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.
Category Archives: Google Webmaster Central Blog
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.
Source: Google Search Central Blog
October 2023 Spam Update
We're releasing an update to our spam detections systems today that will improve our coverage
in many languages and spam types.
Source: Google Search Central Blog
Search Central Live Zurich is back!
We're very excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming back to Zurich on Tuesday, October 24th, 2023!
After our last Search Central Live event in Zurich in December 2019, we're back in town for more presentations, Q&A and networking!
Source: Google Search Central Blog
Announcing the Search Central Live Mexico roadshow
Search Central Live is coming to Ciudad de México on November 7. The event will have a mix of presenters
from the Google Search, News, and Partnership teams. The content will be delivered in Spanish and English
(with live translation to Spanish). Check more details about speakers, agenda, and how to sign up to the
event.
Source: Google Search Central Blog
Associate Search Console to Merchant Center to discover growth opportunities
Today Search Console is enhancing the Shopping section to help businesses with a Merchant Center
account to monitor the status of their products and discover opportunities to improve the
visibility of their products on Google.
Source: Google Search Central Blog
How Google Search handles multilingual searches
In many countries and regions around the world, people commonly speak and search in more than
one language. To best serve them, Google uses a variety of ways to automatically determine
what is the best language or languages to show search results in. This post highlights some
aspects that Google Search considers, and options to use when searching.
Source: Google Search Central Blog
Site names on Google Search now available for all languages
Last October, site names were introduced on mobile results for select languages, which expanded
to desktop in March. Today, we're happy to announce that site names are now available in all
languages where Google Search is available, on both mobile and desktop. Site names are
supported for domains (for example, example.com) and subdomains (for example, subdomain.example.com)
but not for subdirectories (for example, example.com/subdirectory).
Source: Google Search Central Blog
The comedy of errors
Every now and then we get questions about errors that we may have shown for sites in Search
Console, and every now and then we encounter folks who seem to be confused about where an
error came from. This is understandable: there are many issues that can arise when accessing
websites, but all of them, without exception, map to a certain system that makes the access
possible. In this illustrated short story we will try to shed some light on the errors and
perhaps make them look a little less scary. Let's dig in!
Source: Google Search Central Blog
Search Central Live is coming to India
With three Search Central Live events behind us this year, it's time to announce the one we get asked about the most: Search Central India!