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
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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
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i lost all the google snippets from july 2
Wish it was less technical SEO and more content and understanding based.
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Another awesome episode. I love John's tip regarding how to check if the site has been moved to the Mobile-First Indexing. I still have lots of sites that show "Google Desktop" but when I checked the Crawl Stats report it's clear that the site has been moved over.
Thanks a bunch! Always excited to see my questions answered 😁
still doubtful backlinks matters or not .
Always enjoy your videos, Martin and John!
Hi, I have a question please.
When I check the indexing URL in search console, it’s appear that URL is on Google, but when I go TEST LIVE URL (for the same URL), it’s appear this message: URL is not available to Google , Page cannot be indexed: Blocked due to access forbidden (403).
Could you help me to solve this please.
In my search console I see 301 redirect link but I had audit my mobile and desktop site but didn't find any 301 link.. Can anyone help me were those links are coming
Is backlink is still working in seo?
Thanks your infomation
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