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Tuesday, December 24, 2024 Content delivery networks (CDNs) are particularly well suited for decreasing latency of your website and in general keeping web traffic-related headaches away. This is their primary purpose after all: speedy delivery of

December 24, 2024

Tuesday, December 17, 2024 We just published a new document about faceted navigation best practices, which was originally published as a blog post. This is a summary of some of the important parts of the new documentation page. Faceted navigation is

December 17, 2024

Friday, December 13, 2024 The Search Central Live events in Kuala Lumpur and Taipei were nothing short of amazing, in large thanks to the over 600 people who attended the events! We were thrilled to see the level of enthusiasm and engagement from

December 13, 2024

Featured series: Crawling December

During the month of December, we're focusing on all things crawling. Check out the entire Crawling December series for more on how Googlebot crawls page resources, why caching is important, the ins and outs of faceted navigation, and more.

Updated December 24, 2024

Tuesday, December 24, 2024 Content delivery networks (CDNs) are particularly well suited for decreasing latency of your website and in general keeping web traffic-related headaches away. This is their primary purpose after all: speedy delivery of

Updated December 17, 2024

Tuesday, December 17, 2024 We just published a new document about faceted navigation best practices, which was originally published as a blog post. This is a summary of some of the important parts of the new documentation page. Faceted navigation is

Updated December 9, 2024

Monday, December 9, 2024 Allow us to cache, pretty please. As the internet grew over the years, so did how much Google crawls. While Google's crawling infrastructure supports heuristic caching mechanisms, in fact always had, the number of requests

Google Search core updates, ranking changes, and algorithm updates

Explore our blog posts around Google Search algorithm updates and ranking changes. For a list of recent ranking updates, see the ranking updates release history.

Tuesday, November 19, 2024 Earlier this year, as part of our work to fight spam and deliver a great Search experience, we launched a spam policy to combat site reputation abuse. This is a tactic where third-party content is published on a host site

November 19, 2024

Thursday, August 15, 2024 Today, we launched our August 2024 core update to Google Search. This update is designed to continue our work to improve the quality of our search results by showing more content that people find genuinely useful and less

August 15, 2024

Tuesday, March 5, 2024 Today we announced the March 2024 core update. This is designed to improve the quality of Search by showing less content that feels like it was made to attract clicks, and more content that people find useful. We also shared

March 5, 2024

Structured data updates

Learn about what's new in structured data and Google Search, including new Google Search features that use structured data, changes in requirements, and best practices.

Monday, October 21, 2024 It's been over ten years since we initially announced the sitelinks search box in Google Search, and over time, we've noticed that usage has dropped. With that, and to help simplify the search results, we'll be removing this

October 21, 2024

Thursday, July 11, 2024 When shopping, people want to know the total price for the products they're purchasing. Shipping speed, cost, and return policy are major factors considered by shoppers when buying products online. However, configuring

July 11, 2024

Tuesday, June 11, 2024 A return policy is a major factor considered by shoppers when buying products online, and so last year we enabled the extraction of structured data return policies for individual products. Today we're adding support for return

June 11, 2024

New in Search Console

Wondering what's changed in Search Console? Explore recent announcements about Search Console, including new reports, the Search Console API, and updates to the tool.

Thursday, December 12, 2024 To better help you monitor the recent performance of your content, we're launching the '24 hours' view to the SC performance reports and improving the freshness of the data. We're rolling out these changes to all

December 12, 2024

Monday, August 05, 2024 We are excited to announce Search Console recommendations, a new feature that provides websites with optimization opportunities and suggests actions they can take to improve their presence on Google Search. Recommendations are

August 5, 2024

Thursday, July 11, 2024 When shopping, people want to know the total price for the products they're purchasing. Shipping speed, cost, and return policy are major factors considered by shoppers when buying products online. However, configuring

July 11, 2024

Core web vitals and page speed

Discover recent blog posts around Core Web Vitals and their role in Google Search, including updates about page experience and page speed.

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 In early 2020, Google's Chrome Team introduced the Core Web Vitals to provide a suite of quality signals for web pages. Today, the Google Chrome team announced an upcoming change in the metrics for the Core Web Vitals to

May 10, 2023

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Helpful content generally offers a good page experience. That's why today, we've added a section on page experience to our guidance on creating helpful content and revised our help page about page experience. We think this

April 19, 2023

Thursday, November 4, 2021 At I/O 2021, we previewed our plans to bring page experience ranking to desktop. Today we're announcing more details, including the timeline for these changes. This work builds on top of the page experience update we rolled

November 4, 2021

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