English Google SEO office-hours from January 2023

This is an audio-only recording of the Google SEO office-hours from January 2023 - a transcript is available at https://developers.google.com/search/...

These sessions cover topics submitted around 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. The answers are compiled by the Google Search Relations team.

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Questions:
00:00 Introduction
00:15 Do meta keywords matter?
00:31 Why is my brand name not shown as-is?
01:20 Which date should I use as lastmod in sitemaps?
02:14 Can I have both a news and a general sitemap?
03:02 What can I do about irrelevant search entries?
03:57 Why is my site's description not shown?
04:40 How can I fix the spam score for a used domain?
05:20 Are spammy links from porn sites bad for ranking?
05:59 Does Google use keyword density?
07:12 Why is our title mixed up with the meta description?
07:50 How can I remove my staging sub-domain?
08:25 Will disavowing links make my site rank better?
09:21 How can I best move my site?
10:22 Why doesn't my site show up in Google?
11:11 How can I get my mobile version into Google?
11:54 Why does a competitor's social account with the same name show up?
12:36 What could be a reason for a URL removal to not work?
13:13 Which structured data should I use on a service-website?
13:43 Why might my content not be indexed?
14:29 Can I get old, moved URLs ignored by Search?
15:27 Does Search Console verification affect Search?
15:54 Why might my translated content not appear in Google?
17:21 Does URL depth of an image affect ranking?
18:20 What happens when a part of an hreflang cluster is bad?
19:05 Are sitewide footer links bad?
19:39 How can I speed up a site move?
20:24 How do I link desktop and mobile versions for m-dot sites?
21:14 How important is EXIF data?

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