting with all kinds of communities Nigel I've witnessed that for the last several years that I've known you and I just I appreciate your Ability to talk to anyone and fit into any room. So I know we could speak for hours here I know you are both incredibly busy people. I know the AJ has to get ready to shoot down to Denver This was a show with a difference just two gorgeous people I love working with these two and Don't forget November the 17th really important the Dickens Opera House here in Longmont. It is a great facility There is parking at the back You're going to have a tremendous time and you are going to meet some of the most fascinating people under the sun I'm Nigel Aves your host. This was a rational show. I want to thank you all Thank you so much everybody for joining us at the table. Bye. 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