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.