Category: Google Webmaster Blog

Since 2013, Search has recognized the importance of app deep links in a mobile-centric world.
In this post, we’ll review the current state of app deep links — take a look at what they
are, the benefits of using the…

We’re ready to open registrations for the first ever Search Central Live Deep Dive, a 3-day event
that will be held in Bangkok, Thailand this year on July 23-25!

A few months ago, we announced an improved way to view
recent performance data in Search Console.
The “24 hours” view includes data from the last available 24 hours and appears with a delay of
only a few hours. T…

In the previous posts about the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) we explored what’s already
possible to do with its various components — namely robots.txt and the URI level controls.
In this post we will explore how…

Hello 2025! (Yeah, we know, time flies!) We’ve had some exciting plans in the works for
Search Central Live (SCL) Asia Pacific this year, and we’re super excited to let you in on what
we’ve been up to. We’ve been listen…

With the robots.txt file, site owners
have a simple way to control which parts of a website are accessible by crawlers.
To help site owners further express how search engines and web
crawlers can use their pages, the web standards…

A long-standing tool for website owners, robots.txt has been in active use for over 30 years and
is broadly supported by crawler operators (such as tools for site owners, services, and search
engines). In this edition of the r…

A long-standing tool for website owners, robots.txt has been in active use for over 30 years and
is broadly supported by crawler operators (such as tools for site owners, services, and search
engines). In this edition of the r…

We’re very excited to announce that Search Central Live is going to Madrid for the first time on April 9!
The event will have a mix of presenters from the Google Search, News, and Partnerships teams and the content
will be del…

On April 2, 2025 we’ll be in Johannesburg, South Africa for the very first Search Central Live event in Africa!
We’re excited to welcome you at Search Central Live South Africa and talk about all things Google Search!

Every now and then we get questions about robots.txt, robots meta tags, and the control
functionality that they offer. Following our December series on crawling,
we thought this would be the perfect time to put together …

We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming to New York City for the first time on March 20, 2025.
The Google Search team has organized events in the city several times, but this time we’re bringing our main Search event t…

We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming to New York City for the first time on March 20, 2025.
The Google Search team has organized events in the city several times, but this time we’re bringing our main Search event t…

We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live is returning to São Paulo in 2025. Following our
successful events in 2023 and 2024, we’re continuing our mission to help Brazilian businesses enhance
their site’s performance …

Mobile searchers will soon see a cleaner, more streamlined look for how URLs appear in search
results. Initially introduced as part of the “site hierarchy” feature,
we’ve found that the breadcrumb element isn’t as useful…

It might happen that by the end of this post you’re going to try to decide who wrote this blog
post, a large language model (LLM) or Gary. And you’d be right to ponder that and delve into the
intricacies of the language …

Content delivery networks (CDNs) are particularly well suited for decreasing latency of your
website and in general keeping web traffic-related headaches away. This is their primary purpose
after all: speedy delivery of …

Faceted navigation is a great way to help users find what they need on your site, but it can
create an SEO nightmare if not implemented carefully. Why? Because it can generate a near-infinite
number of URLs, which causes…

The Search Central Live events in Kuala Lumpur and Taipei were nothing short of amazing, in large
thanks to the over 600 people who attended the events! We were thrilled to see the level of
enthusiasm and engagement from…

To better help you monitor the recent performance of your content, we’re launching the ’24 hours’
view to the SC performance reports and improving the freshness of the data. We’re rolling out
these changes to all properties gradually…