Google Tests New Format For SEO Office Hours - Do You Like It? - Search Engine Roundtable

Historically, I mean for over a decade, John Mueller was the single person answering questions from SEOs on the Google SEO office hours segment. Recently John announced changes to the format and it seems like once again, John is making changes to the format.

The format is still not live and it seems to still be once per month but now, John is not the only one answering the submitted questions. Now, John and his team answer the questions. So you have Google's Martin Splitt, Gary Illyes, and Lizzi Sassman answering questions with John Mueller.

It is an interesting format, but I do miss the live Q&A - but that seems long gone. :(

Here is the video followed by the transcript, if you don't want to watch or listen to it:

Lizzi: So the first question that we've got here is from Dimo, a site that connects seekers and providers of household related services matching of listings is based on zip code, but our users come from all over Germany. The best value for users is to get local matches. Is there some kind of schema markup code to tell Google algorithm? Show my site also in the local pack, please note we do not have local businesses and cannot utilize the local business markup code. The site is, and I'm gonna redact that. Yes.

So Dimo as you noted, local business markup is for businesses with physical locations, and that means that there, typically one physical location in the world for that place. so it should only show up for that city. And your other question, currently...

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