English Google SEO office-hours from March 25, 2022

Опубликовано 28 марта 2022, 12:17

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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Feel free to join us - we welcome folks of all levels!

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?