English Google SEO office-hours from September 2023

This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from September 2023 - a transcript is available at goo.gle/SEO-september.
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
0:30 - Is Google wrongly indexing the www version of my website?
1:31 - Why is filtered data higher than the overall data on Search Console?
3:17 - Why are the pages of my Google Sites website not being indexed properly?
4:25 - Our site has many buttons, when clicking on them they fetch links to other pages. Can Google crawl these links?
4:42 - Is a "guest post" (to gain a backlink) against Google's guidelines if I'm writing valuable content?
5:29 - Is content on an e-commerce category page valuable to improving overall rankings?
6:06 - Do incorrect semantic tags cause Google to have a poorer understanding of the website content?
8:00 - In GSC, the report for 404 pages has many URLs that appear to be from JSON or JavaScript. Should we ignore?
8:24 - Can sitemap index files have links to sitemap files on other domains?
9:32 - How does one reduce the likelihood of Google choosing their own meta-descriptions for websites?
9:57 - Is there a way to specify search engine bots not to crawl certain sections on a page?
11:15 - Do you recommend infinite scrolling on web pages? Are there any implications to the organic traffic/Googlebot?
11:37 - I have links shown on the mobile web version, but hidden on the desktop. Will Google de-value them?
12:15 - Does Google index PDF files that are saved to Google Drive that are not hosted on a website?
12:40 - How does Google crawl Scrolljacking content and will this approach to UX impact rankings?
13:47 - Why is the URL indexed, though blocked by robots.txt on my GSC?
14:36 - We have unwanted AI content! How can I fix or remove it from my website?
16:04 - We got a spike in indexed URLs from one day to another. What are the reasons?
16:24 - Can Google use multiple file sizes in one favicon file?
17:08 - Does Google judge parts of a website differently when a different CMS lies behind them?
17:19 - In Google Search, our website displays a PDF download as the main page. Can the search result be changed?
17:56 - When I search for my website on Google Search, the first result is a product page and not my welcome page. Why?
19:09 - I received a SC alert for improving INP issues. How do you calculate this and what’s the easiest fix?
20:00 - How do I remove 30K URLs from GSC from a Japanese keyword hack?
21:05 - Why are my pages getting de-indexed after submitting them for indexing in SC? I've done this multiple times now.
22:05 - Thanks for watching!
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[@SEOSLY]

Thank you! I love the new format. There is so much packed in under 25 minutes.

[@vanillacircusltd1028]

Well worth listening to

[@gabriolinari]

"maybe we just got more hard drives". 16:12 PRICELESS Gary!!!!!!!!!!!

[@miraj_kuamr]

❤❤❤

[@CraigMullins1]

20:00 - How do I remove 30K URLs from GSC from a Japanese keyword hack? - I didn't see the link to the developer section you mentioned in the video?

[@hashim.pakara]

Yes

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0:07

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2:07

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❤🎉😢😅❤ 2:49

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Oui

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[@manthan9501]

SEO office hours for October 2023 please.

[@amin-sp]

unfortunately not all questions are answered, it's too bad.

[@user-vm8os1cp7y]

agree with you

[@Alireza_Naji]

there are always many questions, but every problem and every question you have is not going to be answered. It's an adventure out there and you have to look for answers based on your expertise and experience, even if you lose your page ranking for years. look for clues in these videos...

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