Launching and running a blog can be problematic for writers with considerable experience. From tracking details of visitors to engaging readers, observing the presence of the blog on search engines, there are a lot of areas one has to look into. Bloggers use numerous services for such tasks.

However many of these don’t work well collectively. To resolve this problem, Google has launched Blog Compass which brings everything you require for running a blog within a single piece. This app at present is in open beta and is available both in English and Hindi for users based in India.

Google rolls out new Dataset Search engine to make data search better. This version of the search engine is designed to help people access data across a gamut of data repositories on the web. Google’s new search engine surfaces search results from publishers’ sites, digital libraries and the author’s web pages.

Google’s New Search Console finally graduates out of beta. The new version of the search console has been under beta testing since the beginning of the year. Though it has officially come out of beta now, it was readily available for the users all this while. The New Search Console came out of beta only after it supported the key features available, in the classic version, in a better way.

Google has launched its structured data codelab. This enables a website owner to undergo a step-by-step process to create structured data for his own site. Google’s codelab guides site owners through adding many types of structured data to an HTML site. This comprises where to place structure data on a website and by what means to validate it.

Google has also added a link to the structured data codelab from the main structured data developer pages on the left side bar. Once you click on the left side bar, you will reach a section which says that it requires 30 minutes to undergo the process. Structured data offers a way to systematize information related to a page and classify its content. Google also utilizes structured data to allow special search features and improvements. For instance, a recipe page which has valid structured data can appear in a graphical search result. Google regards it as a rich result on a host carousel.

Google has upgraded its Developers Page specifically for article structured data. This includes recipe articles. These updates are linked with publication and modification dates. Additional properties are arbitrary and are suggested if you think they are relevant to your situation. Google Structured Data Testing Tool won’t issue a warning in case you don’t use these properties in your structured data. There are realistic reasons why you should think about using them.

Images are comprehended more easily than written text, and Google Images are a major source to visually discover and explore content online. For instance, a picture of a peacock will be comprehended faster than the text P-E-A-C-O-C-K. Hence, exploring an image can be more useful than exploring text content. The Google Image referrer URL is a part of HTTP header. When a user clicks a hyperlink in a browser and the browser sends a request to the server holding the destination webpage.

Google has incorporated a lot of new features in its new version of Google Search Console. Google is yet on its expedition to bring more user friendly features to the console. In a recent announcement, Google said to have added the ‘Links Report‘ feature in the new Google Search Console interface.