English Google SEO office-hours from August 2024
This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from August 2024 - a transcript is available at https://goo.gle/SEO-august24.
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
0:28 - My website is in English and Swahili. The English pages are almost always indexed but not the Swahili ones, why?
1:17 - Can using a lot of nofollow or noindex tags signal to Google that the site has many low quality pages?
2:08 - My website has a lot of 404s. Would I lose my site's rankings if I don't redirect them?
3:22 - When using an image from a CDN, does the response speed determine whether the image appears in search?
4:02 - I no longer have access to SC. How do I remove URLs so that after my domain expires, a new owner can't misuse it?
5:06 - Can multiple subdomains for various markets with the same content rank specifically for the intended markets?
5:50 - My rich results show the wrong currency. Can you help me resolve this issue?
6:36 - How do I mitigate targeted scraping and performance issues?
7:46 - On Search Console I have a shopping tab, but my website is not an online shop. How can I fix it?
8:20 - Could a YouTube video and the exact same text or content on the same webpage be flagged as duplicate content?
8:52 - How can we ensure proper prices are displayed in organic text results f
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What do I do after being hacked?
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Can rel="canonical" index my hostname and not my IP address?
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How can I optimize for "deep web" crawling?
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What's a preferred site structure?
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Should I tweak my titles and descriptions to improve my CTR?
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When did Google start displaying "Did you mean" results?
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Can I tell Google not to use the posting date in my snippet?
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Does the ordering of heading tags matter?
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Will SEO still exist in five years?
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Tips on requesting reconsideration
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Do site load times have an impact on Google rankings?
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Is Google doing anything different for Twitter results?
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Will domain registration changes ding me in Google?
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Why aren't penalized sites notified in Webmaster Tools?
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Webmaster Central and Best Practices - Adam Lasnik - Google India SearchMasters '09
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Google Analytics and Website Optimizer - Deepak Kumar - Google India SearchMasters '09
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What are the factors that go into determining the PageRank of a Twitter page?
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Webmaster Tools spring time design refresh
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Can I publish 100+ pages at once?
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Why is the @ character ignored in search queries?
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How can new pages get indexed quickly?
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Using a barcode scanner with Google Book Search
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Behind the scenes of Google Webmaster Central videos
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Are shortened URLs treated differently than other redirects?
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How can I make sure Google reaches my deeper pages?
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What impact does server location have on rankings?
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Will a "coming soon" page negatively impact my site?
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How many pages can Google index from a single site?
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What if a search for my business triggers "Did you mean?"
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Are CSS-based layouts better than tables for SEO?
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What impact does "page bloat" have on Google rankings?
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What types of directories are seen as sources of paid links?
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Should I include my logo text using 'alt' or CSS?
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What are some best practices for moving to a new CMS?
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How gzip works
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Optimizing the order of scripts and styles
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PHP performance tips
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Minimizing browser reflow
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Improving website performance with Page Speed
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Prefetching resources
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HTTP caching
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Is over-optimization bad for a website?
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Interview with Adam Lasnik - Part 2
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Interview with Adam Lasnik - Part 3
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Will I be penalized if my URLs all have the same priority?
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How can I optimize my site on a small budget?
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Chapters (12)
Intro
0:28
My website is in English and Swahili. The English pages are almost always inde
1:17
Can using a lot of nofollow or noindex tags signal to Google that the site has
2:08
My website has a lot of 404s. Would I lose my site's rankings if I don't redir
3:22
When using an image from a CDN, does the response speed determine whether the
4:02
I no longer have access to SC. How do I remove URLs so that after my domain ex
5:06
Can multiple subdomains for various markets with the same content rank specifi
5:50
My rich results show the wrong currency. Can you help me resolve this issue?
6:36
How do I mitigate targeted scraping and performance issues?
7:46
On Search Console I have a shopping tab, but my website is not an online shop.
8:20
Could a YouTube video and the exact same text or content on the same webpage b
8:52
How can we ensure proper prices are displayed in organic text results f
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