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2026
أكتوبر 2026إدخالان
Added documentation on the UGC Fresh Data Program
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a new page about the UGC Fresh Data Program.
السبب
To explain the purpose of the program and help prospective applicants understand the eligibility criteria and how to participate.
Updated guidance on using generative AI content
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the using generative AI content guide with information from the Search Quality Raters guidelines.
السبب
To get our documentation in sync with our presentations we use at our developer events.
سبتمبر 20264 إدخالات
Added creator property and updated interactionStatistic in VideoObject structured data
ما الذي تغيّر
Added the creator property (noting support for author) and updated interactionStatistic to document supported interaction types in the VideoObject structured data documentation.
السبب
To document support for the creator and author properties, and clarify supported interaction types for interactionStatistic in VideoObject structured data.
Added local business query support to the aggregator and supplier units
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the aggregator unit and supplier unit documentation to include support for local business queries.
السبب
The aggregator unit and supplier unit now support local business queries.
Added documentation on adding a Search profile badge to your website
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a new guide on how to add a Search profile badge to your website.
السبب
To help site owners point their audience to their Search profile.
Added documentation about regional differences in Search experience
ما الذي تغيّر
Added documentation about regional differences in Search experience, which includes information about search experiences available in certain countries, such as aggregator units, supplier units, and carousels.
السبب
To help publishers, businesses, and aggregators learn about the different regional search features available and understand the eligibility criteria and how to participate.
أغسطس 20264 إدخالات
Updated the European Search Dataset Licensing Program page
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the Google European Search Dataset Licensing Program page.
السبب
Refreshed the program overview, eligibility criteria, and application details.
Updated the favicon documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the favicon documentation to specifically list out the supported favicon file formats.
السبب
To be clearer about which favicon file formats are supported by Google Search. Previously, the documentation linked to an external reference that evolved over time and caused ambiguity about which favicon file formats are actually supported in Google Search. Google Search's supported file formats haven't changed; this update explicitly lists them in the documentation.
Updated the site reputation policy
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the site reputation policy.
السبب
We've adjusted our enforcement approach within the European Economic Area (EEA). For more information, see our blog post.
يوليو 20267 إدخالات
Added a new review snippet guideline
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a new guideline to the review snippet documentation about fake and undisclosed incentivized reviews.
السبب
To improve user review transparency.
Updated the package tracking documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the feature availability and eligibility requirements sections package tracking early adopters program documentation.
السبب
The package tracking early adopters program is no longer accepting new partners.
Updated the canonicalization troubleshooting guide
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the canonicalization troubleshooting guide with clarifications on re-evaluation time.
السبب
To provide better expectations about how long it takes for canonicalization changes to take effect.
Added category to merchant listing structured data
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the Merchant listing documentation to detail how the Product.category property can be used with both Text and CategoryCode types. This aligns with the Google Merchant Center feed specifications for the product_type and google_product_category attributes.
السبب
To help merchants provide both merchant-defined and Google-defined category information within their schema.org markup, enhancing product information for Google Search and Shopping.
Clarified how to specify sale price effective dates in Product structured data
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a new section on "Sale duration" to the Merchant listing guide. This explains how to use the validFrom, validThrough, and priceValidUntil schema.org properties to set the effective range for sale prices, including best practices and examples for placement on either Offer or PriceSpecification nodes.
السبب
This aligns schema.org usage with the Merchant Center feed attribute sale_price_effective_date, providing clear instructions and best practices for merchants using structured data.
Updating our AMP documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Simplified our AMP documentation by removing outdated references to the AMP viewer, AMP Cache, and signed exchange.
السبب
Starting today, Google Search is updating how it connects users to AMP pages, and will now take users directly to the publisher's AMP host pages. This change simplifies and reduces maintenance efforts for publishers who are creating AMP content, as they no longer need to update the AMP cache or configure signed exchanges. AMP content will continue to rank just like any other web page.
يونيو 20265 إدخالات
Site move guidance now includes information on domain variants
ما الذي تغيّر
The site move guide now includes information on using the Change of Address tool for all subdomain variants (including www and non-www) during domain migrations.
السبب
The domain migrations work best when all variants of a site are migrated properly.
Clarifying guidance on llms.txt files
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a note to the AI optimization guide clarifying Google Search's usage of llms.txt files.
السبب
To address questions from the community and clarify that while these files aren't needed for Google Search (and won't negatively or positively impact your visibility or rankings), it's fine if you want to maintain these files for other services or systems that use them.
Removing documentation for the FAQ rich result feature
ما الذي تغيّر
Removed documentation for the FAQ rich result feature.
السبب
The FAQ rich result feature is no longer shown in Google Search results, as announced in the changelog entry in May 2026.
New article for small business owners in Tennessee
ما الذي تغيّر
Created a new article explaining how small business owners in Tennessee can receive notifications from Google Search.
السبب
To help small businesses in Tennessee learn how they can get notified if their web content is removed or restricted on Google Search (for example, signing up for Search Console, Business Profile, or Merchant Center).
Guidance on third-party SEO tools, services, and advice
ما الذي تغيّر
Added Google Search's guidance on using third-party SEO tools, services, and advice. Also added guidance to the Do you need an SEO? page on evaluating your SEO's recommendations and tools, along with other minor updates to the page to simplify and modernize the content.
السبب
To highlight important considerations when evaluating third-party SEO tools and advice, and to simplify some sections and remove outdated examples in existing documentation.
