🎉 We are officially just two weeks away from Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026 in Barcelona! 🎉 We're incredibly hyped to share our stellar lineup of the industry-leading 🎤 community speakers 🎤 who will be taking the stage for fast-paced Lightning Talks or hosting interactive, 1:1 Poster Sessions. Check out the newly published blog post to meet the real stars of our event and connect with them wherever you get high quality social connections! 👇 👉 https://lnkd.in/dMSvQHpz 👈 👆 PS: that ought to be enough emojis. Gary should be safe
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If you’re using WordPress, you can now see a report of important actions like cart checkouts or form submissions directly in your WordPress dashboard, thanks to Site Kit's new Site Goals feature. Site Kit is Google’s official plugin for WordPress - covering everything from Search Console to AdSense and Analytics, directly in your WordPress dashboard. To show you how your site is helping achieve your business goals, Site Kit actively fills in data gaps by detecting these key visitor actions and sending the events to Analytics for you. The new Site Goals section then curates those stats on your dashboard to show what worked and what didn't. Here’s how it helps: * It automatically tracks important site visitor actions like cart checkouts or form submissions from popular plugins like WooCommerce, WPForms, and Contact Form 7, without any manual tagging or code. * You get a report tailored to what you do, whether that's tracking online store sales or lead generation signups. * It highlights your top goal drivers, so you can see which traffic channels and landing pages brought in the visitors who actually converted. Site Goals is available for all WordPress sites using Site Kit with Google Analytics. To try it out, install Site Kit: https://lnkd.in/fxR27A4 To read more about how Site Kit tracks events: https://lnkd.in/eWjhXKSW See everything the Site Goals feature can do to help you track business outcomes: https://lnkd.in/eHVGv8ec
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🇮🇳 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗿𝘂! Stand up and stretch: after telling you to "sit tight" back in March, Search Central Live is officially returning to India on October 30, 2026, in Bengaluru! 🇮🇳 Tickets are completely free of charge, but physical walls are a thing, so seats will be allocated via an application process. Submit your registration before October 15, 2026! 👉 Read our blog post here: https://lnkd.in/erwstUS2 👉 Apply for your seat here: https://lnkd.in/e6P23NgZ PS: Gary only used 4 emojis. Gary's going to get in trouble. Again.
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We're excited to bring Search Central Live not only back to Mexico City but we're also bringing it to Bogota this year! Learn more and grab a free seat at https://lnkd.in/dkP2iweS - quickly, we're closing registrations next week!
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We’re excited to introduce Trends category filters on the new Explore page! This update makes it easier to refine trends data more precisely for specific categories such as "All Books & Literature". Check it out https://goo.gle/4xEoYc2 Pro Tip: Apply the category filter without entering a query to explore category-specific top-searched terms across specific categories, regions, and timeframes.
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To bring our parser up to JSON and other standards, we changed our JSON-LD extraction and are now only applying a single pass of HTML unescaping. Practically speaking, this means that double-escaped entities (like & or ✔) will no longer be unrolled. If you're using JSON-LD for structured data, be sure to update your code to standard JSON escapes or Unicode hexadecimal escapes (like \u0026).
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Ready to spot local trends? Try the new Google Trends Explore maps and regional breakdown today! We designed new interactive maps for clearer data storytelling. 🗺️ Instantly spot regional trends, capture visual insights for your audience, and explore the 'where' behind every search with our new, intuitive maps. This experience is being rolled out gradually. Try it out at → trends.google.com/explore! #GoogleTrends #DataStorytelling
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Today we released the August 2026 spam update to Google Search. This is a normal spam update, and it will roll out for all languages and locations. The rollout may take a few days to complete. More information about spam updates can be found at https://lnkd.in/gshkDEU3 We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete: https://lnkd.in/epYqNUQw
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Earlier this month, we announced platform properties for Search Console, allowing you to track how your social and video posts on Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube perform on Google Search, Discover, and Google News. Today, platform properties are globally available to everyone. Read more at https://lnkd.in/etz8yuDg We're also publishing a new guide on how to analyze your social and video content performance. Whether you're a content creator, social media manager, or SEO professional, this guide will show you what insights are available from Search Console and how to analyze your performance.
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Should you panic when your Search Console indexing report is showing pages that aren't indexed? Is a 404 error code always a sign of a broken website? These questions and more will be discussed and answered by John and Martin in the latest episode of Search Off The Record and stop worrying about "Page with a redirect" when it's alright. Listen to the episode now and subscribe to never miss an episode again! https://lnkd.in/euzqaGqF
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