English Google SEO office-hours from July 2024

This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from April 2024 - a transcript is available at 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: 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: Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:29 - How does Google handle incremental CMS migration and hreflang? 1:31 - What non-search features does GoogleOther crawling support? 2:48 - Why did my site’s products disappear in rich result snippets on Google Search? 3:35 - When a user searches Google in Korean, does a or .com domain do better? 4:24 - What’s the impact of a huge expansion of our product portfolio on SEO performance? 5:15 - How do I remove old pages from Google’s search results? 5:54 - How do I remove all the indexing errors under the “page indexing“ report? 6:35 - Is it possible to get an API link to ? 7:01 - How do I increase the number of product snippets in Google Search Console? 7:59 - I manage a lot of sites on Google Search Console, can I have unlimited index requests? 8:11 - A word confusion is affecting my website’s visibility! Can you guide me on this SEO issue? 8:41 - Is there an HTML markup or tag to tell Google to ignore text parts? 9:09 - Can recipe schema for structured data be used for non edible recipes? 9:33 - Can the Google team help transfer SEO rankings from one previous domain to the new domain? 9:50 - How can I tell if someone has been actively optimizing my site’s SEO? 11:02 - How do I perform a noindex tag to Google’s search engine? 11:34 - Can you use product variant structured data on a site that has many incomplete product configurator variants? 12:14 - Will Google spiders crawl links in an RSS feed that is embedded on a webpage? 12:36 - I updated my logo for the SEO of my website but there hasn’t been any changes yet on Google, why? 13:17 - Is the SEO starter guide accurate with regards to heading order? 14:09 - Does the Google account used to verify a domain on GSC have to match the owner of a new Google site? 14:45 - Does blocking crawl or indexing on a URL cancel the linking power from external and internal links? 15:31 - How should I organize my sitemaps files? 15:55 - Wrap up Resources: Block Search indexing with noindex → Learn about sitemaps → Define a favicon to show in search results → Watch more English Google SEO Office Hours → Subscribe to the Google Search Central YouTube Channel → #SEO #Google Speakers: John Mueller, Gary Illyes Products Mentioned: Search Console - General