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Learn how to improve your content with Search Console Insights

To help you better understand which content of yours resonates with your audiences, we are introducing a new experience called Search Console Insights. This experience joins data from both Search Console and Google Analytics with a goal of making it easy to understand your content’s performance.

Search Console regex filters update and quick tips

Following feedback on the announcement of the new Search Console Performance report regular expression (regex) filters, today we’re updating the filter to support expressions that don’t match regex. We’re also taking the opportunity to provide tips for users that are new to regex.

Understanding the sources behind Google News

This post provides more information about Google’s transparency policy to help news sources understand the principles behind the policy and how to meet it in practice.

Search Console, JavaScript, serving, and more!

In this episode, John, Martin, and Gary are joined by special guest Daniel Waisberg. Daniel talks about the new Search Console Regex feature and how Search Console feature requests are prioritized in general. They also discuss converting a blog to a static site, JavaScript generated content, and serving. Have a listen!

Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ

Episode transcript → http://goo.gle/sotr018-transcript 

Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

Transcription for Search Console, JavaScript, serving, and more!

Search Off the Record takes you behind the scenes of Google Search and its inner workings! In each episode, the folks from the Search Relations team will give you background info on the decision-making behind launches, feature prioritization in Search Console, and the projects Google Search teams are working on. They will share fun stories

Prevent portions of your site from being abused by spam

As a website owner, you might provide a few channels where your users can interact. Unfortunately, spammers often take advantage of these types of services to generate hundreds of spam pages that add little or no value to the web. Learn how to prevent spammers from abusing your site.

How we worked with you towards a safe and spam-free Search experience in 2020

Making sure your Search experience is safe and free of spam is important to us and we can’t achieve this mission without you! Here’s how we worked with you in 2020 towards safe and spam-free search results.

Sunsetting the generic rich results search appearance on Search Console

A few years ago we created a generic « rich results » search appearance group in Search Console that included multiple rich result types, including those that didn’t have their own breakout row on Search Console. This is not required anymore, since we now have breakouts for most rich result types. Therefore we decided to sunset the rich result search appearance.

Video SEO best practices for ecommerce

Get the most out of your videos on your ecommerce site by making sure Google can find and index them, driving more traffic to your site.

What if speed was a ranking factor…?

In this episode, John, Martin, and Gary discuss Core Web Vitals and start a hypothetical search engine (Steve) to figure out how they would approach speed as a ranking signal and why. Have a listen!

Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ
Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr017-transcript 

Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.