Good SEO podcasts are hard to find. Search any list online and you get the same ten names repeated, half of which stopped publishing years ago. This guide only includes shows I checked against their own official pages, so you know every pick is still releasing episodes.
You will get eight real, currently active SEO podcasts, AI search podcasts, and WordPress podcasts, grouped by what they actually cover. Each entry lists the host, the format, how often it publishes, who it fits best, and one honest limitation. No show here is included just to pad the list.
This matters more than it sounds. A stale “best SEO podcasts” article that recommends a show which went quiet two years ago wastes your time the moment you try to subscribe and find an empty feed. Every entry below either had a dated episode from 2026 or a clearly stated, still-current publishing schedule confirmed on its own official page.
How I Checked Each Show Before Adding It
I pulled candidates from the usual suspects: search marketing blogs, podcast directories, and a few names I already listen to. Then I went to each show’s own site or official podcast page and looked for a recent episode date.
Anything without a confirmed 2026 episode got cut. That removed several once-popular SEO podcasts, including WPwatercooler, which posted its final episode in 2024, and the Yoast SEO podcast, which stopped in 2021. A list that ignores those closures is not actually useful to you.
I also skipped shows I could not verify through a primary source. A couple of SEO podcasts turned up in search results with promising titles, but their official pages gave no host names, no publishing cadence, and no recent episode date I could confirm. Rather than guess, I left them out. A shorter, honest list beats a longer one padded with shows I cannot vouch for.
General SEO and Marketing News Podcasts
Start here if you want a weekly digest of what changed in search and digital marketing, without committing to a daily habit.
Marketing O’Clock
Hosted by Greg Finn, Christine “Shep” Zirnheld, and Jessica Budde, Marketing O’Clock is a weekly Friday roundup of SEO, paid search, and social media news. As of October 2026 it was still publishing on schedule, with episode 455 out on October 19.
It covers real industry news in a casual, often funny tone, with recurring segments like a weird-article-of-the-week bit. Best for marketers who want the week’s headlines in one sitting rather than a deep technical breakdown.
Limitation: the humor and banter mean less time spent on step-by-step tactics. Pair it with a how-to resource, such as our Rank Math setup guide, when you need the practical follow-through.
The Search Engine Journal Show
Search Engine Journal runs its own interview-style show covering SEO, PPC, content marketing, and social strategy, with Loren Baker among the regular voices. Recent episode art on the site is dated through 2026, which points to steady, ongoing publishing.
Best for readers who already follow Search Engine Journal’s articles and want the same reporting in audio form, plus longer guest conversations than a typical news recap allows.
Limitation: episode numbering and dates are not always clearly labeled on the site, so building a consistent listening habit takes a bit more digging through the archive.
The Best AI Search and GEO Podcasts
This is the category most SEO podcasts still ignore. Generative engine optimization, or GEO, is the practice of getting cited inside AI-generated answers from tools like ChatGPT, Google’s AI Overviews, and Perplexity, rather than only ranking in a traditional results page.
Crawling Mondays by Aleyda Solis
SEO consultant Aleyda Solis hosts Crawling Mondays, a YouTube-first show that also runs as an audio podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Recent episodes sit inside an “AI Search Roadmap” series that directly covers GEO, answer engine optimization (AEO, or optimizing for direct answers), and large language model optimization.
It is one of the only shows on this list built specifically around AI search rather than treating it as a side topic. If you are tracking how your own content shows up in AI answers, our walkthrough on measuring AI search visibility in GA4 pairs well with what Solis covers here.
Best for SEO practitioners who want to understand GEO strategy straight from someone building it in real client work, not just theorizing about it.
Limitation: the publishing schedule is irregular. Episodes cluster around specific series, then go quiet for weeks at a time, so it is not a reliable weekly habit the way a news-recap show is.
A Related Read: Planning AI Search Content
Podcasts are a good way to stay current on GEO, but turning that awareness into published content takes a plan. Our guide to building a content strategy for AI search breaks that process into steps you can run after you finish an episode.
WordPress Podcasts Worth Your Time
WordPress podcasts cover a narrower audience than general SEO shows, but the two active ones below are genuinely well run.
This Week in WordPress (WP Builds)
Nathan Wrigley runs the WP Builds podcast network, and its flagship weekly show, This Week in WordPress, had reached episode 360 plus by January 2026, confirming it is still active and on a weekly cadence.
It covers WordPress news, plugin releases, AI tooling inside the WordPress ecosystem, and community updates, usually with a panel of guests reacting to the week’s stories. Best for developers, agency owners, and site managers who need to know what changed in core and the plugin ecosystem without reading five separate blogs.
Limitation: it assumes some familiarity with WordPress terminology. A newer site owner may want to skim our WordPress Abilities API guide first, since the show references underlying platform changes like this one without re-explaining them each episode.
Do the Woo
Do the Woo focuses on WooCommerce and the broader open commerce side of WordPress, with conversations featuring developers, agency owners, and product makers building on the platform. The show relaunched under a new host lineup and network after a hiatus, and recent episodes continue into 2025 and beyond.
Best for anyone running or building WooCommerce stores who wants to hear directly from the people shipping the plugins and extensions you install.
Limitation: the show now runs as a small family of related series (Inside Woo, Woo AgencyChat, and others) under one umbrella, so new listeners may need a minute to figure out which specific feed to subscribe to.
Google’s Own Search Podcast
Search Off the Record
This is the one show on the list made by the search engine itself. Search Off the Record is hosted by four members of Google’s Search Relations team: Gary Illyes, John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman, and Martin Splitt.
