User-generated content (and building your community) | Sustainable Monetized Websites

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 Subtitles in various languages are available. Click on the Settings icon in the bottom right corner of the video, and select Subtitles/CC from the menu. Watch more Sustainable Monetized Websites videos → https://goo.gle/38Bz9Fj Subscribe to the Google Search Central Channel and don’t miss a single Search Central video → https://goo.gle/SearchCentral Do you create or manage content online and monetize it? This series takes you through the policies, guidelines, best practices and tools available to you, to ensure you’re creating sustainable monetized websites. #SustainableMonetizedWebsites #SMW