You know what time it is: year in a review. With only a few days left of 2022 and with all the quiet in the office, we thought it would be nice to reflect on this year from Search Central's perspective. | Continue reading
We spent the past few weeks busy hosting events in Singapore and Tel Aviv. In this post we look back and discuss the highlights from the events and some ideas for future events. | Continue reading
Many creators are familiar with the concept of E-A-T, which is used in how we evaluate if our search ranking systems are providing helpful, relevant information. Would ordinary people feel the results they get demonstrate E-A-T, that is: expertise, authoritativeness, and … | Continue reading
As we head into 2023, we want to introduce another tool for the public to understand the most current status of systems which impact Search - crawling, indexing, and serving. While system disruptions are extremely rare, we want to be transparent when they do happen, so p … | Continue reading
It can be challenging to find a certain search feature or UI element that you want to learn about, especially when you don't know what it's called. The brand new Visual Elements Gallery was built to help you with this: it contains the 22 visual elements that are most likely … | Continue reading
The European Copyright Directive, which is being implemented by countries in the European Union, gives new rights to news publishers online while ensuring that consumers can continue to freely access information through online platforms. The Directive allows search engines … | Continue reading
Thanks to everyone who submitted questions for the November edition of the Google SEO office hours! In this episode, you'll hear answers from folks on the Google Search team: Gary Illyes, Lizzi Sassman, John Mueller, Alan Kent, and Duy Nguyen. You can check out the full rec … | Continue reading
Over the years, through blog posts and other public communications, Google has regularly shared information about our automated ranking systems and how they operate. Now we've created a centralized page called "A guide to Google Search ranking systems" to make it easier for … | Continue reading
Search Console is making it easier for merchants to display their products across Google, including a new feature for the Shopping tab, to help them drive more traffic to their online stores. | Continue reading
Learn more about how the helpful content update works, and what you can do to assess and improve your content. | Continue reading
While Google's automated systems to detect search spam are constantly operating, we occasionally make notable improvements to how they work. When we do, we refer to this as a spam update. | Continue reading
Learn about how core updates work, and what you can do to assess and perhaps improve your content. | Continue reading
Learn more about how a product reviews update works, and what you can do to assess and improve your content. | Continue reading
The first of the Search Central Live events is going to happen in-person in Singapore on November 24, 2022. Registrations are now open until November 15 and we welcome you to fill out the form for a chance to secure your spot at the event; that's all you need to do. We have … | Continue reading
Learn how to write high quality product reviews and see how they can help shoppers discover your product reviews in Search. | Continue reading
Google Search Console has a new report called HTTPS, which provides more information regarding the HTTPS status of the site and make it easier to understand which pages are not served over HTTPS, and why not. Use this report to get insights about HTTPS pages served on Searc … | Continue reading
Google is pleased to announce expanded eligibility for enhanced product experiences in Google Search through the use of Product structured data. These enhanced product experiences were previously only open to Merchant Center users. We're also making it easier to understa … | Continue reading
We're launching what we're calling the “helpful content update” that's part of a broader to ensure people see more original, helpful content written by people, for people, in search results. This post contains more about the Search ranking update and things for creators … | Continue reading
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 has shown to be popular with shoppers when making their purchasing decisions. Because of their importance to user … | Continue reading
Learn how to write high quality product reviews and see how they can help shoppers discover your product reviews in Search. | Continue reading
To help you understand the performance of your videos on Google, and identify possible areas of improvement, Search Console is launching a new report called Video indexing. We will roll out this change gradually over the next few months, so you might not see this new report … | Continue reading
Sunsetting Conversational Actions. | Continue reading
We're addressing some questions we've received the past few days in response to our documentation update about Googlebot handling up to 15 MB of data on request. | Continue reading
Search Console is simplifying the way it classifies pages, items, and issues in reports. The goal is to help you focus on critical issues that affect your visibility in Search, and will help you better prioritize your work. This change will be rolled out to all properties g … | Continue reading
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 the overall relevancy of our search results and make them more helpful and useful for everyone. Today, we'r … | Continue reading
The Global Search Central Virtual Unconference 2022 was held on April 27 with over 100 participants and 25 discussion sessions. This post summarizes what the takeaways were and how the event went. | Continue reading
We're deprecating a handful of sitemap extension tags and attributes. | Continue reading
It's definitely not magic that helps keep more than 99% of visits from Search spam-free! This post explains what happens behind the scenes and how we fought Search spam in 2021. | Continue reading
Some small changes are coming to cache.addAll() and importScripts and in Chrome 71. | Continue reading
In this post, we’ll discuss a bubble chart that can help you understand which queries are performing well for your site, and which could be improved. We’ll first explain the main elements in the chart, describing specific settings and how they influence the data. Then we’ll … | Continue reading
This article shows how to create a monitoring dashboard for your Search traffic on Data Studio. It also announces the addition of new data to the Search Console Data Studio connector, including data for Discover and Google News traffic. | Continue reading
To help you identify structured data issues more effectively, Search Console is adding more context to its error reporting. In this post we explain how this change may affect you. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
The Search Central Virtual Unconference Japan 2022 is now open for registration. The sessions will be conducted in Japanese. If you are interested, be sure to register by March 30! On top of that,the global Search Central Unconference 2022 is scheduled for April 27. Come meet the … | Continue reading
Our March 2022 product reviews update is now rolling out for English-language pages. This update may impact the rankings of English-language product reviews across many sites. We've also extended our advice for multi-product reviews. Check out our blog post for details. | Continue reading
WebVR 1.1 has been removed from Chrome. | Continue reading
The Civic Information API allows developers to build applications that let citizens and voters know about their political representation and voting locations. | Continue reading