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Google regularly publishes videos on the Google Search Central YouTube channel (SEO Office Hours, Search News, engineer interviews). Captions are transcribed then AI-analyzed to extract important official statements, with a precise timestamp so you can jump straight to the source clip.

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Should you really prioritize users over machines in SEO?
👤 Lizzi Sassman 📅 Jun 21, 2022
Is Lighthouse really missing poor quality anchor text on your site?
👤 Martin Splitt 📅 Jun 21, 2022
Has hidden content become just as important as visible content for Google?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Jun 21, 2022
Why won't Google give you precise criteria on certain UX aspects—and what should you do about it?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Jun 21, 2022
Why does Google prefer hyphens over underscores in URLs—and what's the real impact on your rankings?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Jun 21, 2022
Are Core Web Vitals really enough to measure user experience?
👤 Martin Splitt 📅 Jun 21, 2022
Is Google really unable to crawl your navigation if it doesn't use proper anchor links?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Jun 21, 2022
Does Google really announce all of its progressive rollouts by geographic region?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 14, 2022
Does Google really deploy updates simultaneously across every country and language?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 14, 2022
Why does Google test algorithm updates in specific countries or languages before rolling them out worldwide?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 14, 2022
Does Google Really Use Identical Algorithms Everywhere in the World?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 14, 2022
Does Google really deploy algorithm updates in English first, or does it depend on the specific language?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 14, 2022
Why doesn't Google roll out algorithm updates everywhere at the same time?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 14, 2022
Should you really care about the difference between 301 and 302 redirects for SEO?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 8, 2022
Should you really abandon PDFs and iframes if you want your text content to rank properly?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 8, 2022
Should you really ban nofollow from your internal links?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 8, 2022
Should you block API endpoint crawling to optimize your crawl budget?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 8, 2022
Should you stop relying on the site: command to measure indexation?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 8, 2022
Does Google really crawl URLs found in your structured data?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 8, 2022
Does a CDN really improve your Google rankings?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 8, 2022
Does Google really favor certain CMS platforms for SEO rankings?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 8, 2022
Should you really isolate your archived content to boost your SEO performance?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 8, 2022
Can you really force Google to display sitelinks in search results?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 8, 2022
Is it really worth blocking or hiding external links to protect your PageRank?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Jun 8, 2022