English Google SEO office-hours from August 2023

Опубликовано 9 августа 2023, 13:00

This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from August 2023 - a transcript is available at goo.gle/SEO-august.

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: 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: goo.gle/seo-oh.

Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:50 - How many URLs can a sitemap index file have?
1:13 - Does setting ARIA attributes improve SEO?
1:54 - Should I redirect canonicalized "domain/en" to "domain," or is being canonicalized enough?
2:41 - Do the elements of the link after a hashtag (#) in the URL affect how it's displayed in the search results?
3:28 - Why is my site not ranking despite low competition and good SEO?
4:29 - How can I see if my newly bought site has a penalty?
5:06 - Is it okay to use product rich snippets for real estate properties?
5:54 - Can hreflang be used to link similar content targeting different countries, even if not direct translations?
6:30 - Can we use a white font, but on a colored background?
6:44 - Does the use of an article HTML tag have an impact on Google?
7:24 - Is it a problem for SEO to have a mix of relative and absolute links on our website?
7:46 - For structured data on a French website, should we write the opening days in English or French?
8:37 - Is the IP address a Google crawler?
9:29 - Does Google treat certain tags as a signal that the website is attempting to give a good UX?
10:17 - Why does the Google cache page show a 404 error for my site?
10:43 - Online gambling websites appearing on our domain that originate from Google's smartphone crawlers. Help!
11:57 - Wrap up

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Resources:
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