Here are Webmaster Trends Analysts John Mueller and Martin Splitt providing the latest overview of Search Console, How Search Works before that, Google Images and Structured data and how it pertains to SEO:
Do note that it’s over 41 minutes long. Also, Martin shares news about the Googlebot is now evergreen!
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Transcript of the youtube video:
search is obviously really big thing at
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Google we live and breathe everything
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around websites and web search so that’s
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really big topic for us search used to
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look like this screenshot is a little
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bit older it feels a bit foreign to me
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now but search has been moving forward
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quite a bit evolving together with the
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rest of the ecosystem constantly
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adapting to modern user and publisher
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needs so things are really changing in
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search and the functionality available
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to developers and publishers to
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highlight their pages what your pages
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and the pages that you work on that has
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evolved similarly while it’s still
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possible to appear like this in search
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you can also do so much more now really
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cool stuff and with that our tools have
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also made big jumps in the last year
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again this is an older screenshot you
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might remember this tool and look at the
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progress that’s been made in search
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console to make it easier for you to
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create fantastic websites that work
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really well in Google search so today we
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try to take a step back and review the
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State of the Union with an eye on
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developers and publishers so for you and
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the people that you make websites for
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will start very briefly by looking at
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how modern Google search works it’s
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important to understand the basics so
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that it’s clear where these aspects fit
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in and then we’ll look at different
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aspects that interact with search such
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as images structure data and of course
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search console so Martin why don’t you
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take it away with an overview of how
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search works awesome awesome thank you
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very much John I think that’s a good
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idea so before we go into all the new
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cool stuff that we have in store for you
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I think it’s a good idea to look at
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search a little more in-depth if you
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think about it it’s just this input box
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and it looks pretty simple right
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like type in your career and then you
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get a bunch of results done however if
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you look at it from a you know
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developers perspective it’s a little
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more complex than that there’s a lot of
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things that have to work together to
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actually make search work so I mean you
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know generally speaking as a web
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developer or publisher you can just
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assume that things will work
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automatically but you can help search
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and not just Google search you can help
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search engines understand your content
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better and make things run a lot
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smoother so basically what are the
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things that you should look at and how
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do they fit together when it comes to
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search engines well let’s start with
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something that you hopefully all have if
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not and I’m not exactly sure what you’re
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doing in the session but we have plenty
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of cool stuff for you to look at anyways
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if you have a website like this this is
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interesting for you to be in search
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right but wait a minute so when I say
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websites the web has evolved a lot what
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do I mean when I say website let’s have
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a look at what websites are when it
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comes to Google search so anything that
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we consider a website and search has to
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have a URL somewhere on the web that
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this makes sense we’re a web search
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engine you should have some content on
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the web somewhere and this content
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should not just be hidden away behind
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the login or something search works for
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everyone who might not even have a login
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yet who might become a customer but
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isn’t a customer yet of yours so you
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want to make sure that it’s publicly
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accessible right which means not
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necessarily everything that is publicly
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accessible has to be in search right you
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can tell us to not do that
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you can tell us to stay away there’s
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methods like the robots.txt or the meta
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tag for no indexing you have the