مايو 20265 إدخالات
Preferred sources is available in AI Mode and AI Overviews
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the feature availability section of the preferred sources documentation to include AI Overviews and AI Mode.
السبب
The preferred sources feature is starting to roll out to AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Adding a new guide on optimizing for generative AI features
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a new guide on optimizing for generative AI features on Search. Notable new sections include guidance on the importance of providing non-commodity content, tips about providing local, shopping, image, and video content, mythbusting common "AEO/GEO" misconceptions, initial guidance on AI agents, and more information on why SEO best practices continue to be relevant for success in our generative AI features on Search.
السبب
To help site owners, SEOs, and developers better understand how to optimize their content for appearance in generative AI features on Search, and what they can ignore.
Clarifying that spam policies apply to generative AI responses in Google Search
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified that our spam policies also apply to generative AI responses in Google Search.
السبب
To make it clear that the spam policies apply to all of Google Search, including generative AI responses.
Deprecating the FAQ rich result feature
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a deprecation notice to the FAQ rich result documentation.
السبب
This feature will no longer appear in Google Search starting May 7, 2026.
أبريل 20265 إدخالات
Expanding preferred sources to all languages where Google Search is available
ما الذي تغيّر
Added that the preferred sources feature is now available in all languages where Google Search is available, including new translated downloadable button assets.
السبب
The preferred sources feature is now available in all languages supported by Google Search.
Clarifying when and why we may take manual action based on spam reports
ما الذي تغيّر
Further clarified when and why we may take manual action based on spam reports.
السبب
To address feedback we received about the change on using spam reports to take manual action.
Added a section about "read more" deep links
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a new section on "read more" deep links to the snippet documentation.
السبب
To explain how to increase the likelihood of your content appearing with a "read more" deeplink in Google Search results.
Clarifying the use of spam reports
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified that Google may use spam report submissions to take manual action against violations.
السبب
Google may now use spam report submissions to take manual action.
مارس 20264 إدخالات
Added new supported properties for Discussion Forum and QA Page markup
ما الذي تغيّر
Added more supported properties for Discussion Forum and QA Page markup.
السبب
For providing more clarity on comment thread structure to Google ingestion systems. This prevents misinterpretations in our handling of forum and Q&A content.
Removed outdated information about JavaScript and accessibility
ما الذي تغيّر
Removed a section on accessibility from the JavaScript SEO basics documentation.
السبب
The information was out of date and not as helpful as it used to be. Google Search has been rendering JavaScript for multiple years now, so using JavaScript to load content is not "making it harder for Google Search". Most assistive technologies are able to work with JavaScript now as well.
Added preferred image best practices
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a new section on specifying a preferred image with metadata to the image SEO best practices and Discover documentation.
السبب
Based on feedback, we're clarifying that Google uses both schema.org markup and the og:image meta tag as sources when determining image thumbnails in Google Search and Discover.
فبراير 2026إدخالان
Added information to the Get on Discover page for site owners
ما الذي تغيّر
Added more information on how sites can increase the likelihood of their content appearing in Discover.
السبب
We're rolling out the February 2026 Discover Core Update.
Clarified information about the default file size limits for Googlebot
ما الذي تغيّر
While moving over the information about the default file size limits of Google's crawlers and fetchers to the crawler documentation, we also updated the Googlebot documentation about its own file size limits.
السبب
The original location of the default file size limits was not the most logical place as it applies to all of Google's crawlers and fetchers, and the move enabled us to be more precise about Googlebot's limits.
يناير 20263 إدخالات
Adding preferred sources documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Added preferred sources documentation for website owners.
السبب
To help publishers understand how to help their audience find their site as a preferred source.
Adding more supported query types to South African carousel documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the structured data carousels (beta) documentation and the South African badges and refinement chips blog post to include additional query types.
السبب
The South African carousel, badges, and refinement chips now support queries related to food delivery, car hire, and bus booking.
Removing documentation for the practice problem structured data type
ما الذي تغيّر
Removed documentation for the practice problem structured data type.
السبب
The practice problem structured data type is no longer shown in Google Search results. Learn more about this change in our blog post and changelog entry announced in November 2025.
2025
ديسمبر 20255 إدخالات
Clarifying JavaScript execution on non-200 HTTP status codes
ما الذي تغيّر
We added a note on how Googlebot processes JavaScript.
السبب
While pages with a 200 HTTP status code are sent to rendering, this might not be the case for pages with a non-200 HTTP status code.
Migrating more crawling documentation to a new location
ما الذي تغيّر
Migrated the following documentation to Google's crawling infrastructure site. The functionality hasn't changed, only the location of the documentation and some minor wording changes to clarify that some guidance applies to both Google Search and other Google products.
السبب
This documentation is more relevant to many Google products that use Google's crawlers, not just Search.
Clarifying canonicalization best practices for JavaScript
ما الذي تغيّر
We added a section on canonicalization best practices for JavaScript to our JavaScript documentation and the best practices for consolidation of duplicate URLs.
السبب
Canonicalization happens before and after rendering, so it's important to make the canonical URL as clear as possible. With JavaScript, this means setting the canonical URL to the same URL as in the original HTML or if that isn't possible, to leave the canonical URL out of the original HTML.
Clarifying noindex and JavaScript
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified in our JavaScript documentation how Google's crawler handles noindex tags in pages that use JavaScript.
