Plain, complete, server-rendered HTML directory of official documentation governing web standards, search, indexing, ranking, retrieval, and discovery across platforms.
975 official documents in 127 collections. The primary-evidence archive and independent research exceptions are displayed separately and are not current operating specifications.
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Dataset updated: 2026-10-22. Schema version: 2.5.0.
These are direct links to the responsible publishers. A document's official provenance does not mean all its guidance is current; see its lifecycle status and editorial notes.
Web-wide standards, protocols, vocabularies, and official web platform implementation references.
Defines robots.txt syntax, rule matching, access behavior, errors, and caching.
Publisher: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Ietf Standards Track | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, robots
Platforms: web
Defines XML sitemap structure, sitemap indexes, limits, and discovery methods.
Publisher: Sitemaps.org | Authority: Protocol Specification | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, discovery, xml
Platforms: web
Defines authenticated URL-change notifications to participating search engines.
Publisher: IndexNow | Authority: Protocol Specification | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: discovery, submission
Platforms: web
Defines Atom XML feeds used to publish and syndicate updated content.
Publisher: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Ietf Standards Track | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: feeds, xml, discovery
Platforms: web
Official RSS 2.0 format definition maintained by the RSS Advisory Board.
Publisher: RSS Advisory Board | Authority: Protocol Specification | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: feeds, xml, discovery
Platforms: web
Defines HTTP methods, status codes, response fields, representations, and redirects.
Publisher: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Ietf Standards Track | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: http, status-codes, headers, redirects, urls, content-negotiation
Platforms: web
Specifies HTTP cache behavior and cache-control directives.
Publisher: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Ietf Standards Track | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: http, headers, caching
Platforms: web
Defines the canonical link relation for indicating a preferred resource URL.
Publisher: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Ietf Informational | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: canonicalization, links, headers
Platforms: web
Authoritative registry of media types such as text/html and application/json.
Publisher: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) | Authority: Official Registry | Stage: Registry | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: media-types, http, headers
Platforms: web
Defines link relations and HTTP Link header serialization.
Publisher: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Ietf Standards Track | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: links, headers, canonicalization
Platforms: web
Authoritative registry of registered relation types for links and Link headers.
Publisher: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) | Authority: Official Registry | Stage: Registry | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: links, headers, canonicalization
Platforms: web
Defines URI components, syntax, reference resolution, and normalization.
Publisher: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Ietf Standards Track | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: urls, canonicalization
Platforms: web
Defines internationalized resource identifiers and mapping to URIs.
Publisher: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Ietf Standards Track | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: urls, internationalization
Platforms: web
Defines URL parsing, serialization, and web-platform URL behavior.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: urls, canonicalization, internationalization
Platforms: web
Defines BCP 47 language tags used in lang and hreflang attributes.
Publisher: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Ietf Best Current Practice | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: internationalization, language
Platforms: web
Defines language-range matching and filtering approaches.
Publisher: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Ietf Best Current Practice | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: internationalization, language, content-negotiation
Platforms: web
Defines media-type registration rules for MIME and HTTP content identification.
Publisher: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Ietf Best Current Practice | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: http, headers, media-types
Platforms: web
Defines HSTS policies requiring secure HTTP connections.
Publisher: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Ietf Standards Track | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: https, headers, security
Platforms: web
Complete authoritative HTML specification, including syntax, elements, and processing.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, semantics, metadata, links
Platforms: web
Normative HTML syntax rules including doctype, elements, and attributes.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, semantics
Platforms: web
Defines document structure and global attributes including lang, dir, and hidden.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, semantics, internationalization, language
Platforms: web
Defines document metadata elements, titles, meta names, and link processing.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, metadata, links, canonicalization
Platforms: web
Defines hyperlinks and link relation types including canonical, alternate, and nofollow.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, links, canonicalization, internationalization
Platforms: web
Normative HTML definition of the canonical link relation.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, links, canonicalization
Platforms: web
Defines alternate representations and associated language or media hints.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, links, internationalization
Platforms: web
Defines the HTML nofollow link relation.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, links
Platforms: web
Defines the HTML title element, including its standalone document-title semantics.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, metadata
Platforms: web
Defines meta names, meta descriptions, charset declarations, and metadata syntax.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, metadata
Platforms: web
Defines how HTML elements declare language with lang and xml:lang.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, internationalization, language
Platforms: web
Defines sections, headings, header, footer, main, and related structural elements.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, semantics, accessibility
Platforms: web
Defines paragraphs, lists, figures, and other group-level markup.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, semantics
Platforms: web
Defines the anchor element and inline semantic text elements.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, semantics, links
Platforms: web
Defines responsive images, source sets, alt-related image processing, and image selection.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, images, performance, accessibility
Platforms: web
Defines img, picture, and source elements including loading and fetch priority.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, images, performance
Platforms: web
Defines embedded browsing contexts, iframe resources, and lazy loading.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, rendering, performance
Platforms: web
Defines script and noscript behavior and integration of executable scripts with HTML.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, javascript, rendering, structured-data
Platforms: web
Defines itemscope, itemtype, itemprop, and other HTML Microdata rules.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, html
Platforms: web
Defines document trees and script-accessible DOM operations affecting rendered content.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: javascript, rendering, semantics
Platforms: web
Defines browser fetching of network resources, responses, and request behavior.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: javascript, rendering, http
Platforms: web
Defines web text encoding detection and decoding behavior.
Publisher: WHATWG | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, rendering, internationalization
Platforms: web
Maintained official ECMAScript specification underlying JavaScript execution.
Publisher: TC39 / Ecma International | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Living Standard | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: javascript, rendering
Platforms: web
Working Group snapshot identifying the CSS specifications composing CSS in 2026.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Official Spec Overview | Stage: W3c Group Note | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: css, rendering
Platforms: web
Defines the parsing of CSS stylesheets and declarations.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Candidate Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: css, rendering
Platforms: web
Defines display values and generation of the CSS box tree.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Candidate Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: css, rendering, visibility
Platforms: web
Defines how rules and inherited property values determine styles.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Candidate Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: css, rendering, visibility
Platforms: web
Defines CSS media queries used for device- and media-dependent layouts.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: css, responsive, performance
Platforms: web
Extends media query syntax and media features used in responsive layouts.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Candidate Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: css, responsive, performance
Platforms: web
Defines element-selection rules used by stylesheets.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: css, rendering, visibility
Platforms: web
Extends CSS selector syntax, including newer pseudo-classes.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Working Draft | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: css, rendering, visibility
Platforms: web
Defines containment of style, layout, paint, and sizing.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: css, rendering, performance, visibility
Platforms: web
Defines CSS image values, gradients, and image sizing behavior.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Candidate Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: css, images, responsive
Platforms: web
Defines horizontal/vertical writing modes and text direction.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: css, internationalization, language
Platforms: web
Defines text line breaking, whitespace handling, and text layout.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Candidate Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: css, internationalization, rendering
Platforms: web
Defines CSS margins, padding, borders, and box dimensions.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: css, rendering
Platforms: web
Defines font selection and related stylesheet behavior.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: css, rendering, performance
Platforms: web
Working draft specifying viewport-dependent layout behavior; not a W3C Recommendation.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Working Draft | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: css, responsive, performance
Platforms: web
Defines SVG markup and semantics for scalable images and graphics.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Candidate Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: images, rendering, accessibility
Platforms: web
Defines JSON syntax and interoperability behavior.
