Category Archives: Google Webmaster Central Blog

Official news on crawling and indexing sites for the Google index

How we fought spam on Google Search in 2022

Every day, we're discovering, indexing, and serving billions of web pages, and a significant portion of pages we discover are spam. In 2022 we launched multiple updates to our systems to thwart these attacks and ensure a spam-free experience for all Search users. The 2022 webspam report is here. Read about SpamBrain, links, hacked spam, user safety and more.

Blending Search Console and internal data inside Looker Studio

One advantage of analyzing your performance data outside Search Console is that it allows you to add more context to your reports, you can enrich the data with internal data you have about your site. In this post we discuss how to enrich your Search Console data using Looker Studio (formerly known as Data Studio).

Announcing the Search Central Live Brazil roadshow

We're very excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming to Brazil! Following our successful events last year, we're continuing our mission to help you enhance your site's performance in Google Search. We're organizing three events in Brazil, starting with São Paulo on March 9, then Brasília on March 14, and finishing with Belo Horizonte on March 16.