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Expanding markup support for Organization details, including Logo structured data

Since 2013, Google has supported logo structured data, which recognizes two Organization fields: logo and url. Today we’re expanding our support for organizational information by extracting additional administrative data such as name, address, contact information, and various business identifiers. You can continue to provide the logo and url fields to specify which image we use […]

New in structured data: discussion forum and profile page markup

Today we’re announcing support for profile page and discussion forum structured data for use in Google Search, including new reports in Search Console. This markup works with Google Search features that are designed to show first-person perspectives from social media platforms, forums, and other communities.

Upcoming deprecation of Crawl Rate Limiter Tool in Search Console

The crawl rate limiter tool in Search Console is being deprecated on Jan 8th, 2024. This tool has been available for over a decade, but with the improvements we’ve made to our crawling logic and other tools available to publishers, its usefulness has dissipated.

Search Quality Raters Guidelines update

As of November 16, Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines have been updated to simplify our guidelines. As a reminder, these guidelines are what are used by our search raters to help evaluate the performance of our various search ranking systems, and their ratings don’t directly influence ranking.

List your courses with new course info structured data

As people continue to search for courses on Google, the desire for more detailed course information has grown. Today, we are announcing a new set of recommendations to provide course structured data to Google. Publishers now have the opportunity to surface supplemental course information on Google Search by providing detailed information like pricing, educational level, […]

A Q&A on Google Search updates

Google Search regularly updates our search ranking systems to ensure we’re showing the most relevant, helpful content that we can. We’ve had a series of notable updates we’ve shared about in the past few weeks, and we have two for this month. Given this, it’s a good time to share some reminders in a Q&A […]

Search Central Live Taipei 2023

We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming back to Taipei for the first time ever on December 6. As usual, the event is hosted by the Google Search team and we’re looking forward to bringing together the community to learn, share, and network.

Search Central Live Singapore 2023

We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live Singapore is coming back this year again on November 22. As usual, the event is hosted by the Google Search team and we’re looking forward to bringing together the community to learn, share, and network.

Mobile-first indexing has landed

We’re delighted to announce that the trek to Mobile First Indexing is now complete.

Vehicle listings structured data for car dealerships

Google Search will start supporting vehicle listings markup, a new way to appear in vehicle listings on Google. It now has its own Search Console Rich result report and is supported in the testing tool.