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2025
December
Introducing weekly and monthly views in Search Console
Introducing social channels in Search Console
Streamline your Search Console analysis with the new AI-powered configuration
November
Introducing the Branded queries filter in Search Console
Adding context to your Search Console data with custom annotations
More ways to share your shipping and returns policies with Google
Search Central Live Zurich is back!
Here's an update on our efforts to simplify the search results page
October
Introducing Query groups in Search Console Insights
September
Search Central Live Dubai 2025
Announcing the store widget: build shopper confidence and drive sales
Search Central Live Tokyo 2025
Search Central Live Hong Kong 2025
August
Search Central Live is back to Mexico City
July
Introducing the Google Trends API (alpha)
June
The new Search Console Insights report is here
SCL Deep Dive APAC 2025: Community Speakers and a New Format
Simplifying the search results page
Adding markup support for loyalty programs
May
Top ways to ensure your content performs well in Google's AI experiences on Search
App deep links: connecting your website and app
April
Register now for Search Central Live Deep Dive 2025
The Search Analytics API now supports hourly data
March
Robots Refresher: Future-proof Robots Exclusion Protocol
Get Ready for Search Central Live Asia Pacific 2025
Robots Refresher: page-level granularity
Robots Refresher: robots.txt - a flexible way to control how machines explore your website
Search Central Live is going to Madrid
First Search Central Live in South Africa
February
Robots Refresher: introducing a new series
Search Central Live is going to New York City
January
Simplifying the visible URL element on mobile search results
Search Central Live is returning to Brazil
2024
December
Crawling out of December: the 2024 recap
Crawling December: CDNs and crawling
Crawling December: Faceted navigation
Search Central Live Kuala Lumpur and Taipei 2024: Recap
An improved way to view your recent performance data in Search Console
Crawling December: HTTP caching
Crawling December: The how and why of Googlebot crawling
November
Join us at Search Central Live in Zurich!
Updating our site reputation abuse policy
October
Farewell, Sitelinks Search Box
Search Central Live Jakarta and Bangkok 2024: it's a wrap
Bringing Store ratings on Search to more countries
September
New Search experiences in South Africa: Badges and refinement chips
Learn all about Google Trends with our new YouTube tutorials
August
Supporting AVIF in Google Search
Search Central Live 2024 is coming to Kuala Lumpur and Taipei
What to know about our August 2024 core update
Introducing recommendations in Google Search Console
July
Configure your shipping and returns directly in Search Console
June
Search Central Live Bangkok 2024
Adding markup support for organization-level return policies
We're on LinkedIn (finally)
Mobile-indexing-vLast-final-final.doc
May
Search Central Live 2024 is coming back to the APAC region
April
Improving Search Console ownership token management
March
Search Central Live 2024 in Warsaw, Poland
What web creators should know about our March 2024 core update and new spam policies
Search Central Live 2024 in Bucharest, Romania
February
Adding structured data support for Product Variants
New Search experiences in EEA: Rich results, aggregator units, and refinement chips
The SEO Starter Guide gets a makeover
Announcing Search Central Live Argentina
Search Central Live is returning to Brazil
2023
December
This is over
Video mode now only shows pages where video is the main content
Adding markup support for vacation rentals
November
Expanding markup support for Organization details, including Logo structured data
New in structured data: discussion forum and profile page
Upcoming deprecation of Crawl Rate Limiter Tool in Search Console
Search Quality Raters Guidelines update
List your courses with new course info structured data
A Q&A on Google Search updates
Search Central Live Taipei 2023
October
Mobile-first indexing has landed
Search Central Live Singapore 2023
Vehicle listing structured data for car dealerships
October 2023 Spam Update
September
Search Central Live Zurich is back!
