As 2024 comes to a close, we're reflecting on what SEO things happened this year. Listen along as we chat... more

In this episode of Search Off the Record, John and Martin talk to Allan Scott from the Google Search team... more

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Lizzi and John are joined by Rio Ichikawa, a product manager working... more

Sometimes talking to your users is the best way to figure out why that pesky bounce rate is high. But... more

What does recursion, Weather Frog, and Momo the Magic Cat have in common?   In this episode of SOTR, Lizzi... more

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Ben Walton and David Yule from the Google Search Site Reliability Team... more

It's been a few months since you hired an SEO; how can you tell if things are headed in the... more

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Irina Tuduce from the shopping team joins John Mueller and Lizzi Sassman... more

We sat down with Mihai Aperghis, a Google Product Expert (PE) for Search, when he visited the Zurich office for... more

In this episode of SOTR, John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman, and Gary Illyes talk about misconceptions around crawl frequency and site... more

Managing websites that use different languages and serve different countries is no easy task. That's why Lizzi, Gary and Martin... more

In this episode, Zoe Clifford from the rendering team joins Martin and John from Search Relations to talk about how... more

In this episode of SOTR, Lizzi and John sit down with Elizabeth Tucker to go behind the scenes of Search... more

How does Google address incidents that affect Search results, like indexing problems or crawling issues? Join John, Lizzi, and Gary... more

In this episode of Search off the Record, John and Lizzi invite Michael Chidzey and “Jo” Juliana Turnbull to talk... more

What's the best way to handle outdated content? Does old content affect SEO? In this episode of Search Off the... more

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary Illyes, Lizzi Sassman, and John Mueller put Large Language Models (LLMs)... more

In this episode of Search Off the Record, John Mueller and Lizzi Sassman are joined by Rick Viscomi from the... more

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary Illyes and Lizzi Sassman take a deep dive into crawling the... more

In this episode of Search Off the Record, John Mueller and Lizzi Sassman sit down with Aaseesh Marina, Product Support... more

The SEO Starter Guide is getting a refresh! Have you ever wondered how the Search team plans and writes such... more

In this episode of Search, Martin, John, and Gary look back at 2023 and reminisce on some of this year’s... more

In this episode of Search, Martin, Gary, and John discuss aspects of SEO that website owners often overlook. From overall... more

In this episode of Search, John, Gary, and Martin discuss why the search team adds and removes features on their... more

In this episode of Search, John and Gary discuss the impact of quality on search results. From sitemaps to scheduling... more

The Google Search algorithm has been updated and panic quickly sets in. In this episode of Search, Martin, John, and... more

A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of a domain name, after the dot, and identifies the type of... more

Martin, John, and Gary discuss the potential reasons why your website or page is not indexed, both from a technical... more

In this episode of Search Off the Record, John, Gary, and Martin answer highly sought-after questions left on Gary’s Linkedin... more

In this episode of Search Off the Record, John, Gary, and Lizzi chat about launching websites. Launching a website can... more

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Googlers Edu Pereda and Pascal Birchler join Martin Splitt to chat in-depth... more

On this episode of Search Off the Record, guest Edu Pereda, Engineer at Google joins Martin Splitt and Gary Illyes... more

With the right resources, site moves or domain changes don’t have to be as hard as we once remember. In... more

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Josh Cohen, a Tech Writer on the... more

John, Gary, and Lizzi wrap up 2022 by reflecting on projects, events, and past episodes of Search Off the Record.... more

On this episode of Search Off the Record, John, Gary, and Lizzi chat about the... more

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary and Lizzi talk with a guest... more

Redirects are a genuine approach to moving something from one place to another. In this... more

Join John, Lizzi, and guest, Myriam Jessier, SEO Trainer, for a live recording of SOTR... more

Find out if Google Search Central implements its SEO best practices and guidelines on its own website and documentation! Hosts... more

Do you want to know how to increase traffic to your website with images? What... more

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Vanessa Fox, a former Google employee, joins... more

Join hosts Gary and Lizzi for a chat about file types on the web beyond... more

What is Search Off the Record? Listen to our podcast trailer! Do you geek out about SEO? Are you... more

There is a lot of confusion around crawl budget so Martin, Lizzi, and Gary from Search Relations are here to... more

In this episode of Search Off The Record, guest Danny Farra, UX Interaction Designer at Google,... more