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possibility to opt out of this obviously
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we had nice citizens of the web we don’t
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force you into this and also you want to
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make sure that once people actually see
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you in search and they come to your site
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they can actually access their content
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that spans things like be able to value
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this in every modern browser but also
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look at things like performance and
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accessibility as well so what are
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examples of web sites well you have the
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classical typical HTML page these are
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perfectly fine and a great way to have
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content hosted on the web
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but also things like progressive web
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apps as far as we’re concerned the
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progressive web app is still a website
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so you will be fine
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these things can be indexed just as well
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generally speaking web applications that
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are more dynamic and using JavaScript
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are also websites from our perspective
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right and that includes things like an
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angular react view ember all these other
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things polymer lit HTML whatever you use
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to make websites these days is basically
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still a website at its core so how does
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Google search get involved well we have
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our little friends here Googlebot
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Googlebot is basically busy continuously
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browsing the Internet’s more or less
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right it’s like crawling crawling
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crawling all these pages that we have
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and we want to index in there within the
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web currently that is over a hundred
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thirty trillion pages right so that’s a
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lot of pages so it’s pretty busy but
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what if I basically then create a new
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homepage it’s a brand new site just put
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it online but Googlebot is still really
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busy crawling the web so it doesn’t
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really know that your website has just
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come online and is now theoretically
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available to be indexed so how can I get
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my website known to Googlebot well
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there’s a few ways the most typical way
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is something on the internet that we are
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already looking at and crawling is
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linking to you that tells Googlebot hey
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there’s something new that you should
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definitely take a look at and crawl that
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you check this out of course there’s
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other ways I’m gonna talk about them in
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a bit but you can use this to tell us
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was like someone can use this to tell us
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about your web site but there’s also
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things like you can submit it in search
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console and you can use other things
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other means that we’re gonna talk in a
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second so now Googlebot has found this
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link and now knows about this one page
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of your website let’s say it’s the home
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page someone linked your home page
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somewhere and we come to your home page
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what Googlebot now does is it looks to
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all the links that we find in this page
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that hopefully leads us to the rest of
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your web sites it’s the internal links
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that help us understand what else is
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there on your website that we should
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definitely take a look at and I mean
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this website is wild cars planes and
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even a boat I mean come on that’s a
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pretty
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website and I think this is really
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important that we like try this and look
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at how excited talk about is about that
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boat I mean wow holy and this is
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this is just the beginning of this
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relationship right John we’re just
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starting here so basically what you want
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to do is you want to help us find all
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the great content you put on the web
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right so to sum this up basically
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Googlebot needs to have a reference to
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your website typically that’s a link
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that someone else you know recommend so
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like someone goes like this is great
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content you should check it out but you
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also want to make sure that you link us
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to all the other pages you should have
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some sort of internal linking structure
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and some sort of page structure that
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tells us what the rest of the website
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looks like and that’s but not least if
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you link use the link
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this shouldn’t be rocket science but I
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think it’s worthwhile calling this out
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this is a link it has an A to F and that
