Topic

indexing

13 videos. Ordered by the type of source, then by how recent the video is.

1. 25 min

   Oct 2026 Official source

   PDFs in Search: Indexing, AI & Pitfalls

   Google Search Central

   Covers how Google handles PDF files compared with HTML pages for indexing, ranking and AI features, in a discussion between two of its staff.

2. 31 min

   Jul 2026 Official source

   How to read the Indexing Report

   Google Search Central

   Covers how to read the Page Indexing report in Search Console, and why pages listed as not indexed are not always a fault to fix.

3. 1h 18m

   Mar 2026 Trade press or conference

   065: Optimizing “Crawl Budget” To Improve Your Web Traffic w/Vanessa Fox

   Experts on the Wire (SEO Podcast)

   Discusses optimising crawl budget along with how search engines find and index content, in a long podcast episode.

4. 51 min

   May 2025 Independent practitioner

   GSC Lies: Crawled But Not Indexed, Log File Analysis, Rank Tracking & Brand Search Optimization

   SEO Fight Club

   Compares Search Console data with server logs and argues that its reports can mislead technical SEO decisions.

5. 10 min

   Feb 2025 Sells in this field

   What is Index Bloat? | Whiteboard Friday | Tom Capper | 4K

   Moz

   Covers index bloat, how to find URLs using index quota without bringing traffic, and how it differs from crawl budget.

6. 19 min

   Feb 2025 Trade press or conference

   Crawling, indexing and logfiles: The beauty and the beast - Andor Palau - brightonSEO October 2024

   brightonSEO

   Draws on real server log data about crawling and offers it as ideas to try.

7. 1h 5m

   Mar 2023 Independent practitioner

   Google Indexation & JavaScript SEO (Interview With Tomek Rudzki)

   Olga Zarr SEO

   Covers Google indexation and JavaScript SEO in an interview that includes how server log analysis helped with learning the subject.

   Older: check current guidance
8. 19 min

   Nov 2022 Official source

   Curing crawling chaos

   Google Search Central

   Tells a debugging story about an indexing challenge on a site that crawling tools could not crawl in full.

   Older: check current guidance
9. 42 min

   Mar 2022 Teaching or conference talk

   5. Index construction (1/3) - Information Retrieval - ETH Zurich - Spring 2022

   Ghislain Fourny's lectures

   Covers how a search index is built, as the first of three parts of a university lecture.

   Older: check current guidance
10. 16 min

    Nov 2021 Independent practitioner

    How do you deal with Crawl Budget? | BrightonSEO 2021

    Omi Sido

    Defines crawl budget and discusses ways of handling it, in an interview recorded at a conference.

    Older: check current guidance
11. 8 min

    Sept 2021 Teaching or conference talk

    2.6 Inverted index (UvA - Information Retrieval - 2021)

    Ilya Markov

    Covers the inverted index, the data structure used by search engines, in an eight-minute course segment.

    Older: check current guidance
12. 56 min

    May 2020 Trade press or conference

    Google's Martin Splitt on how the search engine crawls and indexes - Live with Search Engine Land

    Search Engine Land

    Covers the technical side of how the search engine crawls and indexes, in a live discussion with a Google representative.

    Older: check current guidance
13. 36 min

    Oct 2019 Sells in this field

    How Much Content is NOT Indexed in Google?

    Onely ‎

    Asks how much content Google leaves out of its index and what the answer means for JavaScript sites, in a 2019 conference session.

    Older: check current guidance