السبب
While Google may be able to render a page that uses JavaScript, the behavior of this is not well defined and might change. If there's a possibility that you do want the page indexed, don't use a noindex tag in the original page code.
Adding a section on smaller core updates
ما الذي تغيّر
Added information to the core updates documentation about how Google continually makes updates to our search algorithms (including smaller core updates), and how that can affect your website.
السبب
To clarify that site owners that make content improvements can see a rise in position in Google Search results without having to wait for the next major core update.
نوفمبر 20257 إدخالات
Migrating Google's crawling documentation to a new location
ما الذي تغيّر
Migrated the following crawling documentation to a new location, Google's crawling infrastructure documentation (the content hasn't changed, only the location). Notable moves include: To subscribe to updates about Google's crawling infrastructure, add the URL of the new changelog page to your feed reader, or add the feed URL directly: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/changelog/crawling_docs_updates.rss.
السبب
Google's crawling infrastructure is shared across a variety of Google products beyond Search, including Google Shopping, News, Gemini, AdSense, and more. The new site is a more logical home for this documentation and makes it easier to document new features and updates that are relevant to all of these products.
Removing guidance on the Follow feature in Discover
ما الذي تغيّر
Removed guidance on the Follow feature from Google Discover documentation.
السبب
The Follow feature is no longer shown in Google Discover.
Clarifying nesting in reviews and aggregate ratings
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified the review snippet documentation to explain that site owners should avoid using multiple ways of indicating what's being reviewed.
السبب
To prevent ambiguity and make sure Google can better interpret your review and aggregate rating structured data.
Adding a new user-triggered fetcher
ما الذي تغيّر
We added the Google-Pinpoint fetcher to the list of user-triggered fetchers.
السبب
The Google-Pinpoint fetcher is used by the Pinpoint research tool.
Launching new merchant shipping policies documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Added documentation for shipping policies.
السبب
We now support merchant-level shipping policy markup in Search.
Removing and clarifying documentation for some structured data types
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a deprecation notice to the practice problem documentation. Starting in January 2026, we'll also be removing support for that feature in Search Console rich result reporting, the Rich Result Test, and the list of Search appearance filters. The Search Console API will continue to support the practice problem type through January 2026. Clarified that Dataset structured data is only used by Dataset Search, and not Google Search. Removed the deprecation banner from Book actions documentation, as there's still a feature using the markup in Google Search.
السبب
As part of our ongoing efforts to simplify the search results page, we are phasing out the practice problem and dataset structured data types from Google Search results.
Adding a new user-triggered fetcher
ما الذي تغيّر
Based on feedback, we added the Google-CWS fetcher to the list of user-triggered fetchers.
أكتوبر 2025إدخالان
Update the list of Google products that use the Read Aloud service
ما الذي تغيّر
Update the documentation on Google Read Aloud with an updated list of Google products that use the Read Aloud service.
السبب
Other Google products can now use the Google Read Aloud service.
Adding Google-NotebookLM to the list of user-triggered fetchers
ما الذي تغيّر
Based on feedback, we added Google-NotebookLM to the list of user-triggered fetchers.
سبتمبر 2025إدخال واحد
Removing documentation for some deprecated structured data types
ما الذي تغيّر
Removed documentation for the following structured data types: course info, estimated salary, learning video, special announcement, and vehicle listing.
السبب
These structured data types are no longer shown in Google Search results. Learn more about this change in our blog post.
أغسطس 2025إدخالان
Adding guidance for JavaScript-based paywalls
ما الذي تغيّر
Added new guidance on JavaScript-based paywall considerations.
السبب
To help sites understand challenges with the JavaScript-based paywall design pattern, as it makes it difficult for Google to automatically determine which content is paywalled and which isn't.
Expanding the structured data carousels (beta) feature to South Africa
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the structured data carousels (beta) documentation to include South Africa.
السبب
The feature is available in South Africa.
يوليو 2025إدخالان
Updating the Google Read Aloud user agent
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated Google Read Aloud user agent in HTTP requests with newer browser versions.
السبب
To accommodate sites which don't support old browser versions.
يونيو 20259 إدخالات
Revamped the URL structure documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Reorganized the URL structure documentation so it has a clearer flow and is easier to navigate, with added examples based on real-world URLs we've encountered.
السبب
Every now and then, we revisit our documentation and look for ways to make it better. This is a docs-only change, no change in behavior.
Adding feature availability information for loyalty program structured data
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a section on feature availability to the loyalty program documentation.
السبب
The feature is available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, the UK, and the US, on both desktop and mobile.
AI Mode is now counting towards totals in Search Console
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the AI feature documentation to point to the section about how AI Mode is counted towards the overall search traffic in Search Console.
السبب
Data from AI Mode is now counting towards the totals in the Search Console Performance report.
Retiring a few structured data features
ما الذي تغيّر
Added banners to a few structured data features to indicate upcoming changes: book actions, course info, estimated salary, ClaimReview, learning video, special announcement, and vehicle listing.
السبب
As part of our ongoing efforts to simplify the Google Search results page, we will be phasing out support for a few structured data features in Search. Learn more in our blog post.
Spring cleaning in our multilingual documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Removed a section from our multilingual documentation about using robots.txt to block all automatically translated pages.
السبب
To align with our spam policy update in March 2024. This is a docs-only change, no change in behavior.
Launching new merchant return policies and loyalty program documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Added documentation for loyalty programs and migrated the merchant return policy documentation to a separate page.
