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On this episode of Search Off the Record, guest Edu Pereda, Engineer at Google joins Martin Splitt and Gary Illyes to chat about Search Open Sourcing projects. Open source is a source code made available for the public to modify and distribute. Learn about the Search open source library projects, requirements in mind when creating open source libraries, why not every library can be open source, and more in this podcast episode!   Resources: Episode transcript →https://goo.gle/sotr057-transcript  Find us on Twitter → https://goo.gle/3JgUSEB Edu Pereda on Twitter → https://goo.gle/3ZntryE    Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. #SOTRpodcast #Opensource

With the right resources, site moves or domain changes don’t have to be as hard as we once remember. In this episode of Search Off the Record, join Lizzi, Gary, and John for a chat about site moves. Learn about the different types of site moves, common issues, and how to move your site without harming search ranking results. Find out how site moves affect users and Search, how there could be a drop in traffic, and more. Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr056-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Josh Cohen, a Tech Writer on the Search Console Team, joins John and Lizzi to chat about the Search Console Help Center. They dive into who drives changes in Search Console, tips for writing feedback, and questions to ask when deciding the right level of information to give in a document. Learn the differences between product and doc issues, not being able to remove content from a website you don't own, and more! Resources: Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr053-transcript  Search Console Help Center → https://goo.gle/3k34NU5    Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. #SOTRpodcast

John, Gary, and Lizzi wrap up 2022 by reflecting on projects, events, and past episodes of Search Off the Record. They discuss the most surprising aspect of 2022, updating Search documentation, and much more!   Resources: Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr055-transcript    Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.   #SOTRpodcast

On this episode of Search Off the Record, John, Gary, and Lizzi chat about the Google Search Status Dashboard for incident reporting. They discuss what prompted the dashboard, how this compares to reporting Search incidents on Twitter, and more! Learn how the dashboard can streamline communication between Google and those reporting incidents. Resources: Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr054-transcript  Status Dashboard → https://goo.gle/3Wt80KL  How To Use the Dashboard → https://goo.gle/3HvwHls  Blog: When indexing goes wrong (2019) → https://goo.gle/3HvwHls  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. #SOTRpodcast

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary and Lizzi talk with a guest from the larger Search Marketing Community, Jennifer Slegg - an expert on all things Search Engine Marketing, specializing in the Quality Rater's Guidelines and E-A-T. Reminisce about the internet in the early 2000s, hand-coded websites, minimal search results, no ads, and straight-to-the-point content. Jennifer shares her experience transitioning from journalist to Search Marketer, the writing process for her well-known detailed analysis on changes in the Quality Rater's Guidelines, and more! Was there any data available about what people searched for in the early 2000s? What does E-A-T stand for? Listen to find out! Resources: Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr051-transcript  Jennifer on Twitter → https://goo.gle/3OKwNad  Jennifer's 2022 guide to understanding Quality Rater Guidelines updates → https://goo.gle/3OKwNad  The SEM Post → https://goo.gle/3UjqMm9  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. #SOTRpodcast

Redirects are a genuine approach to moving something from one place to another. In this episode of Search Off the Record, John and Martin talk about the different types of redirects and which one you may want to use. They share the differences between 301 and 302 redirects, what type of redirects 308 and 307 are, why someone may want to use a JavaScript redirect over a meta refresh-type redirect, and more. They also cover merging and splitting domains, frustrating geo-targeting redirects, and redirects for mobile and desktop. Resources: Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr052-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. #SOTRpodcast

Join John, Lizzi, and guest, Myriam Jessier, SEO Trainer, for a live recording of SOTR from brightonSEO: a conference where SEOs gather to chat, network, and learn about search marketing. In this episode, they answer a bunch of questions hand-picked before the event. They cover topics like which is better: subdomain or subdirectory, to criteria for penalizing backlinks, and the pros and cons to templated content outlines. Learn about adding schema types, image alt, and more! Resources: Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr050-transcript  brightonSEO website → https://goo.gle/3TVlfm0 Mryiams Jessier’s website → https://goo.gle/3W6iUGU  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. #SOTRpodcast

