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




Guest




Martin Splitt




Sponsors




Dexecure
Dev Heroes Accelerator
JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry




Links




Devchat.tv | JSJ 428: The Alphabet Soup of Performance Measurements




Picks




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.