Category: Google Webmaster Blog

We’re adding support for return policies at the organization level, which means you’ll
be able to specify a general return policy for your business instead of having to define one
for each individual product you sell.

The last step of our migration to a mobile-first index
will soon be complete: the small set of sites we’ve still been crawling with desktop Googlebot
will be crawled with mobile Googlebot after July 5, 2024.
Most…

Search Central Live is coming back to the Asia Pacific region, bringing you insights from Google Search, fun networking opportunity, and more! This year we’re aiming to visit Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Thailand.

This post discusses an update to Search Console’s user and permissions to improve the
accuracy and reflect the actual state of unused ownership tokens.

We’re excited to announce a Search Central Live event in Warsaw, Poland on April 24, 2024.
Search Central Live
is our global Google Search event series specifically for site owners, publishers, and SEOs.

Today we announced
the March 2024 core update. This is designed to improve the quality of Search by showing less
content that feels like it was made to attract clicks, and more content that people find use…

In 2022, Google expanded support for Product structured data, enabling enhanced product experiences in Google Search.
Then, in 2023 we added support for shipping and returns structured data.
Today, we are adding structur…

We’re excited to announce a Search Central Live event in Bucharest, Romania on April 4, 2024.
Search Central Live
is our global Google Search event series specifically for site owners, publishers, and SEOs.

Following our latest update on our preparations for the DMA
(Digital Markets Act), we’re sharing more details about what publishers can expect to see in
regards to new search results in European Economic Area
(EE…

Today we’re publishing a refreshed, more pocket-sized version of the SEO Starter Guide with
a better focus on a starter audience and the topics we think a person who’s just dipping
their toes in SEO should focus on and why.

We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live is returning to São Paulo on February 29, 2024. Following our successful events
last year, we’re continuing our mission to help Brazilian businesses enhance their site’s performance in Google …

We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming to Buenos Aires on March 5, 2024. Following successful events throughout
the world last year, we’re continuing our mission to help website owners to enhance their site’s performance …

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 what happened in 2023 on Google Search Central,
and have some fun along the way!
…

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 sleeps ten. Today, we’re announcing a
new and simpler way for vacation rental in…

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 the main content of a page. Today, we’re
extending this change to search results in Video mode…

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 additional administrative data such as name…

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 additional administrative data such as name…

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 with Google
Search features that are designed to show first-per…

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 the improvements we’ve made to our crawling logic and other tools available to
…

As of November 16, Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines have been updated to simplify our guidelines.
As a reminder, these guidelines are what are used by our search raters to help evaluate the performance
of our various search r…