Publisher: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Ietf Standards Track | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: json, structured-data
Platforms: web
Defines JSON-LD syntax for expressing linked data with JSON.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: json, structured-data
Platforms: web
Defines expansion, compaction, flattening, and other JSON-LD processing.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: json, structured-data
Platforms: web
Defines JSON-LD framing and graph shaping algorithms.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: json, structured-data
Platforms: web
Defines RDFa markup embedded in HTML and XHTML.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: html, structured-data
Platforms: web
Defines RDFa attributes and processing model.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data
Platforms: web
Defines the RDF graph data model underpinning linked data vocabularies.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data
Platforms: web
Defines data-modeling vocabulary for RDF types and properties.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data
Platforms: web
Defines XML syntax used by sitemaps and feeds.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: xml, sitemaps, feeds
Platforms: web
Defines XML namespace naming used by sitemap extensions and feeds.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: xml, sitemaps, structured-data
Platforms: web
Entry point for Schema.org vocabulary documentation, guidance, and definitions.
Publisher: Schema.org | Authority: Official Vocabulary Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, schema-org
Platforms: web
Official index of Schema.org types, properties, and related reference pages.
Publisher: Schema.org | Authority: Official Vocabulary Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, schema-org
Platforms: web
Comprehensive type hierarchy of the Schema.org vocabulary.
Publisher: Schema.org | Authority: Official Vocabulary Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, schema-org
Platforms: web
Describes Schema.org classes, properties, inheritance, domains, and ranges.
Publisher: Schema.org | Authority: Official Vocabulary Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, schema-org
Platforms: web
Official Schema.org introduction to applying its vocabulary with Microdata.
Publisher: Schema.org | Authority: Official Vocabulary Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, schema-org, html
Platforms: web
Provides authoritative machine-readable vocabulary definitions and developer notes.
Publisher: Schema.org | Authority: Official Vocabulary Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, schema-org, json
Platforms: web
Official release history and pointers to published vocabulary versions.
Publisher: Schema.org | Authority: Official Vocabulary Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, schema-org
Platforms: web
Defines og:title, og:type, og:image, og:url, and related social graph metadata.
Publisher: Open Graph protocol | Authority: Protocol Specification | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-metadata, metadata
Platforms: web
Documents how PHP emits HTTP response headers and redirects.
Publisher: PHP Documentation Group | Authority: Official Implementation Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: php, headers, redirects, status-codes
Platforms: web
Documents how PHP reads and sets HTTP response status codes.
Publisher: PHP Documentation Group | Authority: Official Implementation Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: php, http, status-codes
Platforms: web
Defines testable accessibility success criteria for web content.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: accessibility, semantics, images
Platforms: web
Defines roles, states, and properties for accessible web interfaces.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: accessibility, semantics, javascript
Platforms: web
Community Group protocol for expressing text and data mining reservations and licensing discovery; not a W3C Recommendation.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Protocol Specification | Stage: W3c Community Group Report | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: publisher-rights, robots, crawling
Platforms: web, general-web
Editorial note: Do not mistake machine-readable rights reservation for an enforcement mechanism or a guaranteed AI crawler opt-out.
HTTP webhook publisher/subscriber standard for timely publication update notifications, independent of search engine indexing.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: content-syndication, crawling
Platforms: web, general-web
CSV on the Web metadata vocabulary for describing tabular data and enabling its consistent interpretation and search.
Publisher: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: W3c Recommendation | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, tabular-metadata
Platforms: web, general-web
Official IPTC Core and Extension schema for machine-readable photo descriptions, licensing, rights, and provenance.
Publisher: International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) | Authority: Formal Standard | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: images, media-provenance, structured-data
Platforms: web, image-provenance
First-party implementation guide explaining the standard IPTC photo fields and their intended semantics.
Publisher: International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: images, media-provenance
Platforms: web, image-provenance
Official specifications for signing and verifying content provenance and authenticity; not an organic search ranking specification.
Publisher: Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) | Authority: Protocol Specification | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: media-provenance, images
Platforms: web, image-provenance
Google-maintained search, crawling, indexing, Search Console, and related Google Search documentation.
Top-level index of technical eligibility requirements, spam policies, and Google Search best practices.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-policies, crawling
Platforms: google-search
Minimum access, successful HTTP response, and indexable-content requirements for Google Search.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-policies, crawling
Platforms: google-search
Official prohibitions and examples of spam and abusive search manipulation.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-policies, content-quality
Platforms: google-search
Official self-assessment guidance on reliable, original, helpful content and E-E-A-T.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: content-quality, ranking
Platforms: google-search
Google descriptions of notable active search ranking systems and historically retired systems.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ranking, search-appearance
Platforms: google-search
Full September 11, 2025 Google Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines for human rating of page quality and needs met.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Evaluation Guidelines | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: PDF
Topics: content-quality, ranking
Platforms: google-search
Editorial note: Google explicitly states quality-rater judgments do not directly determine individual page rankings; PDF redirects may change as new revisions are released.
Google-authored summary of the search quality rating process and its purpose.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Evaluation Guidelines | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: PDF
Topics: content-quality, ranking
Platforms: google-search
Editorial note: An overview, not a substitute for the complete rater guidelines.
Official topic index covering Google discovery, crawling, parsing, indexing, and removals.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, discovery
Platforms: google-search
Supported indexable formats for textual, document, image, and video resources.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, media-types
Platforms: google-search
Search-specific conventions for URLs, URL parameters, and crawl-friendly structure.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: urls, discovery
Platforms: google-search
Google canonical cluster selection and signals used in deduplication.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: canonicalization
Platforms: google-search
Accepted canonical signals including HTML, HTTP headers, redirects, and sitemaps.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: canonicalization, metadata
Platforms: google-search
Search Central explanation of the purpose and limitations of robots.txt.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: robots, crawling
Platforms: google-search
Google infrastructure reference for creating and serving robots.txt.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: robots, crawling
Platforms: google-crawling
Google interpretation of robots.txt grammar, wildcard rules, status codes, and matching.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: robots, crawling
Platforms: google-crawling
Shared Google crawler/fetcher types and classification.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: googlebot, crawling
Platforms: google-crawling
Official user-agent details for common Google crawlers, including Googlebot.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: googlebot, crawling
Platforms: google-crawling
User-agent behaviors for Google special-case crawlers.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: googlebot, crawling
Platforms: google-crawling
DNS and official IP-range methods for verifying Google crawler requests.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: googlebot, crawling
Platforms: google-crawling
Documented steps for reducing crawler load during server pressure.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: googlebot, crawl-budget
Platforms: google-crawling
Official site crawling guidance for large sites.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawl-budget, crawling
Platforms: google-crawling
Guidance on controlling crawler access to filter and faceted URL combinations.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: faceted-navigation, crawling
Platforms: google-crawling
Google treatment of status codes and network failures in crawling.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: http, status-codes, crawling
Platforms: google-crawling
Official Google Search methods to request recrawling.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, discovery
Platforms: google-search
Requirements for equivalent mobile content, metadata, images, and rendered HTML.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: mobile, crawling
Platforms: google-search
Google Search behavior and indexing considerations for AMP pages.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: amp, search-appearance
Platforms: google-search
Google Search processes for JavaScript page crawling, rendering, and indexing.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: javascript, rendering, crawling
Platforms: google-search
Troubleshooting JavaScript rendering and indexing issues.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: javascript, rendering, diagnostics
Platforms: google-search
Techniques to expose lazy-loaded content and paginated infinite scrolling.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: javascript, rendering, images
Platforms: google-search
Google guidance describing the limitations of dynamic rendering.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: javascript, rendering
Platforms: google-search
Editorial note: Google labels this a workaround, not a generally recommended long-term rendering solution.
