Google Spam Policies: The Decisions That Matter
The practices Google publishes as grounds for ranking a page or a whole site lower, or removing it from results, from cloaking and hidden text to the abuse poli...
Technical SEO and measurement. Writes about crawling, indexing, Core Web Vitals and the difference between a figure and a guess.
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The practices Google publishes as grounds for ranking a page or a whole site lower, or removing it from results, from cloaking and hidden text to the abuse poli...
The clickable headline Google shows for a result, usually taken from the page's title element, and the snippet text beneath it, which may come from the meta des...
How a long list of items, such as products or articles, is split across several URLs or loaded progressively as a visitor scrolls or clicks to see more. Why doe...
Generated summaries and conversational answers shown in search results, such as Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, which link to web pages as their sources. At...
Bing Webmaster Tools is Microsoft's reporting and submission service for Bing, and IndexNow is an open protocol a site uses to notify participating search engin...
The rel values that tell search engines how to treat a link: sponsored for paid placements, ugc for user-generated content, and nofollow for links you do not wa...
Schema.org markup for news articles, blog posts and other written content that tells search engines the headline, images, dates and authors of a page. Where mos...
Markup that describes a page's position in the site hierarchy, which Google can show as a breadcrumb trail in search results in place of the raw URL. Why does i...
Markup describing an event, such as a concert, class, conference or webinar, including its date, location, status and ticket information. At a glance Type Event...
Markup for job listings that makes them eligible to appear in Google's job search experience, with title, location, salary and application details. What is at s...
Markup that describes a local business, including its name, address, phone number, opening hours and business type. The key figures Type LocalBusiness or a more...
Markup on a homepage or about page that describes the organization behind a site, including its name, logo, contact details and official profiles. Where most pr...
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