Announcing the Search Central Live Mexico roadshow
Associate Search Console to Merchant Center to discover growth opportunities
How Google Search handles multilingual searches
Site names on Google Search now available for all languages
August
The comedy of errors
Search Central Live is coming to India
Changes to HowTo and FAQ rich results
July
An update on site names
Search Central Live Tokyo and Jakarta: it's a wrap
June
Sitemaps ping endpoint is going away
Reporting search quality issues with a new user feedback form
Improving prominence reporting in the Search Console video indexing report
Indonesian Blog: Search Central Live Jakarta 2023
BigQuery efficiency tips for Search Console bulk data exports
May
Understanding news topic authority
Search Central Live: Tokyo and future plans for APAC
Introducing INP to Core Web Vitals
How x-default can help you
April
Japanese Blog: Introducing #GoogleSearchOfficeHours
The role of page experience in creating helpful content
Shipping and Returns information on Google Search web results
Simplifying video presentation on Google Search Results
How we fought spam on Google Search in 2022
Event recap: Search Central Virtual Unconference en español 2023
March
Blending Search Console and internal data inside Looker Studio
Search Central Community in 2022
February
Updating Search Console users and permissions management
Bulk data export: a new and powerful way to access your Search Console data
Don't use 403s or 404s for rate limiting
Google Search's guidance about AI-generated content
Announcing the Search Central Live Brazil roadshow
New updates to the Search Console Video indexing report
January
Spanish blog: Register for the Search Central Virtual Unconference en español 2023
2022
December
Thanks, 2022
Search Central Live 2022 Highlights
Our latest update to the quality rater guidelines: E-A-T gets an extra E for Experience
December 2022 link spam update releasing for Google Search
Introducing the Google Search Status Dashboard
Visual Elements of Google Search
Updates to Google's Services in Czechia in Light of the Czech Transposition of the European Copyright Directive
November
November Google SEO Office Hours
Introducing our new guide to Google Search ranking systems
Start showing your products on the Shopping tab with Search Console
October
A deep dive into Search Console performance data filtering and limits
Introducing site names on Google Search
Refreshed guidelines for site owners
Back in business: Search Central Live events
September
The new HTTPS report in Search Console
New Search Console Merchant Listings report: expanding eligibility with Product structured data
August
What creators should know about Google's helpful content update
New in structured data: Pros and cons
July
Announcing the new Search Console Video index report
June
Googlebot and the 15 MB thing
Simplifying Search Console reports with an updated item classification
How Google generates titles for documents with language or script misalignment
May
May 2022 core update releasing for Google Search
The Global Search Central Virtual Unconference 2022 is a wrap!
Event recap: Search Central Virtual Unconference Japan 2022
Spring cleaning: some sitemap extension tags are going away
April
How we fought Search spam on Google in 2021
Optimizing website performance with a Search Console bubble chart
March
Monitoring Search traffic (and more!) with Data Studio
Adding context to structured data issues in Search Console
Spring cleaning: the URL Parameters tool
Japanese Blog: Register for the first Search Central Virtual Unconference Japan 2022!
Improving Product Review ranking, one year on
Search for Beginners YouTube Series now available in Japanese!