Search-specific supported metadata values and special tags.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: metadata, html
Platforms: google-search
How Google parses metadata and the importance of a valid document head.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: metadata, html
Platforms: google-search
Google robots meta directives, X-Robots-Tag and snippet controls.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: robots, metadata, headers
Platforms: google-search
Google documentation on noindex directives and crawler-access prerequisites.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: robots, removals
Platforms: google-search
Google-recognized crawlable HTML links and recommended anchor text.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: links, crawling
Platforms: google-search
Google interpretation of rel=sponsored, rel=ugc and rel=nofollow.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: links, metadata
Platforms: google-search
Comparison of methods for restricting crawling and Search display.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: robots, removals
Platforms: google-search
Google procedures to remove or limit exposure of owned content.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: removals
Platforms: google-search
Image-specific removal and crawl control mechanisms.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: images, removals
Platforms: google-search
Practices for preventing exposed confidential data from appearing in Search.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: removals, search-policies
Platforms: google-search
Google support for permanent, temporary, and other redirects.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: redirects, canonicalization
Platforms: google-search
Google guidance for migration with changes to site URLs.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: site-migrations, redirects
Platforms: google-search
Guidance on testing variants without confusing indexing and canonical selection.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: experimenting, canonicalization
Platforms: google-search
Google guidance on temporary site closure and crawl implications.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: site-migrations, removals
Platforms: google-search
Google sitemap purposes and circumstances where sitemaps help discovery.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, discovery
Platforms: google-search
Google-supported formats, submission channels, limitations, and sitemap rules.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, discovery
Platforms: google-search
Google-specific XML image sitemap extension and requirements.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, images
Platforms: google-search
Google-specific XML video sitemap extension and requirements.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, video
Platforms: google-search
Google News sitemap markup, limits, and freshness requirements.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, news
Platforms: google-search
Official documentation landing page for Google result features and markup.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-appearance
Platforms: google-search
Google Search official requirements and behavior for AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, search-appearance
Platforms: google-search
How Google Search interprets business identity signals and profiles.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: entities, local-seo
Platforms: google-search
Google guidance on determining and displaying publication and update dates.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: metadata, search-appearance
Platforms: google-search
Technical requirements for site favicons appearing in Google Search.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-appearance, metadata
Platforms: google-search
How Google selects featured snippets and controls how content may appear.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-appearance, content-quality
Platforms: google-search
Google Search sampling and access approaches for subscription content.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-appearance, content-quality
Platforms: google-search
Google Discover eligibility and content considerations.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-features, images
Platforms: google-search
Google Images indexability, image markup, and image discovery guidance.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: images, search-appearance
Platforms: google-search
Google support for eligible publishers seeking preferred-source selection.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news, search-features
Platforms: google-search
Explains regional differences in Google Search result experiences.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: international-seo, search-appearance
Platforms: google-search
Google Search profile badges and website integration.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-appearance, metadata
Platforms: google-search
Signals and markup Google uses for site-name presentation.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-appearance, structured-data
Platforms: google-search
How sitelinks are selected and how site structure can influence them.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-appearance, links
Platforms: google-search
Google snippet-generation behavior and supported snippet controls.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-appearance, metadata
Platforms: google-search
Google title-link construction and supported signals.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-appearance, metadata
Platforms: google-search
Documentation on Google Search Top Places Lists.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, search-features
Platforms: google-search
Google translated result behavior and opt-out controls.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: international-seo, search-appearance
Platforms: google-search
Google video indexing, visibility, previews, and eligibility guidelines.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: video, search-appearance
Platforms: google-search
Official glossary and visual reference for Search result components.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-appearance
Platforms: google-search
Google Search indexing and eligibility notes for Web Stories.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-features, search-appearance
Platforms: google-search
Official Google ranking-context guidance on user experience and relevant signals.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: page-experience, ranking
Platforms: google-search
Official Google Search explanation of LCP, INP, CLS and their search significance.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: performance, page-experience
Platforms: google-search
Maintained index of Google-supported structured-data search features.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Google guidance on supported markup formats and feature eligibility.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Supported approaches and limitations for dynamically emitting structured data.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, javascript
Platforms: google-search
General rich-result technical and content eligibility policies.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, search-policies
Platforms: google-search
Documentation describing Google enriched and interactive search experiences.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: rich-results, search-appearance
Platforms: google-search
Article and NewsArticle markup supported by Google Search.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, news, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
BreadcrumbList markup for navigational trail display.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, links, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
ItemList markup for eligible carousel experiences.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Course-list markup and eligibility requirements.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Dataset search discovery and metadata requirements.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
DiscussionForumPosting structured data for forum discussions.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Structured data rules for education question and answer content.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
EmployerAggregateRating markup requirements.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Event structured data for eligible event displays.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Image credit and licensing metadata support.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, images, copyright
Platforms: google-search
JobPosting markup and search job-feature eligibility.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
LocalBusiness markup and supported business properties.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, local-seo, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
MathSolver structured data rules.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Movie markup for film-related Search features.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Organization structured data, identifiers, and profiles.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, entities, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Comparison of Google product snippet and merchant listing markup.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, ecommerce, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Product review/snippet eligibility and fields.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, ecommerce, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Merchant product and Offer structured data requirements.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, ecommerce, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
ProductGroup and product-variant structured data.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, ecommerce, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
MerchantReturnPolicy markup requirements.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, ecommerce, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
ShippingService markup requirements.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, ecommerce, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
MemberProgram and loyalty-related structured data.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, ecommerce, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
ProfilePage structured data requirements.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
QAPage markup for questions with user-submitted answers.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Recipe markup requirements and appearance in Search.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Review and AggregateRating markup eligibility.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
SoftwareApplication structured data requirements.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Subscription/paywall markup requirements and indexing implications.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, content-quality, structured-data
Platforms: google-search
VideoObject, Clip, and BroadcastEvent markup support.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, video, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Eligibility and rules for beta structured-data carousel features.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Editorial note: Beta/early adopter experience; check current regional eligibility rather than treating as a generally available feature.
Google geographic and language targeting conventions.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: international-seo, language
Platforms: google-search
Google hreflang and language/region alternates in HTML, HTTP headers, and sitemaps.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: international-seo, language
Platforms: google-search
Official topic hub for ecommerce search practices.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ecommerce, shopping
Platforms: google-search
Google Search, Shopping, Images and other product surfaces.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ecommerce, search-features
Platforms: google-search
Product data submission and structured-data options.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ecommerce, shopping
Platforms: google-search
Markup recommended for ecommerce content.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ecommerce, structured-data
Platforms: google-search
Google discovery and crawling guidance for ecommerce launches.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ecommerce, discovery
Platforms: google-search
Google maintained guidance on useful product reviews.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ecommerce, content-quality
Platforms: google-search
URL design and crawl pitfalls for ecommerce sites.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ecommerce, urls
Platforms: google-search
Ecommerce internal linking and hierarchy.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ecommerce, links
Platforms: google-search
Paginated content, infinite scroll and incremental loading for Google Search.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ecommerce, faceted-navigation
Platforms: google-search
Google guidance for explicit-content labeling and SafeSearch categorization.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: safesearch, search-policies
Platforms: google-search
Official Search Console setup, reports and operational guidance.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-console, diagnostics
Platforms: google-search-console
Official supported operators useful for investigation of indexed content.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-operators, diagnostics
Platforms: google-search
Diagnostic workflow for organic Search traffic changes.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-console, diagnostics
Platforms: google-search-console
Official comparison and interpretation of Search Console and Analytics metrics.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-console, diagnostics
Platforms: google-search-console
Official API overview for Search Analytics, Sitemaps, Sites, and URL Inspection.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, search-console
Platforms: google-search-console
Request and response definitions for Search Analytics querying.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, search-console
Platforms: google-search-console
Reference for the Search Console Sitemaps API resource.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, sitemaps
Platforms: google-search-console
Technical method reference for URL Inspection API.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, search-console
Platforms: google-search-console
Usage guide for restricted Indexing API notifications.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, discovery
Platforms: google-search
Editorial note: Google limits this API to pages containing JobPosting or BroadcastEvent embedded in VideoObject; not a general URL-submission API.
