Mobile-First Indexing by default for new domains

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 …

Instant-loading AMP pages from your own domain

Today we are rolling out support in Google Search’s AMP web results (also known as “blue links”) to link to signed exchanges , an emerging new feature of the web enabled by the IETF web packaging sp…

User experience improvements with page speed in mobile search

To help users find the answers to their questions faster, we included page speed as a ranking factor for mobile searches in 2018. Since then, we've observed improvements on many pages across the…

Consolidating your website traffic on canonical URLs

In Search Console, the Performance report currently credits all page metrics to the exact URL that the user is referred to by Google Search. Although this provides very specific data, it makes prop…

Mobile-First indexing, structured data, images, and your site

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…

Notifying users of unclear subscription pages

Every month, millions of Chrome users encounter pages with insufficient mobile subscription information. Surprising charges that come from unclear communication are a poor user experience. That’s why…

Links, Mobile Usability, and site management in the new Search Console

More features are coming to the new Search Console . This time we've focused on importing existing popular features from the old Search Console to the new product. Links Report Search Console …

Google I/O 2018 - What sessions should SEOs and Webmasters watch live ?

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…

Rolling out mobile-first indexing

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…

Using page speed in mobile search ranking

Update July 9, 2018: The Speed Update is now rolling out for all users. People want to be able to find answers to their questions as fast as possible — studies show that people really care about th…

How to move from m-dot URLs to responsive site

With more sites moving towards responsive web design, many webmasters have questions about migrating from separate mobile URLs , also frequently known as "m-dot URLs", to using responsive w…

Making the Internet safer and faster: Introducing reCAPTCHA Android API

When we launched reCAPTCHA ten years ago, we had a simple goal: enable users to visit the sites they love without worrying about spam and abuse. Over the years, reCAPTCHA has changed quite a bit. It …

Fetch as Googlebot Mobile and Claim your Sidewiki comment - added to Webmaster Tools Labs!

Webmaster Level: All Last October, we launched Webmaster Tools Labs and it has been a huge success. Malware Details have helped thousands of users identify pages on their site that may be infected w…

Running desktop and mobile versions of your site

(This post was largely translated from our Japanese version of the Webmaster Central Blog ) Recently I introduced several methods to ensure your mobile site is properly indexed by Google . Today I&#…

Help Google index your mobile site

(This post was largely translated from our Japanese Webmaster Central Blog .) It seems the world is going mobile, with many people using mobile phones on a daily basis, and a large user base searchin…

Let's make the mobile web faster

(Cross-posted on the Google Code Blog ) This week, we've been celebrating all things mobile across Google. Of course, this wouldn't be complete without a component for mobile web developers!…