Google Sorts Its SEO Videos Into Two Learning Playlists

On October 6, 2026 Google sorted the SEO videos on its Search Central channel into two YouTube playlists: one for beginners and one on technical SEO. The post announces no new videos: it gathers ones already on the channel. It matters to anyone who runs a business website and wants to understand how Google sees it.

What we know

  • What Google published: the Google Search Central Blog ran a post on October 6, 2026, signed by Daniel Waisberg, a Search advocate at Google, presenting two playlists on its YouTube channel.
  • Why: according to the post, the channel holds hundreds of videos spread across several series, and finding a clear path from scratch "can sometimes be challenging".
  • The beginners playlist ("Search fundamentals for beginners"): Google aims it at website owners, marketers, content creators and people new to SEO. It covers how Google crawls, indexes and serves pages, how to optimize a site's presence in results, and how to measure with Search Console and Google Trends.
  • The technical playlist ("Technical SEO fundamentals"): for developers and technical SEO specialists. The post says it skips the basics and goes to robots.txt, crawl budget, indexing problems, the URL inspection tool, duplicate content, how browsers parse HTML, page weight, and Search Console's APIs and bulk data exports.
  • How many videos: on October 7, 2026, YouTube showed 15 videos in the first playlist and 21 in the second.
  • What the post does not say: how long the playlists run, which languages they can be followed in, or whether Google will keep them updated.

What changes and what doesn't

The order changes, not the content. The videos already existed: Google has lined them up so they can be watched start to finish.

Nothing changes in Search itself. The post does not touch crawling, ranking or Google's guidelines.

It is not a course with a credential either. These are two YouTube playlists: the post mentions no exams and no certificates.

And the age of each video is worth a look. In the beginners playlist, 4 of the 15 videos are from 2020, 9 from 2024 and 2 from 2025, going by the publication date YouTube gives. In the technical one, YouTube dates them between three months and five years ago. In the oldest ones, the Search Console screens may not match what you see today. That is a caution from this article, not from Google.

How much time they take and where to start

The counts in this section are this article's own. They were made on October 7, 2026, video by video, from what YouTube returned to a Spanish-language account in Peru. They can change if Google edits the playlists.

  1. If you run a business website, watch the whole first playlist. It adds up to 1 hour 25 minutes, and no video runs past 11 minutes.
  2. Split it into three sittings. Videos 1 to 8: how Search works and how your site looks in results (about 37 minutes). Videos 9 to 11: Search Console (about 19 minutes). Videos 12 to 15: Google Trends (about 29 minutes).
  3. After the second sitting, open your own Search Console. Go to the performance report and check which queries bring clicks and which pages receive them. If your site is not in Search Console yet, that is step one.
  4. Language is not a barrier in the first playlist. Each of the 15 videos had non-automatic subtitles in 9 to 15 languages. Spanish, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian were on all 15. The audio is English; only one video also carried dubbed audio tracks.
  5. The technical playlist is a different commitment: 3 hours 48 minutes. Six of its 21 videos run over 20 minutes and add up to about 2 hours 45 minutes. The other 15 are pieces under 10 minutes.
  6. In the technical one, check the language first. Nine videos had non-automatic subtitles in other languages, eight had dubbed audio tracks instead, and four were English only.
  7. If you don't code, don't start with the technical playlist. Send the link to whoever maintains your site: robots.txt, crawling and indexing are their ground.
  8. Watching the videos does not rank a site. They help you understand what Google looks at and ask better questions when someone talks to you about SEO.

Related: How Long Google Takes to Crawl and Index: Its Own Numbers

Sources

Updates: if Google adds videos to the playlists or publishes them in other languages, it will be added here with its link.