Find out if Google Search Central implements its SEO best practices and guidelines on its own website and documentation! Hosts John and Lizzi discuss SEO tools, sitemaps, hreflang links, robots.txt, click-through rates, and more. They cover what they’ve implemented, what they are thinking of updating, and what they are passing on. Hear all things link related, categorizing, and working with an external SEO agency during rebranding.    Episode transcript → http://goo.gle/sor049-transcript    Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

Do you want to know how to increase traffic to your website with images? What about making your website more accessible for screen readers with alt text for an image? Our hosts John and Lizzi chat about optimizing for image search. They cover everything from naming your image file, how often Googlebot crawls images, increasing visibility of your page through image search, to improving alt text and image accessibility.  Resources: Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr048-transcript  Google images best practices → https://goo.gle/3CAevUD  SEO for Google Images | Search Central Lightning Talks → https://goo.gle/3e76PQo  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. #SOTRpodcast

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Vanessa Fox, a former Google employee, joins hosts John and Lizzi to talk about the early days of Google Search Central (or shall we say, Webmaster Tools). She shares the beginnings of the Sitemaps tool, Webmaster Help group, Webmaster Tools, and more! Resources: Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr047-transcript Our very first blog post, authored by Vanessa Fox → https://goo.gle/3qEM6WM  URL Structure guidelines → https://goo.gle/3U3T8BU SEO Compendium → https://goo.gle/3C0RsCn Keylime Toolbox → https://goo.gle/3xIipIn Vanessa Fox on twitter → https://goo.gle/3xJmOLa  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. #SOTRpodcast

Join hosts Gary and Lizzi for a chat about file types on the web beyond HTML, like PDFs, PowerPoints, and images. We cover issues with all sorts of file types, if you should convert your weird file into HTML, what file types are indexed, and more on non-HTML files. Resources: PDFs in Google search results → https://goo.gle/3RZ16dV  Episode transcript →  https://goo.gle/sotr046-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. #SOTRpodcast

What is Search Off the Record? Listen to our podcast trailer! Do you geek out about SEO? Are you interested in exploring on-going projects with the people that work on Google Search? Well, look no further! Listen to the Search Off the Record podcast to go behind the scenes of SEO and Google Search, all while having fun and mischief with our hosts from the Search Relations team from Google: Gary Illyes, Lizzi Sassman, John Mueller, and Martin Splitt.   Watch the Search Off the Record podcast trailer on YouTube → https://goo.gle/3RmjuNe  Listen to Search Off the Record on YouTube → https://goo.gle/3PShrA2  Listen to Search Off the Record on Libsyn → https://goo.gle/3am6jMx    Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

There is a lot of confusion around crawl budget so Martin, Lizzi, and Gary from Search Relations are here to bring clarity for everyone unsure about it. Are you worried about your website not being crawled quickly? Not sure what consumes and wastes your crawl budget? Learn when you should and shouldn’t be worried about your crawl budget. This episode covers misconceptions and frequently asked questions concerning crawl budget.   Resources:  What Crawl Budget Means for Googlebot → https://goo.gle/3pIwXTM   Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr045-transcript    Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.   #SOTRpodcast

