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Friday, February 2, 2024 We refreshed our SEO Starter Guide to better fit its namesake (you guessed it): a starter audience. Print version of the SEO Starter Guide cca. 2014;…
Thursday, February 1, 2024 Leer en español We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming to Buenos Aires on March 5, 2024. Following successful events throughout the world…
Thursday, February 1, 2024 Leia em Português We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live is returning to São Paulo. Following our successful events last year, we’re continuing our mission…
Monday, December 4, 2023 Earlier this year, we made a change to only show video thumbnails next to results on the main Google Search results page when the video is…
Sunday, December 31, 2023 I’m sure you’re all wondering why we have gathered you here today. That’s right: it’s the end of year blog post in which we go over…
Monday, December 4, 2023 Vacation rentals on Google make it easier for travelers to discover the best lodging options, whether they’re searching for a cozy cabin or a house that…
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 Since 2013, Google has supported logo structured data, which recognizes two Organization fields: logo and url. Today we’re expanding our support for organizational information by extracting…
Monday, November 27, 2023 Today we’re announcing support for profile page and discussion forum structured data for use in Google Search, including new reports in Search Console. This markup works…
Friday, November 24, 2023 The crawl rate limiter tool in Search Console is being deprecated on Jan 8th, 2024. This tool has been available for over a decade, but with…
Thursday, November 16, 2023 As of November 16, our Search Quality Rater Guidelines have been updated to simplify our guidelines. Specifically, we’ve simplified the “Needs Met” scale definitions, added more…
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 As people continue to search for courses on Google, the desire for more detailed course information has grown. Today, we are announcing a new set of…
Thursday, November 2, 2023 Google Search regularly updates our search ranking systems to ensure we’re showing the most relevant, helpful content that we can. We’ve had a series of notable…
Thursday, November 2, 2023 We are ecstatic to announce that for the first time ever, Search Central Live is coming to Taipei! Part of the Search Central Live events series,…
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 It’s been a long road, getting from there to here. We’re delighted to announce that the trek to Mobile First Indexing is now complete. Google Search…
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live Singapore is coming back this year again on November 22. As usual, the event is hosted by the…
Monday, October 16, 2023 Vehicle listings on Google allows car dealerships to show their for-sale inventory on Google Search and other Google surfaces. It is currently available in the US…
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 We’re releasing an update to our spam detections systems today that will improve our coverage in many languages and spam types. This spam update aims to…
Friday, September 29, 2023 We’re very excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming back to Zurich on Tuesday, October 24th, 2023! After our last Search Central Live event…
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 Leer en español We’re very excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming to Ciudad de México on November 7! Following successful events throughout the…
Monday, September 11, 2023 Search Console is launching a few enhancements to the Shopping tab Listings report to help merchants better manage their product offering. Last November, Search Console created…
Friday, September 8, 2023 In many countries and regions around the world, people commonly speak and search in more than one language. To best serve them, Google uses a variety…
Thursday, September 7, 2023 Last October, site names were introduced on mobile results for select languages, which expanded to desktop in March. Today, we’re happy to announce that site names…
Thursday, August 24, 2023 Every now and then we get questions about errors that we may have shown for sites in Search Console, and every now and then we encounter…
Thursday, August 17, 2023 With three Search Central Live events behind us this year, it’s time to announce the one we get asked about the most: Search Central India! We…
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 To provide a cleaner and more consistent search experience, we’re changing how some rich results types are shown in Google’s search results. In particular, we’re reducing…
Friday, July 28, 2023 In May, we introduced support for site names for subdomains on mobile devices only, for English, French, German, and Japanese. We now support subdomains on all…
Thursday, July 27, 2023 It’s been about a month since Search Central Live Tokyo concluded and about 2 weeks since SCL Jakarta! Looking back at the events makes us happy;…
The Sitemaps Protocol was introduced in 2005 to help search engines with the discovery of new URLs, and also to help with scheduling new crawls of already discovered URLs. It’s…
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 In October 2022, we rolled out the Search Essentials, providing clarity on the policies and practices Google follows to protect users and serve high-quality results. Sites…
Monday, June 12, 2023 One of the main reasons for Google not to index a video on your pages is that Google couldn’t identify a prominent enough video to qualify…