Google / SEO Office Hours

This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from September 2023 - a transcript is available at https://goo.gle/SEO-september.

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
0:30 - Is Google wrongly indexing the www version of my website?
1:31 - Why is filtered data higher than the overall data on Search Console?
3:17 - Why are the pages of my Google Sites website not being indexed properly?
4:25 - Our site has many buttons, when clicking on them they fetch links to other pages. Can Google crawl these links?
4:42 - Is a "guest post" (to gain a backlink) against Google's guidelines if I'm writing valuable content?
5:29 - Is content on an e-commerce category page valuable to improving overall rankings?
6:06 - Do incorrect semantic tags cause Google to have a poorer understanding of the website content?
8:00 - In GSC, the report for 404 pages has many URLs that appear to be from JSON or JavaScript. Should we ignore?
8:24 - Can sitemap index files have links to sitemap files on other domains?
9:32 - How does one reduce the likelihood of Google choosing their own meta-descriptions for websites?
9:57 - Is there a way to specify search engine bots not to crawl certain sections on a page?
11:15 - Do you recommend infinite scrolling on web pages? Are there any implications to the organic traffic/Googlebot?
11:37 - I have links shown on the mobile web version, but hidden on the desktop. Will Google de-value them?
12:15 - Does Google index PDF files that are saved to Google Drive that are not hosted on a website?
12:40 - How does Google crawl Scrolljacking content and will this approach to UX impact rankings?
13:47 - Why is the URL indexed, though blocked by robots.txt on my GSC?
14:36 - We have unwanted AI content! How can I fix or remove it from my website?
16:04 - We got a spike in indexed URLs from one day to another. What are the reasons?
16:24 - Can Google use multiple file sizes in one favicon file?
17:08 - Does Google judge parts of a website differently when a different CMS lies behind them?
17:19 - In Google Search, our website displays a PDF download as the main page. Can the search result be changed?
17:56 - When I search for my website on Google Search, the first result is a product page and not my welcome page. Why?
19:09 - I received a SC alert for improving INP issues. How do you calculate this and what’s the easiest fix?
20:00 - How do I remove 30K URLs from GSC from a Japanese keyword hack?
21:05 - Why are my pages getting de-indexed after submitting them for indexing in SC? I've done this multiple times now.
22:05 - Thanks for watching!

Check out past office hours → https://goo.gle/gsc-seo-oh
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#SEO #google

This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from August 2023 - a transcript is available at https://goo.gle/SEO-august.

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
0:50 - How many URLs can a sitemap index file have?
1:13 - Does setting ARIA attributes improve SEO?
1:54 - Should I redirect canonicalized "domain/en" to "domain," or is being canonicalized enough?
2:41 - Do the elements of the link after a hashtag (#) in the URL affect how it's displayed in the search results?
3:28 - Why is my site not ranking despite low competition and good SEO?
4:29 - How can I see if my newly bought site has a penalty?
5:06 - Is it okay to use product rich snippets for real estate properties?
5:54 - Can hreflang be used to link similar content targeting different countries, even if not direct translations?
6:30 - Can we use a white font, but on a colored background?
6:44 - Does the use of an article HTML tag have an impact on Google?
7:24 - Is it a problem for SEO to have a mix of relative and absolute links on our website?
7:46 - For structured data on a French website, should we write the opening days in English or French?
8:37 - Is the IP address a Google crawler?
9:29 - Does Google treat certain tags as a signal that the website is attempting to give a good UX?
10:17 - Why does the Google cache page show a 404 error for my site?
10:43 - Online gambling websites appearing on our domain that originate from Google's smartphone crawlers. Help!
11:57 - Wrap up

Check out past office hours → https://goo.gle/gsc-seo-oh
Subscribe to the Google Search Central YouTube Channel → https://goo.gle/SearchCentral

Resources:
Build and submit a sitemap → https://goo.gle/3OZatM5

#SEO #google

This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from July 2023 - a transcript is available at https://goo.gle/SEO-july

