User-generated content (and building your community) | Sustainable Monetized Websites
Channel: Google Search Central
Date: 2021-03-10

Aurora Morales and her two co-hosts: Organic(a) and Monetized are joined by special guest Martin Splitt to talk about user-generated content and building a community. Learn more about what your responsibility is for user-generated content on your pages and how you can protect your page from violating Google’s AdSense program policies.They share best practices for hosting and monitoring comments, forums, discussions, images, and more.

00:00 Intro
00:36 A surprise guest!
1:07 What is user-generated content?
2:06 How comments impact your site
4:37 Managing site forums
5:47 Photo, video & file sharing
7:02 User-generated content on online dating sites
9:05 Best practices & recommendations
13:29 What’s coming next

Monetized and organic guidelines:
User-generated content AdSense policy → https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/1355699
User-generated spam → https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/user-gen-spam
Block search indexing with 'noindex' → http://goo.gle/2NUFK5Y
Qualify your outbound links to Google → http://goo.gle/3046kvJ
Content filtering → http://goo.gle/308vIki
reCAPTCHA → http://goo.gle/306s5ey

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