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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 browsers started supporting the next major revision of HTTP, HTTP/2…
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 to the open source world. Since then, we’ve seen people…
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 be eligible for shipping details in Google Search results. Since…
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. The goal of the series was to create updated video…
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 sales events such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday. As…
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…
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 Browsing systems continue to play an important role to keep…
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 in 1993, years before Google even existed. However, the term…
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. As part of this site migration, we’re also consolidating the…
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…
An update on the Structured Data Testing Tool
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 Test your structured data with the Rich Results Test and Schema Markup Validator. In July, we announced that the Rich Results Test is out of beta.…
A weird year in review | Google Search Central Blog
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 2020, what a year this was! We found new ways to work and collaborate, to learn and have fun, and also to stay safe. Working from…
Index Coverage Data Improvements | Google Search Central Blog
Monday, January 11, 2021 Helping people understand how Google crawls and indexes their sites has been one of the main objectives of Search Console since its early days. When we…
Introducing Google News performance report
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 Today we are launching Google News performance reporting to help news publishers better understand user behavior on Google News on our Android and iOS apps, as…
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…
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…
New resources for video SEO | Google Search Central Blog
Wednesday, March 17, 2021 As global online video consumption continues to grow, Google aims to surface video content from diverse sources across the web. We want to make it easy…
Clarifications about the SharedArrayBuffer object message
Friday, March 19, 2021 Update on May 6, 2021: Due to unexpected circumstances, the Chrome team decided to postpone the restriction on the SharedArrayBuffer object on desktop to Chrome 92…
Practice problems and Math solvers structured data
Thursday, March 25, 2021 According to Unesco, nearly 1.5 billion learners had their education disrupted due to COVID-19. Almost overnight, students, parents, and educators had to adapt to new learning…
Improved data filtering and comparison on Performance reports
Wednesday, April 07, 2021 The Search Console Performance reports allow users to understand how people find their site on Google. Today, we’re introducing two improvements that will make the reports…
What creators should know about Google’s product reviews update
Thursday, April 8, 2021 Google Search is always working to show the most useful and helpful information possible, through testing, experimenting, and review processes. From this, we know people appreciate…
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…