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Google’s John Mueller also talks about technical SEO, content, communicating with SEOs, and why people should feel free to ask “dumb” questions.
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“Not that there are no myths out there, but I think a lot of these things, they stick around for a reason and it’s important that people feel free to ask something that might be a dumb question. And if you never ask a dumb question, then you never learn what the actual answer is, so it’s not that I want people to stop asking this kind of question, it’s important that they ask things that are confusing to them.
And even if that’s something that we hear repeatedly that is a myth or that’s based on an assumption that’s just not true, I think it’s important that people feel the freedom to be able to ask all of these things.”
Got a question about BERT, E-A-T, schema, or anything Google search-related?
John Mueller might’ve already answered it for you on either Twitter, Reddit, a Google Webmaster Hangout or his #AskGoogleWebmasters video series.
John has been doing a great job of connecting webmasters and SEO professionals to the engineers within Google, always trying to improve things for search.
While he’s probably been asked more SEO questions than anyone else, John doesn’t seem to get tired of answering them. Instead, he encourages people to keep asking questions.
He’s incredibly giving of his time and knowledge to help people solve their website and SEO issues – and he deserves to be known more for his significant contributions to the search industry.
For today’s edition of The Search Engine Journal Show, I interviewed John Mueller about his career, structured data, the importance of speed, disavowing links, dealing with legacy penalties, and so much more.
John Mueller is the Senior Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google. He’s been working at Google since September of 2007.
Before joining Google, he owned a software company in Switzerland for more than 12 years.
At the time, he created a site maps generator (shortly after sitemaps were introduced). He then started being active in the original help forums from Google trying to figure out how search engines work.
And although it was hard for him to let go of the company he built, he decided to take a risk and seize the opportunity to work at Google.
Listen to this episode and learn more about Mueller’s thoughts on communicating with SEOs, how machine learning will impact search in the coming years, a different approach in solving SEO problems, and more.
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