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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,…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Among other things, a good blog can: Drive traffic to your business. Increase awareness of your brand and products. Bring new customers your way. Educate and nurture your customers and…
Thursday, September 17, 2020 Quick summary: Starting November 2020, Googlebot will start crawling some sites over HTTP/2. Ever since mainstream browsers started supporting the next major revision of HTTP, HTTP/2…
Monday, September 21, 2020 Last year we released the robots.txt parser and matcher that we use in our production systems to the open source world. Since then, we’ve seen people…
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 Quick summary: Starting today, we support shippingDetails schema.org markup as an alternative way for retailers to be eligible for shipping details in Google Search results. Since…
Friday, October 02, 2020 In November 2019 we announced the Search Console Training YouTube series and started publishing videos regularly. The goal of the series was to create updated video…
Tuesday, October 26, 2020 The end of the year holiday season is a peak time for many merchants with special sales events such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday. As…
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…
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 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…
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 The history behind Google Webmasters Merriam-Webster claims the first known use of the word “webmaster” was in 1993, years before Google even existed. However, the term…
Thursday, November 19, 2020 Last week we changed our name to Google Search Central and published our new central site. As part of this site migration, we’re also consolidating the…
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…