Our March 2022 product reviews update is now rolling out for English-language pages. This update may impact the rankings of English-language product reviews across many sites. We've also extended our advice for multi-product reviews. Check out our blog post for details.

This post is the first in a series of posts that will focus on exporting, enhancing, and visualizing Search Console data using Google Data Studio. Today's post discusses how to bring Search Console data into Google Data Studio, including an example where we download Search Console data into Google Sheets, enhance the data with geographical regions, and connect the spreadsheet to Data Studio.

Today we’re launching the new Google Search Console URL Inspection API, which gives programmatic access to URL-level data for properties you manage in Search Console.

Today, we're introducing a new robots tag, indexifembedded, that brings you more control over when your content is indexed.

The authors of the Search Central blog reflect on 2021 and share their aspirations for 2022.

The authors of the Search Central blog reflect on 2021 and share their aspirations for 2022.

We are now rolling out a new product reviews update, the first major update since April 2021, that may change how your product reviews rank in search results. We are also sharing new best practices when writing product reviews to augment the previous advice we shared. We also published a new documentation page that captures the complete set of best practices.

We first started working on mobile-first indexing a number of years ago. Since then, we switched to indexing the majority of web pages with Googlebot-Smartphone. We've now determined that some sites are still not ready to be shifted over due to various, unexpected challenges. Because of this, we're now leaving the timeline open for the last steps of mobile-first indexing.

A year ago, we launched our new site and announced that we were leaving our beloved name, Google Webmasters, behind for a new moniker: Google Search Central. This year, we've been working with our internal SEO team to improve our content, writing lots of new documentation, migrating 13 local language blogs, and developing a new checklist for our home page.

Google I/O is our annual developers festival, and this year it was all virtual. But as with any events, virtual, or in-person, a lot of information was covered over the three-day event. In case you missed it, here is a list of some Search-related news and announcements that might be of interest to you.