السبب
We now support loyalty program markup in Search. We migrated merchant return policies from the Organization documentation to a new dedicated document to make it easier to find return policy guidance.
Updating our guidance for event structured data
ما الذي تغيّر
Added more examples of eliglible and illegible events to the events documentation. Also removed the online event properties.
السبب
To be eligible for the event experience on Google, events must be bookable by the general public and held at a physical location.
Clarifying the use of the image property for recipes
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified that the image property in Recipe structured data doesn't influence the image that's chosen as a text result image.
السبب
The image property in Recipe markup is only used for recipe rich results, not for text result images.
Revamping our SafeSearch documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Revamped our documentation for sites with explicit content to make sure our guidance is up-to-date with Google Search policies and algorithmic protections. Among other updates, we introduced best practices for moderating content and eliminating CSAM and non-consensual content, expanded documentation for sharing video bytes, and added more guidance on what to do if your site is incorrectly flagged as explicit.
السبب
To better help site owners reach their target audience while respecting user preferences around explicit content and minimizing access to violative explicit content. Also, the troubleshooting section has been separated for more clarity. Finally, Google Search is updating the ranking algorithms to more strongly affect the sites that host explicit videos but don't allow Googlebot to fetch those video files (these sites may experience a significant drop in ranking, especially in Video mode).
مايو 20253 إدخالات
Adding documentation on AI features and using generative AI on your site
ما الذي تغيّر
Added new documentation on AI features and your site and Google Search's guidance on using generative AI content on your website. Learn more in our blog post on succeeding in Google's AI experiences on Search.
Expanding the structured data carousels (beta) feature to Turkey
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the structured data carousels (beta) documentation to include Turkey.
السبب
The feature is available in Turkey.
أبريل 20256 إدخالات
Updated the description of the Google-Extended product token
ما الذي تغيّر
Based on publisher feedback, we updated the Google-Extended product token description to provide additional specificity and clarity.
Correcting the description of the crawler preferences addressed to the Googlebot-News user agent
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the Googlebot-News user agent description.
السبب
The description for how crawling preferences addressed to Googlebot-News mistakenly stated that they'd affect the News tab on Google, which is not the case.
Updating the merchant listing documentation on energy efficiency
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the merchant listing documentation on energy efficiency. Specifically, removed the EnergyConsumptionDetails properties, added a note on backwards compatibility for developers that implemented the original markup, and added an alternative solution to the certificationIdentification property for merchants that don't have EPREL codes.
السبب
As announced in October 2024, the EnergyConsumptionDetails type has been replaced with the more robust Certification type.
Deprecating the special announcement feature
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a deprecation notice to the special announcements documentation.
السبب
This feature will be deprecated starting July 31, 2025.
Updating the interest forms for structured data carousels (beta)
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the structured data carousels (beta) documentation to include the current interest forms and supported query types.
السبب
To reflect the current state of the feature and process for expressing interest.
Expanding the education Q&A carousel to Portuguese
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the education Q&A documentation to include Portuguese.
السبب
The education Q&A carousel is available in Portuguese.
مارس 20255 إدخالات
Removing AI while browsing documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Removed the AI while browsing feature from the paywall documentation.
السبب
The AI while browsing feature is no longer available.
Expanding the education Q&A carousel to more languages
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the education Q&A documentation to include Spanish and Vietnamese.
السبب
The education Q&A carousel is available in more languages.
Updating the return policy examples
ما الذي تغيّر
Added returnPolicyCountry to the return policy examples.
السبب
returnPolicyCountry is required for MerchantReturnPolicy.
Removing page annotations documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Removed the Page Annotations feature from the control what you share with Google documentation.
السبب
The Page Annotations feature is no longer available.
Adding AI Mode to the robots meta tag documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Added information about AI Mode to the robots meta tags, data-nosnippet, and X-Robots-Tag specifications page.
السبب
AI Mode is now available in Search Labs.
فبراير 2025إدخالان
Explaining how to encode various types of prices in structured data
ما الذي تغيّر
Added examples and instructions for using the priceType property and new beta validForMemberTier property to encode active prices, sale prices, strikethrough prices, and member prices in JSON-LD to the Merchant listing structured data guidelines.
السبب
To make it easier for merchants to specify complex pricing through structured data and bring parity with price features in Merchant Center.
Adding documentation for using Google Analytics and Search Console data together
ما الذي تغيّر
Added new documentation about using Search Console and Google Analytics data for SEO.
السبب
Using Google Analytics and Search Console together can help you understand how people discover and experience your website, which can you make more informed decisions as you work on your site's SEO.
يناير 20253 إدخالات
Clarifying the site reputation abuse policy
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the site reputation abuse policy to include guidance from our blog post's FAQ on site reputation abuse.
السبب
To make it easier to find this guidance. These are editiorial changes only, no change in behavior.
Adding a recommendation about accepting ratings and reviews
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a recommendation to our review snippet documentation.
السبب
We recommend implementing a setup that only accepts ratings and reviews that are accompanied by a review comment and author's name, as this approach can help your users understand the context for a given rating.
2024
ديسمبر 20243 إدخالات
Consolidating the robots.txt error handling documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Consolidated robots.txt error handling documentation into a single spot.
السبب
We previously had information about robots.txt error handling in several places (specifically, HTTP status codes and Search Console documentation), which lead to some confusion. This is a docs-only change, no change in behavior.