These sessions cover topics submitted around anything search and website-owner related like crawling, indexing, sitemaps, Search Console, Canonical URLs, domain names, hreflang, 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
0:36 - Issues with my website appearing on Google. Help!
1:09 - What is less harmful: millions of 404 error pages or millions of 301 redirects to the parent listing page?
1:35 - What URL format and declared canonical is the most optimal for an ecom site's category pages to get indexed?
2:25 - Why does my search results only show prices in USD when my site has other currencies? I tested with a VPN.
3:13 - I purchased a domain name and tested it, and it comes up with a 404 error. Why?
3:56 - How do I avoid Google selecting incorrect canonical URLs from another country domain according to SC?
5:08 - I searched for my website on Google and found links which were written in Chinese. I want to delete them.
6:00 - How do I change my website address from an old domain to a new domain?
6:19 - How can the content in a product page be unique when different sellers offer the exact same product?
6:47 - How can we separate the report on Google Search Console based on the subdomain?
7:19 - Can a big amount of 404 pages in GSC lead to negative effects of rankings of status 200 pages?
7:32 - How can I get Google Discover to come back?
8:00 - What is the SCHEMA type for an affiliate site?
8:43 - How do I create a good robots.txt?
9:27 - Can you explain how Google uses quality raters to review and rate sites?
10:03 - GSC is showing 1 million "pages with redirects" despite a site migration a year ago. Why?
10:47 - My website domain is not showing when you search on Google. Why?
11:10 - Our domain is used only for email accounts. How can I stop it appearing in Google search results?
11:57 - Search Console says my site's crawled by Googlebot desktop. What is preventing the migration to mobile index?
12:44 - Could the query string in Hreflang give mixed signals to Google in any way?
13:12 - What is the effect of website form design and form position in SEO ranking?
13:41 - Would removing pages improve crawlability and indexability?
14:39 - Should a global company use .ai as their GTLD or is it considered by Google as a ccTLD?
15:03 - I want to clear all “Not Found (404)” errors in Search Console. How?
15:37 - We need your professional advice with our website ranking!
16:09 - How do I request indexing of my publication in Google Scholar?
17:00 - Are best practices for redirects on files like PDF, video, and image URLs the same as web page URLs?
17:18 - Will hreflang tags (used on a small section of a website) be used as an international targeting signal?

Resources:
Google Search Central website → https://goo.gle/3rlF4Kh
How our Quality Raters make Search results better → https://goo.gle/quality-raters
Get support for your site from Google Search → https://goo.gle/44Gwswf

Check out past office hours → https://goo.gle/gsc-seo-oh
Subscribe to the Google Search Central YouTube Channel → https://goo.gle/SearchCentral

#SEO #Google

This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from June 2023 - a transcript is available at https://goo.gle/SEO-june

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
0:36 - Our syndicated version appears in Google Discover despite using canonical links. Why?
1:22 - Is it OK for 2 domains with different TLDs to target the same country for the same keywords?
1:56 - Do Lighthouse JavaScript warnings have any influence on page rating or ranking?
2:20 - How do I block Googlebot from crawling a specific section of a webpage?
3:27 - I submitted a sitemap but it’s not showing in search results. Why?
4:01 - Why does structured data show errors on Google but not schema.org?
4:57 - Does the integration of security headers such as for HSTS have a ranking influence?
5:40 - Does Google do any kind of comparisons between current and previous XML sitemap versions?
6:42 - What is the difference between an XML sitemap and HTML? I have an error message in Search Console.
7:28 - How does Google treat structured data with parsing errors?
8:12 - Why is my website URL blocked?
8:37 - “Index Bloat” - is that a real thing that impacts Google crawling and indexing?
9:04 - How do I block Googlebot from even touching my site reliably and permanently?
9:43 - Can an SEO company get a Google approved badge?
10:08 - Can having multiple navigation menus hurt SEO performance?
10:33 - I tried to get HTML and ASPX pages to index and only a few HTML pages got indexed. Help!
11:04 - I see two results from the same domain but different webpages, the second one is slightly indented. Why?
11:43 - Is a fake Googlebot allowed? It mentions the official URL but is on a different IP address?
12:22 - Is there a way to disavow IP addresses instead of domain names?
12:31 - What is the purpose of using NOODP generally found in Blogger?
13:11 - Does "main content" mean that the video has to be the absolute first element on the page?

