English Google SEO office-hours from December 2023

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.

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:32 - Are meta tags required to ensure that the contents of an iframe is associated with the page using the iframe?
1:35 - Which category structure: hierarchical or flat structure for my website?
2:27 - How do I tell Googlebot not to search for links in selected scripts tags?
2:51 - I built a new site on Core MVC and moved it to HTTPS and I have problems with indexing the new pages.
3:25 - What is the recommendation for non-English page URLs?
3:46 - What does Googlebot do when it finds meta name = "rerender-status-code" content="404"?
4:22 - New website launch with UI/UX improvements and new pages: is it better to change the design one at a time?
5:46 - What is the SEO impact of using double slashes in a URL?
6:25 - How can I find the problem "video outside the viewport" in Google Search Console?
6:55 - Product image URLs have changed and hosted elsewhere. How to transfer the image rank?
7:31 - My site had a lot of 404 pages, which I requested to be removed after a few published articles.
7:59 - The site returns HTTP 200 status for 404 pages. Is it considered a soft 404 or cloaking? How bad is this?
8:55 - How can I recrawl my website so that my students will find the new information?
9:41 - Can the sitemap file link itself or the sitemap page itself be indexed?
10:13 - A large increase in 404 errors based on Google picking up API paths in our raw JSON and crawling them. Help!
10:51 - Why doesn't my service based business show up in the Search results?
11:52 - If a PDF ranks in the SERPs, can the user download it then be redirected to the site where the PDF is found?
12:17 - Is accessibility important for ranking?
12:50 - Buying links from third arty websites is one of the violations on Google Webmasters. Why?
13:19 - I have reported thousands of paid backlink reports with no noticeable enforcement by Google. How can I help?
14:17 - Why does my site's impressions decrease even though I have updated new products according to trends?
15:11 - How do I remove content from Google index on my website?
15:37 - Are company-owned blogs eligible to be included in the Google News feed?
16:10 - How does Google handle special characters in search results?
17:15 - Why is the GSC position significantly different from the SERP search results?
17:58 - Can I arrange SEO directly with Google for free?
18:06 - Our business is closed but Google is still showing website results. Why?
18:22 - With SEO reporting, should I trust GA4 or Search Console? What are the differences between both?
18:53 - Can a URL contain periods as part of a SKU as long as not immediately after each other?
19:12 - How to know if my SEO is perfect? Are there any tools, apps, or websites available for it?
19:51 - Wrap up

#SEO #google

[GoogleSearchCentral]

🙋 Do you have a question about Google Search or SEO?
It might be a good fit for the office hours.

[KeithGoode]

Terrific episode, Gary, John, and Martin! I've fielded so many of these questions in the past and given the same answers, but it's always nice to have Google confirming.

[kontenseo]

Nowadays, there are a lot of spam websites with empty content that enter the Google search rankings, please fix it

[SlavenFanfani]

Many many thanks. Great questions and answers. Well done SEO community :)

[elenaanitaSEVA]

На YouTube не могу войти в творческую студию (не показывает ссылки). До этого аккаунт был взломан. Помогите, пожалуйста!

[AndresSalazar-bv]

Hello Google, Can you help me understand why in Google Search Console there are links that no longer exist on my website or at some point existed, but Google Search Console continues to count them, for reasons such as redirected pages, or other types of reasons, including links that have tags that generate errors for me, meaning that these types of links cannot be indexed and also reflect as errors in some cases even though I update my website, I try to make arrangements so that most of the links What I consider relevant can be indexed but it still does not generate any change, there is an approximate time or what you consider happens. please help

[Teleschmiede]

Gute Fragen. Nehme ein paar Sachen für meine eigene deutsche SEO Sprechstunde mit.

[-almaerifa]

"Why are all the articles hidden after appearing for more than 4 months, and I was leading in many articles?"