Episodes go behind the scenes of how Google Search actually works, including the reasoning behind specific launches and the trending questions the SEO community keeps asking the team. Hearing the people who build the ranking systems explain their own thinking is a different experience than a third-party analyst guessing at Google’s intent.
Best for SEO professionals and webmasters who want source-level information instead of secondhand interpretation.
Limitation: it does not publish on a fixed weekly schedule. New episodes appear when the Search Relations team has something worth discussing, which means longer gaps than the news-recap shows on this list.
SEO and Online Business Podcasts
These two round out the list with a practitioner, business-building angle rather than pure search marketing theory.
Niche Pursuits Podcast
Spencer Haws, founder of NichePursuits.com, hosts a weekly interview show covering niche websites, SEO, content monetization, affiliate marketing, and online business building. As of mid-October 2026 it was still releasing new episodes every Wednesday.
Best for solo site owners and content entrepreneurs who want to hear how other people actually built and sold (or kept growing) a content business, told through real guest stories rather than general advice.
Limitation: it leans toward interview format over structured tactical breakdowns, so you sometimes have to extract the actionable part yourself from a longer conversation.
Marketing School
Neil Patel and Eric Siu host Marketing School, a short-format show promising roughly ten minutes of marketing advice “every single day.” The actual release calendar has a few gaps, but new episodes were still landing in mid-October 2026.
Best for people who want a quick, digestible marketing tip during a commute rather than a long-form deep dive.
Limitation: the short format trades depth for frequency. Treat it as a prompt to go research further, not a complete explanation on its own.
How to Actually Use These Podcasts for Professional Development
Listening passively is fine, but it is not the fastest way to learn. A few habits make these shows pay off faster.
Pick one news-recap show (Marketing O’Clock or the Search Engine Journal Show) for weekly headlines. Pick one deep-focus show that matches your actual job, whether that is GEO, WordPress, or general SEO strategy. Two subscriptions beat eight you never finish.
Keep a running note of claims that surprise you. When a host says something that contradicts what you believed, that is worth checking against a primary source, such as Google’s own Search Central documentation, before you change anything on a live site.
Treat interview-style shows, like Niche Pursuits Podcast, as case studies rather than instructions. A guest’s specific result depended on their niche, timing, and starting audience. Your mileage really will vary.
If you manage a team, assign one show per person and have them report back the single most useful idea from that week’s episode in a short team update. That turns five people’s listening time into five sources of new ideas, instead of one person’s narrow feed.
A podcast app that supports variable speed and saved clips helps too. Bump playback to 1.25x or 1.5x once you are used to a host’s voice, and save the specific minute where a claim gets made so you can go verify it later instead of trusting your memory of a commute-time listen.
Transcripts help more than most people expect. Several of these SEO podcasts, including the Search Engine Journal Show and Search Off the Record, publish written transcripts or detailed show notes alongside the audio. Skimming the transcript first lets you decide whether a 45-minute episode is worth your full attention before you commit the time.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the fastest way to keep up with SEO news?
A short weekly news-recap podcast, like Marketing O’Clock, combined with following a couple of trusted SEO writers on social media, covers most breaking news faster than waiting for a monthly blog roundup.
Are GEO and AEO just new names for SEO?
Not exactly. Generative engine optimization (getting cited inside AI-generated answers) and answer engine optimization (optimizing for direct question-and-answer results) share a lot of groundwork with traditional SEO, like clear structure and credible sourcing, but they target different result formats. Crawling Mondays is the clearest podcast resource for this distinction right now.
Why do so many SEO podcasts stop publishing?
Podcasts are a time-heavy format, and most SEO shows are side projects run by practitioners with full client workloads. When client work picks up, the show is usually the first thing paused. That is exactly why checking a podcast’s most recent episode date matters more than trusting an old “best of” list.
Should I subscribe to a podcast made by Google itself?
Yes, if you want source-level explanations. Search Off the Record will not replace a tactical how-to podcast, but it is one of the few places you hear Google’s own Search Relations team explain their reasoning directly, rather than through a third party’s interpretation.
Is a daily marketing podcast worth the time commitment?
A short daily show like Marketing School works if you treat each episode as a ten-minute prompt rather than a full lesson. If you want fewer, deeper episodes instead, a weekly show will serve you better.
How many SEO podcasts should I actually follow at once?
Two or three is realistic for most people. Pick one news-recap show, one show focused on your specialty, whether that is WordPress, GEO, or general strategy, and maybe one longer interview show for slower listening on weekends. Following eight feeds usually means finishing none of them.
What to Do Next
Do not try to subscribe to all eight shows today. Pick two or three based on your actual role.
If you handle day-to-day client or in-house SEO work, start with Marketing O’Clock for news and the Search Engine Journal Show for longer guest conversations. If your focus has shifted toward AI search and generative engine optimization, start with Crawling Mondays and keep our AI search content strategy guide open in another tab while you listen.
If you run a WordPress or WooCommerce site, add This Week in WordPress and Do the Woo to a podcast app and listen during your weekly maintenance window. And if you want the occasional reminder that Google’s own team thinks about search in more nuanced ways than a single ranking factor, subscribe to Search Off the Record and let new episodes arrive whenever they are ready.
My take: the single habit that matters more than which show you pick is finishing episodes consistently. A great podcast you abandon after two episodes teaches you nothing. A decent one you actually finish every week will, over a year, teach you more than any single “best podcasts” list, including this one.
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