Documentation for cache control support of Google's crawlers
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a section about how Google's crawlers handle cache control headers in the overview of Google's crawlers.
السبب
While the information was already public in form of a blog post, it was never officially made into documentation.
نوفمبر 20246 إدخالات
Removing sitelinks search box documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Removed the sitelinks search box documentation and archived the nositelinkssearchbox rule.
السبب
The sitelinks search box feature is no longer available in Google Search results.
Added information about opting out of the Page Annotations feature.
ما الذي تغيّر
Added information about opting out of the Page Annotations feature that's available on the iOS Google App.
السبب
The new Page Annotations feature was launched recently.
Updated our site reputation abuse policy
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated language to make it clear that using third-party content on a site in an attempt to exploit the site's ranking signals is a violation of this policy — regardless of whether there is first-party involvement or oversight of the content.
السبب
See our blog post for more details on what changed and why.
Updated our Guide to Google Search ranking systems
ما الذي تغيّر
Brought over and expanded language from March 2024 blog post FAQ about site signals.
السبب
To make it easier for those interested to understand through our documentation that we have both page-level and site-wide signals used in ranking.
Added information on how C2PA metadata can appear in Search
ما الذي تغيّر
Added information on how Google extracts C2PA metadata for use in Search.
السبب
Google Search now supports this metadata in the "About this image" feature.
Added notice about links for large websites with differing mobile and desktop pages
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a best practice about making sure all links are present on the mobile version to the crawl budget documentation.
السبب
For large websites with separate HTML on mobile and desktop versions, the discovery of new pages can be slower if the mobile version does not include all the links that are present on the desktop version.
أكتوبر 20247 إدخالات
New documentation for Google Trends
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a page explaining how to get started with Google Trends.
السبب
Google Trends can help you better understand how people find information on Google Search, which can help you to develop your content strategy and refine how you talk to your audience.
Updating favicon size and aspect ratio requirements
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the favicon guidelines to state that favicons must have a 1:1 aspect ratio and be at least 8x8px in size, with a strong recommendation for using a higher resolution favicon of at least 48x48px.
السبب
To reflect the actual requirements for favicons.
Clarifying URL parameter best practices
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a URL parameters best practice to the URL structure documentation.
السبب
To make it easier to find guidance about URL parameters, as it was previously only mentioned in the faceted navigation blog post.
Clarifying support for robots.txt fields
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified that fields that aren't listed in our robots.txt documentation aren't supported.
السبب
We sometimes get questions about fields that aren't explicitly listed as supported, and we want to make it clear that they aren't.
Adding support for certifications
ما الذي تغيّر
Added Certification markup support for merchant listings in the product structured data documentation.
السبب
Starting in April 2025, we're replacing the EnergyConsumptionDetails type with the more robust Certification type, as the new type supports more countries and a broader scope of certifications.
Removing noarchive
ما الذي تغيّر
Moved the noarchive rule to a historical reference section in the robots meta tag documentation.
السبب
The cached link feature is no longer available in Google Search results. You don't need to remove the meta tag, as other search engines and services may be using it.
Clarifying dynamically-generated Product markup
ما الذي تغيّر
Added two best practices for handling structured data when optimizing for shopping results in our documentation on product markup and generating structured data with JavaScript. We recommend putting Product markup in the initial HTML for best results, and making sure that your server can handle increased traffic if you're generating Product markup with JavaScript.
السبب
To clarify that JavaScript-generated markup is supported for ecommerce sites, but there are some best practices to keep in mind.
سبتمبر 202410 إدخالات
Spam policy clarifications
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified some wording in our spam policies for Google web search to focus more on what web spam is and the tactics involved. Also integrated an explanation of close involvement from our blog post for easier reference, and clarified that trying to circumvent our policies can also result in ranking lower or not at all.
السبب
We review and refresh our documentation periodically. This update is part of that process.
Removing the cache: search operator documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Removed the cache: search operator documentation.
السبب
The cache: search operator no longer works in Google Search.
Adding support for sale pricing
ما الذي تغيّر
Added the priceType property to the merchant listing documentation. Also added new sale pricing examples.
السبب
To make it easier for merchants to specify sale pricing through structured data and bring parity with price features in Merchant Center.
Migrated the JavaScript guidance for infinite scroll
ما الذي تغيّر
Migrated guidance from the blog post on infinite scroll to our documentation for infinite scroll. There is no change in the guidance.
السبب
To make it easier to find our recommendations on infinite scroll and make sure it's still up to date.
Updating the HTTP user agent string of GoogleProducer
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the URL in the GoogleProducer HTTP user agent string in the documentation for Google's user-triggered fetchers to match the value used by the actual fetcher.
السبب
The HTTP user agent string used by GoogleProducer was recently updated and future fetches will use the new value.
Adding content encoding information to the crawler documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Added information about the content encodings (compressions) supported by Google's crawlers and user-triggered fetchers. This is just documentation change, no change in behavior.
السبب
We realized we never actually documented the content encodings Google's crawlers support, even though we blogged about it in the past.
Reorganizing the crawler documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Reorganized the documentation for Google's crawlers and user-triggered fetchers. We also added explicit notes about what product each crawler affects, and added a robots.txt snippet for each crawler to demonstrate how to use the user agent tokens. There were no meaningful changes to the content otherwise.
السبب
The documentation grew very long which limited our ability to extend the content about our crawlers and user-triggered fetchers.
