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Transcription for Search Console, JavaScript, serving, 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

Prevent portions of your site from being abused by spam

As a website owner, you might provide a few channels where your users can interact. Unfortunately, spammers often take advantage of these types of services to generate hundreds of spam pages that add little or no value to the web. Learn how to prevent spammers from abusing your site.

How we worked with you towards a safe and spam-free Search experience in 2020

Making sure your Search experience is safe and free of spam is important to us and we can’t achieve this mission without you! Here’s how we worked with you in 2020 towards safe and spam-free search results.

Sunsetting the generic rich results search appearance on Search Console

A few years ago we created a generic « rich results » search appearance group in Search Console that included multiple rich result types, including those that didn’t have their own breakout row on Search Console. This is not required anymore, since we now have breakouts for most rich result types. Therefore we decided to sunset the rich result search appearance.

Video SEO best practices for ecommerce

Get the most out of your videos on your ecommerce site by making sure Google can find and index them, driving more traffic to your site.

What if speed was a ranking factor…?

In this episode, John, Martin, and Gary discuss Core Web Vitals and start a hypothetical search engine (Steve) to figure out how they would approach speed as a ranking signal and why. Have a listen!

Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ
Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr017-transcript 

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

Transcription for What if speed was a ranking factor…?

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

How we fought Search spam on Google in 2020

Every day, we discover 40 billion spammy pages! This post explains how we used innovation, AI, and more in 2020 to keep that spam away from your search results.

More time, tools, and details on the page experience update

Last November we announced that the page experience ranking change will go live on Google Search this year, in what we’re calling the « page experience update ». To help publishers and site owners improve their page experience and prepare, today we’re announcing a few key updates.

Upcoming changes to FeedBurner

Feedburner is making several upcoming changes to support the product’s next chapter. This post describes what you can expect to change and what you can do now to ensure you’re prepared.