October 1, 2023
Google

Associate Search Console to Merchant Center to discover growth opportunities  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

Stay organized with collections Save and categorize content based on your preferences. Monday, September 11, 2023 Search Console is launching a few enhancements to the Shopping tab Listings report to help merchants better manage their product offering. Last November, Search Console created a new section to help merchants show their products on the Shopping tab

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How Google Search handles multilingual searches  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

Friday, September 8, 2023 In many countries and regions around the world, people commonly speak and search in more than one language. To best serve them, Google uses a variety of ways to automatically determine what is the best language or languages to show search results in. How Google automatically determines the language for search

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Site names on Google Search now available for all languages  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

Stay organized with collections Save and categorize content based on your preferences. Thursday, September 7, 2023 Last October, site names were introduced on mobile results for select languages, which expanded to desktop in March. Today, we’re happy to announce that site names are now available in all languages where Google Search is available, on both

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The comedy of errors  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

Thursday, August 24, 2023 Every now and then we get questions about errors that we may have shown for sites in Search Console, and every now and then we encounter folks who seem to be confused about where an error came from. This is understandable: there are many issues that can arise when accessing websites

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Changes to HowTo and FAQ rich results  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

Tuesday, August 8, 2023 To provide a cleaner and more consistent search experience, we’re changing how some rich results types are shown in Google’s search results. In particular, we’re reducing the visibility of FAQ rich results, and limiting How-To rich results to desktop devices. This change should finish rolling out globally within the next week.

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An update on site names  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

Friday, July 28, 2023 In May, we introduced support for site names for subdomains on mobile devices only, for English, French, German, and Japanese. We now support subdomains on all devices in these languages. In addition, we recently updated how the site names system works, to increase its ability to make selections that are representative

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Use Google Ads AI & Machine Learning To Run Better Campaigns

The author’s views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. Our jobs are changing. Each day, Google Ads relies on a combination of AI & machine learning to manage more of the hands-on work we used to do as campaign managers. This means

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Reporting search quality issues with a new user feedback form  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 In October 2022, we rolled out the Search Essentials, providing clarity on the policies and practices Google follows to protect users and serve high-quality results. Sites that violate our policies may rank lower in results or not appear in results at all. However, if you still see results that you believe

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Improving prominence reporting in the Search Console video indexing report  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

Stay organized with collections Save and categorize content based on your preferences. Monday, June 12, 2023 One of the main reasons for Google not to index a video on your pages is that Google couldn’t identify a prominent enough video to qualify as the video for this page. In order to help you better understand

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Understanding news topic authority  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

Stay organized with collections Save and categorize content based on your preferences. Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Major news events are often covered by a wide array of news sites. This can present a challenge for Google users who are looking for publications with a particular expertise on a topic—such as a finance outlet for a

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