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is a URL in that ATF good link a plus
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right so please give us proper unique
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URLs for your site so that we can
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actually discover and crawl them
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properly as well also if you don’t want
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us to do that if you would like some
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things to not end up in search please
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use the robots.txt to tell us so we will
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respect that and help you not have
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something in search that you don’t want
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and search right also if you want us to
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discover links are not the only way to
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make sure that we see content on your
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website another possibility is to upload
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an XML file for instance through search
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console or tell us there’s a site map
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with all the URLs that you consider
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worthwhile discovering for Googlebot
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also if you have our assess feeds you
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can give them to us using a thing called
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web sub and then we basically will start
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crawling your RSS feed entries as well
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if you have structured data and we’re
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gonna you’re gonna talk about structured
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data later right yeah so we have
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structured data for jobs and live
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streams if you are doing live streams or
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have job offers on your website you can
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use an indexing API to tell us about
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these as well last but not least if you
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are really excited about something new
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that you put in and don’t want to use
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the other ways you can also literally go
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into search console we’re going to look
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into that tool a little later and add it
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manually in search
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all right now discovery is just the very
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first step as I said it’s the beginning
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of this beautiful relationship right but
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it might take a while for us to actually
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get around crawling 130 trillion pages
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plus and I mean the web is keeps growing
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that’s a lot of stuff for Googlebot to
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look at so we can’t just immediately do
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that so it’ll take some time for us to
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come to your sites and web web pages to
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basically crawl them in but don’t worry
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about that if you’re worried about if we
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have discovered it already your search
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console to see that we have discovered
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it when we have crawled it and when we
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were like crawled it last time so you
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can use search console to learn more
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about that but we’ll talk about that in
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a little more detail later okay now when
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I say crawling I wonder if there’s like
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web developers in here like okay but
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what is crawling exactly and does that
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work with my web application or PWA
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right well crawling very fundamentally
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is an HTTP request that your browser
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does it it’s a get request to the URL
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that you provided us over that we
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discover it and that is great for
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websites that are just HTML but modern
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web sites are actually not just plain
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HTML they look more like this where you
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basically have a very bare-bones HTML
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structure that loads JavaScript and then
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JavaScript generates the content on the
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fly so how do we actually get that into
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our index how do we understand what the
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content of this website actually is well
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for that we have to render now rendering
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is a whole different can of worms and
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it’s a beautiful topic with lots of
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interesting details we have a session on
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that at 1:30 together with someone from
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the rendering team with Zoe my lovely
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coworker from the rendering team stage 3
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if you want to join us for that or check
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out the livestream later or the
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recording if you’re watching this on
10:30
YouTube definitely worth learning more
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about rendering and there’s one thing
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that is quite cool that I would like to
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like take away already but we basically
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go in much more detail later and that is
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that we are now actually using a modern
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chrome in Google bot so Google bot
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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it has been the number one thing that
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you guys are you all asked us right you
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asked us hey when do we get the latest
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chrome what chrome version is this why
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can we not have the latest chrome when
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is it coming will it be updated all
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these questions we listened we took them
