We moved! Introducing the new home for the Google Webmasters blogs
Last week we changed our name to Google Search Central and published our new central site. As part of this site migration, we’re also consolidating […]
Google Webmaster Central Blog
Goodbye Google Webmasters, hello Google Search Central
The history behind Google Webmasters Merriam-Webster claims the first known use of the word “webmaster” was in 1993, years before Google even existed. However, the […]
Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search
This past May, we announced that page experience signals would be included in Google Search ranking. These signals measure how users perceive the experience of […]
PES@Home 2020: Google’s first virtual summit for Product Experts
More than ever, users are relying on Google products to do their jobs, educate their kids, and stay in touch with loved ones. Our Google […]
Best practices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday pages
The end of the year holiday season is a peak time for many merchants with special sales events such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday. […]
The Search Console Training lives on
In November 2019 we announced the Search Console Training YouTube series and started publishing videos regularly. The goal of the series was to create updated […]
New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data
Quick summary: Starting today, we support shippingDetails schema.org markup as an alternative way for retailers to be eligible for shipping details in Google Search results. […]
New open source robots.txt projects
Last year we released the robots.txt parser and matcher that we use in our production systems to the open source world. Since then, we’ve seen […]
Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2
Quick summary: Starting November 2020, Googlebot will start crawling some sites over HTTP/2. Ever since mainstream browsers started supporting the next major revision of HTTP, […]
Sharing what we learned on the first Virtual Webmaster Unconference
The first Virtual Webmaster Unconference successfully took place on August 26th and, as promised, we’d like to share the main findings and conclusions here.How did […]
