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JavaScript at Google
34:16
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Googlers Edu Pereda and Pascal Birchler join Martin Splitt to chat in-depth about programming languages, JavaScript and TypeScript. Learn more about the projects they use JavaScript with, why people have strong emotions towards JavaScript, what they like and dislike about the controversial programming language, and more! Has Javascript improved? Is there such a thing as modern JavaScript? Is it possible WebAssembly could replace TypeScript? Listen to find out! Transcript →
Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.
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Mar 23, 2023 | ||||
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Mar 23, 2023 | ||||
Search and Open Source
28:04
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
Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.
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Mar 08, 2023 | ||||
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Mar 08, 2023 | ||||
Site moves: Are they getting any easier?
29:48
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.
Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.
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Feb 23, 2023 | ||||
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Feb 23, 2023 | ||||
Search Console Help Center
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Jan 12, 2023 | ||||
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Jan 12, 2023 | ||||
Year in review 2022
24:50
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.
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Dec 22, 2022 | ||||
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Dec 22, 2022 | ||||
Search Status Dashboard
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Dec 14, 2022 | ||||
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Dec 14, 2022 | ||||
From journalism to SEO with Jennifer Slegg
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Nov 30, 2022 | ||||
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Nov 30, 2022 | ||||
Let’s talk redirects
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Nov 17, 2022 | ||||
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Nov 17, 2022 | ||||
LIVE Q&A from brightonSEO
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Nov 03, 2022 | ||||
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Nov 03, 2022 | ||||
Search Central docs and SEO
30:25
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
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Oct 20, 2022 | ||||
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Oct 20, 2022 | ||||
Let's talk image SEO
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Oct 06, 2022 | ||||
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Oct 06, 2022 | ||||
The early days of Google Search Central
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Sep 22, 2022 | ||||
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Sep 22, 2022 | ||||
Non-HTML files on the web
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Sep 08, 2022 | ||||
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Sep 08, 2022 | ||||
PODCAST TRAILER: Welcome to Search Off the Record
01:35
What is Search Off the Record? Listen to our podcast trailer!
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.
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Sep 01, 2022 | ||||
Should I worry about crawl budget?
29:04
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.
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Aug 25, 2022 | ||||
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Aug 25, 2022 | ||||
Let’s talk accessibility
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Aug 11, 2022 | ||||
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Aug 04, 2022 | ||||
How do removals work in Google Search, really?
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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.
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Aug 04, 2022 | ||||
How Barry Schwartz Created RustyBrick
30:28
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
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Jul 14, 2022 | ||||
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Jun 30, 2022 | ||||
How can you block content from Google Search?
31:18
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. |
Jun 30, 2022 | ||||
Let’s talk about UX and SEO
31:08
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.
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Jun 21, 2022 | ||||
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Jun 21, 2022 | ||||
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Jun 02, 2022 | ||||
A spotlight on SEO and data with Michelle Robbins
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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. |
Jun 02, 2022 | ||||
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Let’s talk about Web 3.0
33:55
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. |
May 19, 2022 | ||||
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Let’s talk sitemaps
28:21
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.
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May 05, 2022 | ||||
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Apr 26, 2022 | ||||
The Story of Kenichi Suzuki
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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. |
Apr 26, 2022 | ||||
Structured data: What's it all about?
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Apr 07, 2022 | ||||
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De-SEOing: ants vs π
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Mar 24, 2022 | ||||
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Mar 24, 2022 | ||||
Cats, muffins and more: Videos in Search
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Mar 10, 2022 | ||||
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Mar 10, 2022 | ||||
The Story of Aleyda Solis
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Feb 17, 2022 | ||||
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Building a better website for Steve
33:48
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 Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. |
Feb 03, 2022 | ||||
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What to expect from Search Central in 2022?
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Jan 20, 2022 | ||||
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Year in Search Central 2021
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Jan 11, 2022 | ||||
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The past, present, and future of robots.txt
52:57
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
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Dec 21, 2021 | ||||
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Inclusive language in Search
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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 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. |
Dec 07, 2021 | ||||
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The Future of SEO
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Nov 11, 2021 | ||||
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Let's talk Core Web Vitals
43:20
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!
Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. |
Oct 21, 2021 | ||||
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Let’s talk JavaScript
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Sep 30, 2021 | ||||
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SEO Starter Guide: What’s all the drama?
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Sep 09, 2021 | ||||
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Monetized websites, search experiments, and more!
42:17
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 https://g.co/legal Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. |
Aug 19, 2021 | ||||
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Cheese, Web Workers, universal search, and more!
42:26
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 Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. |
Jul 29, 2021 | ||||
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Tackling web spam, search quality, and more!
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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 Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. |
Jul 06, 2021 | ||||
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Google I/O 2021, information retrieval, and more!
40:44
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 Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. |
Jun 17, 2021 | ||||
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Search Console, JavaScript, serving, and more!
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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!
Episode transcript → http://goo.gle/sotr018-transcript
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May 27, 2021 | ||||
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What if speed was a ranking factor...?
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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 Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. |
May 06, 2021 | ||||
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How serving works, hreflang, and more!
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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 Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. |
Apr 13, 2021 | ||||
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Search Central LIVE Q&A
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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. |
Mar 25, 2021 | ||||
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Mar 25, 2021 | ||||
Site Kit, Web Components, shards and more!
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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 Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. |
Feb 23, 2021 | ||||
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Launching Google Search Central (step by step)
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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. |
Feb 02, 2021 | ||||
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Language complexities in Search index selection and more!
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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. |
Jan 19, 2021 | ||||
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Looking back on 2020 with Search Relations
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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. |
Dec 22, 2020 | ||||
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Dec 22, 2020 | ||||
Web Stories, Search and sheep launches, and more!
28:28
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 |
Nov 16, 2020 | ||||
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Nov 16, 2020 | ||||
How technical Search content is written and published at Google and more!
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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 |
Nov 04, 2020 |