We are now rolling out a new product reviews update, the first major update since April 2021, that may change how your product reviews rank in search results. We are also sharing new best practices when writing product reviews to augment the previous advice we shared. We also published a new documentation page that captures the complete set of best practices.
Lire la suiteWe first started working on mobile-first indexing a number of years ago. Since then, we switched to indexing the majority of web pages with Googlebot-Smartphone. We’ve now determined that some sites are still not ready to be shifted over due to various, unexpected challenges. Because of this, we’re now leaving the timeline open for the last steps of mobile-first indexing.
Lire la suiteA year ago, we launched our new site and announced that we were leaving our beloved name, Google Webmasters, behind for a new moniker: Google Search Central. This year, we’ve been working with our internal SEO team to improve our content, writing lots of new documentation, migrating 13 local language blogs, and developing a new checklist for our home page.
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In this episode, John, Martin, and Gary discuss the future of SEO. They talk about the changes they’ve seen in the past decade and anticipate what’s next for SEO. Find out if HTML knowledge will be necessary in the future, if SEO will still be relevant, and more!
Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr026-transcript
Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. |
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
Lire la suiteWe’ve uncovered an opportunity to improve your job posting pages, and it only takes a few changes to the description field.
Lire la suiteThe Google Search Analytics API, which already provides data about Search performance, is being updated to also include Discover and Google News data. Site owners that have this type of traffic will now be able to pull it programatically through the API. In addition, Regex support has also been added to the query and page dimensions.
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John and Martin are joined by special guest stars Annie Sullivan and Vivek Sekhar, who work on Core Web Vitals. They discuss the metrics that make up Core Web Vitals, speed and performance of a web page, page experience ranking for larger and smaller companies, and more!
Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr025-transcript
Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.
Lire la suiteSearch 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
Lire la suiteWe’re making changes in the AMP, Mobile Friendly, and Rich Results testing tools to be fully aligned with the Search Console URL Inspection tool. The changes include standardization of previous features, plus new features that you may be familiar with from the URL Inspection tool.
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