# Google Search Central: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-28, Google Search Central has 810,000 subscribers, 74,588,059 total views, and 2,049 videos. It ranks #92,652 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Google Search Central](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Google Search Central is “Should we be scared of a 404 status code?”, a long-form video published Oct 28, 2026.
- These are Google Search Central’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jul 22, 2025 and Oct 28, 2026 (37 long-form videos and 11 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 6,544. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Analyzing performance on Google Search” (30,636 views, Dec 4, 2025). Least viewed: “What can you actually put in a robots.txt?” (1,182 views, Oct 23, 2026).
- Median length: 26:13 for 37 long-form videos; 0:59 for 11 Shorts.
- In this sample, Google Search Central’s consecutive uploads were a median of 6 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 56 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 28, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Should we be scared of a 404 status code?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/zJcuRhx08ek/) | 2026-10-28 | Long-form | 1,242 | 9:26 | 1.01x |
| [Google Search news with platform properties, multimodal Search & AI Features (Q4 ‘26)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/P7grNk_REms/) | 2026-10-26 | Long-form | 5,641 | 7:04 | 1.95x |
| [What can you actually put in a robots.txt?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/kUAJOvuyZdk/) | 2026-10-23 | Short | 1,182 | 0:59 | - |
| [What can you actually put in a robots.txt?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/-jHONLQgE-s/) | 2026-10-21 | Long-form | 7,641 | 9:45 | 1.8x |
| [What can you actually put in a URL 🐔?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/DNAPPt0BpoM/) | 2026-10-16 | Short | 1,710 | 0:39 | - |
| [What can you actually put in a URL 🐔?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/Mfvw43BbHy0/) | 2026-10-14 | Long-form | 9,340 | 12:57 | 1.93x |
| [PDFs in Search: Indexing, AI & Pitfalls](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/wJukFIpZybY/) | 2026-10-13 | Long-form | 4,251 | 25:16 | - |
| [Welcome to the Non-Canonical Cabinet 🗄️](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/BFp5YhOmlZk/) | 2026-10-06 | Long-form | 4,706 | 0:48 | - |
| [Do sitemaps still matter?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/hDva5VoZJsE/) | 2026-10-01 | Long-form | 6,571 | 26:27 | - |
| [Japanese Google Search Office Hours（ #Google検索オフィスアワー 2026 年 09 月 24 日）](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/3yXKqqumORY/) | 2026-09-24 | Long-form | 4,623 | 20:43 | - |
| [Should you block your Search result pages?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/cfIQ_ksB61U/) | 2026-07-30 | Long-form | 9,332 | 28:44 | - |
| [How to read the Indexing Report](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/1-PcVLHplwc/) | 2026-07-16 | Long-form | 11,364 | 31:41 | 1.22x |
| [Google Search Gen AI Reports, Search Profiles & more (Q2 ‘26)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/sq55KB5icQ4/) | 2026-06-18 | Long-form | 18,209 | 6:29 | 1.64x |
| [Japanese Google Search Office Hours（ #Google検索オフィスアワー 2026 年 06 月 18 日）](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/1Cctvc03wkk/) | 2026-06-18 | Long-form | 2,528 | 30:18 | - |
| [Should I use markdown for my site?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/Vkn3R6DUJ34/) | 2026-06-15 | Long-form | 8,754 | 26:13 | 1.04x |
| [Vibe Coding - yay or nay?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/SPVA6FNX2rw/) | 2026-05-07 | Long-form | 6,729 | 33:57 | - |
| [How AI Is Changing Google Search and SEO](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/_R04ySodhGE/) | 2026-05-01 | Long-form | 16,352 | 33:11 | 1.62x |
| [Analysing Robots.txt at scale with HTTP Archive and BigQuery](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/DchuJS7JWvk/) | 2026-04-23 | Long-form | 5,042 | 27:41 | - |
| [SEO for vibe-coded websites](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/12yWkqxrYsM/) | 2026-04-16 | Short | 6,830 | 0:54 | 1.42x |
| [AI Websites, Crawling and Search Console updates (Q1 ‘26)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/hBUuXgR-PSw/) | 2026-04-14 | Long-form | 22,426 | 7:46 | 1.5x |
| [Are websites getting “fat”? Page weight, HTML size & Googlebot limits explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/kype1JQbrks/) | 2026-03-30 | Long-form | 8,478 | 32:13 | - |
| [Search Console custom chart annotations demystified](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/ipNz8ubiIHI/) | 2026-03-24 | Short | 3,502 | 0:48 | - |
