English Google SEO office-hours from May 2023

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
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@savemotherearth

October 11, 2024 at 10:06 pm

I identify as a Blogger, and even though I am not currently active on YouTube, the way you present SEO clarifications in the form of episodes has captivated my interest on Google. I am truly grateful for addressing such questions, as they greatly benefit the SEO community.

@Popilekses

You guys are all great!

@pawekonopinski5101

This kind of video is great! 🧡You need to use this Q&A formula more often 😉

@swathinaikv4752

can we have this added to the docs blog section

@gp-music

Keep em coming.

@SEOSLY

I love these. Thank you!

@SEOVikash

great info

@KristineSchachinger

Gary is right a good site migration does not need to have site losses. We did one last year 3 subs and one other domain into one and then similar on a second domain with site architecture changes. We took great time to map everything in extensive detail and double checked our redirects. When we launched all sites migrated over in 7 days. I have never had it happen that fast, but we not only combined the traffic but it increased as well over the next few weeks, ZERO Loss.

Thanks for doing these guys!