English Google SEO office-hours from March 2023
This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from March 2023 - a transcript is available at https://goo.gle/3yplmO0
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: http://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 - Introduction
0:35 - How to best update the SEO results?
1:45 - Does Google recognize WEBP images by file extension or file format?
2:24 - How to solve the “Google could not determine the prominent video on the page" error?
3:10 - How to handle one language in two markets for Google?
4:22 - Is it better for SEO to use the .com domain for my Dutch website, or the .nl?
5:04 - How do I move large number of indexed pages to another site?
5:50 - Will crawl requests in the Search Console cover Google's AdsBot crawling?
6:17 - How does Google update an indexed URL that is returned from search?
6:47 - Can hreflang be read & understood across several sitemaps?
7:17 - Can I massively request the re-indexing of all products in the shop in Search Console?
8:14 - Google is showing a URL to be a duplicate of another URL, why?
8:50 - Is the strong tag beneficial for our website, and what's the difference between the b tag and strong tag?
9:20 - Please check my robots.txt file. I want to know why my website is not being indexed.
10:27 - Are drastic changes in site: search results, a tell-tale sign of a core ranking system upda
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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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Which SEO agency do you recommend?
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Will SEO still exist in five years?
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Star Wars or Star Trek?
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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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How are load times displayed in Webmaster Tools calculated?
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Why aren't penalized sites notified in Webmaster Tools?
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Google India SearchMasters 2009 - Event Roundup
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Can you talk about the change in Google's referrer string?
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Google Webmaster Help Forum - Koti Ivaturi - Google India SearchMasters '09
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Welcome Note - Vivaik Bharadwaaj - Google India SearchMasters '09
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Google Custom Search - Rajat Mukherjee - Google India SearchMasters '09
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Building Mobile Friendly Websites - Ankit Gupta - Google India SearchMasters '09
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Q & A with Adam Lasnik - Google India SearchMasters '09
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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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Optional HTML tags
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Optimizing web graphics
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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 1
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Interview with Adam Lasnik - Part 2
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Interview with Adam Lasnik - Part 3
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Can the geographic location of a web server affect SEO?
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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 (15)
Introduction
0:35
How to best update the SEO results?
1:45
Does Google recognize WEBP images by file extension or file format?
2:24
How to solve the “Google could not determine the prominent video on the page"
3:10
How to handle one language in two markets for Google?
4:22
Is it better for SEO to use the .com domain for my Dutch website, or the .nl?
5:04
How do I move large number of indexed pages to another site?
5:50
Will crawl requests in the Search Console cover Google's AdsBot crawling?
6:17
How does Google update an indexed URL that is returned from search?
6:47
Can hreflang be read & understood across several sitemaps?
7:17
Can I massively request the re-indexing of all products in the shop in Search
8:14
Google is showing a URL to be a duplicate of another URL, why?
8:50
Is the strong tag beneficial for our website, and what's the difference betwee
9:20
Please check my robots.txt file. I want to know why my website is not being in
10:27
Are drastic changes in site: search results, a tell-tale sign of a core rankin
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