Check out past office hours → https://goo.gle/gsc-seo-oh
Subscribe to the Google Search Central YouTube Channel → https://goo.gle/SearchCentral

#SEO #google

This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from May 2023 - a transcript is available at https://goo.gle/SEO-may

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

Resources:
Site names → https://goo.gle/3nrOdzk
Site moves → https://goo.gle/42hWmVR
Favicons → https://goo.gle/3VIh2V3
Glenn Gabe - Favicon issues → https://goo.gle/3VAmjxF

Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:35 - If a domain gets penalized does it affect the links that are outbound from it?
1:01 - Are results generated differently in the URL Inspection Tool & Rich Results Testing Tool rendered html tabs?
2:00 - Is doing off page SEO submissions to directory and social bookmarking sites worth it?
2:09 - Why are collection pages excluded as noindex on my site?
3:39 - Links to my site appear to be coming from Russian websites - how do I block these links?
4:12 - Does the backend of a website matter for ranking?
4:39 - Do you plan to allow more than one Site Name for snippets?
5:07 - Should it take over six months to index my 16,000 pages?
5:49 - For permalinks, is it better with contractions to have "-will-not-" vs. "-wont-" in the URL?
6:32 - Does it make it hard for Googlebots to crawl and index an image if it is having many levels in the image URL?
6:57 - A lot of spam backlinks point to my website, how to stop them?
7:30 - Is it possible that Google Search Console shows me wrong queries?
8:25 - Full HTML page via server side rendering for search engines & client-side rendering for users. Is this OK?
9:04 - How important are descriptive file names for images?
9:35 - What's the best way to get your traffic up after a redesign?
10:33 - Does Googlebot for organic search crawling render every page crawled? If not, how often does this happen?
10:56 - Can it hurt to have schema markup on a page that is invalid?
11:22 - How to change from a redirect 302 to a redirect 301?
12:00 - Does extensive boilerplate content harm the website?
12:25 - How do I prevent Googlebot from calling an expensive external API when rendering the Javascript on a page?
13:06 - Is there any certain method to change domain names without losing seo rankings?
13:33 - My brand favicon was uploaded over a month ago. However, on Google my webflow favicon is still there. Why?
14:38 - If a website writes posts in multiple languages (translated by hand), what is the best practice to divide the content?
15:09 - Does Google accept links in HTML dropdowns?
15:52 - Robots.txt unreachable in Google Search Console. Why?
16:37 - If a sitemap has hreflang URLs mentioned, how do properties like lastmod or priority affect it?
17:45 - Should I block affiliate links in robots.txt or lift disallow and prevent affiliate links from being indexed?
18:11 - Wrap up

Check out past office hours → https://goo.gle/gsc-seo-oh
Subscribe to the Google Search Central YouTube Channel → https://goo.gle/SearchCentral

#SEO #GoogleSearch

This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from April 2023 - a transcript is available at https://goo.gle/3ZTKsQt

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 - Website.com/eu or a separate website per country?
1:24 - When I search for something included in my sitemap it’s not showing an indexed post, why?
2:22 - Does Google use product-specific third-party review & rating data for Rich Results?
2:53 - I have a site that is flagged in Google. How do I find out why it doesn't appear in SERPS?
3:34 - Does using a URI for a thesaurus term work for SEO?
4:12 - Failed robots.txt file is unreachable when trying to index in Search Console URL inspector tool, why?
4:48 - If I delete several old indexed HTML landing pages, should I redirect 404s to the homepage?
5:31 - How do I delete an old website from Google Search?
6:03 - Bad URLs were discovered on my site. Will it affect the way my site is crawled?
7:03 - Is using 410 for Googlebot and 200 for users OK?
7:46 - How does Google handle 308 status code compared to 301?
8:17 - How to increase indexing speed on Google Search Console?
8:37 - My website is not appearing in Google Search. What should I do?
9:17 - Why is Wifi and Wi-Fi not considered the same by Google?
9:54 - Missing structured data snippets for “ratingValue” & “reviewCount”. Bad for SEO?
10:31 - Can my site be deleted from SERP for one certain keyword?
11:24 - Why did my request in the outdated info tool get denied?
12:21 - Migrated domain to Google Domains: How long will it take to appear in Search?
12:44 - How can you optimize your recipe structured data to make it eligible for Rich Snippets?
14:19 - My site's description shows spam not from my site, why?

Check out past office hours → https://goo.gle/gsc-seo-oh
Subscribe to the Google Search Central YouTube Channel → https://goo.gle/SearchCentral

#SEO #google

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.

Let us know in the comments how you like this format, and add any questions to the form linked below.

