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  • Archive
    • 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?