Connecting Search Console to Data Studio
January
Welcoming the new Search Console URL Inspection API
New robots tag: indexifembedded
2021
December
Our authors' take on 2021
Product reviews update and your site
November
A 2021 update on mobile indexing
One year of Google Search Central
Timeline for bringing page experience ranking to desktop
Help job seekers understand your job postings by including a complete description
October
Search Analytics API now supports Discover, Google News, and Regex
Aligning Search Console testing tools and the URL Inspection tool
September
More information on how Google generates titles for web page results
August
An update to how we generate web page titles
Google Search Console Insights behind the curtains
Simplifying the Page Experience report
July
A reminder on qualifying links and our link spam update
Engage shoppers with deal pages in Google Search
Analyzing Google Search traffic drops
A new way to enable video key moments in Search
Answers to some common questions about appearing in Google News
Updating our job posting guidelines to improve quality of results for job seekers
Highlight your customer support methods in Google Search
June
Learn how to improve your content with Search Console Insights
The Search Central Unconference is back
Search Console regex filters update and quick tips
Understanding the sources behind Google News
May
Search at Google I/O 2021
Prevent portions of your site from being abused by spam
How we worked with you in 2020 towards a safe search experience, without spam
Sunsetting the generic rich results search appearance on Search Console
Korean Blog: The lonely site owner learns about linking; and the power of Dalgona Coffee
Video SEO best practices for ecommerce
April
How we fought Search spam on Google in 2020
Korean Blog: Agrofy: A 70% improvement in LCP correlated to a 76% reduction in load abandonment
Korean Blog: Vodafone: A 31% improvement in LCP increased sales by 8%
Korean Blog: Two helpful tips: meta tags and sitemaps
More time, tools, and details on the page experience update
Upcoming changes to FeedBurner
Announcing the Sustainable Monetized Websites video series
Expanding support for APAC Search Central Help Communities
What creators should know about Google's product reviews update
Improved data filtering and comparison on Performance reports
March
Korean Blog: How CLS optimizations increased Yahoo! JAPAN News's page views per session by 15%
Korean Blog: How Wix improved website performance by evolving their infrastructure
New for education sites: Practice problems and Math solver structured data
SharedArrayBuffer messaging clarifications
New resources for video SEO
February
Providing better product information for shoppers
New Association functionality added to Search Console
Join us at Search Central Live
Search Console Discover report now includes Chrome data
January
Introducing Google News performance report
Index Coverage Data Improvements
2020
December
A weird year in review
An update on Structured Data Testing Tool
Updates to Search Console's API
November
New and improved crawl stats for your site
We moved! Introducing the new home for the Google Webmasters blogs
Goodbye Google Webmasters, hello Google Search Central
Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search
PES@Home 2020: Google's first virtual summit for Product Experts
October
Best practices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday pages
How can my pages appear on the search result page?
The Search Console Training lives on
September
New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data
New open source robots.txt projects
Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2
Sharing what we learned on the first Virtual Webmaster Unconference
#TanyaTentangSearch (Search Console - Part 2)
August
Make the licensing information for your images visible on Google Images
Options for retailers to control how their crawled product information appears on Google
Identify and fix AMP Signed Exchange errors in Search Console
Join our first Virtual Webmaster Unconference
Rich Results and Search Console Webmaster Conference Lightning Talk
Search Console API announcements
Search Off The Record podcast - behind the scenes with Search Relations
July
Prepare for mobile-first indexing (with a little extra time)
The Rich Results Test is out of beta
How spam reports are used at Google
#TanyaTentangSearch (Search Console)
June
Why are my pages not shown on the search result page?
How we fought Search spam on Google - Webspam Report 2019
May
Evaluating page experience for a better web
Hello Search Console. Nice to meet you!
Frequently asked questions about JavaScript and links
Google Translate's Website Translator - available for non-commercial use
New reports for Guided Recipes on Assistant in Search Console
Reintroducing a community for Polish and Turkish Site Owners
New reports for Special Announcements in Search Console
April
Showcasing the value of SEO
Looking back at last year's Webmaster Conference Product Summit
Introducing a new way for sites to highlight COVID-19 announcements on Google Search
March
Helping health organizations make COVID-19 information more accessible
How to pause your business online in Google Search
New properties for virtual, postponed, and canceled events
Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Webmaster Conference
Announcing mobile first indexing for the whole web
February
Best Practices for News coverage with Search
More and better data export in Search Console
How to showcase your events on Google Search
New reports for review snippets in Search Console
#TanyaTentangSearch (Google Images)
January
Google Search News for January 2020
New Removals report in Search Console
Sunsetting support for data-vocabulary
Get Ready for New SameSite=None; Secure Cookie Settings
The Search Console Training video series is rolling out
2019
December
An update on 2019
Launching a new Publisher Center
Package Tracking Early Access Program
Introducing the new Search Console messages
Launching the event experience on Google Search in Spain and Germany
November
Google Search News for November 2019
New reporting for Products Results in Search Console
Get faster with the new Speed report in Search Console
Introducing the Korean webmaster blog
October
Site Kit is now available for all WordPress sites
Google Webmaster Conference goes to Tel Aviv
Video Series for New Webmasters: Search for Beginners!