Clarifying Indexing API usage guidelines
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified that submissions to the Indexing API are subject to spam detection.
السبب
Usage of the Indexing API is subject to spam detection, and attempts to exceed quotas may result in revoked access.
Video markup accepts ineligibleRegion
ما الذي تغيّر
Added the ineligibleRegion property to the video structured data documentation.
السبب
Google accepts the ineligibleRegion property as another way to restrict a video.
Clarifying quota and usage of the Indexing API
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified that the default quota is for setting up the Indexing API, and how to request approval and quota. Also corrected a documentation error for DefaultRequestsPerMinutePerProject quota (it's always been a 380 quota).
السبب
To better explain that the default quota is for initial setup and testing, and it requires additional approval for usage and resource provisioning.
أغسطس 20249 إدخالات
Adding support for AVIF
ما الذي تغيّر
Added AVIF to the list of supported image formats.
السبب
Google Search now supports AVIF.
Clarifying how organization markup is used
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the introduction for organization markup to clarify how the markup is used in Google Search.
السبب
To better explain that some properties can influence which logo is shown, while others are used behind the scenes.
Adding og:title to the list of title link sources
ما الذي تغيّر
Added og:title to the list of title link sources.
السبب
Google Search can use content within og:title meta tags to automatically generate title links.
Improving the Video SEO documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Overhauled the video SEO best practices. Notably, we clarified the video indexing criteria and technical requirements, added a new watch page section, and expanded our examples.
السبب
Based on feedback submissions, we revisited our video SEO guidance to clarify what's eligible for a video result and how site owners can make it easier for Google to find their videos.
Clarifying how profile page and discussion forum markup is used
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated how profile page and discussion forum markup is used in Google Search.
السبب
Perspectives was renamed to Forums in Google Search.
Introducing the Google-CloudVertexBot crawler
ما الذي تغيّر
Added Google-CloudVertexBot to the list of Google crawlers, a new crawler that crawls sites on the site owners' request when building Vertex AI Agents.
السبب
The new crawler was introduced to help site owners identify the new crawler traffic.
Improvements to the core updates documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Restructured the core updates documentation so it has clearer sections and includes information from other docs (such as traffic drops and the self-assessment guidance). Reduced duplication with the helpful content FAQ and redirected that page. Moved the helpful content system section to the archived section of the ranking systems guide.
السبب
To better help site owners assess a traffic drop and make improvements to their site. Also, the helpful content system became part of core ranking systems (as we previously shared in March 2024).
Clarifying how AI Overviews are logged in Search Console
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified that AI Overviews are counted and logged in Search Console in the Performance report. This is a documentation clarification on methodology only, and not a change in Search Console reports.
السبب
To confirm the methodology behind how clicks, impressions, and position are recorded for AI Overviews, just as we do for featured snippets, carousels, and other types of Search results.
Removing Notes documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Removed the documentation about Notes.
السبب
The Notes experiment is no longer available. If you created a note, your notes content is available to download using Google Takeout through the end of August 2024.
يوليو 20248 إدخالات
Geo Data Upload string and URL update
ما الذي تغيّر
Replaced the Geo Data Upload tool references in the Get on Google documentation with the Google Maps Content Partners resource.
السبب
The Geo Data Upload name and support pages are deprecated.
Non-consensual fake imagery update
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified how Google handles sites with a high proportion of sexually explicit non-consensual, fake imagery in our spam policies and ranking systems guide.
Google Publisher Center user agent string update
ما الذي تغيّر
Changed the Google Publisher Center user agent string from GoogleProducer; (+http://goo.gl/7y4SX) to GoogleProducer; (+https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers#googleproducer). If you hardcoded the old value in your code, update the string to avoid potential bugs.
السبب
goo.gl is going away.
A note about Notes
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a note about the status of Notes to the Notes documentation.
السبب
Notes is winding down at the end of July 2024.
Adding more detail about shipping and return policy precedence
ما الذي تغيّر
Added Search Console shipping and return settings as an option and expanded on how precedence works in the organization and merchant listing documentation.
السبب
Search Console now supports shipping and return settings, and we want to make it clearer how overriding works when combining various configurations.
Expanding translated results to more languages
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the translated results documentation to include the following languages: Arabic, Gujarati, Korean, Persian, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese.
السبب
Translated results now support more languages.
Supporting a new IPTC digital source type
ما الذي تغيّر
Added compositeWithTrainedAlgorithmicMedia to the IPTC photo metadata documentation.
السبب
Google can now extract the compositeWithTrainedAlgorithmicMedia IPTC NewsCode.
Clarifying fragment URL guidance
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified our guidance about fragment URLs in the URL structure documentation.
السبب
To make it easier to find the guideline about fragment URLs, as it was previously only mentioned in the JavaScript and mobile sites documentation.
يونيو 20248 إدخالات
Clarifying return policy precedence
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified in the organization-level return policy documentation that product-level return policy markup takes precedence over organization-level return policy markup. If you choose to use both markup (whether it's at the product- or organization-level, or both) and settings in Merchant Center, the Merchant Center return policy information takes precedence for any products submitted in your Merchant Center product feeds.
السبب
To address user feedback about which return policy method takes precedence.
Marking up categories with many items for structured data carousels (beta)
ما الذي تغيّر
Added guidance on how to mark up categories with many items to the structured data carousels (beta).