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very seriously but we also make sure
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that we have a good strategy in place
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and there we have a sustainable strategy
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in place as well and you don’t have to
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worry about things anymore
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so that’s why we decided to not only
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update to the latest chrome but keep it
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evergreen so that’s the big news here
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really this is not just a one-time
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update and then you have to wait again
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we’ll keep continuously updating
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Googlebot with this new chrome releases
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coming out also there’s a blog post if
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you want to learn more about what that
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means to you as a web developer or
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publisher highly recommend checking that
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one out too right I heard a lot of
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people we announced this in the Deaf
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keynote really briefly and the few
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people asked us questions already not a
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few a bunch of people asked us really
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good questions I love these questions
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keep them coming but the number one
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concern that is underlying all these
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questions is do I have to worry about
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this what does that mean for me and my
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side dua is this a problem and I can
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tell you no don’t worry about it it’s
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cool we will not just start using the
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modern Chrome we have been doing that
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beforehand we have very carefully tested
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on an increasing number of sites and
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today I’m happy to announce that if you
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have a URL on the web that is being
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crawled and rendered it is rendered with
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the modern Google Chrome so no worries
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about that we tested this out very
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carefully also we keep monitoring
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rendering carefully right if something
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goes wrong we’ll probably be very
12:31
quickly to like notice that and fix that
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as well so don’t worry we have you
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covered and also if you want to learn
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more about the user-agent a few people
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have seen you’re still seeing like the
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old user a turd that’s because we don’t
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want to break sites that don’t know
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about this yet so we’ll give you a heads
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up in Google Webmaster blog so stay
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tuned on our blog whenever we are about
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to change the user agent so please
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prepare your own sites do not hard-code
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the user agent exactly use something
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like pattern matching to be a little
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more flexible but basically we will
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update the user agent but we haven’t
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done that now because
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want to make sure that we’re not
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breaking your content all right cool if
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you want to learn more about that as I
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said please join us 1:30 p.m. tonight
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it’s going to be fun
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all right so that was very brief
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and the session is going to cover more
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details if you are using JavaScript
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frameworks not everything will just
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magically work now a lot of things have
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been fixed we have over 10,000 new
13:30
features but if you want to learn more
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about how to work with your specific
13:33
framework and improve SEO on your
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specific sites definitely check out our
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YouTube video series is called
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JavaScript SEO you can find it on
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youtube.com slash Google web develop a
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webmaster sorry me nearly had a slip
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there right but that’s not the only
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thing that we’re doing we also thought
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hmmm the web usage patterns have changed
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who here has a smartphone who here does
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not like to raise their hands when
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questions are asked how are you so like
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pretty much many people have smart
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phones and use smart phones to browse
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the web so we thought it’s time for
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Googlebot to step up its game right so
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we want to represent the way that users
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actually browse the web so and to do
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that we started a multi-year effort
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called mobile first indexing we
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announced last year at i/o and we are
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happy and proud to update you that we
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are now over 50% of the sites that we
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are indexing our index mobile first
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so Googlebot has stepped up its game and
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finally bought a smartphone that’s right
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and it’s using a smartphone user agent
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to crawl your web sites so as not only
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we’re parsing sorry in the indexing and
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rendering most sites with a smartphone
