Search Off the Record

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/sot026-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.