100 episodes

Search Off the Record takes you behind the scenes of Google Search and its inner workings! In each episode, the folks from the Search Relations team will give you background info on the decision-making behind launches, feature prioritization in Search Console, and the projects Google Search teams are working on. They will share fun stories from the many conferences they attend as well as from their day-to-day working life at Google. They will also dive into the currently trending conversations in the SEO community at large. Have a listen!

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Search Off the Record takes you behind the scenes of Google Search and its inner workings! In each episode, the folks from the Search Relations team will give you background info on the decision-making behind launches, feature prioritization in Search Console, and the projects Google Search teams are working on. They will share fun stories from the many conferences they attend as well as from their day-to-day working life at Google. They will also dive into the currently trending conversations in the SEO community at large. Have a listen!

    Let’s talk Content Decay

    Let’s talk Content Decay

    What's the best way to handle outdated content? Does old content affect SEO? In this episode of Search Off the Record, Lizzi Sassman and John Mueller discuss the importance of addressing old content and updating it to continue being useful to users today. Listen along as Lizzi and John discuss content decay’s effect on Google Search results and practical steps to tackle it.
    Resources:
    Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr073-transcript
    Crypto redirects → https://goo.gle/4dq7Ywe
    Outdated blog post on traffic drops  → https://goo.gle/3y8UNQd
    Mobile-Testing Tool blog post  → https://goo.gle/4bsCJ1Q
    Structured Data Tool landing page → https://goo.gle/4bvZ8Lw
     
    Watch more Search Off the Record → https://goo.gle/sotr-yt
    Subscribe to Google Search Central Channel → https://goo.gle/SearchCentral
    Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

    • 33 min
    Transcript for Let’s talk Content Decay

    Transcript for Let’s talk Content Decay

    Gemini for Social Posts: Game Edition

    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 best social post using generative AI. Listen along as they weigh the pros and cons, assess how accurate the posts are, stumble on some owl facts, and see how Google’s own GenAI tool, Gemini, can be used as a creativity tool.
     
    Resources:
    Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr072-transcript 
    SEO Starter Guide  → https://goo.gle/42alrmy
    rel=prev/next isn't a signal  → https://goo.gle/4aIWz8F
    Managing Multi-Regional Sites → https://goo.gle/3J3u5e9
    Bubble chart analysis →  https://goo.gle/49q9VW8
     
    Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.
     
    #SOTRpodcast

    • 32 min
    Transcript for Gemini for Social Posts: Game Edition

    Transcript for Gemini for Social Posts: Game Edition

    Deciphering INP and Core Web Vitals

    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 importance of understanding what users seek to accomplish and optimizing accordingly, rather than focusing solely on metric scores. Listen along as the Search team touches on metrics like Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and the latest Interaction to Next Paint (INP) as pieces of the pie for a better user experience. 
     
    Resources:
    Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr071-transcript 
    Introducing INP to Core Web Vitals → https://goo.gle/4ar2UW6
    Page Experience & Google Search → https://goo.gle/49cEWgm
    Rick on X (formerly Twitter)→ https://goo.gle/3PCe4ze 
    Core Web Vitals on Stack Overflow → https://goo.gle/4awMqvw
     
    Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.
     
    #SOTRpodcast
     
    Speaker: John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman, Rick Viscomi,
    Products Mentioned: Search Off The Record,

    • 35 min
    Transcript for Deciphering INP and Core Web Vitals

    Transcript for Deciphering INP and Core Web Vitals

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