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user agent we’re actually also using
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sorry seeing more than 50% search
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results now being actual mobile sites
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and I think that represents the users on
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the web much much better than it had
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been before but none of this would have
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been possible without your support every
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single one of you were making websites
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that work great on mobile has helped us
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so much and we have very grateful for
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that thank you so much for your support
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and I hope that you get your continued
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support on this so this is for you all
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thank you very much for helping us with
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this one
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yeah so there’s one thing that I would
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like to note and that’s that
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mobile-first indexing does not
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necessarily mean that we are only
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indexing mobile sites we are trying
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there was pretty much every page even
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old desktop pages so is there something
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that you should be doing to make sure
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that you’re doing fine and mobile first
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indexing well I mean the thing is if
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you’re making a website these days you
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want to make sure that the websites that
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you’re serving – mobile and desktop are
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more or less on par right the content
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should be more or less the same that the
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text the images the videos but that’s
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not all it also matters to include
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things like alternative site links
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Canonical’s meta tags for search engines
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should be also there structured data
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very important should also be in your
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mobile sites John is going to talk about
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cool stuff happening in structured data
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as well so make sure that this works and
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what we noticed is that basically the
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thing is if you use multiple different
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URLs that’s a little tricky sometimes to
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do so we highly recommend that you
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actually try to make a responsive
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website that responds to the different
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sizes of screens and not use like a dub
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dub dub URL and mm dot u RL because then
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the question is what should go into the
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index what should we serve so you can
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make your life easier by having just one
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one version also we are probably going
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to make sure that we alert you if
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they’re set changes to mobile first
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indexing and we have a lot of stuff that
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is still to be done on our site but
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we’ll keep you updated as the updates
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come so definitely keep an eye on our
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block and our Twitter feeds and yeah I
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mean the question is can we maybe
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eventually switch to mobile first
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indexing for everyone the 100% is what
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we are striving for so definitely keep
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an eye on what we are saying on Twitter
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and our blog right with that said once
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your page is actually in the in the
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index it might show up in search results
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so is there something that you can do to
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you know make it stand out a little more
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and I think the most straightforward
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thing for the simple search results that
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we are having here in this example is
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you want to make sure that the title is
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actually
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useful for the user and makes clear what
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the page is about but that’s not the
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only thing titles are something that you
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give us but we might not exactly show
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them the same way or we might change
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them slightly for the different queries
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that people are asking so don’t worry if
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your title doesn’t show up exactly like
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you specified it in search results
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that’s a good thing we are trying to
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help the user understand better what
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your pages are about so do not worry
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just give us a good title to start from
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and you’ll be fine the same goes for the
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meta description if you give us a meta
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tag for the description you’ll show the
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little snippet and we’ll try to match
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like what is the best snippet that from
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what you’ve given us and what is on the
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page what’s the best thing that we can
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show for this query for this user in the
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search results right we also try to
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understand the website when we’re
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indexing not just from these two things
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we’re looking at every text that is on
