Archive for September, 2019

Join us at a Webmaster Conference in Mountain View, California

Earlier this year we announced a series of Webmaster Conferences being held around the world to help website creators understand how to optimize their sites for Search. We’ve already held 22 of these events, with more planned through the end of the year. Building on the success of these events so far, we’re hosting a […]

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Google Search News: coming soon to a screen near you

The world of search is constantly evolving. New tools, opportunities, and features are regularly arriving, sometimes existing things change, and sometimes we say goodbye to some things to make way for the new. To help you stay on top of things, we’ve started a new YouTube series called Google Search News. With Google Search News, […]

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More options to help websites preview their content on Google Search

Google uses content previews, including text snippets and other media, to help people decide whether a result is relevant to their query. The type of preview shown depends on many factors, including the type of content a person is looking for and the kind of device they’re viewing it on. For instance, if you look […]

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Fresher data in your site’s Search Performance report

We analyzed our user feedback, and today would like to announce a new improvement to the report based on users’ #1 feature request – improved data freshness! The Performance report helps webmasters and site owners better understand how their site performs on Google search, and answer questions such as: General stats: How much traffic did […]

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Making Review Rich Results more helpful

Search results that are enhanced by review rich results can be extremely helpful when searching for products or services (the scores and/or “stars” you sometimes see alongside search results). To make them more helpful and meaningful, we are now introducing algorithmic updates to reviews in rich results. This also addresses some of the invalid or […]

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Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of links

Nearly 15 years ago, the nofollow attribute was introduced as a means to help fight comment spam. It also quickly became one of Google’s recommended methods for flagging advertising-related or sponsored links. The web has evolved since nofollow was introduced in 2005 and it’s time for nofollow to evolve as well.Today, we’re announcing two new […]

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Saying goodbye to the old Search Console

Today we are reaching another important milestone in our graduation journey, we are saying goodbye to many old Search Console reports, including the home and dashboard pages 👋. Those pages are part of the history of the web, they were viewed over a billion times by webmasters from millions of websites. These pages helped site […]

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Introducing Auto-DNS verification in the new Search Console

Back in February, we announced domain-wide data in Search Console, to give site owners a comprehensive view of their site, removing the need to switch between different properties to get the full picture of your data. We’ve seen lots of positive reactions from users who verified domain properties. A common feedback we heard from users […]

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