Questions:
00:15 Do meta keywords matter?
00:31 Why is my brand name not shown as-is?
01:20 Which date should I use as lastmod in sitemaps?
02:14 Can I have both a news and a general sitemap?
03:02 What can I do about irrelevant search entries?
03:57 Why is my site's description not shown?
04:40 How can I fix the spam score for a used domain?
05:20 Are spammy links from porn sites bad for ranking?
05:59 Does Google use keyword density?
07:12 Why is our title mixed up with the meta description?
07:50 How can I remove my staging sub-domain?
08:25 Will disavowing links make my site rank better?
09:21 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 m-dot sites?
21:14 How important is EXIF data?

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

View all past office hours: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKoqnv2vTMUMqH8IyzOMBc_Z8i-S6-tVJ

This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from December, 2022 - a transcript is available at https://developers.google.com/search/help/office-hours/2022/december

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.

Let us know in the comments how you like this format, and add any questions to the form linked below.

Questions:
00:22 How to reduce my site from 30,000 products to 2,500?
01:09 Does Google ignore links to a page that was a 404?
01:37 Do speed metrics other than Core Web Vitals affect my site's rankings?
02:06 Why doesn't Google remove all spam?
02:55 Do too many 301 redirects have a negative effect?
03:42 How does Google determine what is a product review?
04:23 Should I delete my old website when I make a new one?
04:59 Should paginated pages be included in an XML sitemap?
05:37 My site used to be hacked, do I have to do something with the hacked pages?
06:11 Does Google care about fast sites?
06:38 Can Google follow links inside a menu that shows on mouseover?
07:10 Why did reporting shift between my mobile and desktop URLs?
07:56 Does having many redirects affect crawling or ranking?
08:21 Can I use an organization name instead of an author's name?
08:53 What can we do if someone copies our content?
09:35 Do URL, page title, and H1 tag have to be the same?
10:17 Is redirecting through a page blocked by robots.txt a valid way to prevent passing PageRank?
10:37 Why is my site flagged as having a virus?
11:20 Is there any way to get sitelinks on search results?
11:59 Does having two hyphens in a domain name have a negative effect?
12:12 How important are titles for e-commerce category pages pagination?
12:44 Is it better to post one article a day, or many a day?
13:12 What is the main reason for de-indexing a site after a spam update?
13:38 Can Google read infographic images?
14:08 Is it possible to remove my site completely if it was hacked?
14:54 Why does my Search Console miss a period of data?
15:25 How can I deindex some bogus URLs?
16:04 Why is some structured data detected only in the schema validator?
16:47 Do you have people who can make a website for me?
17:21 Why are some sites crawled and indexed faster?
17:51 Why do Google crawlers get stuck with a pop-up store selector?
18:13 How can I verify my staging site in Search Console?
19:08 How can I get a desktop URL indexed?
19:36 Is it possible to report sites for stolen content?
19:57 Is adding Wikipedia links a bad practice?
20:14 Is there any difference if an internal link is under the word "here"?
20:46 Why does my news site's traffic go up and down?
21:16 Is changing the URL often impacting my SEO performance?
21:45 How does freshness play a role in ranking seasonal queries like Black Friday deals?
22:33 Is there a way to appeal Safe Search results?
23:08 How can I update my site's brand name?
23:51 When migrating platforms, do URLs need to remain the same?
24:24 How much do I have to do to update an algorithmic penalty?
24:49 How can I fix long indexing lead times for my Google-owned site?
25:49 How does the helpful content system determine that visitors are satisfied?
26:40 Should we 404 or noindex pages created by bots on our website?
27:20 Will adding a single post in Spanish to my English site affect my search rankings?
27:44 Do all penalties show up in Search Console?
28:33 Will SEO decline? Should I study something different?
29:24 Does the number of outgoing links affect my rankings?

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

View all past office hours: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKoqnv2vTMUMqH8IyzOMBc_Z8i-S6-tVJ

This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from November 2022 - a transcript is available at https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/11/november-office-hours

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.