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the website headlines image descriptions
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alt text that kind of stuff is also very
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important for us in indexing and helps
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us better understand the page and better
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show it and then basically we want to
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show your pages in the best possible
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light speaking of which that’s possible
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light I think images are a great way to
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even boost that further right this text
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stuff is nice but images are something
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that helps people understand the
18:43
information you’re presenting more more
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bad like better and more visual and I
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think they’re a great opportunity for
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your site so John would you like to talk
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a little more about images okay fine all
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right so thanks for the intro on how
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Google search works Martin I think
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that’ll be really useful but let’s talk
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about images a little bit more so for
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example what if I’m looking for a
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Halloween costume or what if my website
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is selling Halloween costumes how do I
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get those into Google and make them
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findable so we believe that traffic from
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Google images is very valuable and
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applicable to all kinds of different
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sites because of how we’ve seen users
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adapt to images people come to Google
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images for all kinds of visual intent
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you might be coming for an outfit for a
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birthday party
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designing your living room planning a
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wedding finding a Halloween costume
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or maybe you’re looking for vegetarian
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recipe for friends coming over or maybe
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you’re just using gifs to respond to a
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text that you received so we realize
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that with all of these things that users
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come to Google Images for from planning
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an event to learning about fashion
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they’re not just looking for the image
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they’re looking at the image as a
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gateway to the content underlying it the
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image is sometimes just an ideal snippet
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to show in search so we’ve done a number
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of things to improve Google images for
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users and for developers like you all
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and as a result publishers are
20:17
benefitting more and more from engage
20:18
users so let’s take a quick look at what
20:22
Google images has been working on so
20:25
here’s an overview very briefly of how
20:27
we’ve evolved Google images consider I
20:30
want to build a tire swing with my knees
20:33
previously when I search for kids tire
20:36
swing I would just see all kinds of
20:38
images of well tire swings I guess but
20:42
it was hard to tell what I would get
20:44
from there so now when I look at the
20:48
results in Google Images I get a lot
20:50
more context so it really helps me
20:54
understand a lot more what the pages are
20:56
going to be about whether that’s a guide
20:58
about how to build a tire swing or if
21:01
it’s a tire swing I can buy online and
21:03
this additional context means that I can
21:05
intentionally navigate to the content
21:08
into the site that’s most relevant to my
21:10
interests and similarly there’s a lot of
21:13
metadata that’s shown here in the search
21:15
results that really makes it easier for
21:17
me to understand what I’m going to get
21:19
so now I have a bunch of tire swing
21:23
pages bookmarked to check out with my
21:25
knees so I’ll get started on that
21:28
so tire swings look really cool and I’m
21:31
going to take a ton of photos as I move
21:33
along and put these photos on my blog
21:35
but how do I get these into Google
21:39
images then what what recommendations do
21:42
I have to follow well for Google it’s
21:44
pretty straightforward
21:46
I mean it doesn’t get simpler than this
21:48
first you really need to make great
21:51
websites and
21:52
have fantastic images these are things
21:54
that we really watch out for kind of
21:56
obvious I guess and then on those pages
22:00
we have to see those images prominently
22:03
for visitors and for search engines it
22:06
really has to be clear to us what what
22:08
this page is about and that the image
22:10
plays an important role here so you
22:12
should give us more context about those
22:14
images by placing text around the images
22:17
and by using appropriate alt text where
22:20
it makes sense to understand more about
22:22
the image and how it might be
22:24
interesting in search and similarly if
22:27
something is important don’t embed it in
22:31
the image but rather keep it in text
22:32
form so that we can really find the text
22:35
and understand what what this image is
22:37
about rather than trying to decode the
22:40
image and structure data we’ve heard
22:44
about structured data quite a bit so far
22:46
structured data gives us a lot more
22:48
context about the images so that is
22:52
really something that I’d recommend
22:53
using whenever you can with structured
22:56
data types like product and recipe in
22:58
particular for images you can give us
23:01
information about pricing availability
23:04
ratings cooking time ingredients and a
23:07
bunch more we’ll have additional details
23:09
on that later on in this session and
23:13
finally this is kind of easy as well use
23:17
descriptive file names and a clean URL
23:19
structure whenever you can so it’s not
23:22
that we won’t be able to recognize an
23:24
image if it just has a number as a file
23:26
name but it does help us a little bit so
23:31
similar to how Martin showed with links
23:34
where we really need to get HTML with
23:37
images hTML is also important and it
23:40
really makes sense to do something
23:42
that’s semantically correct so that it’s
23:45
clear to everyone who’s looking at the
23:47
HTML page what this is so in particular
23:50
we don’t pick up images that are only
23:53
embedded using CSS Styles that’s really
23:56
hard for us to tell that it’s supposed
23:57
to be an image because it’s completely
23:59
different locations whereas if it’s an
24:01
image tag we can pick that up we see an
24:03
alt text for that
24:05
we process that right away so the basics
24:09
will help you get started and enable
24:11
your site to be shown in Google Images
24:13
but you can go further I’m sure you want
24:15
to do that so responsive images for
24:18
example are a great way to provide
24:20
different resolution images by device
24:23
type these can be implemented in a
24:25
search friendly way using the picture
24:27
element and the source set attribute and
24:30
another thing a lot of modern sites you
24:33
are is lazy loading so with that you can
24:36
speed up the loading of your pages
24:38
we recommend using JavaScript that
24:40
leverages intersection observer and