| [Understanding the Search Console performance reports](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/IyNVio0YDwI/) | 2026-03-17 | Short | 4,399 | 0:53 | - |
| [Google crawlers behind the scenes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/JpweMBnpS4Q/) | 2026-03-12 | Long-form | 15,169 | 25:07 | 1.07x |
| [Search Console data analysis tips](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/CJExKneI2Vg/) | 2026-03-10 | Short | 2,900 | 0:48 | - |
| [Japanese Google Search Office Hours（ #Google検索オフィスアワー 2026 年 03 月 05 日）](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/i8wiBuklDXE/) | 2026-03-05 | Long-form | 3,044 | 37:22 | - |
| [How Browsers Really Parse HTML (and What That Means for SEO)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/SriA8lB3MXY/) | 2026-02-26 | Long-form | 9,334 | 32:33 | - |
| [Do You Still Need a Website in 2026?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/IM3UAX3MhnI/) | 2026-02-12 | Long-form | 12,830 | 28:28 | 1.05x |
| [Crawling Challenges: What the 2025 Year-End Report Tells Us.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/UC67EY4U744/) | 2026-02-03 | Long-form | 8,659 | 27:46 | 1.85x |
| [SEO, AIO, GEO, your site, & third-party support to optimize for LLMs](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/i4jDc58ofH4/) | 2026-01-08 | Long-form | 19,701 | 26:10 | 3.71x |
| [Japanese Google Search Office Hours（ #Google検索オフィスアワー 2025 年 12 月 18 日）](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/aALRg_A-IVM/) | 2025-12-18 | Long-form | 3,529 | 49:22 | - |
| [Thoughts on SEO & SEO for AI, part 1](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/h1rZdfW5vqM/) | 2025-12-17 | Long-form | 14,735 | 37:59 | 3.14x |
| [Analyzing performance on Google Search](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/5LF6SwB5jZ0/) | 2025-12-04 | Long-form | 30,636 | 10:31 | 2.98x |
| [Getting started with Search Console Insights](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/BKtQ5tVAwSo/) | 2025-12-02 | Long-form | 16,303 | 6:32 | 1.59x |
| [Search Console, AI, and HTTPs updates Search Console (Q4 ‘25)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/o0AGWPU96TQ/) | 2025-11-17 | Long-form | 14,384 | 6:10 | 1.74x |
| [How to perform a technical SEO audit](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/aLWQqlpwHK8/) | 2025-11-06 | Long-form | 12,099 | 4:31 | 1.57x |
| [How Search Off the Record tackles SEO and web development](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/x1_FS61AzLM/) | 2025-11-03 | Long-form | 3,404 | 30:56 | - |
| [Japanese Google Search Office Hours（ #Google検索オフィスアワー 2025 年 09 月 25 日）](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/nYcjJAj60e4/) | 2025-09-25 | Long-form | 2,829 | 20:06 | - |
| [Optimizing login-page content for Google Search](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/nMZ0FZoRbvI/) | 2025-09-04 | Long-form | 8,393 | 26:25 | 2.08x |
| [“Google is suggesting a different name for my website's search results.”- SEO Office Hours Shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/-9OhO5pRTBk/) | 2025-09-04 | Short | 5,852 | 1:39 | 1.22x |
| [Lazy loading demystified](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/XgkhNF1gDKA/) | 2025-08-21 | Long-form | 6,516 | 24:32 | 1.7x |
| [SEO for photographers: websites, social media, and Google Search](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/5sJPKghoUeU/) | 2025-08-07 | Long-form | 5,212 | 31:19 | 1.43x |
| [Japanese Google Search Office Hours（ #Google検索オフィスアワー 2025 年 08 月 07 日）](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/U9SUEs9NQhs/) | 2025-08-07 | Long-form | 2,267 | 23:47 | - |
| [“Could a custom URL negatively affect my site’s SEO ranking?”- SEO Office Hours Shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/pHgdHCMbOic/) | 2025-08-06 | Short | 4,473 | 1:24 | - |
| [“Product name is truncated in Search. Is this a violation?” - SEO Office Hours Shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/YF1DFmO16cc/) | 2025-07-30 | Short | 4,041 | 1:54 | - |
| [“How can I prevent tracking parameters in Google Search results?”- SEO Office Hours Shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/PWmoyk_egVI/) | 2025-07-25 | Short | 2,876 | 2:27 | - |
| [How does CSS affect SEO?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/l2E3gBDP_qY/) | 2025-07-24 | Long-form | 7,220 | 38:02 | 2.05x |
| ["Can I use different prices for different US states?" - SEO Office Hours Shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@googlesearchcentral/videos/DVn8X0FEqxA/) | 2025-07-22 | Short | 2,221 | 2:14 | - |

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