English Google Webmaster Central office-hours from May 1, 2020
This is a recording of the Google Webmaster Central office-hours hangout from DATEDATE. These sessions are open to anything webmaster […]
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How AI Is Changing Google Search and SEO
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin speaks with Nikola Todorovic (director of Software Engineering at Google Search)
SEO for vibe-coded websites
4 SEO tips for vibe-coded websites: add real value, use full canonical URLs, test JavaScript pages, and set up Search
How Browsers Really Parse HTML (and What That Means for SEO)
Martin and Gary unpack how HTML parsing really works, why the HTML standard is so lenient, and how messy markup
Does Google treat 404 and 410 status codes differently?
Does Google do anything different when encountering a 404 versus a 410? Blind Five Year Old, SF, CA Have a
Analysing Robots.txt at scale with HTTP Archive and BigQuery
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin and Gary turn a simple robots.txt question into a data‑driven deep
How does Google handle a page containing multiple languages?
“How would Google consider (and rank) a site that uses meta data and URLs in a language (Italian) and has
AI Websites, Crawling and Search Console updates (Q2 ‘26)
Catch the latest insights on website performance and SEO in April 2026’s edition of Google Search News! John Mueller shares
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Would a Tiny Home Neighborhood Grow in Alberta?
Would a Tiny Home Neighborhood Grow in Alberta? Across the United States, tiny home communities are no longer just ideas—they
Titles, Snippets and Result Previews (WMConf MTV ’19)
Phiroze Parakh, Software Engineer at Google, discusses the core pillars for result previews: relevance, guidance, depth, and diversity. Find out
Getting started with Search Console Insights
Search Console Insights centralizes your performance highlights and provides a high level view of your Search traffic. It shows how
Why don’t 404 pages disappear immediately from search results?
Why does Google take so long to naturally remove 404 urls? John Heard, Kansas Have a question? Ask it in
Do You Still Need a Website in 2026?
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin and Gary from the Google Search Relations team tackle a deceptively
How can I add more than 1,000,000 URLs to a Sitemap?
Magico from London, UK asks: “What is the best way to deal with BIG sitemaps.xml (eg. more than 1000000 pages)?”
Crawling Challenges: What the 2025 Year-End Report Tells Us.
Join Martin and Gary as they dive into Search Off the Record’s Episode 103, unpacking the 2025 Year-End report on