Goodbye, Flash
New reports for video results in Search Console
Updating the user agent of Googlebot
Upcoming event: Webmaster Conference Tokyo and Osaka
September
Join us at a Webmaster Conference in Mountain View, California
Google Search News: coming soon to a screen near you
More options to help websites preview their content on Google Search
Fresher data in your site's Search Performance report
Making Review Rich Results more helpful
Evolving nofollow- new ways to identify the nature of links
Saying goodbye to the old Search Console
Introducing Auto-DNS verification in the new Search Console
#TanyaTentangSearch (Structured Data)
August
Minor cleaning up in the Search Console API
You #AskGoogleWebmasters, we answer
When indexing goes wrong: how Google Search recovered from indexing issues and lessons learned since
Googlebot evergreen rendering in our testing tools
What site owners should know about Google's core updates
Upcoming event: Webmaster Conference Sapporo
July
Helping publishers and users get more out of visual searches on Google Images with AMP
A note on unsupported rules in robots.txt
Google's robots.txt parser is now open source
Formalizing the Robots Exclusion Protocol Specification
June
Bye Bye Preferred Domain setting
Webmaster Conference: an event made for you
A video series on SEO myths for web developers
Upcoming events: Webmaster Conference Jakarta and Bali 2019
Upcoming event: Webmaster Conference in India
May
Mobile-First Indexing by default for new domains
Search at Google I/O 2019
New in structured data: FAQ and How-to
The new evergreen Googlebot
Google I/O 2019 - What sessions should SEOs and webmasters watch?
Monitoring structured data with Search Console
#TanyaTentangSearch (Crawling, Indexing, and Ranking)
April
Enriching Search Results Through Structured Data
Instant-loading AMP pages from your own domain
Search Console reporting for your site's Discover performance data
User experience improvements with page speed in mobile search
March
How to discover and suggest Google-selected canonical URLs for your pages
This year in Search Spam - Webspam report 2018
Help Google Search know the best date for your web page
Introducing a new JavaScript SEO video series
Google Search events coming to Okinawa and Fukuoka
February
Announcing domain-wide data in Search Console
Help customers discover your products on Google
Consolidating your website traffic on canonical URLs
January
Dynamic Rendering with Rendertron
Focusing on the new Search Console
Ways to succeed in Google News
An update on the Google Webmaster Central blog comments
2018
December
2018, celebrating our global Webmaster community
Mobile-First indexing, structured data, images, and your site
Why and how to secure your website with the HTTPS protocol
Introducing the Indexing API and structured data for livestreams
Rich Results expands for Question and Answer pages
Event report: Google Dance Osaka 2018
Japanese: A look back on 2018
November
PageSpeed Insights, now powered by Lighthouse
Notifying users of unclear subscription pages
October
Introducing reCAPTCHA v3: the new way to stop bots
Google is introducing its Product Experts Program!
Upcoming event in Indonesian: Join the live stream
Upcoming event: Google Dance Osaka 2018
September
The new Search Console is graduating out of Beta
Upcoming events in France: SEO and Google in a city near you!
The first Google Dance in Zurich
August
Collaboration and user management in the new Search Console
Links, Mobile Usability, and site management in the new Search Console
July
Hey Google, what's the latest news?
An update to referral source URLs for Google Images
A big step for Chrome security: HTTP pages now show not protected
Real-world data in PageSpeed Insights
An update to the comments on the German Webmaster Blog
June
How we fought webspam - Webspam Report 2017
Introducing the Indexing API for job posting URLs
New URL inspection tool and more in Search Console
Google Search at I/O 2018
Upcoming event: Google Dance in Singapore
May
Our goal: helping webmasters and content creators
Google I/O 2018 - What sessions should SEOs and Webmasters watch live ?