Google Search Central maintained documentation entry point.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: content-quality, search-features
Platforms: google-search
Google first-party general SEO and indexing practices.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: content-quality, links
Platforms: google-search
Google developer-focused checklist for making websites usable in Search.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, rendering
Platforms: google-search
Official description of crawling, indexing, and serving results.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, ranking
Platforms: google-search
Descriptions of Google user-triggered fetcher agents and access behavior.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: googlebot, crawling
Platforms: google-crawling
Google guidance for improving accessibility of main content in Search.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: page-experience, search-appearance
Platforms: google-search
Limited beta for identifying content appropriate for text-to-speech in certain Google Assistant news experiences.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, news, search-features
Platforms: google-search
Editorial note: Publisher labels this as beta with restricted availability; it is not a generally available rich result.
VacationRental metadata specification for eligible integrated travel sites.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, rich-results
Platforms: google-search
Editorial note: Restricted to eligible sites with technical integrations; not a general open-access rich result.
Official integration documentation for eligible package-tracking experiences.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-features, structured-data
Platforms: google-search
Editorial note: Early Adopters Program; availability is restricted.
Google-maintained help center covering Search Console reports, tools, and interpretation.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-console, diagnostics
Platforms: google-search-console
Official maintained documentation changelog covering feature support and documentation changes.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-features, search-policies
Platforms: google-search
Google Search Status Dashboard history of publicly reported ranking updates.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ranking, diagnostics
Platforms: google-search
Microsoft-maintained Bing Search, Bingbot, Bing Webmaster Tools, Bing Places, Copilot search-grounding, and Bing Webmaster API documentation.
Official rules and guidance for eligibility, crawling, indexing, content quality, spam, and search/AI grounding behavior.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-policies, crawling, discovery, ranking, content-quality, ai-search, canonicalization
Platforms: bing-search, microsoft-copilot
Editorial note: The original /bing-webmaster-guidelines-30fba23a URL now redirects to this /webmaster-guidelines-30fba23a destination.
Microsoft’s maintained explanation of Bing crawling, indexing, ranking parameters, results presentation, and moderation.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ranking, crawling, discovery, search-policies, search-appearance, ai-search
Platforms: bing-search, microsoft-copilot
First-party landing page for Bing Webmaster Tools documentation and help.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: diagnostics, crawling, site-validation
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Account setup, site verification, sitemap submission, and initial use of official webmaster reports.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: site-validation, sitemaps, diagnostics
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Supported ownership verification methods and importing properties from Google Search Console.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: site-validation, discovery, metadata
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Bing and Microsoft crawler identities, sample user agents, authenticity checks, and controls.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, robots, security
Platforms: bing-search
Official IP verification tool for traffic claiming to originate from Bing crawlers.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, security, diagnostics
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools, bing-search
Reverse DNS and forward DNS verification of Bingbot requests.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, security, diagnostics
Platforms: bing-search
Bing crawler politeness, crawl-delay directive, rate control, and reporting unwanted crawling.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, robots, crawl-budget, diagnostics
Platforms: bing-search, bing-webmaster-tools
Bing’s first-party instructions for robots.txt crawl directives.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, robots, discovery
Platforms: bing-search
Test Bing crawler access against the current robots.txt directives for a URL.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: robots, crawling, diagnostics
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Official hourly crawl-rate settings and their relationship to robots.txt crawl-delay.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, crawl-budget, robots
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools, bing-search
Reference for HTTP, DNS, and connection failures reported during Bing crawling.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, diagnostics, status-codes, http
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Troubleshooting Bing index exclusion and common discovery, crawling, quality, and blocking causes.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: diagnostics, discovery, crawling, search-policies, removals
Platforms: bing-search
Bing’s URL and site-structure view of crawl issues, indexing status, links, and discovery.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: diagnostics, crawling, discovery, status-codes
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Inspect the indexed and live versions of URLs for crawl, index, SEO, and markup signals.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: diagnostics, crawling, structured-data, discovery
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Bing-supported sitemap and feed formats, submission, processing status, and troubleshooting.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, discovery, feeds, crawling
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools, bing-search
Bing’s official IndexNow activity report, submission statuses, and indexing diagnostics.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: submission, discovery, sitemaps, diagnostics
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools, bing-search
Editorial note: The underlying IndexNow protocol is already indexed once in the web-standards collection; this record covers Bing’s specific implementation/dashboard.
Current direct URL and content submission options, usage constraints, and IndexNow preference.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: submission, discovery, search-apis
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools, bing-search
Editorial note: Bing currently recommends IndexNow; standalone URL and Content Submission APIs remain supported for certain use cases.
Temporary result hiding and permanent removal alternatives such as 404/410, noindex, and redirects.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: removals, diagnostics, robots
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools, bing-search, microsoft-copilot
Official removal and outdated-content remediation for publishers and other parties.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: removals, copyright, diagnostics
Platforms: bing-search, microsoft-copilot
Search performance metric definitions and reporting for web, chat, image, video, news, and other surfaces.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: diagnostics, ranking, search-appearance
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools, bing-search
Official citation metrics, grounding query reports, and caveats for visibility across Copilot and supported AI answers.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, diagnostics, entities
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools, microsoft-copilot, bing-search
Editorial note: Publisher documentation describes aggregated and sometimes sampled citation activity—not direct ranking signals or a comprehensive record of prompts.
Explanation of first-party site-specific recommendations, priorities, and scanned URLs.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: diagnostics, content-quality, search-appearance
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Official crawling audit tool for finding technical SEO problems and configuring scan parameters.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: diagnostics, crawling, canonicalization
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Official Bing search volume, related queries, trends, and geographic/language filters.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ranking, content-quality
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
First-party definitions and reporting for referring sites, anchor text, and link comparisons.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: links, diagnostics, ranking
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Editorial note: The retired Disavow Links feature is not included; avoid interpreting outdated Bing help navigation as current functionality.
Bing’s summary of the reports, tools, and webmaster account features.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: diagnostics, crawling
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Editorial note: Some text remains stale, including references to Disavow Links, removed in October 2023. Use feature-specific pages as the primary current references.
Published routes for webmaster debugging of indexing, crawling, removals, verification, and account problems.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: diagnostics, crawling, removals
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Account roles, privileges, and site access for Bing Webmaster Tools users.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: site-validation, security
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Bing Places official documentation for claiming, verifying, editing, and maintaining local business listings.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, entities, site-validation
Platforms: bing-places, bing-search
Bing Places documentation for listing verification, duplicates, business moves, publication, and service areas.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, entities, site-validation, diagnostics
Platforms: bing-places, bing-search
Microsoft’s official index to Webmaster API authentication, endpoints, samples, and reference types.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, diagnostics, submission
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Editorial note: Some linked reference material still includes old SOAP/POX conventions; consult the publisher’s retirement notice.
Microsoft documentation of API key and OAuth authentication access to Bing Webmaster APIs.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, site-validation, security
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Official OAuth 2.0 registration, consent, bearer token, and refresh-token authentication details.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, security
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Microsoft reference for supported API transport conventions including JSON-over-HTTP.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, json, submission
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Editorial note: WARNING: This official page still discusses SOAP and POX, which Microsoft scheduled for retirement on August 31, 2026; use supported modern interfaces and avoid legacy samples.
Official Bing Webmaster API migration and legacy SOAP/POX deprecation notice.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis
Platforms: bing-webmaster-tools
Editorial note: The publisher marked August 31, 2026 as the retirement date; treat that legacy guidance as obsolete unless Bing explicitly says otherwise.
YouTube search, recommendations, content metadata, video/channel discovery, Shorts, captions, search analytics, podcast discovery, platform policies, and discovery-relevant developer APIs.
Official explanation of how YouTube Search evaluates relevance, engagement and quality, including personalization.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: youtube-discovery, ranking, video
Platforms: youtube-search
Official description of recommendations across Home, Up Next and Shorts, and major personalization signals.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: youtube-discovery, ranking, video
Platforms: youtube-recommendations
Publisher account of personalized recommendations and long-term viewer satisfaction objectives.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: youtube-discovery, ranking
Platforms: youtube-recommendations
Official overview linking YouTube Search, content discovery, and creator measurement references.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: youtube-discovery, ranking, creator-analytics
Platforms: youtube-search, youtube-recommendations
Official YouTube Creator Help chapter on how long-form videos are discovered and recommended.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: youtube-discovery, ranking, video
Platforms: youtube-search, youtube-recommendations
Editorial note: The Video and Shorts versions use the same base Help article with distinct co= video-type parameters.
