Tag Archives: Documentation

Google Provides Structured Information Carousels Beta Documentation

Google has added new structured data carousel beta documentation, also known as host carousel. Google wrote that this is “a new carousel rich result that’s in beta, which is a list-like rich result that people can scroll horizontally to see more entities from a given site (also known as a host carousel).” The new documentation […]

Google Adds Examples To Math Solver Documentation Round Derivatives, Integrals, and Limits

Google has added a bunch of examples to the potentialAction.mathExpression-input section of the Math Solver help documentation. These examples explain how to handle derivatives, integrals, and limits in that field. You can see the examples over here – here is a screenshot, the previous version only had a few sentences for that whole section. It […]

Google Updates Web site Transfer Documentation

Google has updated the site move related search documentation this week. It seems like most of the changes were mostly about simplifying things around site moves, removing some content, clarification and so forth. Gary Illyes said on mastodon“just cleaned it up; it collected a lot of potentially unnecessary sentences over the years. And we linked […]

Google Revamps The Canonicalization Search Assist Documentation

Google has updated its search help documentation around canonicalization this morning. The Google Search Relations team split into three distinct sections and updated a lot of the content to provide clearer details around how Google Search and canonicalization works. The three sections include: All of this use to be on a single help page, which […]

Google Explains Why They Eliminated The Affiliate Applications Spam Documentation

Last October, Google revamped its Google Webmaster Guidelines into Google Search Essentials and one part of that was to consolidate the previous pages on thin content and affiliate programs into the overall documentation. Lizzi Sassman from Google explained a bit more on why this was done. Lizzi said on Twitter, “the spam policy covers our […]

Google website positioning Documentation Provides The Unsupported Meta Tags & Attributes

Google has made a minor updated to the meta tags and attributes that Google supports help documentation and added the two tags Google does not support. Those include the meta keywords tag and HTML tag lang attributes. Here is the section Google added at the bottom of this page: Google also made some minor content […]

Google On Doing Search engine optimisation For The Google Search engine optimisation Search Documentation

There is something super funny about listening to Lizzi and John from Google talk about the Google team doing SEO on the actual SEO help documentation. It is a fun listen to and I recommend you find some time to listen to this, no need to take notes, but just listen to it. Lizzi brought […]

Google Updates Crawl Stats Report Help Documentation

Google also updated the crawl stats report help documentation last week. Google made a lot of support documentation changes in the past week including product rich results, Googlebot doc, job posting help doc, moving the HTTP status codes doc and also this crawl stats report help document. You can see this crawl stats help document […]