Jim

"On August 15, Google started the rollout of the August 2024 Core Update" In the last 2 months I noticed a steady increase in videos/pages getting indexed, but since Aug 15 total indexed has been declining. Anyone else finding the Aug update either good or bad for indexing/traffic?

Ok ty it looks like there is no choice but to keep these URLs accessible even if they fill up the Google report with content URLs not intended to be indexed

Why is the default robots.txt set to allow robots to crawl page content URLs (files)? There doesn't appear to be any SEO purpose to allow robots to crawl these pages? If there is such purpose intended please could you explain? If there is no operational/SEO benefit to allowing robots to crawl (& inspect) these page content URLs (files) then it would appear to be appropriate to block robots from these pages. One way might be to add lines to the robots.txt file such as: User-agent: * Disallow: /get_file/ Would this block robots from the page content URLs examples listed above and not otherwise affect or stop the robots crawling the page URLs intended to be indexed?

Google lists 1000 example URLs under "Crawled - currently not indexed". (There are approx 20k total but only 1000 URLs may be listed.) Most of these are in the format: ....../get_file/0/b04c151f4453927a9b37d6774df63e17bb57891a1b/0/20/screenshots/1.jpg/ ...../get_file/6/93d0af9c5eccc35429879aae59d9155863ae321c7b/64000/64707/64707_720p.mp4/?rnd=1722643200142 These types of URLs would not be intended to be indexed. Is it possible to prevent Google from crawling these types of pages? I don't know if Google dicovering/crawling these sorts of URLs is harmful to the overall assessment of the site and indexing of pages - does anyone have experience of this?

These are the options available in the admin video list. Content type doesn't appear to be listed.

I have autoplay enabled in player settings and embed settings. When I go to video pages (using Google Chrome) sometimes they autoplay but quite often they don't. Is there any other setting etc that could affect whether the autoplay works or not or way to rectify this?

In the admin video list it is possible to filter by "content type" ie file upload, embed code etc. The "content type" information doesn't appear to be listed as an option to customize the columns in the list of videos though. Is the "content type" an option to customize the video list columns and if not could this be added please?

Hello, I wasn't aware of this feature. Why would you consider to make use of this?

You appear to be saying that due to perfect design the KVS default theme without any external scripts, advertising or any changes to templates will always achieve mobile performance 95%. Is this correct?

Noted. What design adjustments and enhancements did you do the the demo to get the mobile performance result 95 you previously reported?

The on page SEO check by seobility I run periodically identifies some issues with headings structure in general and H1 headings in particular. I've previously considered this to be a secondary issue and not attempted to correct. As you suggest it probably is detrimental for Google indexing.

Disabling Google Recaptcha as you suggested is an improvement but still short way short of the benchmark demo results for mobile.

You had a lot more traffic than me to start with. I noticed steady decline during April and then little further change during May approx. When you say your site is "fast" - how do you define/measure this? What do you think is the future strategy for Google indexing now? In terms of off site, it seems to me that the backinks industry will be less useful perhaps.

Results without Google Analytics. Desktop pretty fine but mobile significantly poorer. Would be good to get any feedback on why the difference and how to rectify please? Desktop: Mobile:

Would be interesting to know which version of Linux do you intend to use and if a panel (Fastpanel or another)? What is the test script in section 14?