Bulk data export: a new and powerful way to access your Search Console data

In this post, we discuss bulk data export, a new Search Console feature that allows you to export data to Google BigQuery on an ongoing basis. You can configure an export in Search Console to get a daily data dump into your BigQuery project.

Don’t use 403s or 404s for rate limiting

Over the last few months we noticed an uptick in website owners and some content delivery networks (CDNs) attempting to use 404 and other 4xx client errors (but not 429) to attempt to reduce Googlebot’s crawl rate.

Google Search’s guidance about AI-generated content

At Google, we’ve long believed in the power of AI to transform the ability to deliver helpful information. In this post, we’ll share more about how AI-generated content fits into our long-standing approach to show helpful content to people on Search.

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 […]

New updates to the Search Console Video indexing report

Last July we launched a new report in Search Console to help you understand the performance of your videos on Google and identify possible areas of improvement. Today, we are happy to share a few more updates to the report on Search Console to help you achieve those goals more effectively.

Register for the Search Central Virtual Unconference en español 2023

¡Hola! The Search Central Virtual Unconference en español 2023 is now open for participant registration. All sessions will be conducted in Spanish. If you speak Spanish and are interested, be sure to register before February 1! Come meet the community, exchange ideas, and have fun together.

Event recap: Search Central Virtual Unconference en español 2023

When we launched the Search Central Virtual Unconference series, we got a lot of feedback to organize events in multiple languages. On February 17, 2023 we held the first Virtual Unconference en español after receiving a lot of requests for an event in Spanish.

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).