Send your recipes to the Google Assistant
April
We updated our job posting guidelines
Distrust of the Symantec PKI: Immediate action needed by site operators
Event report: Google Dance Tokyo 2018
March
Rolling out mobile-first indexing
Introducing the Webmaster Video Series, now in Hindi
Tips for building a hack-resistant site: For Cybersecurity Month
February
How listening to our users helped us build a better Search Console
Launching SEO Audit category in Lighthouse Chrome extension
A secure web is here to stay
Upcoming event: Google Dance Tokyo 2018
Upcoming SEO events in Paris in March 2018
Strengthening Internet Security
January
Using page speed in mobile search ranking
Real-world data in PageSpeed Insights
Introducing the new Search Console
A reminder about sponsored posts
2017
December
Introducing the new Webmaster Video Series
Introducing Rich Results and the Rich Results Testing Tool
#NoHacked 3.0: Useful resources
#NoHacked 3.0: Fixing common hack cases
Getting your site ready for mobile-first indexing
#NoHacked 3.0: Tips on prevention
A revamped SEO Starter Guide
#NoHacked 3.0: How do I know if my site is hacked?
Rendering AJAX-crawling pages
Russian Blog: Annotating multilingual and multiregional sites
About improving search results related to medical care and health
Japanese: A look back on 2017
Event report: SEO in 2018 at Google Paris
November
A reminder about event markup
Engaging users through high quality AMP pages
Make your site's complete jobs information accessible to job seekers
Upcoming event: SEO in 2018 at Google Paris
October
Enabling more high quality content for users
September
How to move from m-dot URLs to responsive site
Event report: Google Dance Tokyo 2017
August
Introducing Our New International Webmaster Blogs!
The new Search Console: a sneak peek at two experimental features
Badges on Image Search help users find what they really want
July
Next steps toward more connection security
Advanced Hosting Meetup program, progress report, and announcement of new participants
Upcoming event: Google Dance Tokyo 2017
June
Connect to job seekers with Google Search
Making the Internet safer and faster: Introducing reCAPTCHA Android API
Better Snippets for your Users
May
A reminder about links in large-scale article campaigns
April
How we fought webspam - Webspam Report 2016
Similar items: Rich products feature on Google Images
Our latest quality improvements for Search
March
Updates to the Google Safe Browsing's Site Status Tool
#NoHacked: A year in review
Upcoming event: Introduction to Google Search for Online Media and Best Practices for Content Creation
February
Closing down for a day
Improving Japanese Search quality
January
Introducing the Mobile-Friendly Test API
Protect your site from user generated spam
What Crawl Budget Means for Googlebot
2016
December
Enhancing property sets to cover more reports in Search Console
The 'Editor's Choice' column is now available on Google News
Japanese: A look back on 2016
November
An update on Google's feature-phone crawling and indexing
Saying goodbye to Content Keywords
Rich Cards expands to more verticals
Building Indexable Progressive Web Apps
Mobile-first indexing
Here's to more HTTPS on the web!
October
Using AMP? Try our new webpage tester
The Safe browsing team, more than ever at the service of webmasters
September
Webmaster Forums Top AMP Questions
Penguin is now part of our core algorithm
8 tips to AMPlify your clients
How to best evaluate issues with your Accelerated Mobile Pages
How can Google Search Console help you AMPlify your site?
How to get started with Accelerated Mobile Pages
What is AMP?
