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Musonera Jean Claude's podcast
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Musonera Jean Claude's podcastPDFs in Search: Indexing, AI & Pitfalls
Should you publish your content as a PDF or stick strictly to standard HTML? Does Google treat PDF files differently when it comes to indexing, ranking, and AI…
Musonera Jean Claude's podcastDo sitemaps still matter?
Sitemaps have been a core element of web development and search engine optimization for two decades, yet Search Console warnings like "Couldn't fetch" continue…
Musonera Jean Claude's podcastShould you block your Search result pages?
Is your website's internal search feature secretly acting as an open invitation for crawling lots and lots? In this episode of Search off the Record, Martin…
Musonera Jean Claude's podcastHow to read the Indexing Report
Should you panic when your Search Console indexing report is showing pages that aren't indexed? Is a 404 error code always a sign of a broken website? In this…
Musonera Jean Claude's podcastShould I use markdown for my site?
Should you convert your website into Markdown to help Large Language Models (LLMs) understand your content better? Is "llms.txt" worth the effort for SEO? In…
Musonera Jean Claude's podcastVibe Coding - yay or nay?
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin Splitt and John Mueller from Google's Search Relations team dive deep into the world of AI-assisted…
Musonera Jean Claude's podcastHow AI Is Changing Google Search and SEO
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin speaks with Nikola Todorovic (director of Software Engineering at Google Search) about how AI is changing…
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Analysing Robots.txt at scale with HTTP Archive and BigQuery
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin and Gary turn a simple robots.txt question into a data‑driven deep dive using HTTP Archive, WebPageTest…
Musonera Jean Claude's podcastAre websites getting "fat"? Page weight, HTML size & Googlebot limits explained
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary and Martin dig into what "page size" and "page weight" actually mean for developers, users, and search engines…
Musonera Jean Claude's podcastGoogle crawlers behind the scenes
Developers often talk about Googlebot as if it were a single program you could just run as "googlebot.exe", but that is not how Google's crawling actually…
Musonera Jean Claude's podcastHow Browsers Really Parse HTML (and What That Means for SEO)
Martin and Gary unpack how HTML parsing really works, why the HTML standard is so lenient, and how messy markup can silently break key SEO signals like…
Musonera Jean Claude's podcastDo You Still Need a Website in 2026?
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin and Gary from the Google Search Relations team tackle a deceptively simple question: do you still need a…
Musonera Jean Claude's podcastCrawling Challenges: What the 2025 Year-End Report Tells Us.
Join Martin and Gary as they dive into Search Off the Record's Episode 103, unpacking the 2025 Year-End report on crawling issues. Discover fascinating…
Musonera Jean Claude's podcastSEO, AIO, GEO, your site, & third-party support to optimize for LLMs
In this episode, John Mueller and Danny Sullivan continue their conversation about the changing landscape of Search. They discuss the practicalities of hiring…
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Thoughts on SEO & SEO for AI, part 1
In this episode, John Mueller and Danny Sullivan talk about SEO and the new kids on the block: AIO, GEO and others. Danny shares how these things interact with…
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How Search Off the Record tackles SEO and web development
Celebrate the 100th episode of Search Off the Record with Martin, Lizzi, Cherry, John and Gary as they revisit memorable moments, touching on a bunch of…
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Optimizing login-page content for Google Search
Explore critical aspects of search engine optimization for web content that lives behind a login or paywall. In this episode, Martin and John cover how…
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Lazy loading demystified
Optimize your website's performance with lazy loading techniques. In this episode, John Mueller and Martin Splitt discuss lazy loading, and its SEO…
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SEO for photographers: websites, social media, and Google Search
In this episode of Search Off The Record, John and Martin explore the intersection of SEO and photography. Is a website essential for photographers, or is…
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How does CSS affect SEO?
Martin and John dive into the world of CSS and explore its connection to SEO. Discover why CSS files matter for SEO, how modern CSS frameworks impact pages…
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SEO for small businesses
Are you a developer or small business owner struggling with Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? In this episode of Search Off the Record, Google Search Advocates…
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Demystifying SEO for developers
Developers often have misconceptions about SEO. In this episode of Search Off the Record, John Mueller and Martin Splitt clarify what matters and what doesn't…
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What SEOs should know about devs
In this candid episode of Search Off the Record, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt from the Google Search team peel back the curtain to reveal a more human side of…
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How Googlebot Crawls the Web
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin and Gary from the Google Search Relations team take a deep dive into how Googlebot and web crawling work—past…
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Debugging the Internet: HTTP, TCP, and You
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt from the Google Search team dive deep into the foundations of how the web…
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Launching Search Central Live Deep Dive
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Google's Martin Splitt, Cherry, and Gary Illyes discuss the exciting expansion of Search Central Live with the…
Musonera Jean Claude's podcastHow are web standards made?
