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, and stay in touch with loved ones. Our Google Product…
6 Important Insights About Title Tags (953,276 Pages Studied)
Google’s recent switch to relying less on title tags to generate SERP titles caused a stir in the SEO industry in August and September. The feedback from SEOs has been…
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 version of the Crawl stats report in Search Console. The…
Updates to Search Console’s API | Google Search Central Blog
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 A few months ago we announced an API infrastructure upgrade to improve the performance of the Search Console API as demand grows. Today we’re happy to…
Search Console Discover report now includes Chrome data
Tuesday, February 02, 2021 Discover is a popular way for users to stay up-to-date on all their favorite topics, even when they’re not searching for something specific. Publishers and site…
Join us at Search Central Live | Google Search Central Blog
Thursday, February 18, 2021 On February 24 JST, we will host our first installment of our new event series called Search Central Live. This will be the first of a…
New Association functionality added to Search Console
Monday, February 22, 2021 We’re happy to announce that Search Console has an enhanced Association page within the settings menu. Association is a connection between a Search Console property, and…
Providing better product information for shoppers
Friday, February 26, 2021 Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, and organizing product information for shoppers and retailers is an essential part of this mission. In the last…
Expanding support for APAC Search Central Help Communities
Friday, April 9, 2021 Earlier in 2020, we opened Google Search Central Help Communities in multiple markets like the Polish, Turkish, and Arabic communities. As we’ve been continuously working to…
More time, tools, and details on the page experience update
Monday, April 19, 2021 Update on August 4, 2021: Clarified that Safe Browsing isn’t used as a ranking signal. Safe Browsing systems continue to play an important role to keep…
How we worked with you in 2020 towards a safe Search experience, without spam
Wednesday, May 26, 2021 Making sure your Google Search experience is safe and without spam is always important to us. In 2020, we invested in many innovations to keep Google…
Prevent portions of your site from being abused by spam
Wednesday, May 26, 2021 As a website owner, you might provide a few channels where your users can interact, such as forums, guestbooks, social media platforms, file uploaders, hosting services,…
The Search Central Unconference is back | Google Search Central Blog
Wednesday, June 09, 2021 You asked, and we listened. We are excited to announce that we will be hosting another Search Central Virtual Unconference on June 21st, at 3PM UTC.…
A new way to enable video key moments in Search
Monday, July 19, 2021 Since video key moments first launched in 2019, we’ve continued to expand and improve the feature. We’ve evolved the design and brought key moments to more…
Analyzing Google Search traffic drops | Google Search Central Blog
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 Suppose you open Search Console and find out that your Google Search traffic dropped. What should you do? A drop in organic Search traffic can happen…
A reminder on qualifying links and our link spam update
Monday, July 26, 2021 Web creators nowadays have many ways to monetize their websites and blogs. Some of these methods lead to the creation of outbound links that, if overdone…
Simplifying the Page Experience report | Google Search Central Blog
Wednesday, August 4, 2021 The Page Experience report in Search Console launched earlier this year to offer publishers and site owners a way to quickly understand how their sites fare…
8 Steps to Grow on a Budget
Startups are always on the lookout for scalable growth tactics that can be done with little or no money. Search engine optimization, or simply SEO, is one of them. SEO…
Search Analytics API now supports Discover, Google News, and Regex
Monday, October 25, 2021 The Google Search Console Performance reports already show data about Search, Discover, and Google News to site owners that have this type of traffic. Since we…
17 Free Online Marketing Courses to Learn Digital Marketing
We asked Twitter users to recommend their favorite free digital marketing courses and received over a hundred replies: Is there a good FREE digital marketing course that you can recommend?…
The Only 8 Link-Building Tools You Need in 2021 (Free & Paid)
Link building has been my passion for nearly a decade. Before working for Ahrefs, I worked as a link-building consultant, helping dozens of clients build hundreds of links. What I…
Timeline for bringing page experience ranking to desktop
Thursday, November 4, 2021 At I/O 2021, we previewed our plans to bring page experience ranking to desktop. Today we’re announcing more details, including the timeline for these changes. This…
How to Choose the Right Keywords for SEO
The keywords you choose can make or break your SEO campaign. If you make smart keyword choices, you’ll produce content with the potential to attract valuable organic search traffic month…
Comparing Search Volumes for 72k Keywords [A Study by Ahrefs]
There are two sources of keyword search volume data that come directly from Google: Google Search Console (GSC) and Google Keyword Planner (GKP). We decided to compare the numbers between…
What is SaaS Marketing? 8 Tactics We Use at Ahrefs
SaaS marketing is the process of building awareness, increasing interest, and acquiring more customers for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product. As a SaaS company ourselves, we’re no strangers to the process.…
Help job seekers understand your job postings by including a complete description
Monday, November 01, 2021 We’ve uncovered an opportunity to improve your job posting pages, and it only takes a few changes to the description field. In the description section of…
180+ Terms and Definitions You Should Know
You’ve probably noticed that there’s a lot of jargon and abbreviations in SEO. So we curated and categorized all the important SEO terms and their definitions below. Click to find…
How to Create & Optimize Landing Pages for SEO (Step-by-Step Guide)
Everyone wants organic traffic to landing pages because they convert so well. And although it can be harder to rank a landing page in Google compared to, say, a blog…
Search Analytics API now supports Discover, Google News, and Regex
Monday, October 25, 2021 The Google Search Console Performance reports already show data about Search, Discover, and Google News to site owners that have this type of traffic. Since we…
Google’s Quality Raters Guidelines Demystified for SEOs
Every SEO guide ventures to solve the mystery of Google’s algorithm. But what if Google had a document telling you how it wants its algorithm to behave? Google’s Quality Rater…