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AI Websites, Crawling and Search Console updates (Q2 ‘26)
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14 Apr 2026
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Catch the latest insights on website performance and SEO in April 2026’s edition of Google Search News! John Mueller shares updates from Google Search, including new Search Console features, guidance for vibe-coded, AI-created websites, crawling resources, and recent Search changes. The episode also highlights helpful Google Trends updates, upcoming Search Central events, and a playful robots.txt project that shows the creative side of the community. John also shout outs several community posts, covering ecommerce SEO, generative information retrieval, SEO and AI, and the role of informational content in the age of LLMs.
It’s a great roundup for anyone who wants practical updates from Google, useful SEO advice, and a look at the vibrant community contributing ideas and insights across the web. (Credit: Google)
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Are websites getting “fat”? Page weight, HTML size & Googlebot limits explained
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30 Mar 2026
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In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary and Martin dig into what “page size” and “page weight” actually mean for developers, users, and search engines. They discuss exploding web page sizes: median mobile homepages hit 2.3 MB in 2025 Web Almanac (up 3x from 2015), key insights for developers on page weight definitions, Googlebot's crawl limits, HTML bloat from structured data/images, and why size still hurts UX on slow connections despite faster networks. If you build or maintain websites, this conversation will help you rethink how much data your pages ship, where bloat really comes from, and why page weight still matters even as connections get faster. (Credit: Google)
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SEO, AIO, GEO, your site, & third-party support to optimize for LLMs
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9 Jan 2026
In this episode, John Mueller and Danny Sullivan continue their conversation about the changing landscape of Search. They discuss the practicalities of hiring an SEO professional in the age of AI: Do you really need one? How do you evaluate them? Danny also shares his thoughts on third-party SEO tools, "domain scores," and why creators shouldn't rush to break their content into "bite-sized chunks" just to please Large Language Models (LLMs).
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Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.
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Thoughts on SEO & SEO for AI, part 1
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In this episode, John Mueller and Danny Sullivan talk about SEO and the new kids on the block: AIO, GEO and others. Danny shares how these things interact with each other and what he thinks website owners should look for in their content creation and how Google's principles align with the way people use AI and search engines to navigate the web.
How Search Off the Record tackles SEO and web development
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Celebrate the 100th episode of Search Off the Record with Martin, Lizzi, Cherry, John and Gary as they revisit memorable moments, touching on a bunch of topics. This special episode touches on Google's mobile-first indexing, the intricacies of the Caffeine indexing system, and a deep dive into JavaScript scoping – and hoisting. You'll hear again about optimizing documentation traffic and the delightful world of Google Doodles. Discover key insights that impact your SEO strategies and web development practices.
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Chapters: 0:00 - Welcome and 100th Episode Intro 2:21 - Lizzi's favorite: SEO starter guide readings 3:01 - Gary on Mobile-First Indexing Importance 3:39 - Revamping the SEO starter guide 5:13 - Meta tags and Google's indexing system 9:11 - Cherry's use of podcasts for work 12:09 - Deep dive into caffeine indexing 13:59 - The mechanics of data conversion in caffeine 16:12 - John's favorite: The magic of Google Doodles 23:30 - JavaScript ccoping and hoisting 25:47 - Optimizing documentation traffic 29:29 - Conclusion: 100 Episodes of Search Off the Record
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Optimizing login-page content for Google Search
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Explore critical aspects of search engine optimization for web content that lives behind a login or paywall. In this episode, Martin and John cover how Googlebot interacts with these pages, the role of paywall structured data, and methods to prevent unintended indexing of private information. Get practical advice on improving your website's visibility and user experience while maintaining data security in Google Search. Resources:
Episode transcript
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Lazy loading demystified
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Optimize your website's performance with lazy loading techniques. In this episode, John Mueller and Martin Splitt discuss lazy loading, and its SEO implications. Find out how lazy loading affects indexing, ranking, and Core Web Vitals. Whether you're using native lazy loading or custom JavaScript libraries, this episode provides insights for developers on how to enhance website speed and user experience.
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Episode transcript
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SEO for photographers: websites, social media, and Google Search
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In this episode of Search Off The Record, John and Martin explore the intersection of SEO and photography. Is a website essential for photographers, or is social media enough? Martin, a technical SEO expert and photography enthusiast, dives into the challenges of building a photography website, optimizing images, and attracting the right audience. Whether you're a professional photographer or a hobbyist, this podcast offers valuable insights into how Search Engine Optimization can help you showcase your work and connect with your audience. Find out how to make your images more findable, understand your website's performance, and navigate the ever-changing landscape of digital marketing for photographers. Martin shares his experience building his own photography website and the challenges he faced with SEO for his personal website.
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Episode transcript
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Bonus!
SEO For Small Business: (Search Off The Record)
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Google's John Mueller quotes on updates to website content
Content Management Systems and more ...
“…for the most part you can just try things out. One of the nice parts about websites is, often, if you’re using a CMS, you can just edit the page and it’s live, and it’s done. It’s not that you have to do some big, elaborate …work to put it live.”
“It’s very easy to try things out, let it sit for a couple of weeks, see what happens and kind of monitor to see is it doing what you want it to be doing. I guess, at that point, when we talk about monitoring, you probably need to make sure that you have the various things installed so that you actually see what is happening. Perhaps set up Search Console for your website so that you see the searches that people are doing. And, of course, some way to measure the goal that you want, which could be something perhaps in Analytics or perhaps there’s, I don’t know, some other way that you track in person if you have a physical store, like are people actually coming to my business after seeing my website, because it’s all well and good to do SEO, but if you have no way of understanding has it even changed anything, you don’t even know if you’re on the right track or recognize if something is going wrong.”
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Search Off The Record by Google remains popular and helpful for webby, code community: Media
June 27, 2024
Inside Search Quality: Using metrics and data science to improve Search
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In this episode of SOTR, Lizzi and John sit down with Elizabeth Tucker to go behind the scenes of Search Quality product management. Listen along as they discuss using data science to measure quality and make improvements, how search behavior is changing over time, and how to think about E-E-A-T and the Search Quality Rater Guidelines. (Credit: Google)
Google Search Central Official YouTube
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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 from the many conferences they attend as well as from their day-to-day working life at Google. They will also dive into the currently trending conversations in the SEO community at large. Have a listen! (Google)
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Google is an American multinational technology company founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, best known for its dominant search engine that processes billions of queries daily.
Headquartered in Mountain View, California (part of Alphabet Inc. since 2015), it offers a vast ecosystem of products including Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, Android, Google Cloud, and AI tools like Gemini.
Key Highlights (as of late 2025):
Core Business: Search remains its powerhouse, with advanced features for images, videos, and real-time info.
AI Innovations: Recent updates focus on Gemini for multimodal AI, integrated across products like Search and Workspace.
News & Blog: Follow updates on their official blog for product launches and tech stories.
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