A reminder about widget links
Showcase your site's reviews in Search
More Safe Browsing Help for Webmasters
August
Helping users easily access content on mobile
Promote your local businesses reviews with schema.org markup
AMP your content - A Preview of AMP'ed results in Search
June
More security notifications via Google Analytics
Search at I/O 16 Recap: Eight things you don't want to miss
Event report: Google Dance Tokyo
May
Tie your sites together with property sets in Search Console
Introducing Rich Cards
A new mobile friendly testing tool
Deeper Integration of Search Console in Google Analytics
How we fought webspam in 2015
Advanced Hosting Meetup program: report results
April
Helping webmasters re-secure their sites
No More Deceptive Download Buttons
March
Continuing to make the web more mobile friendly
Updating the smartphone user-agent of Googlebot
Best practices for bloggers reviewing products they receive from companies
An update on the Webmaster Central Blog
AMP NewsLab Office Hours in your language
February
Advanced Hosting Meetup: announcing participating companies
Measures have been taken for the link program network
January
AMP error report preview in Search Console
New year, new look: Introducing our new Webmasters website
Protecting hundreds of millions of mobile users
About Accelerated Mobile Pages Project: Japanese version of the introduction guide released today
Introducing the Advanced Hosting Meetup
2015
December
Indexing HTTPS pages by default
More protection for safe browsing
Japanese: A look back on 2015
November
Updating Our Search Quality Rating Guidelines
TC Summit 2015: Celebrating our Webmaster Top Contributors!
Behind the red warning: More information about website safety
Safe Browsing Protection from deceptive and misleading attacks
Hangout on Air for French-speaking webmasters
Detect and prevent deceptive unwanted redirects on mobile devices
October
Detect and get rid of unwanted sneaky mobile redirects
Deprecating our AJAX crawling scheme
An update on how we tackle hacked spam
Introducing the Indonesian Webmaster Help Forum
September
First Click Free update
Helping hacked sites with reconsideration requests
Repeated violations of Webmaster Guidelines
Mobile-friendly web pages using app banners
August
An update on CSV download scripts
#NoHacked: Fixing the Injected Gibberish URL Hack
#NoHacked: Identifying and Diagnosing Injected Gibberish URL Hacking
#NoHacked: Using two-factor authentication to protect your site
Introducing the Search Analytics API
#NoHacked: How to recognise and protect yourself against social engineering
#NoHacked Blog Part 2: Detecting Social Engineering Attacks and Preventing Damage
July
#NoHacked: How to avoid being the target of hackers
Update on the Autocomplete API
Google+: A case study on App Download Interstitials
Google's handling of new top level domains
Starting the #NoHacked campaign: How to avoid being the target of fraudulent hacking
May
App deep linking with goo.gl
Surfacing content from iOS apps in Google Search
Rolling out the red carpet for app owners in Search Console
Announcing Google Search Console - the new Webmaster Tools
More precise data in the new Search Analytics report
Five ways to grow your business this Small Business Week
French: Google News Hangout on Air
April
Faster and lighter mobile web pages for Indonesia
#MobileMadness: a campaign to help you go mobile-friendly
FAQs about the April 21st mobile-friendly update
Rolling out the mobile-friendly update
Better presentation of URLs in search results
Drive app installs through App Indexing
March
Helping users fill out online forms
An update on doorway pages
Deprecation of the old Webmaster Tools API
Unblocking resources with Webmaster Tools
Easier website development with Web Components and JSON-LD
Safe Browsing and Google Analytics: Keeping More Users Safe, Together
#MobileMadness Campaign: Is your website already compatible with mobile devices?
Helping French-speaking site owners prepare for the April 21 algorithm change
February
Finding more mobile-friendly search results
Case Studies: Fixing Hacked Sites
January
Crawling and indexing of locale-adaptive pages
Upcoming Events In The Knowledge Graph
New Structured Data Testing Tool, documentation, and more
2014
December
Google Public DNS and Location-Sensitive DNS Responses
The four steps to appiness
Are you a robot? Introducing No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA
Japanese: A look back on 2014
November
Helping users find mobile-friendly pages
October
Tracking mobile usability in Webmaster Tools
Updating our technical Webmaster Guidelines
Best practices for XML sitemaps and RSS/Atom feeds
Bring your local business online -- no website required!