Official YouTube Creator Help chapter describing search, feeds, sound pages, and Shorts discovery.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: youtube-discovery, shorts, ranking
Platforms: youtube-search, youtube-recommendations
Editorial note: This is a distinct view of the same Help article; co= selects Shorts rather than Videos.
Official FAQ addressing recommendations, upload cadence, engagement, and performance misconceptions.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: youtube-discovery, ranking, diagnostics
Platforms: youtube-search, youtube-recommendations
Troubleshooting missing channels or videos in YouTube Search, propagation delays and ranking.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: youtube-discovery, diagnostics, channel-metadata
Platforms: youtube-search
Official creator guidance on packaging, viewer response and performance signals for discovery.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: youtube-discovery, video-metadata, creator-analytics
Platforms: youtube-recommendations, youtube-studio
Official maintained creator reference connecting discoverability with titles, thumbnails, descriptions, cards and playlists.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: video-metadata, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-studio, youtube-search
Official upload workflow and settings controlling publication and discovery.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: video-metadata, video, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-studio
Official reference for video titles, descriptions, tags, category, captions, visibility and other metadata limits.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: video-metadata, video
Platforms: youtube-studio
Official definition of video tags and statement that their discovery role is minimal except for misspellings.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: video-metadata, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-studio, youtube-search
Official guidance on video descriptions, search matching, links, chapter timestamps and supported formatting.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: video-metadata, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-studio, youtube-search
Official video/Short thumbnail upload support, eligibility, technical requirements and restrictions.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: video-metadata, search-appearance, shorts
Platforms: youtube-studio, youtube-search
Official YouTube Studio thumbnail testing procedure and watch-time-share evaluation.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: video-metadata, creator-analytics, experimenting
Platforms: youtube-studio
Official timestamp and chapter eligibility syntax including minimum chapters, timestamp ordering, and section durations.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: video-metadata, video
Platforms: youtube-studio, youtube-search
How video and playlist hashtags connect content and affect hashtag search/discovery surfaces.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: video-metadata, youtube-discovery, playlists
Platforms: youtube-search, youtube-studio
Public, unlisted, and private visibility distinctions, including search/recommendation availability.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: youtube-discovery, video, search-policies
Platforms: youtube-search, youtube-studio
Official controls for localized video metadata that may appear in relevant language searches.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: video-metadata, international-seo, subtitles-captions
Platforms: youtube-studio, youtube-search
Official explanation of translated metadata, localization, automatic captions and global discoverability.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: international-seo, video-metadata, subtitles-captions
Platforms: youtube-search, youtube-studio
Official caption-track upload and editing reference including timed files and transcripts.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: subtitles-captions, international-seo
Platforms: youtube-studio
Creator-facing playlist titles, descriptions, visibility, video order and publishing controls.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: playlists, video-metadata, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-studio, youtube-search
Official channel name, handle, description, profile links, and channel home layout settings.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: channel-metadata, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-studio, youtube-search
Official channel branding, profile image, banner and watermark requirements.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: channel-metadata, search-appearance
Platforms: youtube-studio
Official summary of which channel and video placements allow clickable external links.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: channel-metadata, video-metadata, search-appearance
Platforms: youtube-studio
Official navigation and cross-promotion options for cards linking videos, playlists, channels or eligible URLs.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: video-metadata, playlists, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-studio
Official requirements and supported end-screen elements for directing viewers to related channel content.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: video-metadata, playlists, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-studio
Official method to associate a Short with another eligible video, Short, or live stream.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: shorts, youtube-discovery, video-metadata
Platforms: youtube-studio, youtube-recommendations
Defines duration, aspect-ratio and date-based Shorts classification with visibility consequences.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: shorts, video, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-studio, youtube-recommendations
Podcast creation, metadata, playlist eligibility, YouTube Music surfacing and measurement.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: podcasts, playlists, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-studio, youtube-search
Official guidance for public podcast playlist naming, show descriptions and episode organization.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: podcasts, youtube-discovery, video-metadata
Platforms: youtube-search, youtube-recommendations
Explains podcast eligibility, RSS distribution and discovery in YouTube and YouTube Music.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: podcasts, playlists, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-search, youtube-studio
Official guide to Analytics reports for reach, engagement, audience, and other creator measurements.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: creator-analytics, diagnostics
Platforms: youtube-studio
YouTube search terms, video suggestion sources, thumbnails, clicks, views and external traffic reports.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: creator-analytics, youtube-discovery, diagnostics
Platforms: youtube-studio, youtube-search
Publisher interpretation of impressions and CTR by Search, Home and other traffic sources.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: creator-analytics, youtube-discovery, diagnostics
Platforms: youtube-studio
Official definition of video retention moments, spikes, dips, and comparison reports.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: creator-analytics, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-studio
Official Audience report definitions including new/returning viewers and geography/language data.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: creator-analytics, international-seo
Platforms: youtube-studio
Official description of video discovery sources and associated YouTube Studio content reports.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: creator-analytics, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-studio
The first-party index of mandatory content rules that affect content availability and platform eligibility.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-policies, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-search, youtube-recommendations
Official rules for spam, misleading titles/thumbnails/metadata and deceptive amplification.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-policies, video-metadata, engagement-policy
Platforms: youtube-search, youtube-recommendations
Publisher restrictions on artificial views, likes and subscriber growth, including third-party manipulation.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: engagement-policy, search-policies
Platforms: youtube-search, youtube-recommendations
Publisher restrictions on unsafe or prohibited external destinations in video and channel placements.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-policies, video-metadata
Platforms: youtube-studio, youtube-search
Official YouTube Data API resource and method index for video, channel, playlist, search and caption metadata.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, video-metadata, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-data-api
Defines YouTube search-result resource representation and supported resource types.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-data-api
Documents supported search query parameters, result resource types and API result ordering.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-data-api
Editorial note: The Data API search endpoint is not an exact replica of all consumer YouTube Search ranking/personalization behavior.
Metadata retrieval including title, description, tags, status, localization and statistics.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, video-metadata
Platforms: youtube-data-api
Official video upload and optional metadata creation method.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, video-metadata
Platforms: youtube-data-api
Official method for editing eligible video metadata programmatically.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, video-metadata
Platforms: youtube-data-api
Channel metadata retrieval including description, identity and public status fields.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, channel-metadata
Platforms: youtube-data-api
Official playlist details retrieval including descriptions, localization and visibility.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, playlists
Platforms: youtube-data-api
Official API reference for enumerating the videos contained in playlists.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, playlists
Platforms: youtube-data-api
Official custom video thumbnail upload interface and allowed files.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, video-metadata
Platforms: youtube-data-api
Official method for listing authorized caption-track metadata (not caption text).
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, subtitles-captions
Platforms: youtube-data-api
Official caption-track upload interface and supported metadata.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, subtitles-captions
Platforms: youtube-data-api
Official catalog of channel reports, including traffic sources and search/referral traffic.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, creator-analytics, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-analytics-api
Defines traffic-source and search-query dimensions for YouTube Analytics API.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, creator-analytics, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-analytics-api
Official metric definitions for views, watch time, retention and engagement.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, creator-analytics
Platforms: youtube-analytics-api
Official analytics query method for authorized channel/content owner report dimensions and metrics.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, creator-analytics
Platforms: youtube-analytics-api
Available bulk channel reporting tables, including search traffic sources.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, creator-analytics
Platforms: youtube-analytics-api
Reporting schema for YouTube search, suggested-video and external traffic sources.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, creator-analytics, youtube-discovery
Platforms: youtube-analytics-api
Official restrictions on YouTube API-based aggregators, use of search results and compliant content access.
