Expanding markup support for Organization details, including Logo structured data  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 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 … Read more

discussion forum and profile page markup  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

Monday, November 27, 2023 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. Implementing this structured data will help … Read more

Upcoming deprecation of Crawl Rate Limiter Tool in Search Console  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

Friday, November 24, 2023 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. Googlebot reacts to how the site–or more … Read more

Search Quality Raters Guidelines update  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

Thursday, November 16, 2023 As of November 16, our Search Quality Rater Guidelines have been updated to simplify our guidelines. Specifically, we’ve simplified the “Needs Met” scale definitions, added more guidance for different kinds of web pages and modern examples including newer content formats such as short form video, removed outdated and redundant examples, and … Read more

List your courses with new course info structured data  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 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 … Read more