September
An update to the Webmaster Tools API
Webmaster Academy now available in 22 languages
An improved search box within the search results
Optimizing for Bandwidth on Apache and Nginx
Link program guideline violations
August
#NoHacked: a global campaign to spread hacking awareness
HTTPS as a ranking signal
Introducing the Google News Publisher Center
July
Testing robots.txt files made easier
Promoting modern websites for modern devices in Google search results
Troubleshooting hreflang annotations in Webmaster Tools
Hangout on Air, in French
June
Android app indexing is now open for everyone!
Making site moves easier
Directing smartphone users to the page they actually wanted
#NoHacked campaign on Google+
Paid links and reconsideration requests
Indonesian: Google's Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Beginner's Guide
Introducing the official Google blog for Indonesian webmasters
Event report: Hosting Meetup @ Google
This week we're launching the #NoHacked awareness campaign
May
App Indexing in more languages
Rendering pages with Fetch as Google
Understanding web pages better
Making your site more mobile-friendly with PageSpeed Insights
Creating the Right Homepage for your International Users
Feedback on the feedback questionnaire on Google Webmaster Tools
April
Webmaster Guidelines for sneaky redirects updated
Introducing our global Google+ page for webmasters
Surfacing your business's contact and local info in Google
App Indexing updates
March
More Precise Index Status Data for Your Site Variations
Introducing the new Webmaster Academy
App Engine IP Range Change Notice
Musical artists: your official tour dates in the Knowledge Graph
Portuguese: Interviewing Wwwhat's New on the Google Webmasters blog
The Google Webmasters blog is now in Portuguese
Join us at the Japanese Webmaster Office Hours
French: Hangouts On Air on exam requests
Introducing the official Google blog dedicated to the French webmaster community!
Create your own custom search engine using the schema.org standard
Help us improve Google Webmaster Tools
Event recap: SEO Campixx in Berlin
February
3 tips to find hacking on your site, and ways to prevent and fix it
Infinite scroll search-friendly recommendations
Faceted navigation best (and 5 of the worst) practices
Introducing a troubleshooter for Japanese Webmasters
Unnatural links and reconsideration requests
January
Affiliate programs and added value
A new Googlebot user-agent for crawling smartphone content
Changes in crawl error reporting for redirects
Google Publisher Plugin beta: Bringing our publisher products to WordPress
More detailed search queries in Webmaster Tools
Improved Search Queries stats for separate mobile sites
2013
December
So long, 2013, and thanks for all the fish
Switching to the new website verification API
Improving URL removals on third-party sites
Structured Data dashboard: new markup error reports for easier debugging
Checklist and videos for mobile website improvement
Smartphone crawl errors in Webmaster Tools
Holiday Season: Watch out for fraudulent shopping sites
Japanese Webmaster Hangouts for reexamination requests
Japanese: A look back on 2013
Popular searches in 2013: heroes, tragedies, and Harlem shake
Shopping season: watch out for fake shopping site
November
Video: Creating a SEO strategy (with Webmaster Tools!)
October
Indexing apps just like websites
Easier recovery for hacked sites
What are your ideas for Search policies?
Dealing with SEO vendors who repeatedly violate the guidelines
Event report: Top Level User Summit 2013
September
Video: Expanding your site to more languages
Better backlink data for site owners
Event report: WordCamp 2013
Some reminders about blogs that violate the webmaster guidelines
August
rel="author" frequently asked (advanced) questions
Making smartphone sites load fast
View manual webspam actions in Webmaster Tools
In-depth articles in search results
July
A reminder about manipulative or deceptive behavior
Easier navigation without GPS
Q&A about measures for search engines in election campaigns
Event report: Site clinics
June
Introducing website satisfaction by Google Consumer Surveys
Backlinks and reconsideration requests
Verify your site in Webmaster Tools using Google Tag Manager
Changes in rankings of smartphone search results
Event report: White Hat SEO for First Grade Webmasters
Let's prevent illegal hacking of the site
Upcoming event: Site Clinic 2013