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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.

How serving works, hreflang, and more!

In this episode, John, Martin, and Gary dive into how serving works, discuss the Search Central Live debugging session, and the surprising complexity of internationalization and hreflang. Have a listen!

Synonyms talk → https://goo.gle/2PZA6js
Search Central Live → https://goo.gle/3dBm1B8

Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ
Episode transcript → http://goo.gle/sotr016-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 How serving works, hreflang, 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

Announcing the Sustainable Monetized Websites video series

The new series Sustainable Monetized Websites is now available on the Search Central and the Google AdSense YouTube channels. This series focuses on the best practices for people who create or manage content online and monetize it, acknowledging how challenging this can be and assisting them with resources and focus areas.

Expanding support for APAC Search Central Help Communities

As we’ve been continuously working to improve support for website owners in more language markets, we’re very excited to announce the opening of our Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Thai Search Central Help Communities with support from a global team of community managers that are dedicated to helping Product Experts.