Googler Answers a Bunch of Questions from Webmasters and SEOs

In this lightning episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller answers questions such as:

• Can a self referential canonical override an existing canonical or preferred page? (submitted by @adityaskrishnan) (0:04​)
• Will putting the date and month in URLS affect my Google ranking? (submitted by @VaranasiBlogger) (0:22​)
• I heard that using CDNs to deliver images might be a problem for Google Search since it’s not on my server and Google doesn’t support image canonicalization. (submitted by @loujay60606) (0:38​)
• What is the best way to appear in Search if you have a global audience to target with a single domain? (submitted by @rahulsetia007) (0:57​)
• Is it such a bad thing to leave the Google Webmasters verification file out of sitemap.xml? (submitted by @RMWPublishing) (1:20​)