24:43
using a polyfill where you need to do
24:45
that and that new lazy loading that you
24:48
might have heard of in the developer
24:50
keynote that’s coming to Chrome that
24:52
just works by default so if you’re going
24:55
to go that direction
24:55
that’ll work perfectly and finally we’ve
25:00
talked about this a little bit Martin
25:02
mentioned this I think twice robots.txt
25:05
so Googlebot is a polite crawler if your
25:09
images are blocked by robots.txt then we
25:11
can’t crawl and index those images so if
25:14
you want them indexed then make sure
25:16
they’re accessible so that sounds pretty
25:20
good but we also have one new thing when
25:23
it comes to Google images so let’s take
25:25
a look so we’re really excited to
25:30
announce a new program that’ll be
25:31
available soon specifically for websites
25:34
with fantastic large and high resolution
25:37
images users really love seeing larger
25:40
images since they can provide a lot more
25:42
context about a page and accordingly
25:44
showing bigger images and search can
25:47
give your pages a little bit more
25:49
attention so if you have large images on
25:52
your website and you want to make those
25:53
accessible to users directly through
25:55
Google products you’ll be able to opt in
25:58
to displaying these soon so we’ll have
26:00
details about that and the current plan
26:03
looks something a little bit like this
26:05
so we’ll have a combination of a setting
26:09
in search console or you can tell us
26:11
this site is interested in taking part
26:14
in this this process and additionally
26:17
per image
26:18
using structured data markup like this
26:20
you can tell us which images you’d like
26:23
to have index so here’s a rough idea
26:26
what that will look like we’ll have full
26:28
details on this later on including a
26:31
license URL that you can use some sample
26:33
code more information on the search
26:35
console functionality so I keep an eye
26:38
on the webmaster central blog to find
26:40
out more wow that’s a lot so a lot of
26:46
another cool source of traffic is Google
26:49
discover so the Google discover feed is
26:52
a feature in Google search that helps
26:54
users stay up-to-date on all of their
26:56
favorite topics without actually needing
26:59
any queries so it’s kind of like search
27:01
without having to search users get to
27:04
their discover experience in the Google
27:06
app on the Google com mobile home page
27:08
or by swiping right on the home screen
27:10
on a pixel phone it’s grown
27:13
significantly since launching in 2017
27:16
and now helps over 800 million monthly
27:20
active users get inspired and explore
27:22
new information perhaps from your
27:24
website as well so discover surfaces the
27:27
best of the web regardless of
27:29
publication date from recipes all the
27:32
way over to human interest stories to
27:34
fashion videos and more we have a guide
27:36
for optimizing for discover that’s
27:39
linked here and of course images play a
27:41
big role there too so as you can imagine
27:45
having large images in Google discover
27:47
can make your pages particularly
27:50
compelling to users should you opt into
27:52
displaying large images in Google
27:54
products will also be able to show these
27:56
directly in the discover feed like that
27:59
too so if you’re curious sign up or
28:01
watch out for the webmaster central blog
28:03
and learn more about the information
28:06
there so another thing that’s coming to
28:10
Google images fairly soon is the swipe
28:13
up to navigate interaction so when your
28:16
website uses amped mobile pages a user
28:19
and a user clicks on an image preview
28:21
then Google images will automatically
28:24
prefetch and render a preview on the
28:26
bottom that lets the user swipe up to
28:28
instantly interact with your content
28:30
no more page loading delay
28:32
instant gratification thanks to the
28:34
pre-rendering support in amp so net-net
28:37
your existing amp pages give you better
28:40
visibility they work in a new place and
28:42
they get you engaged audiences
28:44
interested in your content so we looked
28:49
at flap images but how could it be
28:52
taking to the next dimension
28:54
imagine you’re studying human anatomy
28:57
and wanting to learn about muscle
28:59
selection what if you could view a 3d
29:01
model in this case from a partner
29:03
visible body directly in the search
29:05
results or how about a model that you
29:07
can pull out and see directly on your
29:09
desk so it’s one thing to learn about
29:12
flexion or extension but it’s another
29:13
thing to see it right in action in front
29:15
of you so for example if you work with a
29:18
furniture store website you could enable
29:20
users to see your products in 3d
29:23
directly in the search results and to
29:25
pull them out and view them in augmented
29:27
reality directly from search how cool is
29:30
that so today we’re working with a small
29:33
set of partners to start bringing this
29:35
content from websites into search we
29:38
hope to be able to index more models
29:40
from other sites in the future there are
29:42
various tools that you can already use
29:45
to bring your 3d content to the web for
29:47
example the open source model viewer
29:49
component makes it really easy to add 3d
29:52
content without needing to have any
29:55
specialized knowledge so this is the
29:57
same viewer that powers essentially the
30:00
features in search as well so shifting
30:04
gears a little bit what other elements
30:07
are critical for search on a website
30:11
well structured data is one we’ve talked
30:14
about a bit of a few times so let’s take
30:16
a quick look at some of that so once
30:20
upon a time search was really bland and
30:22
blue links to great websites but just a
30:26
small text snippet with information
30:28
about why they’re good results for the
30:30
user this is what search looked like in
30:32
1998 it’s been a while so how can you
30:37
make your search results stand out a
30:39
little bit more than just this
30:41
so income structured data in the old
30:44
days on websites its
30:46
mostly about text on a page so here
30:48
basically HTML there’s some list items
30:51
that are marked up but we don’t really
30:53
understand what this page is about with
30:56
structured data you can provide the same
30:58
information in a machine-readable way
31:00
directly on your pages there multiple
31:02
supported formats that we provide we
31:06
recommend using schema.org vocabulary
31:07
with json-ld structured data markup so
31:13
to get started I recommend going to the
31:15
search developer’s documentation and
31:18
review the search types that you find
31:19
relevant there and implement them maybe
31:22
on a test page
31:22
I’d recommend starting with just one
31:25
type so that you can get a feeling for
31:27
the steps that are involved it’s easiest
31:30
to take just a sample page from your
31:32
website copy it into a temporary
31:34
location and work on that use the
31:37
appropriate testing tool to make sure
31:39
that it’s working there are different
31:40
tools for different types so watch out
31:43
for that and when your sample page works
31:45
then you can add structured data to your
31:47
real site so when will it be shown
31:51
remember how Martin mentioned that
31:54
crawling and indexing takes time well it
31:57
also takes time for structured data to
31:59
be visible in the rich results so keep
32:02
in mind structured data can make your
32:04
pages eligible to be shown in the rich
32:06
results but it doesn’t guarantee it
32:08
so if over time you see it doesn’t work
32:11
we recommend checking three things first
32:13
the markup needs to be technically
32:15
correct second it needs to be
32:18
implemented in a way that’s compliant
32:19
with our guidelines and finally the
32:22
overall website quality is also critical
32:25
for developers as well because if Google
32:28
systems aren’t sure about the quality of
32:30
the website then your work the
32:32
structured data might not result in rich
32:35
results being shown so how do you work
32:38
on quality I recommend trying to get
32:41
really honest and hard feedback about
32:44
the website this is a screenshot from an
32:47
older blog post with ideas to look at a
32:51
good source of feedback is from your
32:53
users may be doing a user study getting
32:56
feedback from other users
32:57
and when in doubt I’d also recommend
33:00
checking in with other people who’ve had
33:03
similar problems in other words check in
33:06
with your peers so I think he’s sitting
33:08
back there
33:10
hi peers and actually what I meant is
33:16
checking in with your colleagues and
33:18
webmaster visas so for example there are
33:22
lots of awesome folks in the webmaster
33:24
help forums who’s probably seen a lot of
