This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from April 2024 – a transcript is available at https://goo.gle/SEO-july24.
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.
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Chapters:
0:00 – Intro
0:29 – How does Google handle incremental CMS migration and hreflang?
1:31 – What non-search features does GoogleOther crawling support?
2:48 – Why did my site’s products disappear in rich result snippets on Google Search?
3:35 – When a user searches Google in Korean, does a com.kr or .com domain do better?
4:24 – What’s the impact of a huge expansion of our product portfolio on SEO performance?
5:15 – How do I remove old pages from Google’s search results?
5:54 – How do I remove all the indexing errors under the “page indexing” report?
6:35 – Is it possible to get an API link to status.search.google.com/summary?
7:01 – How do I increase the number of product snippets in Google Search Console?
7:59 – I manage a lot of sites on Google Search Console, can I have unlimited index requests?
8:11 – A word confusion is affecting my website’s visibility! Can you guide me on this SEO issue?
8:41 – Is there an HTML markup or tag to tell Google to ignore text parts?
9:09 – Can recipe schema for structured data be used for non edible recipes?
9:33 – Can the Google team help transfer SEO rankings from one previous domain to the new domain?
9:50 – How can I tell if someone has been actively optimizing my site’s SEO?
11:02 – How do I perform a noindex tag to Google’s search engine?
11:34 – Can you use product variant structured data on a site that has many incomplete product configurator variants?
12:14 – Will Google spiders crawl links in an RSS feed that is embedded on a webpage?
12:36 – I updated my logo for the SEO of my website but there hasn’t been any changes yet on Google, why?
13:17 – Is the SEO starter guide accurate with regards to heading order?
14:09 – Does the Google account used to verify a domain on GSC have to match the owner of a new Google site?
14:45 – Does blocking crawl or indexing on a URL cancel the linking power from external and internal links?
15:31 – How should I organize my sitemaps files?
15:55 – Wrap up
Resources:
Block Search indexing with noindex → https://goo.gle/4bUwdks
Learn about sitemaps → https://goo.gle/4bLw9Di
Define a favicon to show in search results → https://goo.gle/4bOxARA
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Speakers: John Mueller, Gary Illyes
Products Mentioned: Search Console – General
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I have submitted my query 2 times, no response from your team. i was waiting for this episode of SEO hours, hope you will check my query and will discuss on next upcoming SEO hours.
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I'd make sure your SEO person you hire uses headings (query) to answering with its salient entity (factual nouns: person, place, thing, brand) in the Topic sentence. The rest of the heading content explains why the Topic Sentence is the ANSWER. Study speedreading and see why research papers and top performing sites that answer queries optimized this way works. Is the term you want to be found for in the H1? H2? text and topic -sentence and metas? Speak facts, use lists and tables (on-page structured data) and things for humans to interact with and clicks, slide etc… humans need to be happy and please… look into Google Heart Framework and PULSE metrics. Not much harder than that. And avoided the advice of YouTube SEO Gurus with more than 10k followers… they are just digital marketers peddling them and their friends' software and services, like seminars in ANY industry. Understand that ALL SEARCHERS ON ALL SEARCH ENGINES are looking for an ENTITY to answer you with. Most SEOs are artist/creative types… find an engineer, someone on the other endo of the spectrum towards OCD. Have them take a Big 5 exam and make sure they are high on the conscientious level. If they mention buying backlinks, stand-up and walk out. Make sure you block them. If not a native speaker, definitely Don't use. You don't need monthly SaaS tools. Most those people are scammers and their tools are near useless, using things like TF-IDF and BM-25 you can find free tools that do the same. If it's too hard to understand RUN they are Conn artists.
@JohnMueller I have a specific example to the "Why did my site's products disappear in rich results snippets on Google Search?" question. My site's product structured data is not the problem, it passes all Rich Results Tests, they are marked valid in Google Search Console etc. If I put the actual URL in a Google search, the result comes up with all of the snippets no problem. If I search for the product name, my site's 1st position ranking shows none of the snippets. Is there a Google not "trusting" my snippets reason? That's the only conclusion I've come up with. I've had no problems for years and then in March they've been all but lost and it has been a major blow to my website these past 5 months.
If you're curious about comments from other SEOs (and more!) about checking if someone hired for SEO is doing what they're supposed to be doing, check out the comments in https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7219752935675543552/ — there are a lot of great ideas & thoughts in there.
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I’d like to hear what methods and tools others use to monitor and verify what SEO actions a vendor is conducting on one’s behalf and to what effect. Monthly meetings and general performance reports are nice, but they still rely heavily on the SEO/agency to report truthfully and transparently. “Trust, but verify” should be the marketing manager’s M.O. Such efforts demand more of my time and mental capacity than I typically have to give them, so I’m hunting for tools and practices that may reduce this work and cognitive load.
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