Category: Google Webmaster Blog

As people continue to search for courses on Google, the desire for more detailed course
information has grown. Today, we are announcing a new set of recommendations to provide
course structured data to Google. Publishers now have the…

We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming back to Taipei for the first time ever on December 6. As usual, the event is hosted by the Google
Search team and we’re looking forward to bringing together the community to lear…

Google Search regularly updates our search ranking systems to ensure we’re showing the most
relevant, helpful content that we can. We’ve had a series of notable updates we’ve shared about
in the past few weeks, and we have two for this month. Given this, it’s a good time to share some
reminders in a Q&A format about how we do updates, why we share about them, and what (if anything)
creators need to consider when one happens.

We’re delighted to announce that the trek to Mobile First Indexing is now complete.

We’re excited to announce that
Search Central Live Singapore
is coming back this year again on November 22. As usual, the event is hosted by the Google
Search team and we’re looking forward to bringing together the commu…

Google Search will start supporting vehicle listings markup, a new way to appear in vehicle listings on Google.
It now has its own Search Console Rich result report and is supported in the testing tool.

We’re releasing an update to our spam detections systems today that will improve our coverage
in many languages and spam types.

We’re very excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming back to Zurich on Tuesday, October 24th, 2023!
After our last Search Central Live event in Zurich in December 2019, we’re back in town for more presentations, Q&A and networking!

Search Central Live is coming to Ciudad de México on November 7. The event will have a mix of presenters
from the Google Search, News, and Partnership teams. The content will be delivered in Spanish and English
(with live translation to Spanish). Check more details about speakers, agenda, and how to sign up to the
event.

Today Search Console is enhancing the Shopping section to help businesses with a Merchant Center
account to monitor the status of their products and discover opportunities to improve the
visibility of their products on Google.

In many countries and regions around the world, people commonly speak and search in more than
one language. To best serve them, Google uses a variety of ways to automatically determine
what is the best language or languages to show s…

Last October, site names were introduced on mobile results for select languages, which expanded
to desktop in March. Today, we’re happy to announce that site names are now available in all
languages where Google Search is available, …

Every now and then we get questions about errors that we may have shown for sites in Search
Console, and every now and then we encounter folks who seem to be confused about where an
error came from. This is understandable: there are …

With three Search Central Live events behind us this year, it’s time to announce the one we get asked about the most: Search Central India!

To provide a cleaner and more consistent search experience, we’re changing how some rich results types are shown in Google’s search results. In particular, we’re reducing the visibility of FAQ rich results, and limiting How-To rich results to de…

We now support sitenames for subdomains on all devices in some languages. We also updated how the site names system works, to increase its ability to make selections that are representative of sites listed in search results.

It’s been about a month since Search Central Live Tokyo concluded and about 2 weeks since SCL Jakarta! Looking back at the events makes us happy; it’s really great to be back and meet people in person! But let’s ponder what we learned.

The Sitemaps Protocol was introduced in 2005
to help search engines with the discovery of new URLs, and also to help with scheduling new
crawls of already discovered URLs. It’s a wildly popular protocol that hasn’t chang…

Today, we launched a new user feedback form for reporting quality issues for sites. In this post we will take a look at some of the new form’s features.

In order to help you better understand issues with video indexing, Search Console will start reporting
more specific issues with clear actions to help you make your videos more prominent on Search.