Publisher: YouTube (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, search-policies
Platforms: youtube-data-api, youtube-analytics-api
Google Maps and Google Business Profile: local results, listing eligibility, reviews, local rankings, management, and reporting.
Official eligibility, identity, location, name and category requirements for Business Profiles on Search and Maps.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile, search-policies
Platforms: google-maps, google-business-profile
Google explains relevance, distance and prominence in local results on Search and Maps.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, ranking, business-profile
Platforms: google-maps, google-business-profile
Eligibility and the features of listings managed for Google Search and Google Maps.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile
Platforms: google-maps, google-business-profile
Official workflow for adding or taking ownership of a business listing.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile, site-validation
Platforms: google-maps, google-business-profile
Official business verification methods and availability constraints for profile management.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile, site-validation
Platforms: google-maps, google-business-profile
Controls for business names, categories, addresses, hours and other attributes displayed in local results.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile, metadata
Platforms: google-maps, google-business-profile
Service-area business eligibility and rules for showing geographic coverage without a public storefront.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile
Platforms: google-maps, google-business-profile
Photo and video requirements, moderation states and display rules for local listings.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile, images
Platforms: google-maps, google-business-profile
Posts, offers and event updates displayed on Business Profiles in Search and Maps.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile, search-appearance
Platforms: google-maps, google-business-profile
Official review-reading and response controls for businesses.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, local-reviews, business-profile
Platforms: google-maps, google-business-profile
First-party review solicitation rules and restrictions on incentives.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, local-reviews, engagement-policy
Platforms: google-maps, google-business-profile
Defines searches, views, actions, and other performance measures reported for local listings.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile, diagnostics
Platforms: google-maps, google-business-profile
First-party specification for bulk location spreadsheet fields and categories.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile, metadata
Platforms: google-maps, google-business-profile
Governs the content of Maps contributions, including reviews and business-related posts.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-reviews, engagement-policy, search-policies
Platforms: google-maps, google-business-profile
Defines prohibited fake or manipulated Maps contributions and reviews.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-reviews, engagement-policy, search-policies
Platforms: google-maps, google-business-profile
Documents first-party APIs for editing business listings and related data; access is restricted.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile, search-apis
Platforms: google-business-profile
Editorial note: API access is approval-based and not equivalent to access to all public Maps places.
Catalog of business information, performance, posts, reviews, verification and related APIs.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile, search-apis
Platforms: google-business-profile
Technical reference for locations, categories, and attributes of managed Google Business Profiles.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile, search-apis
Platforms: google-business-profile
Programmatic performance and search keyword impression metrics for authorized Business Profiles.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile, search-apis, diagnostics
Platforms: google-business-profile
First-party methods for reviews, local posts and media, among other business listing functionality.
Publisher: Google Business Profile (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile, search-apis
Platforms: google-business-profile
Editorial note: Some older v4 methods are deprecated in favor of separate Business Profile APIs; consult each method status.
Google News publisher eligibility, crawling, news-specific policies, and presentation; distinct from general Search News features.
Content, advertising, sponsorship and transparency requirements for eligibility on Google News surfaces.
Publisher: Google News (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news, search-policies, content-quality
Platforms: google-news
Documents where news content appears across Google and which crawlers govern news exclusion.
Publisher: Google News (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news, crawling, search-appearance
Platforms: google-news
Describes automatic discovery and eligibility of publishers in Google News.
Publisher: Google News (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news, crawling, indexing
Platforms: google-news
Maintained recommendations and requirements for article discovery, redirects, images and snippets.
Publisher: Google News (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news, crawling, metadata, images
Platforms: google-news
Defines Googlebot-News and Googlebot directives affecting inclusion in News and general Search.
Publisher: Google News (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news, robots, removals
Platforms: google-news
Publisher rules for certain republished and other news content to avoid incorrect attribution.
Publisher: Google News (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news, indexing, canonicalization, search-policies
Platforms: google-news
Documents current Publisher Center functions and clarifies that applying through Publisher Center is not required for Google News inclusion.
Publisher: Google News (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news, publisher-center
Platforms: google-news
Official maintained explanation of the 2025 move to automatically generated publication pages.
Publisher: Google News (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news, publisher-center, search-appearance
Platforms: google-news
Editorial note: Important for interpreting older Publisher Center documents: creating publication pages is not a prerequisite to News inclusion.
Technical guidance about article URLs, headline extraction and page requirements.
Publisher: Google News (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news, crawling, metadata, urls
Platforms: google-news
Editorial note: Some Publisher Center setup wording may lag the March 2025 removal of user-created publication pages; read alongside the transition reference.
Google Scholar technical article inclusion, publisher policy, author profiles and scholarly discovery.
Primary official technical guide for scholarly article indexing, citation metadata, HTML/PDF layout and crawl access.
Publisher: Google Scholar (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: scholarly-search, academic-publishing, crawling, indexing, metadata
Platforms: google-scholar
Publisher indexing, version grouping, citation consolidation and access policies.
Publisher: Google Scholar (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: scholarly-search, academic-publishing, citations, search-policies
Platforms: google-scholar
Official requirements and behavior of public author profiles in Scholar search.
Publisher: Google Scholar (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: scholarly-search, entities, citations, metadata
Platforms: google-scholar
Publication-level citation measures and Scholar Metrics inclusion constraints.
Publisher: Google Scholar (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: scholarly-search, citations, diagnostics
Platforms: google-scholar
Official description of Scholar search, indexing coverage and result correction behaviors.
Publisher: Google Scholar (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: scholarly-search, search-operators
Platforms: google-scholar
Google Shopping and Merchant Center free product and local inventory discovery, product feed policies and merchant APIs.
Required and optional product feed attributes used in Google free listings and shopping placements.
Publisher: Google Merchant Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: shopping, merchant-center, product-feeds, metadata
Platforms: google-shopping, google-merchant-center
Content, site and eligibility rules for unpaid Google product listings.
Publisher: Google Merchant Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: shopping, merchant-center, search-policies
Platforms: google-shopping, google-merchant-center
Requirements for accessible product detail pages and consistency with feed price, availability and metadata.
Publisher: Google Merchant Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: shopping, merchant-center, metadata, crawling
Platforms: google-shopping, google-merchant-center
Rules for product structured-data extraction and automatic product information updates in Merchant Center.
Publisher: Google Merchant Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: shopping, merchant-center, structured-data
Platforms: google-shopping, google-merchant-center
Attribute requirements for stores, local availability, and free local product listings.
Publisher: Google Merchant Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: shopping, merchant-center, product-feeds, local-inventory
Platforms: google-shopping, google-merchant-center
Requirements for product landing pages serving local inventory results.
Publisher: Google Merchant Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: shopping, merchant-center, local-inventory
Platforms: google-shopping, google-merchant-center
Specific on-page price, store and availability requirements for free local listings.
Publisher: Google Merchant Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: shopping, merchant-center, local-inventory
Platforms: google-shopping, google-merchant-center
Rules for Google-hosted local product details when in-store availability is absent from a retailer website.
Publisher: Google Merchant Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: shopping, merchant-center, local-inventory
Platforms: google-shopping, google-merchant-center
Program eligibility and aggregation mechanics for product review stars in listings.
Publisher: Google Merchant Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: shopping, merchant-center, local-reviews
Platforms: google-shopping, google-merchant-center
Mandatory review feed authenticity, format and policy rules for ratings participation.
Publisher: Google Merchant Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: shopping, merchant-center, search-policies, local-reviews
Platforms: google-shopping, google-merchant-center
Official review feed requirements and submission instructions.
Publisher: Google Merchant Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: shopping, merchant-center, product-feeds, local-reviews
Platforms: google-shopping, google-merchant-center
Official interface for product feeds, inventory, promotions, and merchant account data.
