Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2 | Google Search Central Blog
Thursday, September 17, 2020 Quick summary: Starting November 2020, Googlebot will start crawling some sites over HTTP/2. Ever since mainstream…
New open source robots.txt projects | Google Search Central Blog
Monday, September 21, 2020 Last year we released the robots.txt parser and matcher that we use in our production systems…
New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 Quick summary: Starting today, we support shippingDetails schema.org markup as an alternative way for retailers to…
The Search Console Training lives on | Google Search Central Blog
Friday, October 02, 2020 In November 2019 we announced the Search Console Training YouTube series and started publishing videos regularly.…
Best practices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday pages
Tuesday, October 26, 2020 The end of the year holiday season is a peak time for many merchants with special…
Google’s first virtual summit for Product Experts
Thursday, November 05, 2020 More than ever, users are relying on Google products to do their jobs, educate their kids,…
Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 Update on August 4, 2021: Clarified that Safe Browsing isn’t used as a ranking signal. Safe…
Goodbye Google Webmasters, hello Google Search Central
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 The history behind Google Webmasters Merriam-Webster claims the first known use of the word “webmaster” was…
We moved! Introducing the new home for the Google Webmaster Blogs
Thursday, November 19, 2020 Last week we changed our name to Google Search Central and published our new central site.…
New and improved crawl stats for your site
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 To help website owners better understand how Googlebot crawls their sites, we’re launching a brand new…