Summary of English Google SEO office-hours from September 2022

00:00:00 - 00:20:00

This video is a recording of an English Google SEO office-hours session from September 2022. The speaker provides tips on how to improve the SEO of a website, including the use of structured data and video structure data on a page.

• 00:00:00 Google is experimenting with a new format for office hours called "office hours for September 2022." The goal of this format is to make it easier for everyone to participate, including on our side. There is currently no rich result feature for online services only that you could use structured data for. Developers can claim their business profile with Google Business Profile Manager and specify a service area.
• 00:05:00 Gary Hey discusses how Googlebot can't read a sitemap, what could be causing the message, and how not to overthink it when creating URLs. Nicholas asks about how algorithms treat cartoon illustrations, and Sanjay asks about redirecting a website. Christopher asks about 301 redirecting a website, and whether it would hurt the site.
• 00:10:00 In this video, Sam Gooch asks Google SEO office-hours about the new learning video rich result, and whether or not it's possible to see clicks and impressions from it in the search appearance filter. The answer is that there is no guaranteed time that you'll be able to see a specific rich result, but that you can check the rich results status report to see if it's valid and ready to go. Roberto asks about the risk of penalization if two websites with nearly identical content are found by Google. The answer is that there is no penalty or web spam manual action for having two nearly identical websites. Anna Giacinto asks about the effects of audio content on text ranking, and Google responds that audio content on its own doesn't play a role in ranking. John Mu asks what the answer to life is, and Google responds that it's the number 42.
• 00:15:00 In this video, an English Google SEO office-hour from September 2022, the presenter discusses the effects of updates on rankings, and what to do if your site falls in the rankings after an update. The presenter also discusses the use of structured data and video structure data on a page, and how to make a video eligible for other video features.
• 00:20:00 This YouTube video is a recording of an English Google SEO office-hours session from September 2022. The speaker provides tips on how to improve the SEO of a website.