Search Off the Record

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.  

Michelle Robbins, a software engineer and member of the Search Marketing community, discusses the intersection of data and SEO with Lizzi Sassman and Gary Illyes. They delve into how data can improve SEO, explore issues with data like bias and misrepresentation, and touch on the importance of finding mentors in the field.

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;