Rewriting the SEO Starter Guide

The SEO Starter Guide is getting a refresh! Have you ever wondered how the Search team plans and writes such a document? In this episode of Search Off The Record, John Mueller, Gary Illyes, and Lizzi Sassman discuss which topics are still relevant, the right level of detail for a starter guide, and whether or not including anti-patterns in documentation is a good idea.

Resources:
Episode transcript → goo.gle/sotr068-transcript
SEO Starter Guide → goo.gle/42alrmy
SEO Starter Guide: What’s all the drama? → goo.gle/4b6ZLMq
Let’s pick a domain name → goo.gle/3tezc6t
Search Off The Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

#SOTRpodcast
Speaker: John Mueller, Gary Illyes, Lizzi Sassman
Products Mentioned: Search Console - General

[@techwithdipufrom0ton621]

❤ SOTR podcast however I'd love more if you guys show up yourself on KZbin. Do videos and show yourselves. I'd love to see such amazing human beings

[@MohammedAlNshawaty]

I enjoyed listening to the podcast and found it useful and interesting. I would like to hear more like it.

[@user-mz4bs3pp4e]

Interesting to hear discussion about 'should we include info about title tags in the SEO starter guide.. since so many modern CMS / web things auto create this now.. and I am currently experimenting with Wordpress 2024 theme, which makes it strange to remove the big title using full site editor... and move a hero banner video up to the top.. even though I have removed the page title via the FSE - hearing the podcast I checked the view source for H1 - and there is an H1 with 'Home - Site Name' - but that is NOT displayed on the front end for the end user.. maybe it is in the code and display: none.. luckily the page title does exist and schema does as well.. Perhaps there will be a starter guide that is brief and a not-so-started-bit-more-to-consider-guide with an FAQ that points to the meta-keywords not you all mentioned?

[@localseomastermind]

found it useful and interesting. I would like to hear more like it.

[@stefanjohansson2373]

2:31 All the views are maybe connected to all of the “SEO gurus” searching for loopholes, and picking words out of context that confirms their theories… 21:41 The Streisand effect.

[@ib4112]

Hi Jon, If our website traffic is from a country where internet is slow will it effect the page ranking as i check our mobile performance is flagged as poor at 85 under WCV. Does google take into consideration slow internet connection. Any suggestion

[@sagateller-stories]

Is there an official channel like this for youtube seo?

[@amjadhussainamjad786]

Good

[@sophiiiie]

Butterflies? 😂

[@f.a.a.p2006]

yeah me too

[@BrentPayneSEO]

Definitely love each person on this call. I am mostly a Gary fanboy, but this podcast wasn't useful. I mean John Mueller stating that they should make a single HTML page for all sites is silly. Plus, it's ripped out of context. What the community is looking for is an EXAMPLE page that has great SEO to use as an EXAMPLE. It's obvious the whole internet won't be the same page. This is a dodge of the real request from the community to get a decent example page.

[@amjadhussain1251]

we can not understand properly in the audio conversation. Can you please use some particle examples in the video so we can easily understand what actually you want to tell?

[@carlenecordova4071]

If you click the transcript button you can read what they are saying.

[@carlenecordova4071]

Also if you click the settings / gear under the KZbin video window you can turn on subtitles and then you can read along. I hope this helps :)

[@xzouix]

@@carlenecordova4071 He says he doesnt understand the discussed topic.

[@mesout.deragon]

👏👏

[@user-zt1np7pm6t]

Bruh