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.

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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 update?
10:42 – I uploaded an image to my website. It also has text in it, can Google crawl into that text in the image for the best SEO?
11:10 – Does Google’s page speed algorithm take into account web pages that have had their viewport content optimized for speed, rather than the whole page?
12:10 – Is there any coverage issue for Googlebot in the Arabic region that could affect indexation? GSC can fetch our sitemap.
12:44 – If I have DE, AT and CH sites on my domain – should I then mark DE with hreflang ‘de’ (not ‘de-de’), as it’s the most important market for me?
13:14 – If Googlebot is blocked from crawling my unlaunced site, will that affect my site after launch?
14:18 – I noticed some sites have a sitelink pointing to mobile app stores. How can we get that?
14:58 – Is it allowed to add one structured data inside another type of structured data?
16:14 – How does Google define a page that has soft 404 errors, despite Google’s soft-404 error guidelines?
17:07 – If a company offers different services, is it better off to have 2 websites or the same one in terms of SEO?
18:08 – Error on an xml hreflang sitemap – “This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location”?
18:45 – Why organic searches display a different image next to the link than the main image for the linked product?

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