السبب
We received a question through our feedback button about how to implement this markup for categories with many items, such as paginated content or infinite scroll.
Clarifying link tag attributes
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified in our hreflang documentation that link tags for denoting alternate versions of a page must not be combined in a single link tag.
السبب
While debugging a report from a site owner we noticed we don't have this quirk documented.
Adding support for Organization-level return policies
ما الذي تغيّر
Added documentation on how to specify a general return policy for an Organization as a whole.
السبب
This makes it easier to define and maintain general return policies for an entire site.
Removing home activity documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Removed documentation on home activity structured data.
السبب
The home activity feature no longer appears in Google Search results.
Publishing a new video SEO case study
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a new case study about how Vidio brought more locally relevant video-on-demand (VOD) content for Indonesian users through Google Search.
السبب
To show how adding video structured data and following best practices can improve video discoverability.
Updating Discussion Forum guidelines
ما الذي تغيّر
Confirm that SocialMediaPosting markup is also supported and allow only image or video in comments without text.
السبب
To more accurately reflect how the data ingestion for these features work and to remove noise in validation reports.
Resolving the issue with site names and internal pages
ما الذي تغيّر
Removed the warning about the issue that was preventing new site names from propagating to internal pages.
السبب
The issue has been resolved. Keep in mind that it takes time for Google to recrawl and process the new information, including recrawling your internal pages.
مايو 20244 إدخالات
Adding epub to indexable file types
ما الذي تغيّر
Added EPUB to the list of indexable file types.
السبب
Google Search now supports epub.
Introducing the GoogleOther-Image and GoogleOther-Video crawlers
ما الذي تغيّر
Added two new crawlers, GoogleOther-Image and GoogleOther-Video, which are versions of GoogleOther optimized for fetching image and video bytes respectively. While at it, we also updated the list of user agent strings of GoogleOther to better reflect the most active user agent versions.
السبب
The new crawlers were launched to better support crawling of binary data that may be used for research and development.
Introduced AI Overviews in the documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a separate page for AI Overviews and your website, and updated the existing pages for robots meta tags and subscription and paywalled content accordingly.
السبب
AI Overviews in Search are replacing Search Generative Experience.
Restructuring the Product structured data documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Reorganized the Product structured data documentation into three pages: intro to product markup, product snippet, and merchant listing. Added a new section about deciding which markup to use.
السبب
The previous tabbed structure was difficult to navigate and find the property you were looking for.
أبريل 20247 إدخالات
Improvements to the debugging traffic drops documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Expanded on the effects of algorithmic updates and how to identify them. Simplified the section on policy and manual actions to be about spam issues.
السبب
To better help site owners identify reasons for a traffic drop.
Exporting an additional range of Google fetcher IP addresses
ما الذي تغيّر
Added an additional list of IP addresses for fetchers that are controlled by Google products, as opposed to, for example, a user controlled Apps Script. The new list, user-triggered-fetchers-google.json, contains IP ranges that have been in use for a long time.
السبب
It became technically possible to export the ranges.
Removing the iOS variant of AdsBot Mobile Web
ما الذي تغيّر
Removing the iOS variant of AdsBot Mobile Web from the list of Google crawlers.
السبب
Simplify maintenance of AdsBot.
Adding definitions for favicon rel attribute values
ما الذي تغيّر
Added definitions for each supported rel attribute value in the favicon documentation.
السبب
We got a question about which value to use for a favicon and if there's a difference.
Removing video carousel (limited access) documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Removed video carousel guidance from the video structured data documentation.
السبب
We initially tested video carousel markup with a group of site owners, and ultimately found that it wasn't useful for the ecosystem at scale. You can leave the markup on your site so that search engines and other systems can better understand your web page.
Clarifying image extraction source
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified that images are only extracted from the src attribute of img tags.
السبب
While not a new change, we occasionally get questions about what HTML elements Google Search can extract images from.
Clarifying the beta carousels feature
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified that the beta carousel feature is for sites that have a summary page that links out to other detail pages on their website. The markup must be on the summary page, and you don't need to add markup to the detail pages in order to be eligible for this feature.
السبب
Based on feedback and questions you submitted, we added more precise guidance on what use cases are supported and what page you need to add markup. This is a documentation update only; there's no material change in feature requirements or eligibility.
مارس 20246 إدخالات
Clarified our changelog entry regarding availability of Web Stories
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified our February 8 changelog entry regarding the feature availability of Web Stories in Google Images.
السبب
Web Stories continue to appear in Google Images, just as other web content may appear, but Web Stories no longer appear with the Web Stories icon in Google Images. Also, a bug that was blocking Search Console reporting for these URLs in Google Images is now resolved.
Added 3D models for products
ما الذي تغيّر
We added new 3DModel markup support for merchant listings in the product structured data documentation.
السبب
Sometimes 3D models appear on pages with multiple products and are not clearly connected with any of them. This markup lets site owners link a 3D model to a specific product.
Clarified references to page experience and Core Web Vitals
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified how we talk about page experience and Core Web Vitals in our documentation on page experience, signed exchanges and ecommerce pagination. Additionally updated to reflect that INP is now a Core Web Vital.
السبب
INP replaces FID as a Core Web Vital.
Cleaning up recipe documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Removed guided recipes from the recipe structured data documentation.
السبب
As this Google Assistant feature was removed, we're updating our recipe markup documentation to reflect that change. There's no change needed from site owners; all properties continue to be recommended for use in Google Search.
