As the Search Relations team at Google, we're here to help webmasters be successful with their websites in Google Search. We write on this blog, create and maintain the Google Search documentatio…
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…
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…
We invited members of the SEO and web developer community to join us for a new video series called "SEO mythbusting". In this series, we discuss various topics around SEO from a developer&…
Over the years since announcing mobile-first indexing - Google's crawling of the web using a smartphone Googlebot - our analysis has shown that new websites are generally ready for this method …
Google I/O 2019 is starting tomorrow and will run for 3 days, until Thursday. Google I/O is our yearly developers festival, where product announcements are made, new APIs and frameworks are introduc…
Sometimes a web page can be reached by using more than one URL. In such cases, Google tries to determine the best URL to display in search and to use in other ways. We call this the “canonical URL.” …
It's been two years since we started working on "mobile-first indexing" - crawling the web with smartphone Googlebot , similar to how most users access it. We've seen websites acros…
Over the past few years, it's become easier than ever to stream live videos online, from celebrity updates to special events. But it's not always easy for people to determine which videos are…
A few months ago, we introduced the new Search Console . Here are some updates on how it's progressing. Welcome "URL inspection" tool One of our most common user requests in Search C…
Google I/O 2018 is starting today in California, to an international audience of 7,000+ developers. It will run until Thursday night. It is our annual developers festival, where product announcement…
Today we’re announcing that after a year and a half of careful experimentation and testing, we’ve started migrating sites that follow the best practices for mobile-first indexing. To recap, our cr…
A few months ago we released a beta version of a new Search Console experience to a limited number of users. We are now starting to release this beta version to all users of Search Console, so that …
The AJAX crawling scheme was introduced as a way of making JavaScript-based webpages accessible to Googlebot, and we've previously announced our plans to turn it down . Over time, Google engine…
Webmaster level: All There's a lot of content on the Internet these days . At some point, something may turn up online that you would rather not have out there—anything from an inflammatory blog …
Webmaster Level: Intermediate A multilingual website is any website that offers content in more than one language. Examples of multilingual websites might include a Canadian business with an English …