In this episode of Search Off The Record, guest Danny Farra, UX Interaction Designer at Google, joins Lizzi Sassman to chat about accessibility of websites. We explore how to get started with accessibility, from using a screen reader for the first time to assessing contrast ratio and cognitive accessibility. Listen to this podcast to learn about assisted technology tools like screen readers and more! Resources: Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr044-Transcript  Google Accessibility → https://goo.gle/3A5C6LG  Danny Farra on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/3A6OJX6    Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Lizzi Sassman, John Mueller, and Gary Illyes have an insightful conversation around how removals work in Google Search. Specifically, they chat about how Google Search operates when removals are in the mix. How does crawling, indexing, and blocking work in the backend? What really happens at each of these stages when it comes to removals? Listen to this podcast to get a behind-the-scenes look at Google Search   Resources:  Check out our episode about blocking → https://goo.gle/3P1UWYq  Control what you share with Google → https://goo.gle/3oUyoym  In-depth guide to how Google Search works → https://goo.gle/3bx2CV2  Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr043-Transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Lizzi Sassman and Gary Illyes sit down with Barry Schwartz - a search engine connoisseur. Specifically, they explore how Barry runs his online career, balancing RustyBrick and Search Engine Roundtable. We even talk about website development, and the origin story behind RustyBrick  - a web construction firm specializing in website development, web page design, SEO optimization, and more! Check out and subscribe to Barry Schwartz’s YouTube channel → https://goo.gle/3z3FCWw    Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr042-Transcript    Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode of Search Off the Record, we take a look at what it takes to block content from Google Search. Lizzi Sassman, Gary Illyes, and John Mueller chat about the role of robots.txt files and robots meta tags. What roles do they play in crawling and indexing? What other practices can you employ to remove unwanted content from Google Search? Listen to this podcast to discover some useful Search tips and tricks when it comes to barring content.  Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr041-Transcript Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin Splitt, Gary Illyes, and Lizzi Sassman sit down to talk about user experience and SEO. What is UX? Besides Core Web Vitals, what other things could we try to automatically infer about the user experience of a site? From interstitials to site structure, our team of Search experts sit down and chat about the relationship between UX and SEO.  Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr040-Transcript    Let’s talk Core Web Vitals video → https://goo.gle/3xyX0k9  Let’s talk Core Web Vitals podcast → https://goo.gle/3xWcQGJ  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode of Search Off the Record, we talk with Michelle Robbins - a software engineer by trade and member of the Search Marketing community. Lizzi Sassman and Gary Illyes sit down with Michelle to discuss how she got interested in SEO and even talk about data’s relation to SEO. How can data improve your SEO? Moreover, they explore common issues with data: bias, misrepresentation, and correlation vs. causation. Listen to this episode to see where the worlds of data and SEO overlap. Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr039-Transcript  Michelle Robbins on Twitter → https://goo.gle/3Nd8jVE Michelle Robbins on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/3PWnpAM  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

With Web 3.0 on the horizon, it’s hard to not talk about the next evolution of the internet. In this episode of Search Off The Record, Martin Splitt, Gary Illyes, and Alan Kent offer up their thoughts about the World Wide Web’s next iteration, and fondly recollect their experiences with older versions of the web. They ponder what people think Web 3.0 is and what it might become. Is it decentralized? Is it crypto? Both or none of that? Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr038-Transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

A sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages, videos, and other files on your site, and the relationships between them. In this episode of Search Off the Record, we sit down with Gary Illyes, John Mueller, and Lizzi Sassman to discuss all things sitemaps. How do they help with website SEO? What is the future of sitemaps? Listen to this episode to find out! Episode transcript →  https://goo.gle/sotr037-Transcript   Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode of Search Off The Record, we talk with Kenichi Suzuki, a member of the larger search marketing community. Lizzi Sassman and Gary Illyes talk with Kenichi about his career in SEO, how he got started, and what advice he would give to those just starting out. Listen to this episode to gain valuable insight into the SEO world, and SEO in Japan!  Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr036-Transcript  Follow Kenichi on Twitter → https://goo.gle/3Li7BoX  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode of Search Off The Record, we take a deep dive into structured data. Our hosts Martin Splitt and Lizzi Sassman talk with Ryan Levering, a software engineer at Google, about the importance of structured data, impactful things you can do with it, how Google uses it, and more! If you’re wanting to know the in’s and out’s of structured data, this episode is for you.  Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr035-Transcript   Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. fullname: Lizzi Sassman, Martin Splitt;

You did a great job optimizing your site for search; however, it's attracting the wrong traffic from search engines. What are your options to correct this unexpected behavior? In this podcast, Martin Splitt, Gary Illyes, and Lizzi Sassman take a deep dive on how to determine if the search traffic is the correct audience, de-SEOing, and why it's such an interesting subject.  Remove a page hosted on your site from Google → https://goo.gle/3JxlGhJ  Get videos on Google with schema markup → https://goo.gle/3JwayBn    Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr034-Transcript    Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

