English Google SEO office-hours from March 2023

This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from March 2023 - a transcript is available at goo.gle/3yplmO0
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
0:35 - How to best update the SEO results?
1:45 - Does Google recognize WEBP images by file extension or file format?
2:24 - How to solve the “Google could not determine the prominent video on the page" error?
3:10 - How to handle one language in two markets for Google?
4:22 - Is it better for SEO to use the .com domain for my Dutch website, or the .nl?
5:04 - How do I move large number of indexed pages to another site?
5:50 - Will crawl requests in the Search Console cover Google's AdsBot crawling?
6:17 - How does Google update an indexed URL that is returned from search?
6:47 - Can hreflang be read & understood across several sitemaps?
7:17 - Can I massively request the re-indexing of all products in the shop in Search Console?
8:14 - Google is showing a URL to be a duplicate of another URL, why?
8:50 - Is the strong tag beneficial for our website, and what's the difference between the b tag and strong tag?
9:20 - Please check my robots.txt file. I want to know why my website is not being indexed.
10:27 - Are drastic changes in site: search results, a tell-tale sign of a core ranking system update?
10:42 - I uploaded an image to my website. It also has text in it, can Google crawl into that text in the image for the best SEO?
11:10 - Does Google's page speed algorithm take into account web pages that have had their viewport content optimized for speed, rather than the whole page?
12:10 - Is there any coverage issue for Googlebot in the Arabic region that could affect indexation? GSC can fetch our sitemap.
12:44 - If I have DE, AT and CH sites on my domain - should I then mark DE with hreflang 'de' (not 'de-de'), as it's the most important market for me?
13:14 - If Googlebot is blocked from crawling my unlaunced site, will that affect my site after launch?
14:18 - I noticed some sites have a sitelink pointing to mobile app stores. How can we get that?
14:58 - Is it allowed to add one structured data inside another type of structured data?
16:14 - How does Google define a page that has soft 404 errors, despite Google's soft-404 error guidelines?
17:07 - If a company offers different services, is it better off to have 2 websites or the same one in terms of SEO?
18:08 - Error on an xml hreflang sitemap - "This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location"?
18:45 - Why organic searches display a different image next to the link than the main image for the linked product?
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[@GoogleSearchCentral]

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

[@BrandenLuisDiaz]

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[@FreeMeGyaan1]

Thanks for answering my question.

[@matthew_whitfield]

Thanks for adding the chapters to these videos - makes it much easier for me to go straight to questions I am interested in

[@albab790]

Thanks

[@antgrimley378]

Very much appreciate the new format with Chapters and text of the question.

[@lassyishere]

This format of video is more engaging so I liked it

[@dyrectory_com]

Thank you for educational video! cheers! 👏

[@sabaokangan]

Thank you so much for sharing SEO tips with us on RUclips ❤️‍🔥

[@pjseospecialists]

Immensely helpful video.

[@muratdemirci6676]

What should be the on-page content similarity rate. My similar page about the article is very url extensions vary according to the region, what can I do, thanks for such a site

[@munavvir7931]

I need help. My website is indexed but not ranked in google search by that same title. Not visible in google search results. How can I solve the issue.

[@tebidkelly8120]

How do we submit questions to Google Search Central so they can be answered through videos like this?

[@GoogleSearchCentral]

Hi there! You can submit your question here: goo.gle/seo-oh

[@Toolever]

@Google Search Central I am getting this "This doesn't look like a short question, please try again" from the form, even with 3 words sentence? why😢

[@mmd123king6]

@@GoogleSearchCentral hi sir i wanted to ask is there live chat access and phone support to get in touch with a search conesole specialist

[@BrandenLuisDiaz]

☝️

[@elitegroup1007]

Please fix the corrupt SERP even the mighty EEEEEAT on YMYL topics is not helpful any more

[@Gahangiralam1977Alam-to1eo]

3:05

[@Gahangiralam1977Alam-to1eo]

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[@MartinZanichelli]

I don´t like this format. I liked the old format.