Let us know in the comments how you like this format, and add any questions to the form: https://goo.gle/seo-oh

Questions:
00:27 Can we use multiple values in one schema market field using comma separation?
01:10 What are the options to use the disavow feature in Search Console for domain properties?
01:50 How bad is the helpful content update for sites accepting guest posts for money?
02:24 What to do when Google does not detect the canonical tag correctly?
03:13 Is Google more likely to crawl and index the pages if the content is short?
03:52 Could dynamic sorting of listings be a reason for not indexing product images?
04:22 Is there a timeframe for the site migration?
05:20 Could the use of HTTP/3 improve SEO because it improves performance?
06:08 Why does Google keep using back links as a ranking factor?
07:14 Does it matter if the vast majority of anchors for internal content links are the same?
07:40 If you add the website schema, do you add software application schema too?
08:23 Is an excessive number of noindex pages an issue for disovery or indexing?
08:59 Is it a problem if the URL and the page don't use the same language?
09:19 How should creators respond to sites that scrape and spam?
09:56 Is it true that Google rotates indexed pages?
10:22 Should we keep an eye on the ratio between indexed and non-indexed pages?
11:02 How do we enable the Discover feature?
11:26 Does having many noindex pages linked from spammy sites affect crawl budget?
12:05 Is it thin content if I break down a long article into pieces?
12:51 Is it true that having lots of 404 pages can stop crawling and processing?
13:43 What is the current state of Key Moments video markup?
14:09 My new website is confused with a similar, older one - what can I do?
15:31 Is it possible to get FAQ featured snippets with just pure HTML?
16:08 Do self-referring canonicals help for deduplication?
16:45 Should there be some percentage of randomness in the Search results?
17:06 Why is Google not taking action on spun web stories?
17:31 Do comment pages linked with link rel=UGC get deindexed?
18:05 Are product reviews update for non-physical products without affiliate links ok?
18:36 I have 10,000 pages on my site, are there shortcuts for writing descriptions?
19:15 How can I best delete 10,000 pages of thin blog content?
19:39 Are backlinks powerful or should I focus on maximizing the quality of my site?
20:21 Must a page have a cached copy to appear in the search results?
20:39 Why does Search Console report an unknown referring URL for 4xx errors?
21:02 Should we mark automatically created pages as nofollow?
21:45 How can I best understand the performance report in Search Console?
22:25 How do I prevent pay-walled content from appearing in search results?
22:56 Does the spam score affect my site's ranking?
23:46 What should we do for out-of-stock product pages?
24:17 If hreflang is missing return tags, will it still be considered?
25:42 How can we implement hreflang without control of webpages in many countries?
26:20 Can hreflang sitemaps be placed in any folder location?
26:58 What is happening to a website that is not being indexed?
27:17 How can I handle x-default hreflang for new language updates?
28:09 Why do the product review updates impact non-review content?
28:26 What's the best way to remove old content?
29:02 Does text in images influence ranking in image search?
29:45 Is it beneficial for the local businesses to use many local listing websites?
30:13 Is a query parameter added to URLs bad for SEO?

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

View all past office hours: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKoqnv2vTMUMqH8IyzOMBc_Z8i-S6-tVJ

This is an audio-only recording of the experimental Google SEO office-hours from September 2022. 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.

Let us know in the comments how you like this format!

Questions:
00:25 What is your advice for websites following best practices in international SEO, but where Google still shows the wrong folder?
02:08 For single page apps, or SPAs, with server rendered HTML, is there a way to tell Googlebot it doesn't need to run this SPA's JavaScript bundles?
02:58 What would be the best HTML markup for a sentence or a word in a foreign language?
03:59 Is it duplicate content If I post the same article on my eCommerce site and on my blog?
05:49 Is it good to add FAQs in a blog post? Do you think Google won't consider it for ranking purposes?
06:27 Google is displaying the wrong pages to its search visitors. In the US Google recently selected domain.com instead of domain.com/en-us/. How can I fix this?
08:24 We have an Angular app that is deployed, but is faulty in the web cache. Is that problematic?
08:47 Using a foreign language in search while being in a different country, why do the search results positions differ?
10:17 In a UGC content site, we run a weekly noindex tag addition program over pages with no traffic. Does it affect SEO due to continuous increase of noindex pages over time?
11:18 Does Hyphenation matter for keywords when optimizing titles and headings? I've seen differences in search volume on the Google Ads keyword planner.
12:46 I have a finance blog and I covered some topics related to new startups and human resources. Does this affect anything with the helpful content update?
13:33 Is it a problem if an editorial page contains too many links to external pages? Is there an upper limit here?
14:24 Does the cached version of a page play a role for Search and Top Stories?
14:49 Search Console still shows tons of same-site, non-secure pages as referrals to old HTTPS pages. How do I flush them out?
15:48 Is 150 words enough for a news article?
16:24 If all editorial pages of a website start with the same introductory text, can this have a negative effect on the SEO visibility of the individual article pages?
17:50 A site uses machine translations. The content is reviewed by human translators and they're often happy with the quality after minor tweaks. Is this okay for Google?
18:25 I have hundreds of URLs that are indexed, but blocked by robots. Does Google know that these are duplicates? Is there anything I have to do?
19:56 Does it make sense to add organization and review schema to every page?
21:16 What are the implications of merging and redirecting websites? The two websites are in topically close niche, but not really having the same intent.
24:02 We want to use more modern image formats like WebP, but believe that users won't all be able to see our images. Is there a way to use WebP?

