Bad Santa's Office Hours Q&A

Ho, ho, harumph! Let's take all the good will John, Gary, and Martin poured into this month's SEO Office Hours and shove your stocking with Bad Santa's answers.

Q: Is hierarchical or flat structure better?

A: Both of these are blaise. It's 2023. Embrace anarcho-polyamorous linking. Content shouldn't belong to just one subfolder– it belongs to the search engine that scraped it for results 🥰

Q: What does the <meta name="prerender-status-code" content="404"> code do for Googlebot?

A: Checked with Crawley. They said, "Woah. This is worthless!"

Q: Can I arrange SEO directly with Google for free?

A: No ☜(⌒▽⌒)☞

Q: How do I tell Googlebot not to search for links in JavaScript?

A: Strap an Acme brand backfire-proof rocket on and disallow crawling in your robots.txt. Meep meep

Q: Why is buying links from third-party websites bad?

A: … It's 2023, mate. Where tf have you been?

Q: How to know if my SEO is perfect?

A: It isn't and will never be ಠ~ಠ