Category: Google Webmaster Blog

We’re sharing more information about our new search experiences in South Africa, and how South
African platforms can express interest and participate.

This post is about the new Google Trends Tutorials YouTube series. In these videos you’ll learn how to use
Google Trends to analyze patterns in Google Search and Youtube searches, and use them to create
interesting content online.

Over the recent years, AVIF has become one of the most commonly used image formats on the web.
We’re happy to announce that AVIF is now a supported file type
in Google Search, for Google Images as well as any place that …

As previously announced, we’re coming to Kuala Lumpur and to Taipei in the last quarter of 2024. And yes, we’re very excited! The KL event will be in English and the Taipei event will be conducted in Mandarin (Traditional Chinese).

This post announces the August 2024 core update to Google Search.
This update is designed to continue our work to improve the quality of our search results by
showing more content that people find genuinely useful and less content th…

This post announces Search Console recommendations, a new feature that provides websites with optimization
opportunities and suggests actions they can take to improve their presence on Google Search.

This post discusses a new and easier way to add shipping or return information directly in Search Console.

We’re coming back to Thailand with Search Central Live! As mentioned in our blog post about our APAC plans for SCL, we now have a date and a site where you can sign up for a chance to secure your spot at Search Central Live Bangkok 2024.

The Google Search Central LinkedIn channel is (finally) here!

The Google Search Central LinkedIn channel is (finally) here!

We’re adding support for return policies at the organization level, which means you’ll
be able to specify a general return policy for your business instead of having to define one
for each individual product you sell.

The last step of our migration to a mobile-first index
will soon be complete: the small set of sites we’ve still been crawling with desktop Googlebot
will be crawled with mobile Googlebot after July 5, 2024.
Most…

Search Central Live is coming back to the Asia Pacific region, bringing you insights from Google Search, fun networking opportunity, and more! This year we’re aiming to visit Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Thailand.

This post discusses an update to Search Console’s user and permissions to improve the
accuracy and reflect the actual state of unused ownership tokens.

We’re excited to announce a Search Central Live event in Warsaw, Poland on April 24, 2024.
Search Central Live
is our global Google Search event series specifically for site owners, publishers, and SEOs.

Today we announced
the March 2024 core update. This is designed to improve the quality of Search by showing less
content that feels like it was made to attract clicks, and more content that people find use…

In 2022, Google expanded support for Product structured data, enabling enhanced product experiences in Google Search.
Then, in 2023 we added support for shipping and returns structured data.
Today, we are adding structur…

We’re excited to announce a Search Central Live event in Bucharest, Romania on April 4, 2024.
Search Central Live
is our global Google Search event series specifically for site owners, publishers, and SEOs.

Following our latest update on our preparations for the DMA
(Digital Markets Act), we’re sharing more details about what publishers can expect to see in
regards to new search results in European Economic Area
(EE…

Today we’re publishing a refreshed, more pocket-sized version of the SEO Starter Guide with
a better focus on a starter audience and the topics we think a person who’s just dipping
their toes in SEO should focus on and why.