This is an audio-only recording of the experimental Google SEO office-hours from September 2022. 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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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours from July 1, 2022. 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.

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Timestamps:
00:31 Which number is correct, Page Speed Insights or Search Console?
04:20 How can our JavaScript site get indexed better?
07:35 Does it affect my SEO score if I link to HTTP pages?
08:40 Should I write how people speak?
10:20 Should I delete my disavow file?
12:30 Can I add structured data with Google Tag Manager?
14:20 Is it better to block by robots.txt or with the robots meta tag?
16:38 Can I list the same URL in multiple sitemap files?
19:00 How can I block embedded video pages from getting indexed?
21:15 Is it a problem if I can't get listed in the HSTS preload list?
25:05 How can I analyze why my site dropped in ranking for its brand name?

This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours from June 3, 2022. These sessions are open to 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.

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Timestamps:
01:22 Can I use two HTTP result codes on a page?
02:50 Does using a CDN improve rankings if my site is already fast in my main country?
05:20 Should I disallow API requests to reduce crawling?
08:05 Should I use rel=nofollow on internal links?
09:35 Why don't site:-query result counts match Search Console counts?
11:25 What's the difference between JavaScript and HTTP redirects?
14:25 Should I keep old, obsolete content on my site, or remove it?
16:25 Is there a way to force sitelinks to show up?
17:30 Our site embeds PDFs with iframes, should we OCR the text?
20:20 We want to hide links to other sites to avoid passing link juice, is it ok?
22:10 Does it matter which server platform we use, for SEO?
23:40 Does Google crawl URLs in structured data markup?

This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from May 6, 2022. These sessions are open to 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.

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Timestamps:
03:07 Can I use Web Components for SEO?
05:18 Is it ok to use FAQ schema across different parts of a page?
07:34 Can bloggers plagiarize their own content?
10:23 Our site is not user-friendly with JavaScript turned off, is it a problem?
13:07 We use some static HTML pages and some WordPress pages, does that matter?
17:12 I have some pages with rel-canonical, some without, why are they both shown in search?
20:54 What can we do about spammy backlinks that we don't like?
23:51 We saw a ranking drop across domain versions. Could technical issues cause it?
26:52 What's the stand on App Indexing?
29:08 Our CDN blocks Translate, is that bad for SEO?

This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from April 29, 2022. These sessions are open to 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.

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Timestamps:
03:15 Should we make a UK version of our English blog?
05:04 How is a language mismatch between main content & the rest of a page treated?
07:07 Can I reuse code snippets for other articles?
08:20 Does an age-interstitial block crawling or indexing?
10:53 Our site got updated just before a core update, do we need to wait now?
14:04 If I translate a page, will it be penalized?
15:34 Is using the Indexing API for a normal website good or bad?
16:31 Does Googlebot read the .htaccess file?
17:39 How does Google Lens affect SEO?
19:05 When does the Core Web Vitals data settle down?
19:58 I have a lot of redirect errors in Search Console, what could be the problem?
21:24 I'm unsure what to do to make my Blogger or Google Sites pages indexable.
23:08 Why does my English homepage rank higher than another language?
25:29 Why is a specific URL on my site not crawled?
26:47 Does adding the location name to the description help ranking?
27:19 Which structured data from schema do I add to a medical site?
28:07 Does every page need schema or structured data?

This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from April 1, 2022. These sessions are open to 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.

