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The world of search is constantly evolving. New tools, opportunities, and features are regularly arriving, sometimes existing things change, and sometimes we say goodbye to some things to make way for the new. To help you stay on top of things, we’ve started a new YouTube series called Google Search News. With Google Search News, […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Google uses content previews, including text snippets and other media, to help people decide whether a result is relevant to their query. The type of preview shown depends on many factors, including the type of content a person is looking for and the kind of device they’re viewing it on. For instance, if you look […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →We analyzed our user feedback, and today would like to announce a new improvement to the report based on users’ #1 feature request – improved data freshness! The Performance report helps webmasters and site owners better understand how their site performs on Google search, and answer questions such as: General stats: How much traffic did […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Search results that are enhanced by review rich results can be extremely helpful when searching for products or services (the scores and/or “stars” you sometimes see alongside search results). To make them more helpful and meaningful, we are now introducing algorithmic updates to reviews in rich results. This also addresses some of the invalid or […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Nearly 15 years ago, the nofollow attribute was introduced as a means to help fight comment spam. It also quickly became one of Google’s recommended methods for flagging advertising-related or sponsored links. The web has evolved since nofollow was introduced in 2005 and it’s time for nofollow to evolve as well.Today, we’re announcing two new […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Today we are reaching another important milestone in our graduation journey, we are saying goodbye to many old Search Console reports, including the home and dashboard pages 👋. Those pages are part of the history of the web, they were viewed over a billion times by webmasters from millions of websites. These pages helped site […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Back in February, we announced domain-wide data in Search Console, to give site owners a comprehensive view of their site, removing the need to switch between different properties to get the full picture of your data. We’ve seen lots of positive reactions from users who verified domain properties. A common feedback we heard from users […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →With the move to the new Search Console, we’ve decided to clean up some parts of the Search Console API as well. In the Search Analytics API, going forward we’ll no longer support these Android app search appearance types: Is Install Is App Universal Is Opened Since these appearance types are no longer used in […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →We love to help folks make awesome websites. For a while now, we’ve been answering questions from developers, site-owners, webmasters, and of course SEOs in our office hours hangouts, in the help forums, and at events. Recently, we’ve (re-)started answering your questions in a video series called #AskGoogleWebmasters on our YouTube channel. (At Google, behind […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Most of the time, our search engine runs properly. Our teams work hard to prevent technical issues that could affect our users who are searching the web, or webmasters whose sites we index and serve to users. Similarly, the underlying systems that we use to power the search engine also run as intended most of […]
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