Publisher: Google Merchant Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: shopping, merchant-center, search-apis, product-feeds
Platforms: google-merchant-center
Google Books and Google Play Books publication metadata, discoverability and publisher-facing technical references.
Publisher-supplied titles, identifiers, categories, descriptions and metadata governing book discoverability.
Publisher: Google Books / Google Play Books (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: book-discovery, book-metadata, metadata
Platforms: google-books, google-play-books
Required book information and identifiers for the Books Partner Center catalog.
Publisher: Google Books / Google Play Books (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: book-discovery, book-metadata
Platforms: google-books, google-play-books
Determines whether a partner book is visible as a Google Books preview or on Google Play Books.
Publisher: Google Books / Google Play Books (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: book-discovery, book-metadata
Platforms: google-books, google-play-books
Required and optional publisher ONIX metadata tags for Google Play Books listings.
Publisher: Google Books / Google Play Books (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: book-discovery, book-metadata, structured-data
Platforms: google-books, google-play-books
Google Play Books implementation reference for legacy ONIX 2.1 tags; not a general recommendation to use the older version.
Publisher: Google Books / Google Play Books (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: book-discovery, book-metadata, structured-data
Platforms: google-books, google-play-books
Explains how missing metadata blocks book eligibility, categorization and display.
Publisher: Google Books / Google Play Books (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: book-discovery, book-metadata, diagnostics
Platforms: google-books, google-play-books
Official interface for retrieving book volume and public search results; it is not a book submission API.
Publisher: Google Books / Google Play Books (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: book-discovery, search-apis
Platforms: google-books
Defines public volume search and query parameters for the Books API.
Publisher: Google Books / Google Play Books (Google LLC) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: book-discovery, search-apis
Platforms: google-books
Google Play application store discovery and store listing policy (ASO); adjacent to, not identical to, web SEO.
Binding Google Play restrictions on app title, descriptions, icons, keyword stuffing and misleading listings.
Publisher: Google Play (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-search, store-listings, metadata, search-policies
Platforms: google-play
Store listing required fields, character limits, descriptions, assets and localization.
Publisher: Google Play (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-search, store-listings, metadata
Platforms: google-play
Rules for custom listings targeted to Play Search keywords, countries and other segments.
Publisher: Google Play (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-search, store-listings, international-seo
Platforms: google-play
Official guidance interpreting store listing compliance and presentation constraints.
Publisher: Google Play (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-search, store-listings, metadata
Platforms: google-play
Official Store Listing Experiments tool functionality and measurement.
Publisher: Google Play (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-search, store-listings, experimenting
Platforms: google-play
Play Console acquisition reporting, search traffic attribution and listing performance analysis.
Publisher: Google Play (Google LLC) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-search, store-listings, diagnostics
Platforms: google-play
Google hotel, vacation rental and travel listing feeds supporting booking search and free listing surfaces.
Directory of Google hotel price and inventory data interfaces supporting hotel search and free booking links.
Publisher: Google Travel / Hotel Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: travel-search, hotel-prices, product-feeds
Platforms: google-travel
Hotel eligibility, data integration and ongoing accuracy requirements for hotel listings and free booking links.
Publisher: Google Travel / Hotel Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: travel-search, hotel-prices, product-feeds
Platforms: google-travel
Official hotel property feed schema for identifying eligible accommodation listings.
Publisher: Google Travel / Hotel Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: travel-search, hotel-prices, xml
Platforms: google-travel
Price freshness, transaction updates and cache behavior affecting hotel price presentation.
Publisher: Google Travel / Hotel Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: travel-search, hotel-prices, product-feeds
Platforms: google-travel
XML message requirements for hotel availability, rates and inventory delivery.
Publisher: Google Travel / Hotel Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: travel-search, hotel-prices, xml, product-feeds
Platforms: google-travel
Official eligibility and feed/crawling requirements for vacation rental search listings.
Publisher: Google Travel / Hotel Center (Google LLC) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: travel-search, hotel-prices, structured-data, sitemaps
Platforms: google-travel
Editorial note: Direct partner integrations may require Google approval and specific access; this is not a general Search ranking specification.
Bing-specific video feed formats and video discovery rules, separate from YouTube and MSN feeds.
Defines Bing-supported mRSS video feed types, fields, playpage and thumbnail metadata for video discovery.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: video, bing-video-feeds, feeds, discovery, metadata
Platforms: bing-video, bing-search
Editorial note: Bing-specific video feed; not the general XML Sitemap protocol or MSN Partner Hub feed format. Microsoft may render this help-center page with JavaScript.
Bing News publisher inclusion and submission documents; not Microsoft Start editorial-feed rules.
Microsoft support instructions for news publishers seeking Bing News review through the PubHub submission workflow.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news, news-publishing, site-validation, submission, search-policies
Platforms: bing-news, bing-search
Editorial note: The referenced PubHub publisher guidelines were not independently readable at their destination during review; submission procedure is documented in the linked Microsoft Support page.
Bing Maps/Places listing management and local presence documentation beyond existing Bing links.
First-party listing-management documentation for Bing Places, including business categories and business information.
Publisher: Microsoft Bing | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, business-profile, entities, metadata
Platforms: bing-places, bing-maps
Editorial note: The existing Bing collection already indexes Bing Places official help and FAQ; this is a distinct listing-management page.
MSN / Microsoft Start partner distribution, syndication technical specifications, publishing policies, ranking and analytics.
Official policies and accountability/content requirements for publishing to MSN.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news-publishing, search-policies, content-quality
Platforms: msn
Microsoft explanation of content-feed ranking, personalization, engagement, freshness and quality considerations.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: msn-ranking, ranking, content-quality, news-publishing
Platforms: msn
Editorial note: MSN feed ranking and recommendations; do not treat as Bing Web Search ranking factors.
MSN ingestion rules for RSS and Atom feeds, media, metadata, encoding, updates and supported formats.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: publisher-feeds, feeds, xml, metadata, images, video
Platforms: msn
Required and optional feed item fields for articles, galleries, videos and media.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: publisher-feeds, metadata, images, video, news-publishing
Platforms: msn
Feed submission steps and supported feed authentication methods for partners.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: publisher-feeds, feeds, submission, security
Platforms: msn
First-party partner feed configuration for articles, videos and slideshows, including language and freshness requirements.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: publisher-feeds, feeds, submission
Platforms: msn
Documented HTTPS, encoding, feed-size and protocol configuration restrictions.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: publisher-feeds, feeds, security, xml
Platforms: msn
Allowed and disallowed HTML markup and media embed formats in content feeds.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: publisher-feeds, html, metadata, semantics
Platforms: msn
Editorial note: Restrictions apply to HTML submitted for MSN syndication; not general web HTML validity.
Technical feed examples for inline media, supported embed formats and related-link metadata.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: publisher-feeds, images, video, content-syndication
Platforms: msn
Official image-rights and feed metadata needed for licensed or third-party imagery on MSN.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: publisher-feeds, images, copyright, metadata
Platforms: msn
First-party rules for video distribution, ingestion and publisher-facing video guidance.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: publisher-feeds, video, news-publishing, search-policies
Platforms: msn
Official publisher brand metadata, naming, categorization, profile review and AI participation controls.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news-publishing, entities, metadata, ai-search
Platforms: msn
Editorial note: MSN brand-level Copilot participation settings are not universal controls for Bingbot or web-wide Microsoft Copilot grounding.
Partner access and registration eligibility for MSN content distribution.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news-publishing, submission, search-policies
Platforms: msn
Editorial note: Partner Hub registration uses an invite process; this is not an unrestricted URL submission channel.
Official ingestion and moderation status reports, canonical URL checks, updates and takedown controls.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: publisher-feeds, diagnostics, canonicalization, news-publishing
Platforms: msn
Official publisher analytics definitions for article/video views, referral traffic and audience engagement.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: msn-analytics, diagnostics, news-publishing
Platforms: msn
Publisher-maintained clarifications on feed types, item expiry and feed handling.