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Timestamps:
00:55 Why do the server logs not match the crawl report?
03:10 Why did our Discover traffic drop?
07:05 When you redirect a domain, does it show in the links report?
08:40 A spammy site copies us, is the DMCA form relevant?
11:52 Will our site see a traffic loss when migrating?
14:55 We moved in 2020, can we still fix the robots.txt for redirects?
17:28 What's the optimal content length per page?
18:54 Some of our blog posts aren't indexed, what can we do?
22:13 What's Google's position on autogenerated content?
26:06 Does using a span tag in a heading affect SEO?
27:28 Can a low PageSpeed score affect my site's ranking?
31:02 Is a hidden navigational link on mobile affect my site's SEO?
32:10 Is using abbreviations like "eg" a problem?
33:15 A competitor uses structured data incorrectly, should we do it too?
34:24 Our chat-tool shows a "bubble" on pages, is it a problem?
38:14 Search Console shows AMP articles, but uses non-AMP URLs. Why?
39:51 Can Google crawl pagination with "view more" buttons?
42:34 To what degree does Google follow the robots.txt directives?
44:25 Can I sell Fireworks on my website, even if it's considered dangerous for Ads?
45:23 Can I launch a new shop with all products at once?
46:52 Google says max 16 words in an alt text, what does it mean for usability?
49:16 Some content is hidden until a user clicks and runs JavaScript, is it indexable?
53:27 If 40% of your content is affiliate, will Google consider your site a deals website?
54:45 Does it matter if publishers outsource content vs if it's written by staff writers?

This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from March 25, 2022. These sessions are open to 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.

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Timestamps:
00:56 Search Console says I'm ranking #1, but I don't see it.
05:55 Why is my homepage ranking instead of an article?
07:11 Does locating a sitemap in a folder affect indexing?
07:59 I have a new blog, no links. Should I submit in Search Console?
09:22 How fast does the links report update?
10:56 Should the data in Search Console align with Analytics?
16:22 Is there real time data in Search Console?
16:58 Why are disallowed pages getting traffic?
18:12 Where do new soft-404 errors come from?
23:47 Does Google use different algorithms per niche?
26:23 What counts as a click in FAQ rich snippets?
27:40 Best practices for multilingual sites' sitemap files?
29:27 Does link order on a page matter for crawling?
30:31 Why do parameter URLs get indexed?
34:30 Do visually separated links, bold or colored, have more weight?
35:50 Can I reuse sample code in programming tutorials?
37:41 Does out-of-stock affect the ranking of a product page?
39:30 Could a banner on my page affect rankings?
40:38 Is it legal to scrape Google's search results?
41:30 Why did Google pick a different canonical for shared content?
46:33 Are unlinked mentions links too?
49:03 Do links on unindexed pages count?
50:50 What can we do about changed image URLs?
53:34 Would a sitemap of images help with image indexing?
54:25 Does crawl budget affect image re-indexing?

This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from March 18, 2022. These sessions are open to 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.

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Timestamps:
00:53 We changed titles, search changed it back; is the old title better?
04:30 What's the best way to host 100 franchises on a site?
09:19 Why are our new articles not getting indexed?
15:42 An SEO tool says we have duplicate content, what should we do?
19:45 Do broken links cause less traffic?
23:14 How can my Indian website get more traffic from the US?
25:45 How can I get 50% of my sessions from the US?
27:20 What's the best way to connect a blog to a shop?
29:49 Why don't the numbers add up in Search Console?
31:45 How to best sell seasonal products?
36:40 Should I use alt-text for images with text?
37:23 Should I write alt-text for products in a shop?
38:46 How long until I see effects from new content?
40:05 Would you use alt-text for decorative images?
41:35 Our last-modified date updates automatically, is it ok?
44:00 How does the target-attribute matter for links in SEO?
47:40 Is having parallel breadcrumbs ok?
50:07 Why is my homepage ranking instead of a detail page?
53:42 How to best handle CSS background hero images?
56:48 If I can't use alt-text, is a title for an image enough?
57:59 How can I get showroom locations into Maps?
1:00:02 Can I use KML files for search?

This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from March 11, 2022. These sessions are open to 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.