New spam policies
ما الذي تغيّر
We added 3 new spam policies: expired domain abuse, scaled content abuse, and site reputation abuse. Also added a new FAQ on helpful content. Check out our blog post for more details on what changed and why.
Generic Chrome version for Google StoreBot
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the Google StoreBot user agent (in Overview of Google crawlers) to use a placeholder version of Chrome. If you hardcoded the old value in your code, update it to ignore the version.
السبب
To make it easier for the Google Shopping team to maintain the StoreBot crawler.
فبراير 202413 إدخالًا
Adding new carousel documentation (beta)
ما الذي تغيّر
Added documentation for structured data carousels (beta).
السبب
To make it easier for site owners to add carousel markup for new query types, such as for travel, local, and shopping queries.
Added opt out information for place entities in Page Insights
ما الذي تغيّر
Added information about how site owners can opt out of display in the Place Entity feature in Page Insights.
السبب
To make it easier for site owners to control how their content appears on Google.
Added support for product variants
ما الذي تغيّر
Added new product variant structured data documentation. Also added a new isVariantOf property to the product structured data documentation and clarified that Google support product variants with distinct URLs.
السبب
To better support product variant scenarios for ecommerce sites. Since product variants can be a complex and important concept for ecommerce websites (especially for categories like apparel and electronics), we're providing more examples and guidance on how to add product variant structured data.
Clarified return fees markup for products
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified when to use FreeReturn versus ReturnShippingFees as value for returnFees for product returns in the product structured data documentation.
السبب
To better support more granular shipping and return fee scenarios.
Clarifying the extraction of rel="canonical" annotations
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified that rel="canonical" annotations with certain attributes are not used for canonicalization.
السبب
The rel="canonical" annotations help Google determine which URL of a set of duplicates is the canonical. Adding certain attributes to the link element changes the meaning of the annotation to denote a different device or language version. This is a documentation change only; Google has always ignored these rel="canonical" annotations for canonicalization purposes.
Clarifying the use of spaces in product SKUs
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified what characters are allowed in product SKUs in the Product structured data documentation.
السبب
To better explain why a sku value might be invalid in the Rich Results Test.
Image removals documentation refresh
ما الذي تغيّر
Part of our ongoing efforts to keep our documentation accurate, we updated the documentation for image removals with more precise language, and addressed some documentation feedback.
السبب
We review and, if necessary, refresh our documentation periodically. This update is part of that process.
Updated the availability of Web Stories
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the feature availability of Web Stories.
السبب
To make sure our documentation aligns with how the feature appears in Google Search. Web Stories don't appear in Google Images with an icon anymore, and the grid view is now a carousel view in Search results.
Updated the description of the Google-Extended product token
ما الذي تغيّر
With the name change of Bard to Gemini Apps, we clarified that Gemini Apps is affected by Google-Extended, and, based on publisher feedback, we specified that Google-Extended doesn't affect Google Search.
Updated Dynamic Search Ad targets crawl frequency
ما الذي تغيّر
Updated the crawl frequency for Dynamic Search Ad targets in the managing crawl budget guide.
السبب
To reduce stress on sites, Dynamic Search Ads crawls now occur less frequently, 21 days instead of 14 days.
Revisited JavaScript documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Reviewed our guidance on JavaScript SEO basics, fixing Search-related JavaScript problems, lazy-loading content to remove outdated or unnecessary information. We updated our documentation on dynamic rendering to clarify it's a deprecated workaround.
السبب
Feedback from you showed us there are opportunities to improve and clarify a few aspects. A few things, like dynamic rendering, have evolved in the past few years and our documentation now reflects these developments.
A new case study
ما الذي تغيّر
Added a new case study about how How Wix generated value for their users by integrating Google APIs.
السبب
To explain how a CMS platform can integrate Google APIs directly into their UI, and what impact it had for their users.
Revamping the SEO Starter Guide
ما الذي تغيّر
The SEO Starter Guide got a refresh: we removed outdated content, streamlined and simplified other parts, and added a few sections. Check out our blog post for more in-depth explanation on what we changed and why.
يناير 20245 إدخالات
Refreshing the Googlebot documentation
ما الذي تغيّر
Part of our ongoing efforts to keep our documentation accurate, we updated the documentation for Googlebot with more precise language. There was no actionable change to the documentation otherwise.
السبب
We review and, if necessary, refresh our documentation periodically. This update is part of that process.
More accessible anchor texts
ما الذي تغيّر
Part of our ongoing efforts to make our documentation more accessible, we updated various anchor texts so they're more descriptive of the target page.
السبب
Depending on the settings of a screen reader, the user may be jumping from link to link on a page, thus each anchor text on a page should be descriptive, even without the surrounding context.
Adding support for suggestedAge to Product
ما الذي تغيّر
Added support for the suggestedAge property as an alternative to suggestedMaxAge and suggestedMinAge. Clarified the list of possible values for age ranges in our Product structured data documentation.
السبب
We want to make it easier and more flexible for people to specify age ranges for a product. Also, the previous wording was confusing and didn't map well to the Merchant Center documentation about product age ranges.
Clarifying primary source of snippets
ما الذي تغيّر
Clarified in our documentation about snippets that the primary source of the snippet is the page content itself.
السبب
The previous wording incorrectly implied that structured data and the meta description HTML element are the primary sources for snippets.
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