33:26
similar cases and can help point out
33:29
issues to work on so what are some newer
33:32
types that you might not have heard
33:34
about it we’ll run through this fairly
33:36
quickly
33:37
one of the recent types is the how to
33:40
markup this is for step by step
33:42
tutorials on real-world tasks so this is
33:46
a great way to help users find out what
33:48
they should be doing to kind of do the
33:51
steps that you’re looking for so you can
33:53
specify the steps with videos images and
33:56
with text how to markup is pretty easy
33:59
to do structured data is specified in
34:02
our developer documentation so it’s
34:04
mostly just a matter of filling that out
34:07
another cool form is for question answer
34:10
pages so QA pages or web pages that
34:12
contain one question which users are
34:14
commonly seeking an answer for often
34:16
about a product or service that you have
34:19
for example you might use this for
34:21
individual customer support requests
34:24
that your business gets and similar to
34:28
QA pages they’re frequently asked
34:30
questions pages that have multiple
34:32
questions on them so that’s a great way
34:35
to help answer questions about your
34:37
products and services and there’s
34:41
structured data for more than just
34:43
really fancy features dates matter as
34:45
well so we have a bunch of guidance on
34:48
dates and how you implement them in
34:50
search in the link here and the short
34:53
version is kind of that it’s important
34:56
that you be consistent with age so that
34:58
we really can confirm that the date at
35:00
the time and a time zone are actually
35:03
matching across your pages so you can do
35:06
that with structured data of course
35:09
specify the date in a machine-readable
35:11
way include the correct time zone and
35:14
make sure that it really matches what is
35:16
shown on the page and there are lots
35:20
more types of structured data enriched
35:22
results that you might want to implement
35:24
these are just some of the newer ones as
35:27
site owners often ask us like how do you
35:30
manage this how do you keep track like
35:33
Martin do you have any ideas on what I
35:35
do or should be doing thank you so much
35:37
for Dunn’s fantastic introduction into
35:40
all the new structured data stuff and if
35:41
you want to basically manage that and
35:43
maintain that I highly recommend
35:45
checking out search console right search
35:47
console is pretty much your window into
35:49
the world of search when it comes to
35:51
your sites and how that works is you
35:54
have to tell us or prove to us that you
35:56
actually are the legitimate owner of the
35:59
domain you can do that with various ways
36:00
you can use token in your HTML you can
36:03
use something something else they have a
36:05
few methods available you can also use a
36:07
domain name which is kind of nice and
36:09
that’s the very first step the next step
36:11
is that you basically do what this set
36:13
up store instructions tell you and if
36:15
you are if you’re building websites for
36:17
other people so if you’re like an agency
36:19
for instance you can use an API to do
36:21
that so you don’t have to basically do
36:23
that manually for every site that you’re
36:24
managing it takes a lot of a little
36:27
while to verify your site and aggregate
36:29
all the data but after a couple of days
36:31
once we have the data available we
36:33
basically show you all the details by
36:35
the way if you’re using the domain name
36:37
that’s quite cool because it includes
36:39
all the subdomains and all the different
36:41
sites under under this domain name as
36:43
well so that’s that’s something you want
36:44
to check out it’s relatively new domain
36:46
properties so if it’s been a while since
36:49
you used search console or you never use
36:51
it but you use webmaster tools you might
36:53
want to have a look again because the UI
36:55
has changed a lot and we are still
36:58
expanding it to match the functionality
37:00
that the old tools had so like we’re not
37:01
done there yet but pretty much
37:03
everything vital has been moved so you
37:05
can definitely use the things the new
37:07
reports that we have in the new tool but
37:09
feel free to switch to you also whenever
37:11
needed that’s absolutely fine but we
37:14
don’t just want to make a new shiny
37:16
interface we actually thought about it
37:18
from the ground up how can we have you
37:21
the tasks that you have to do quicker
37:24
and easier right so what can we do to
37:27
help you be more successful in search as
37:30
a site owner and we think that one of
37:32
the great new reports that we’ve have
37:33
here is the index coverage report that
37:35
helps you identify which pages are in
37:37
the index which are not and why they’re
37:40
not and if there’s like problems that
37:41
you should definitely look into all this
37:44
is visibly straight in this report right
37:46
and we can also help you identify and
37:49
recognize issues that we just like
37:51
detect it as they come up so for
37:54
instance what if you deploy something
37:56
and the set of pages just suddenly
37:57
returned server errors or 404s we can
38:00
tell you about that that’s really really
38:01
useful also once we have notified you of
38:04
the issue you can basically drill down
38:06
into samples of this issue occurring on
38:09
your side double check that the issue
38:10
actually still exists and then work to
38:12
resolve it it’s pretty easy to check
38:15
that you fix the problem there’s a
38:16
button that you can say verify fix and
38:18
once you know that you have fixed the
38:20
problem you can ask us to reprocess that
38:23
URL and that URLs that are affected by
38:25
this issue and we bring you back into
38:27
the search results really quickly so
38:28
this is pretty unique it’s a unique
38:30
feature and it has helped users to
38:32
significantly be faster improving your
38:34
your websites also we have this lovely
38:37
performance reported and I have to
38:38
understand how you’re performing in
38:40
search results and it gives you 16 month
38:42
of data so that’s pretty cool you can
38:44
like see that evolve over time we also
38:46
show you the discover feed performance
38:47
it’s a separate feature and really
38:49
useful as well and on top of that we
38:52
also bring this information into search
38:55
results if you search for your own
38:56
content and you’re logged in you’ll see
38:58
it right in searches also don’t have to
39:00
actively go to search console anymore so
39:01
that’s pretty cool and pages structured
39:04
data all that as has aggregated reports
39:07
as well so if you want to dig into these
39:08
details definitely do that also we have
39:11
a new speed report sign up for the test
39:14
we tweeted it from the Google webmasters
39:16
account definitely sign up give us
39:17
feedback before we roll it out and if
39:20
you want to participate that is
39:21
fantastic and I think like to sum it up
39:23
search console wants to be the dashboard
39:26
for the features of the future we want
39:28
to give you control over your sites and
39:30
search and that’s what we want to use
39:31
search console for a fun example duplex
39:34
on the web you heard about
39:35
you can use robots.txt to like let us
39:37
not do that and but I think it’s pretty
39:39
cool to be able to perform transactions
39:41
on the web automatically you don’t have
39:43
to do anything like that we do the
39:45
machine learning for you that basically
39:46
enables all these features right and if
39:49
you want to prepare verify your site in
39:51
search console new features are coming
39:53
to search console to help you will give
39:55
you more updates on the google
39:56
webmasters blog so definitely subscribe
39:57
and check that one out and I think too
40:02
just like quickly sum it up I believe
40:04
Googlebot is now mostly smartphone and
40:06
we are continuing that journey so that’s
40:08
pretty cool JavaScript’s welcome as well
40:10
we have users
40:11
yeah users love really high quality
40:13
large images and choking seeing your
40:16
site in Google products like search and
40:17
discover so we’ll have more on that soon
40:20
and and there are many ways that your
40:24
content can be highlighted in search so
40:26
it’s worth checking out the search
40:27
gallery and our documentation to find
40:29
out what works for you and last but not
40:32
least use the search console to get the
40:34
most out of search and I think with that
40:36
we just want to let you know the web
40:39
keeps evolving it’s a powerful platform
40:41
and Google search is here to help your
40:43
users and others unlock this potential
40:45
by a Google search thank you very much
40:48
for coming have a fantastic day enjoy
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