Ever wondered how web standards are made? Martin and Gary from Google Search take you behind the scenes of the internet's governing bodies. From the IETF to…
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Wrapping up 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, we're reflecting on what SEO things happened this year. Listen along as we chat about what we learned from going to events, the…
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Handling Dupes - Same Same or Different?
In this episode of Search Off the Record, John and Martin talk to Allan Scott from the Google Search team that handles duplicate content. They explore how…
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A discussion of UX for SEO
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Lizzi and John are joined by Rio Ichikawa, a product manager working on UX, CRO, and SEO, to discuss the intersection…
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Understanding how users experience your website
Sometimes talking to your users is the best way to figure out why that pesky bounce rate is high. But how do you actually do that, especially if you're on a…
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Designing Google Doodles and delightful experiences
What does recursion, Weather Frog, and Momo the Magic Cat have in common? In this episode of SOTR, Lizzi and John go behind the scenes of a Google Doodle with…
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Google Search Reliability
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Ben Walton and David Yule from the Google Search Site Reliability Team (SRE) walk us through their day to day work…
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How do I know if my SEO is doing a good job?
It's been a few months since you hired an SEO; how can you tell if things are headed in the right direction? In this episode of Search Off the Record, Lizzi…
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Let's talk shopping markup
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Irina Tuduce from the shopping team joins John Mueller and Lizzi Sassman to chat all things shopping data, from…
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Working With Search Console API
We sat down with Mihai Aperghis, a Google Product Expert (PE) for Search, when he visited the Zurich office for the PE Summit this year. In this episode we…
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Crawling smarter, not harder
In this episode of SOTR, John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman, and Gary Illyes talk about misconceptions around crawl frequency and site quality, what's challenging…
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Internationalization & hreflang
Managing websites that use different languages and serve different countries is no easy task. That's why Lizzi, Gary and Martin sat down to talk about all…
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Rendering JavaScript for Google Search
In this episode, Zoe Clifford from the rendering team joins Martin and John from Search Relations to talk about how Google Search deals with JavaScript sites…
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Inside Search Quality: Using metrics and data science to improve Search
In this episode of SOTR, Lizzi and John sit down with Elizabeth Tucker to go behind the scenes of Search Quality product management. Listen along as they…
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Cosmic Rays & Crawlers: When Google Search is under the weather
How does Google address incidents that affect Search results, like indexing problems or crawling issues? Join John, Lizzi, and Gary in this episode of Search…
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Building SEO community with office hours
In this episode of Search off the Record, John and Lizzi invite Michael Chidzey and “Jo” Juliana Turnbull to talk all things SEO Office Hours. Listen along as…
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What is Content Decay?
“Content Decay” generally refers to the natural decline in relevance and effectiveness of online content over time due to various factors such as changing…
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Gemini for Social Posts: Game Edition
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary Illyes, Lizzi Sassman, and John Mueller put Large Language Models (LLMs) to the test and compete to create the…
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Deciphering INP and Core Web Vitals
In this episode of Search Off the Record, John Mueller and Lizzi Sassman are joined by Rick Viscomi from the Chrome Web Performance team to discuss the…
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What is a web crawler, really?
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary Illyes and Lizzi Sassman take a deep dive into crawling the web: what is a web crawler, and how does it really…
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Search Central Product Experts
In this episode of Search Off the Record, John Mueller and Lizzi Sassman sit down with Aaseesh Marina, Product Support Manager, to discuss the Search Central…
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Rewriting the SEO Starter Guide
The SEO Starter Guide is getting a refresh! Have you ever wondered how the Search team plans and writes such a document? In this episode of Search Off the…
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2023: Year in review
In this episode of Search, Martin, John, and Gary look back at 2023 and reminisce on some of this year’s Search announcements. From updates to Core Web Vitals…
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Which aspect of my site should I focus on?
In this episode of Search, Martin, Gary, and John discuss aspects of SEO that website owners often overlook. From overall quality to more technical aspects…
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Features and deprecations on Steve
In this episode of Search, John, Gary, and Martin discuss why the search team adds and removes features on their search engine, Steve. From creating a better…
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The effect of quality on Search
In this episode of Search, John and Gary discuss the impact of quality on search results. From sitemaps to scheduling and more, the Google Search team talks…
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Let's talk ranking updates
The Google Search algorithm has been updated and panic quickly sets in. In this episode of Search, Martin, John, and Danny help content creators everywhere…
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Let’s pick a domain name
A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of a domain name, after the dot, and identifies the type of organization the domain belongs to, or the country the…
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Why is my site not indexed?
Martin, John, and Gary discuss the potential reasons why your website or page is not indexed, both from a technical and quality perspective. Learn about the…
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Q&A: You asked on Linkedin, we answered in here
In this episode of Search Off the Record, John, Gary, and Martin answer highly sought-after questions left on Gary’s Linkedin post. They share the drawbacks of…
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Staging and launching a site
In this episode of Search Off the Record, John, Gary, and Lizzi chat about launching websites. Launching a website can be a nerve-wracking experience…