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The Google Search Liaison account on Twitter posted several tweets summarizing many of the changes Google has made to search over the COVID-19 crisis. We covered many of them here, actually, all of them. But I thought it would be good to share these tweets in one place.
So here are those tweets:
Over the past few weeks, a number of resources have been made available from Google Search for sites & organizations dealing with COVID-19 / coronavirus responses. Here’s a recap ranging from implementing temporary hours to special announcements to posting virtual events & more…
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) April 6, 2020
Business hours & temporary closures -
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) April 6, 2020
Review the guidance from @GoogleMyBiz on how to change your business hours or indicate temporary closures or how to create COVID-19 / coronavirus posts:https://t.co/mNzUe82K5T
Pausing your business online -
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) April 6, 2020
See our blog post on how to pause your business online in a way that minimizes impacts with Google Search: https://t.co/IrN0IHnY11
Events -
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) April 6, 2020
If you hold events, look over the new properties for marking them virtual, postponed, or canceled in Google Search: https://t.co/g28bYx0Thq
Events -
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) April 6, 2020
If you hold events, look over the new properties for marking them virtual, postponed, or canceled in Google Search: https://t.co/g28bYx0Thq
Special COVID-19 / coronavirus announcements -
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) April 6, 2020
Sites can add can add Special Announcement structured data to their web pages or submit a COVID-19 announcement in Search Console to have announcements highlighted under their standard snippet: https://t.co/qpWWyOv0Hw
Surface your common FAQs -
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) April 6, 2020
If your site has common FAQs, adding FAQ markup can help Google Search surface your information: https://t.co/6sRl6vX3aa
Knowledge Panels -
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) April 6, 2020
Understand how to claim and recommend changes to your Google knowledge panel: https://t.co/Ek67Dx3jqn
Fix an overloaded server -
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) April 6, 2020
Learn how to determine a server's bottleneck, quickly fix the bottleneck, improve server performance, and prevent regressions: https://t.co/h4cNC3eVg9
Best practices for health and government sites -
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) April 6, 2020
If you are a health or government website & have important information about coronavirus for the general public, here are some recommendations for how to make this information more visible on Google Search. https://t.co/TLQ6jYeOmF
Special technical support group for health orgs -
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) April 6, 2020
Health organizations can take part in our new technical support group that's focused on helping health organizations who publish COVID-19 information with Search related questions. Learn more: https://t.co/eMdFpeer8U
Support generally -
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) April 6, 2020
Everyone is welcome to use our existing webmaster help forum for question with Google Search: https://t.co/zA7SsrYjnG
Forum discussion at Twitter.
