This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from April 2024 - a transcript is available at https://goo.gle/SEO-july24.
These sessions cover topics submitted around anything search and website-owner related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc. The answers are compiled by the Google Search Relations team.
Need site-specific help? Post your question in the Google Search Central Help Community, and get answers from our Product Experts and other experienced web professionals: https://goo.gle/sc-forum.
Do you have a question about Google Search or SEO? It might be a good fit for the office hours. You can submit your question for Google SEO Office Hours here: https://goo.gle/seo-oh.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - How does Google handle incremental CMS migration and hreflang?
1:31 - What non-search features does GoogleOther crawling support?
2:48 - Why did my site’s products disappear in rich result snippets on Google Search?
3:35 - When a user searches Google in Korean, does a com.kr or .com domain do better?
4:24 - What's the impact of a huge expansion of our product portfolio on SEO performance?
5:15 - How do I remove old pages from Google’s search results?
5:54 - How do I remove all the indexing errors under the "page indexing" report?
6:35 - Is it possible to get an API link to status.search.google.com/summary?
7:01 - How do I increase the number of product snippets in Google Search Console?
7:59 - I manage a lot of sites on Google Search Console, can I have unlimited index requests?
8:11 - A word confusion is affecting my website's visibility! Can you guide me on this SEO issue?
8:41 - Is there an HTML markup or tag to tell Google to ignore text parts?
9:09 - Can recipe schema for structured data be used for non edible recipes?
9:33 - Can the Google team help transfer SEO rankings from one previous domain to the new domain?
9:50 - How can I tell if someone has been actively optimizing my site’s SEO?
11:02 - How do I perform a noindex tag to Google’s search engine?
11:34 - Can you use product variant structured data on a site that has many incomplete product configurator variants?
12:14 - Will Google spiders crawl links in an RSS feed that is embedded on a webpage?
12:36 - I updated my logo for the SEO of my website but there hasn’t been any changes yet on Google, why?
13:17 - Is the SEO starter guide accurate with regards to heading order?
14:09 - Does the Google account used to verify a domain on GSC have to match the owner of a new Google site?
14:45 - Does blocking crawl or indexing on a URL cancel the linking power from external and internal links?
15:31 - How should I organize my sitemaps files?
15:55 - Wrap up
Resources:
Block Search indexing with noindex → https://goo.gle/4bUwdks
Learn about sitemaps → https://goo.gle/4bLw9Di
Define a favicon to show in search results → https://goo.gle/4bOxARA
Watch more English Google SEO Office Hours → https://goo.gle/gsc-seo-oh
Subscribe to the Google Search Central YouTube Channel → https://goo.gle/SearchCentral
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Speakers: John Mueller, Gary Illyes
Products Mentioned: Search Console - General