Let’s talk about the fascinating and surprising ways search engines index video content. In this podcast, Gary Illyes and Lizzi Sassman chat with Danielle Marshak - Product Manager for Search - about how images, structured data, content protections, and more influence the way search engines surface content. Learn some best practices for surfacing your videos in search! Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr033-Transcript Video indexing best practices → https://goo.gle/3vFuAWg  Google's Artificial Brain Learns to Find Cat Videos blog post → https://goo.gle/3Moy4T2  Try out Muffin Films → https://goo.gle/3CdodKZ  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

Is there one right path to becoming an SEO? In this episode of Search Off the Record, John Mueller and Gary Illyes speak with Aleyda Solis, a well-known SEO professional. Specifically, they ask her questions about her first website, her path to becoming a professional SEO, and what tips she would give to those who are starting out. Listen to this podcast to gain insight into what it takes to become a professional SEO.     Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr032-transcript    Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

Making a website is no easy task, but what if your search engine had guidelines and best practices in place to help you build a better website?  Search Advocates Gary Illyes, Martin Splitt, and John Mueller continue their conversation about Steve - their theoretical search engine. From HTML validations to image alt text, they discuss guidelines and practices that affect ranking for your website on this search engine.  Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr031-transcript  Episode 17 → https://goo.gle/3uoiVup  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode, John, Martin, and Gary discuss what is in store for 2022. They talk about voice search, if there is a sustainable way for Googlebot to index and crawl content, webmaster guidelines, and more!   Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr030-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode, John, Martin, and Gary wrap up 2021 by reflecting on updates, debates, and events. They discuss the status of JavaScript and Search, bridging the gap between SEOs and developers, core updates, and much more! Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr029-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary, Lizzi, and Martin from the Google Search team are joined by special guest David Price, a Product Counsel for Google. They discuss human initiated crawl requests vs. bot initiated crawl requests, the robots.txt file, and more!   Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr028-transcript    Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

John and Martin are joined by guest stars Zineb Ait Bahajji and Bruno Cartoni from Google to talk all about inclusive language. The group discusses principles behind inclusive writing, examples in different languages, how Search handles indexing and ranking for inclusive writing, and more! United Nation - Gender-inclusive language (available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese) → https://goo.gle/3DsRws4  Inclusive Language (Wikipedia) → https://goo.gle/3ouqZpX  European Institute for Gender Equality → https://goo.gle/3Dsxrlx  A guide to inclusive language in the workplace → https://goo.gle/3Eyozw1  Google Developer Documentation Style Guide → https://goo.gle/3lIdLUR  Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr027-transcript Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode, John, Martin, and Gary discuss the future of SEO. They talk about the changes they’ve seen in the past decade and anticipate what’s next for SEO. Find out if HTML knowledge will be necessary in the future, if SEO will still be relevant, and more!   Episode transcript →  https://goo.gle/sotr026-transcript   Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

John and Martin are joined by special guest stars Annie Sullivan and Vivek Sekhar, who work on Core Web Vitals. They discuss the metrics that make up Core Web Vitals, speed and performance of a web page, page experience ranking for larger and smaller companies, and more! Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr025-transcript    Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode, Martin and Gary discuss JavaScript in great detail. They talk about the origins of JavaScript, how it compares to Java applet, modern replacements, and all the problems that go along with this programming language.   Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr024-transcript Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this very special episode, John, Gary, and Lizzi are joined by a guest star Michael Wyszomierski (tech writer for internal apps). Through some dramatic readings they bring the SEO Starter Guide to life and discuss robots.txt, the mobile-friendly test, writing for users, and more. SEO Starter Guide → https://goo.gle/36ZamsL Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr023-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

John, Martin, and Gary are joined by special guest Aurora Morales from the Trust & Safety Policy Transparency team. They talk about website monetization, publisher policies, how Google runs search experiments and more! Policy Change logs AdSense → https://goo.gle/3zkup0S AdMob → https://goo.gle/3eCMNdF Ad Manager → https://goo.gle/2V27Qzd https://g.co/legal Publisher webinars → https://goo.gle/3eAFhQk Sustainable Monetized Websites → https://goo.gle/smw Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr022-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

