Friday, August 5, 2022 Product reviews are a valuable resource for users researching which product to buy. Product reviews often contain a list of pros and cons, which our research…

Monday, July 11, 2022 Video creation and consumption on the web continues to grow, and Google Search indexes videos from millions of different sites, so people can easily discover and…

Tuesday, June 28, 2022 Over the last few days we’ve received a great deal of questions about a recent update to our documentation about Googlebot. Namely, we’ve documented that Googlebot…

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 We are simplifying the way we classify pages, items, and issues in Search Console reports. We hope this will help you focus on critical issues that…

Friday, June 3, 2022 This week, we introduced an algorithmic improvement that identifies documents where the title element is written in a different language or script from its content, and…

Wednesday, May 25, 2022 Several times per year, we make substantial improvements to our overall ranking processes, which we refer to as core updates. Core updates are designed to increase…

Monday, May 23, 2022 The Search Central Virtual Unconference 2022 took place on April 27 this year. This is the third event of this kind. With over 450 registrants, it’s…

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 We organized the first Search Central Virtual Unconference Japan on April 5, 2022 to facilitate a discussion and networking platform for the SEO, Search and publisher…

Friday, May 06, 2022 Over the years, we introduced a number of tags and tag attributes for Google sitemap extensions, specifically the Image and Video extensions. Most of these tags…

Thursday, April 21, 2022 In 2021, the world searched for how to heal and how to come back stronger. To help people find helpful information on questions big and small,…

Wednesday, April 06, 2022 Analyzing Search performance data is always a challenge, but even more so when you have plenty of long-tail queries, which are harder to visualize and understand.…

Wednesday, March 30, 2022 This article shows how to create a monitoring dashboard for your Search traffic on Data Studio. While Search Console provides out-of-the-box charts and filtering capabilities, Data…

Monday, March 28, 2022 To help you identify structured data issues more effectively, starting tomorrow Search Console is adding more context to its error reporting. For example, if a website…

Monday, March 28, 2022 In short: We’re deprecating the URL Parameters tool in Search Console in 1 month. There’s no action required from the current users of the tool. The…

Send feedback Thursday, March 24, 2022 The Search Central Virtual Unconference Japan 2022 is now open for registration. The sessions will be conducted in Japanese. If you are interested, be…

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 We’ve regularly heard through user feedback that people prefer detailed reviews with evidence of products actually being tested. Over the past year, we’ve updated how Search…

Tuesday, March 08, 2022 Google Search Console gives you insight into your website performance in Google Search, but understanding your data can be a challenge. If you set up a…

Monday, January 31, 2022 Today we’re launching the new Google Search Console URL Inspection API, which gives programmatic access to URL-level data for properties you manage in Search Console. The…

Friday, January 21, 2022 Today, we’re introducing a new robots tag, indexifembedded, that brings you more control over when your content is indexed. With the indexifembedded tag, you can tell…

Friday, December 31, 2021 It’s that time of year again: writing a blogpost about what happened during the year, and the aspirations for the year to come. Since writing is…

Monday, December 1, 2021 Back in April 2021, we shared a product reviews update that was designed to promote high quality product reviews. We are now rolling out a new…

Friday, November 26, 2021 We first started working on mobile-first indexing a number of years ago. Since then, we’ve switched to indexing the majority of web pages with Googlebot-Smartphone. Our…

Thursday, September 17, 2020 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 or h2…

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 A year ago, we launched our new site and announced that we were leaving our beloved name, Google Webmasters, behind for a new moniker: Google Search…

Tuesday, September 22, 2020 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 June 2020,…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…