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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.

Answers to some common questions about appearing in Google News

Today, we’re answering some common questions we’ve heard from publishers to help them better understand how news appears on Google News and Google Search.

Highlight your customer support methods in Google Search

Customers are often looking for ways to contact businesses, and Google works to show the best available information to help them in a variety of ways whenever we can. You can help us with this by following several best practices that help ensure we’re showing the most accurate information for your business or service.

Tackling web spam, search quality, and more!

John, Martin, and Gary are joined by special guest Duy Nguyen from the Search Quality team. They discuss tackling web spam, responding to manual actions, preventing hacks, ranking, and more.

Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ
Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr020-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 Tackling web spam, search quality, 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