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Monetized websites, search experiments, and more!

John, Martin, and Gary are joined by special guest Aurora Morales from the Trust & Safety Policy Transparency team. They talk about website monetization, publisher policies, how Google runs search experiments and more!

Policy Change logs
AdSense → https://goo.gle/3zkup0S
AdMob → https://goo.gle/3eCMNdF
Ad Manager → https://goo.gle/2V27Qzd

https://g.co/legal
Publisher webinars → https://goo.gle/3eAFhQk
Sustainable Monetized Websites → https://goo.gle/smw

Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ
Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr022-transcript 

Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

Transcript for Monetized websites, search experiments, and more!

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

Google Search Console Insights behind the curtains

Following the Search Console Insights announcement, we received great feedback from the community, and also questions about the data. In this post, we provide answers to some of those questions and clarify additional points.

Simplifying the Page Experience report

Today we’re launching a new version of the Search Console Page Experience report. The new report is simplified by removing the Safe Browsing and Ad Experience widgets, and we also fixed how missing data is handled.

Cheese, Web Workers, universal search, and more!

John, Martin, and Gary celebrate recording over 20 episodes of the podcast reminiscing about great cheese and guests they want to have on the show. They then dive into how Web Workers work, their dream Swiss German programming language, how different result types are bundled together, and more!

Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ
Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr021-transcript 

Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

Transcript for Cheese, Web Workers, universal search, and more!

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

A reminder on qualifying links and our link spam update

If you monetize your websites and blogs with affiliate links or sponsored and guest posts, it’s very important to qualify these links. Learn more about commercial links and link spam

Engage shoppers with deal pages in Google Search

Get the most out of the Google Search deals carousel by creating deals pages for more sales events and following these best practices.

Analyzing Google Search traffic drops

Learn about some of the reasons your Google Search traffic may have decreased and how to use the Search Console Performance report and Google Trends to start debugging a Search traffic drop.

A new way to enable video key moments in Search

Since video key moments first launched in 2019, we’ve continued to expand and improve the feature. Today, we’re launching a new way for you to enable key moments for videos on your site, without the effort of manually labeling each segment.