SEO lightning round

Key Takeaways

[Music] aditya is asking by any chance a self-referential canonical can override an existing canonical or preferred page i believe two canonicals for the same page should be avoided that's correct avoid multiple rel canonicals with separate urls on the same page ankit is asking if putting the date and the month in urls is okay and will it affect my google rankings well having the date in a url is fine it doesn't affect crawling indexing or ranking of the page a question from j low is i heard that using cdns to deliver images might be a problem for google search since it's not on my server and google doesn't support image canonicalization well using cdns for images is fine it doesn't have to be on your software rahul's question is what is the best way to appear in search if you have a global audience to target with a single domain we don't have multiple physical addresses for local seo and we don't want to go for cctlds because of a resource crunch it's fine to have a single domain many websites just have one version that's globally available rmw web publishing is asking is it such a bad thing to leave the google webmasters verification file out of the sitemap xml we would have thought the sitemap xml should only be filled with content greatness you want indexed well you're right you don't need to include the verification file in your scip file the verification file is just for search console nobody else can do anything useful with it