Bad Office Hours: Summer possum edition

Earlier this summer I went to Phoenix, AZ to meet up with friends. Within an hour of the triple digit heat, I had burned my feet and taken on the mental facilities of a possum startled by the vicious sun. This is relevant because it's the only way to describe the energy of July's Google Search Console office hours.

Q: How to remove all the indexing errors under "page indexing" report?

A: Right click. Inspect. Find the div. Add style="display:none"

Q: Can recipe schema for structured data be used for non-edible recipes?

A: No, that directly goes against recipe markup guidelines. Non-edible recipes are reserved for AI Overviews.

Q: Is it possible to get an API link to status.search.google.com/summary?

A: Yes! There's a RSS file and history JSON linked from every dashboard.

Q: Can the Google team help transfer SEO rankings from one previous domain to the new domain?

A: Are you asking us to help you move right now? We've gotten too nice.

Q: Can we use product variant structured data for a website that has a product configurator for 3 million variants but no price output?

A: Technically you can use to do whatever you want. A lot of work without meaningful benefit is one way. Have you tried puzzles?

Q: Hey I manage a lot of sites on Google Search Console, can I have unlimited index requests?

A: … the youthful hope in your tone is like holding a newborn dodo chick in the palm of my hands. It's a tiny miracle. The question is like it pooped in my hands.

Q: What's the impact of a huge expansion of our product portfolio on SEO Performance, for example going from 10,000 to products to 100,000?

A: More work for you

Q: What non-search features does GoogleOther crawling support?

A: You're not thinking big enough. Google Search as a Marvel franchise. You've been following the franchise with Googlebot, Googlebot Smartphone, Googlebot Video– all of them teamed uup together for years now, yeah?

Well, the franchise got boring. There was a snap. Now GoogleOther is prancing around the multiverse. We won't tell you what it means and the plot might not pay off but there's a collectible popcorn bucket and a mid-credits teaser.