How does CSS affect SEO?

Martin and John dive into the world of CSS and explore its connection to SEO. Discover why CSS files matter for SEO, how modern CSS frameworks impact pages, and the SEO implications of CSS class names and pseudo elements. Moreover, learn practical tips for ensuring your CSS enhances - rather than hinders - your website's search performance.

Resources:

Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr096-transcript

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction
0:56 - What is CSS?
1:37 - CSS file crawlability
3:52 - CSS flexibility and power
4:55 - Website and CSS growth
5:43 - CSS file size
9:15 - CSS class names and SEO
10:51 - Important CSS concepts
11:27 - CSS specificity
14:24 - Pseudo classes and pseudo elements
20:56 - Stop using before and after
22:47 - Viewport height
27:11 - Hiding things and background colours
28:05 - CSS images
35:55 - CSS for SEO
37:16 - Outro

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Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

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Speaker: Martin Splitt, John Mueller

Products Mentioned: Search Console

Search Off the Record takes you behind the scenes of Google Search and its inner workings! In each episode, the folks from the Search Relations team will give you background info on the decision-making behind launches, feature prioritization in Search Console, and the projects Google Search teams are working on. They will share fun stories from the many conferences they attend as well as from their day-to-day working life at Google. They will also dive into the currently trending conversations in the SEO community at large. Have a listen!

• Número de episodios: 100
• Último episodio: 2025-07-24
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