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…
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for different kinds of web pages and modern examples including newer content formats such as short form video, removed outdated and redundant examples, and…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…
Thursday, November 2, 2023 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…
Thursday, November 2, 2023 We are ecstatic to announce that for the first time ever, Search Central Live is coming to Taipei! Part of the Search Central Live events series, this is the first in-person event we are organizing in Taiwan, and we’re coming prepared with a busy agenda and ready to answer (most) of…
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 It’s been a long road, getting from there to here. We’re delighted to announce that the trek to Mobile First Indexing is now complete. Google Search started focusing more and more on mobile devices starting in 2015, with the mobile friendly update. Then, in 2016, we started mobile-first crawling and indexing….