Pop filters, nofollow, Core Web Vitals, and more! | Search Off the Record podcast



Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with John Mueller, Gary Illyes, and Martin Splitt from the Search Relations team. In this episode of Search Off the Record, John, Gary, and Martin discuss the lack of pop filters, dive into the recent Twitter discussion about nofollow, explain the new Core Web Vitals, and share their COVID-19 working-from-home experience.

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19 thoughts on “Pop filters, nofollow, Core Web Vitals, and more! | Search Off the Record podcast”

  1. I hope you continue with this format. I appreciated it. That floppy talk brought back some memories… fΓΆr instance trying to install OS/2 from floppies…. wasn't fun and did it work? No…

    Let's hope that the SEO-gurus out there won't do their usual thing and distort everything you guys say…

  2. You can just use Responsive images and then use "load=lazy". This will fallback to the image that the browser understands or if the browser does not understand the elements. This is better than using Javascript especially if the browser's JS is turned off. I recommend using HTML elements over Javascript…
    http://responsiveimages.org/
    https://web.dev/browser-level-image-lazy-loading/
    https://web.dev/content-visibility/
    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimedia_and_embedding/Responsive_images

  3. Link builders pay a lot of attention to getting dofollow links. Some nofollow links help to create brand awareness and get traffic. Google is not alone to provide traffic.

  4. Very useful, was great to hear the history of your decision making and your thoughts. I'm with Gary, JavaScript is the "friend" that we all secretly hate.

  5. I visited my Uncle in Italy for the first time in 1987. After 5 days I said, " Uncle Paul, you eat spaghetti every single day?" He answered, "No, sometimes I have rigatoni, sometimes penne, I mix 'em up…you can't eat the same thing everyday." 7:00

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