John, Martin, and Gary celebrate recording over 20 episodes of the podcast reminiscing about great cheese and guests they want to have on the show. They then dive into how Web Workers work, their dream Swiss German programming language, how different result types are bundled together, and more! Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr021-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

John, Martin, and Gary are joined by special guest Duy Nguyen from the Search Quality team. They discuss tackling web spam, responding to manual actions, preventing hacks, ranking, and more. Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr020-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

John, Martin, and Gary discuss this year’s Google I/O and whether its website followed SEO best practices, upcoming events, and, of course, JavaScript. Gary also deep dives into Google’s search engine information retrieval process and why, when searching for a car, you don’t get results for pineapple pizza. Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ  Episode transcript → http://goo.gle/sotr019-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode, John, Martin, and Gary are joined by special guest Daniel Waisberg. Daniel talks about the new Search Console Regex feature and how Search Console feature requests are prioritized in general. They also discuss converting a blog to a static site, JavaScript generated content, and serving. Have a listen! Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ Episode transcript → http://goo.gle/sotr018-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode, John, Martin, and Gary discuss Core Web Vitals and start a hypothetical search engine (Steve) to figure out how they would approach speed as a ranking signal and why. Have a listen! Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr017-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode, John, Martin, and Gary dive into how serving works, discuss the Search Central Live debugging session, and the surprising complexity of internationalization and hreflang. Have a listen! Synonyms talk → https://goo.gle/2PZA6js Search Central Live → https://goo.gle/3dBm1B8 Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ Episode transcript → http://goo.gle/sotr016-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

This episode is a recording of the Q&A section of the Search Central LIVE event which took place on Feb 24th, 2021. John, Martin, and Gary answer questions about launching a new site for a local business, algorithm changes, dynamic rendering, AMP, PWAs, title tag length, and more.  We apologize for the subpar quality of one of the tracks recorded live. Search Central LIVE → http://goo.gle/SearchCentralLIVE Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr015-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode, John, Gary, Martin, and special guest Mariya, Product Manager on the Search team, discuss Google’s free WordPress plugin Site Kit, the Swiss army knife of Google products that puts the most relevant of Google’s tools directly in your WordPress admin dashboard. They also dive into web components, indexing shards (or sharks?!), and posting lists. Have a listen! Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ Episode transcript → http://goo.gle/sotr014-transcript Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode, John, Gary, and special guests from the Search Relations team Cherry and Lizzi, discuss all the steps and decisions involved in launching the new Google Search Central site and brand. Have a listen to learn how the idea came about, how the website was migrated, how the team approached SEO for the new site, and much more! Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ  Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr013-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In this episode, John, Martin, Gary, and special guest Cherry Prommawin, Search Advocate based in Singapore, discuss Google Search in the Asia-Pacific region as well as the complexities of index selection for language types and locations. Have a listen! Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ  Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr012-transcript  Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

In our very last podcast episode...for 2020, John, Martin, and Gary reflect on the year and how it’s impacted events and community interaction, they share holiday plans, and discuss the new Search Central site. They even touch on some SearchRel plans for 2021 and Gary gives an update on his blog! Curious to learn more? Have a listen! Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ  Episode transcript → http://goo.gle/sotr011-transcript Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. In this episode, John, Martin, Gary, and special guest Pascal Birchler, Developer Programs Engineer at Google, deep dive into Web Stories and indexing of AMP and images. They also discuss launching new Search and Search Console features and the recent sheep ‘launch’. Curious to learn more? Have a listen! Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ  Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr010-transcript

Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. In this episode, John, Martin, Gary, and special guest Lizzi Harvey, technical writer, deep dive into how technical Search content is written and published at Google, give an update on the planned Virtual Conference, and discuss dupe detection and canonicalization. Have a listen! Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ  Transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr009-transcription

Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. In this episode, Gary, Martin, and John draw (un)expected connections between rendering, signal collection in indexing, and SEOs & developers (not) working together. They also reflect back on the Virtual Webmaster Unconference. Have a listen! Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ  Transcript for this episode → http://goo.gle/sotr008-transcript