JSJ 477: Understanding Search Engines and SEO (for devs) - Part 2

If you're building a website or web-app, there's a good chance that you want people to find it so that they will access it. These days this mostly means that you want it to appear in the relevant search engine results pages (SERP). In this episode we are joined by Martin Splitt, DevRel at Google for the Search & Web ecosystem, who explains in detail how search engines work, and what developers and SEOs need to know and do in order to be on their good side.Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards GuestMartin SplittSponsors Dexecure Dev Heroes Accelerator JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry LinksDevchat.tv | JSJ 428: The Alphabet Soup of Performance MeasurementsPicks AJ- What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe AJ- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe AJ- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe AJ- From Microsoft, Oracle, etc to NSA Data Center (Google Map) AJ- Square Stone Wheel (Test Institute Stone and Stone Caveman User Focus Group) Dan- How to Systematically Debug Your CSS Just Like You Would Your JavaScript? Martin- The curious tale of Tegel’s Boeing 707 Martin- Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery Martin- Duke Graduate School Scientific Writing Resource Steve- In Plain Sight (TV Series 2008-2012) Special Guest: Martin Splitt.Sponsored By: Sentry: Resolve JavaScript errors and performance issues with Sentry Dexecure: Exclusive Offer For Javascript Jabber Listeners Promo Code: DEXJSJAB  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donations Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy