Sunday, December 31, 2023 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! Events In 2023 we brought our flagship event series, Google…
As a website owner, you ought to know that SEO is essential for boosting your site’s visibility and driving traffic there. Optimizing the JavaScript on your website can improve its ranking, but how do you even begin to tackle the complexities of JavaScript SEO? In this blog post, we will explore the most common issues with utilizing JavaScript for SEO and provide…
Monday, December 4, 2023 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 integration partners to provide listing data to Google. Vacation rental partners can…
Monday, December 4, 2023 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 to better connect users with the video content…
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 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, address, contact information, and various business identifiers. You can continue to provide the logo and url fields to specify…
Monday, November 27, 2023 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-person perspectives from social media platforms, forums, and other communities. Implementing this structured data will help…
Friday, November 24, 2023 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 publishers, its usefulness has dissipated. Googlebot reacts to how the site–or more…
Thursday, November 16, 2023 As of November 16, our Search Quality Rater Guidelines have been updated to simplify our guidelines. Specifically, we’ve simplified the “Needs Met” scale definitions, added more guidance for different kinds of web pages and modern examples including newer content formats such as short form video, removed outdated and redundant examples, and…
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 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 opportunity to surface supplemental course information on Google Search by providing detailed information…
Summary in a nutshell What is ‘Page with Redirect’ in Google Search Console? “Page with redirect” is a Google Search Console status. It means that some of your pages aren’t indexed because users and crawlers entering them are redirected to other URLs. Google will index the target URL instead. In most cases, having redirected pages…