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Why these Google Search Central videos?

Google regularly publishes videos on the Google Search Central YouTube channel (SEO Office Hours, Search News, engineer interviews). Captions are transcribed then AI-analyzed to extract important official statements, with a precise timestamp so you can jump straight to the source clip.

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When to check? To verify the official stance on a contentious topic, or catch up on the latest Search News without watching 30 minutes of video.

Do skip links really improve your SEO, or are they just an accessibility checkbox?
👤 Danny Farra 📅 Aug 11, 2022
Does accessibility really boost your content's international SEO performance across multiple languages?
👤 Lizzi Sassman 📅 Aug 11, 2022
Does your keyboard tab order really impact SEO rankings?
👤 Danny Farra 📅 Aug 11, 2022
Can a single noindex tag on an hreflang page contaminate your entire international cluster?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Aug 4, 2022
Does Google's removal tool actually delete your URLs from the index?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Aug 4, 2022
Should you disable Google cache to take control of how your snippets appear in search results?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Aug 4, 2022
Why does it really take Google months to permanently remove a page from its index?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Aug 4, 2022
Why is Google now rejecting certain directives in your robots.txt file?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Aug 4, 2022
Does Google really process HTTP status codes during the crawl phase, not after?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Aug 4, 2022
Can you really force Google to refresh a snippet without owning the website?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Aug 4, 2022
Should you use X-Robots-Tag to keep PDFs and binary files out of Google's index?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Aug 4, 2022
Does Google's URL removal tool actually stop crawling your pages?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Aug 4, 2022
Does Google extract meta robots and canonical tags during indexing rather than at crawl time—and why does this distinction matter for your site?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Aug 4, 2022
Should you really rely on JavaScript to handle noindex directives?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Aug 4, 2022
Does the unavailable_after directive really slow down Google's crawling?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Aug 4, 2022
Can Google really index your URLs blocked by robots.txt without you being able to do anything about it?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Aug 4, 2022
Why doesn't Google display every single price drop you markup?
👤 Alan Kent 📅 Jul 28, 2022
How does the 15 MB limit impact your JavaScript management for SEO?
👤 Google 📅 Jul 28, 2022
Is it true that Google supports the M3U8/HLS format for videos?
👤 Google 📅 Jul 28, 2022
Does Google really rewrite your title tags however it wants?
👤 Alan Kent 📅 Jul 28, 2022
Why does Google really require 1200 pixels for product images to appear in rich results?
👤 Alan Kent 📅 Jul 28, 2022
Should you continue publishing even when facing canonicalization issues?
👤 Kanatani Takeaki 📅 Jul 28, 2022
Should you really remove prices and stock levels from your title tags?
👤 Alan Kent 📅 Jul 28, 2022
Why does Google really insist on 6 minimum fields in product structured data?
👤 Alan Kent 📅 Jul 28, 2022