English Google SEO office-hours from January 2023
This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from January 2023 - a transcript is available at https://developers.google.com/search/help/office-hours/2023/january
These sessions cover topics submitted around anything search & 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.
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Chapters (28)
Introduction
0:15
Do meta keywords matter?
0:31
Why is my brand name not shown as-is?
1:20
Which date should I use as lastmod in sitemaps?
2:14
Can I have both a news and a general sitemap?
3:02
What can I do about irrelevant search entries?
3:57
Why is my site's description not shown?
4:40
How can I fix the spam score for a used domain?
5:20
Are spammy links from porn sites bad for ranking?
5:59
Does Google use keyword density?
7:12
Why is our title mixed up with the meta description?
7:50
How can I remove my staging sub-domain?
8:25
Will disavowing links make my site rank better?
9:21
How can I best move my site?
10:22
Why doesn't my site show up in Google?
11:11
How can I get my mobile version into Google?
11:54
Why does a competitor's social account with the same name show up?
12:36
What could be a reason for a URL removal to not work?
13:13
Which structured data should I use on a service-website?
13:43
Why might my content not be indexed?
14:29
Can I get old, moved URLs ignored by Search?
15:27
Does Search Console verification affect Search?
15:54
Why might my translated content not appear in Google?
17:21
Does URL depth of an image affect ranking?
18:20
What happens when a part of an hreflang cluster is bad?
19:05
Are sitewide footer links bad?
19:39
How can I speed up a site move?
20:24
How do I link desktop and mobile versions for
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