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Timestamps:
00:40 Why do my pages sometimes fall from #8 to much lower?
04:04 Do site:-query results differ by country?
06:56 Can a single page with high engagement help a site overall?
08:30 Can less-relevant pages with poor CWV impact a site overall?
11:54 Will Google stop ranking Russian propaganda sites?
12:48 How many internal links per page are optimal?
15:44 Are pages linked closer to the homepage indexed faster?
18:11 Does the URL structure make a page appear closer to the homepage?
20:20 The indexed count went up a lot, the traffic not so much - is it a problem?
22:26 How to improve the quality of a large ecommerce site?
25:42 What to watch out for in the crawl stats report for small sites?
28:17 Are the crawl stats just a sample?
29:41 My site dropped, I moved domains, it dropped again. What's up?
39:35 Why might synonyms make a big difference in rankings?
41:12 Do I have to move FAQs to separate pages?
43:17 Would competing schema markup on a page be a problem?
43:42 How can I test my paywall structured data?
45:11 Are links in sections of a page treated differently?
46:35 Does mobile first indexing help with ranking?
48:45 How do you treat abbreviations on a page?
50:25 What can I do for JavaScript SEO?
51:45 Is a robots.txt required for indexing images?

Mentioned video for synonyms / abbreviations:
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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from March 4, 2022. These sessions are open to 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.

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Questions:
00:35 Should I update pages, or make new ones?
03:41 Is it ok to use H2 tags in our footer?
07:42 Search Console shows a SD warning, but the schema test is ok.
10:18 We sped up our site, 3 days later rankings jumped up. Is it related?
11:49 Is there an order to when sitemaps are crawled?
14:15 Why are some pages crawled but not indexed?
18:15 Why is our global homepage showing, not the local one?
19:43 Is it ok to copy & canonicalize content across country-specific sites?
21:47 Can I make my shop category pages more informative?
25:15 Do I need internal links if I use breadcrumb markup?
27:10 Can I use hreflang across domains?
29:50 Can I use multiple product schemas on a listing page?
30:33 Can I put two languages on a single page?
34:20 Will Google punish my site if mobile and desktop versions differ?
35:43 Why are my rich results in the wrong language?
36:25 How can I compete with a poetry site?
40:33 Can I move FAQ content to a separate page?
44:16 My ecommerce site has 4500 URLs but only 86 pages indexed. Why?
46:17 Can we move our sitemap files to a separate domain?
49:32 Our domain used to be adult content, how can we flag that it has changed?
53:07 Is page speed still important for SEO?

This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from February 25, 2022. These sessions are open to 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.

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Questions:
00:40 Do "people also ask" results appear in Search Console?
03:40 Are multiple "homepages" on subdomains ok?
05:41 The link report shows links from a previous owner.
07:10 Do AMP pages get cached in Search?
09:14 Are random footer-links problematic?
13:23 Is all hidden text bad?
16:20 Why are some URLs not indexed?
18:15 Is it bad if a few affiliate links don't use rel=sponsored?
21:02 How many complaints matter for the "DMCA" update?
23:42 Is dynamic rendering problematic?
24:57 Is using numbers for image filename ok?
27:55 What to do when a domain is no longer used for adult content?
29:36 Can I use the same keyword on two separate pages?
31:20 Is there a good ratio for indexed/not-indexed pages?
33:33 Can I use parameters for localized pages?
37:45 How do I treat my search pages? Can I use sitemaps instead?
42:20 How important is page experience for ranking?
46:20 Why do my rankings vary so much?
48:10 Why does the rich results test not show the same as the schema test?
53:15 Why is our translated content not indexed?

This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from February 18, 2022. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from February 4, 2022. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from January 28, 2022. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from January 21, 2022. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from January 14, 2022. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from January 7, 2022. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from December 31, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from December 24, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from December 17, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from December 10, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from November 26, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from November 19, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from November 12, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from November 5, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from October 29, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from October 22, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from October 8, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from October 1, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from September 24, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from September 17, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from September 10, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from September 3, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from August 27, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from August 20, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from August 13, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from August 6, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from July 23, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from July 16, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from July 9, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from July 2, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from June 25, 2021. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from DATEDATE. These sessions are open to 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.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from June 11, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from June 4, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from May 28, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from May 21, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from May 14, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from May 7, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from April 23, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from April 16, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from April 9, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from April 1, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from March 26, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from March 19, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from March 12, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from March 5, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from February 26, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from February 19, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from February 12, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from February 5, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from January 29, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from January 22, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from January 15, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from January 8, 2021. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from December 18, 2020. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from December 11, 2020. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from December 4, 2020. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from November 27, 2020. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from November 13, 2020. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from November 10, 2020. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from October 30, 2020. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from October 27, 2020. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from October 16, 2020. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from October 2, 2020. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from September 25, 2020. These sessions are open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.

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