English Google SEO office-hours from February 18, 2022

This is a recording of the Google SEO office-hours hangout from February 18, 2022. These sessions are open to anything search & website-owner related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Search Console, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc.
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Feel free to join us - we welcome folks of all levels!

[@GoogleSearchCentral]

Timestamps
00:35 Does Search Console consider image & local one-boxes in the ranking report?
01:28 We split a page into 2 topics, one is no longer ranking well. What can we do?
04:00 How does Google identify product reviews on an ecommerce site?
06:50 Can I use the Indexing API for ecommerce content?
07:55 Why does our site not rank for product + our-brand queries?
10:38 Do Google's algorithms care about EAT?
12:02 Do unlinked brand mentions matter?
12:55 Do comments on a page matter for SEO?
14:04 Does the type of SSL certificate matter for SEO?
14:48 Can I post the same job listing on multiple subdomains?
17:10 Is a PDF version of a HTML page considered duplicate content?
19:36 How does Google deal with new comments at the end of a paginated discussion thread?
22:10 Is it ok to pick one sort order as a canonical?
24:00 Can Google handle infinite scrolling?
25:45 We revived a website, and it's not getting indexed well. What to do?
28:48 What's the optimal number of pages, or ratio of indexed pages for Google?
30:38 The URL inspection shows an ancient referring URL for my site. Is it a problem?
32:22 Our sitemap URL changed, is redirecting enough?
33:30 Most of our crawls are "refresh", is it a problem?
35:07 Our crawl stats dropped significantly, what's up?
41:47 My Web Stories are doing well, but they lower the overall CTR. Is it a problem?
47:58 How quickly are internal links picked up?
48:10 Our site is stuck at ranking #5, how do I move up?
49:49 We added a new page, it's discovered but not indexed. How long until it's indexed?
51:15 Is using subdirectories for international pages for a part of a site ok?
56:28 How does Google figure out which geotargeting to use?
58:28 We have a huge ecommerce site, a lot of pages aren't indexed. What can we do?
1:04:54 If we add new pages, will they be crawled last?

[@cedricsims2122]

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[@eduardopellarin229]

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[@multimasterymarketing4768]

Thanks John, great discussion with lots of interesting points!

[@SEO_SriLanka]

thanks for the video John

[@PakBHC]

Thanks for the video

[@АртемЗинчук]

Thanks

[@jozanpenalverakili7486]

I have a question but I not sure if this is the right place to post questions of that kind.. Anyway please excuse me if I'm out of place here, also excuse my English cause I'm from Venezuela ... I know my content is searched visualy in Google images so usually people don't enter my web, so I have a way to know my traffic? In search console I get my clics but in Google images you don't have to visit the website... So how could I see when people download without enter the web... Thanks

[@TeachUBusiness]

How can I attend these sessions?

[@tobiasroth90]

For what I was observing (from my own experience, as well as messages in Twitter, on Reddit, and so on) you (Google) changed something regarding Googlebot crawling pages. I don't know if you've reduced the limit of pages that Googlebot crawls (for bigger and smaller sites), but the 'crawling thing' keeps annoying me :-/

[@queenmary6053]

Good

[@yhangmhany]

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[@sylvianperombelon6169]

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