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…
How Google Responds to a Site Move
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about how Google processes a site move, in particular if the site move might trigger a so-called “sandbox effect.” Mueller responded by providing a…
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…
3 Scripts for Automating Google Ads Reports in Spreadsheets
As PPC account managers, we’ve always had to do a lot of reporting to keep our stakeholders informed. Now with the continued rise in automation, reporting has taken on new…
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…
How to Find & Optimize Your MVPs (Most Valuable Pages)
With every website, there is always a greater opportunity to optimize than there is time or resources to implement. Businesses of all sizes must be able to effectively prioritize focus,…
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…
The Top 10 Digital Marketing Certificate Programs to Enroll In
For anyone planning on having a long-term career in the marketing field (or seeking a pay raise or promotion at their current job), taking the initiative to get a digital…
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.…
Top 14 Benefits of Social Media for Your Business
Remember when people said social media was just a fad? Its power has become clear – and it continues to grow, with no end in sight. Once a communication experiment…
Google Says Improve Content to Recover From Core Update
Google’s John Mueller says work on improving your website’s content, rather than implementing technical fixes, when recovering from a broad core algorithm update. A ranking drop following a core update…
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…
7 Ways to Hold Off Upstart Competitors in Google Ads
So you’ve brought a new, innovative product to market. Or maybe you found a way to put a new twist on an existing service, and it’s taken off in popularity.…
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…
10 Uniquely Enterprise SEO Keyword Research Tips
When it comes to SEO, all things are not created equal. What defines your business as “enterprise” typically comes down to the size of your organization, your total annual revenue,…
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…
Google on Separating Content By User Intent
Google explains what it means when it suggests separating content by user intent, such as one place for information-based content and another for transaction-based content. Separating content by user intent…
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…
10 Best Job Boards for Marketers (+ Bonus Suggestions)
Marketing job boards are aplenty, but which ones are worth your time? To answer this question, we asked Twitter for some recommendations, added those we’ve personally used into the mix,…
Google Mobile Search Updated With Continuous Scrolling
Google Search on mobile is getting updated with continuous scrolling, which will automatically populate more results when users scroll to the bottom of the page. In an announcement, Google states:…
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…
Where Do SEO Professionals Spend Their Budgets & Time?
Which SEO tasks do you spend the most time working on? Everyone has their own way of working, but there are core areas of SEO that appear to have more…
What Is Duplicate Content and How It Affects Your Site
The fact that language has a limited number of words means that you will inevitably have to repeat words, phrases and sentences. Further, you could be offering similar services to…
Automated Content Generation for SEO: GPT-3 Possibilities & Pitfalls
Since the arrival of GPT-3, content generators have multiplied the use cases for SEO. It seems a bi-monthly update to review the new progress in the field of language models…
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…
WordPress Proposes Team to Improve Core Web Vitals
A WordPress proposal admits it is falling behind Wix and similar platforms and suggests they need to create a performance team to coordinate speed improvements. While some may find it…
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…
3 Daily Paid Advertising Tasks You Should Automate & the Tools You Need
This post was sponsored by Adzooma. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Paid advertising is a time-intensive discipline. There’s so much to concentrate on and so…
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…
Google On Small Business SEO & How it’s Changing
Google’s John Mueller suggests the way small businesses do SEO is changing in a way that industry experts aren’t keeping up with. Much of the content on the web aimed…