Publisher: MSN / Microsoft Start (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: publisher-feeds, feeds, diagnostics
Platforms: msn
Microsoft Merchant Center commerce feed and Content API technical documentation; mostly tied to ads, distinct from guaranteed unpaid Bing product ranking.
Official Content API framework for submitting and updating Merchant Center catalog product data.
Publisher: Microsoft Advertising / Microsoft Merchant Center | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: merchant-feeds, shopping, product-feeds, search-apis
Platforms: microsoft-merchant-center, microsoft-shopping
Editorial note: Microsoft Advertising / Merchant Center infrastructure primarily tied to commercial product listings; not a Bing organic ranking specification.
Reference index for product, inventory and catalog API resources in Microsoft Merchant Center.
Publisher: Microsoft Advertising / Microsoft Merchant Center | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: merchant-feeds, shopping, product-feeds, search-apis
Platforms: microsoft-merchant-center, microsoft-shopping
Editorial note: Includes resources with varying availability and historical maturity; verify the individual endpoint eligibility and access.
Technical product data resource reference, including listing attributes and programmatic product update endpoints.
Publisher: Microsoft Advertising / Microsoft Merchant Center | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: merchant-feeds, shopping, product-feeds, metadata, search-apis
Platforms: microsoft-merchant-center
Editorial note: Primarily product ads and catalog management; data submission is not proof of free-listing qualification or organic ranking.
Microsoft Store app discovery, submission metadata, search keywords, store-policy and distribution visibility.
Microsoft Store certification policies including app naming, search terms, categories and misleading metadata.
Publisher: Microsoft Store / Windows Apps (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: store-policies, app-store-search, search-policies, metadata
Platforms: microsoft-store
Editorial note: Version 7.20 published September 15, 2026 and effective October 22, 2026.
Official app store listing fields, localized descriptions, names, thumbnails and discoverability-related metadata.
Publisher: Microsoft Store / Windows Apps (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-search, store-listings, metadata, internationalization
Platforms: microsoft-store
Official metadata, descriptive fields and localization rules for unpackaged desktop app listings.
Publisher: Microsoft Store / Windows Apps (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-search, store-listings, metadata, internationalization
Platforms: microsoft-store
Microsoft documentation for search keyword fields and limits used to improve Microsoft Store app discovery.
Publisher: Microsoft Store / Windows Apps (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-search, store-listings, metadata
Platforms: microsoft-store
How developer distribution settings determine whether a desktop app is findable through Store search and browsing.
Publisher: Microsoft Store / Windows Apps (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-search, indexing, store-listings
Platforms: microsoft-store
Official PWA Store discovery controls and distinctions between listed and direct-link-only visibility.
Publisher: Microsoft Store / Windows Apps (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-search, indexing, store-listings
Platforms: microsoft-store
Official PWA store listing description, assets and discoverability-related content guidance.
Publisher: Microsoft Store / Windows Apps (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-search, store-listings, metadata
Platforms: microsoft-store
First-party multilingual Store listing CSV import/export format for large-scale submission metadata management.
Publisher: Microsoft Store / Windows Apps (Microsoft Corporation) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-search, store-listings, internationalization
Platforms: microsoft-store
OpenAI ChatGPT Search and related developer search/crawling docs.
Defines OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, their distinct purposes, robots.txt controls, and published crawler IP ranges.
Publisher: OpenAI | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-crawlers, robots, publisher-controls
Platforms: chatgpt-search, openai-api-search
Editorial note: Search crawl, model-training crawl, and user-requested fetches are separate controls; allowing one does not imply allowing all.
Publisher-facing guidance on discovery and citation in ChatGPT Search, crawling access, and indexing controls.
Publisher: OpenAI | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: publisher-controls, ai-search, discovery
Platforms: chatgpt-search
Editorial note: Publisher guidance, not a guaranteed ranking recipe or an assertion that all public URLs will be cited.
Official help describing ChatGPT web search, search-provider queries, cited sources, and limitations.
Publisher: OpenAI | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, source-attribution, ai-retrieval
Platforms: chatgpt-search
Editorial note: Documents consumer search behavior; not a technical specification for ranking.
Responses API web-search documentation, including source citations, domain filters, and returned source URLs.
Publisher: OpenAI | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-retrieval, source-attribution, search-apis
Platforms: openai-api-search
Editorial note: Developer API behavior is related to, but not identical with, the ChatGPT consumer search product.
Agent-facing hosted web-search integration, search modes, domain controls, and cited results.
Publisher: OpenAI | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-retrieval, source-attribution, search-apis
Platforms: openai-api-search
Editorial note: This documents an API tool, not an organic visibility policy.
Anthropic Claude crawler controls, search/fetch behavior and API sourcing.
Official distinctions among ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User, including publisher controls.
Publisher: Anthropic | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-crawlers, robots, publisher-controls
Platforms: claude, claude-api
Editorial note: Do not conflate search-indexing, training-data and user-initiated retrieval robots.
Explains Claude web search, the appearance of cited sources, direct URL fetching, and limitations.
Publisher: Anthropic | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, source-attribution, ai-retrieval
Platforms: claude
Editorial note: Describes Claude consumer functionality without specifying organic search ranking factors.
Defines the Claude API web search tool, source citations, domain restrictions, and filtering.
Publisher: Anthropic | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-retrieval, source-attribution, search-apis
Platforms: claude-api
Editorial note: API configurations are not necessarily controls available to general website publishers.
Documents Claude API fetching of webpage and PDF URLs, access restrictions, and results.
Publisher: Anthropic | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-retrieval, source-attribution, search-apis
Platforms: claude-api
Editorial note: User-supplied URL fetching should not be treated as evidence of inclusion in automatic AI search results.
Perplexity search/indexing crawler documentation, Search API and Agent API.
Official guidance on PerplexityBot versus Perplexity-User, IP ranges, robots directives, and WAF access.
Publisher: Perplexity | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-crawlers, robots, publisher-controls
Platforms: perplexity-search
Editorial note: PerplexityBot supports surfacing links; Perplexity-User is for user-directed access and may behave differently with robots.txt.
Documents Perplexity search-result retrieval and supported search integration behavior.
Publisher: Perplexity | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-retrieval, search-apis
Platforms: perplexity-api
Editorial note: Search API results and ranking must not automatically be equated with consumer Perplexity answer citations.
Technical quickstart and response format for Perplexity Search API web results.
Publisher: Perplexity | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-retrieval, search-apis
Platforms: perplexity-api
Documents search modes, filters, tool configuration, and source-backed responses in the Agent API.
Publisher: Perplexity | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-retrieval, source-attribution, search-apis
Platforms: perplexity-api
Editorial note: Agent API retrieval differs from guarantees about appearances in the consumer-facing answer product.
Defines direct retrieval of URL content through Perplexity agent tooling.
Publisher: Perplexity | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-retrieval, search-apis
Platforms: perplexity-api
Editorial note: Direct URL retrieval is not the same as inclusion in an automated crawler index.
Gemini API and Vertex AI grounding/reference docs distinct from Google Search AI Overviews/AI Mode.
Documents Gemini API grounding using Google Search and its source attribution mechanisms.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-retrieval, grounding, source-attribution
Platforms: gemini-api, google-search
Editorial note: Do not infer independent Gemini consumer ranking requirements from API grounding capabilities; AI Overviews/Mode eligibility remains indexed in the Google Search collection.
Official direct-URL retrieval documentation, supported content, citation annotations, and access restrictions.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-retrieval, source-attribution
Platforms: gemini-api
Editorial note: An explicitly supplied URL does not establish general Gemini search indexing or ranking.
Explains how Gemini can ground geographical answers in Google Maps places and return place citations.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: grounding, source-attribution, local-seo
Platforms: gemini-api, google-maps
Editorial note: API retrieval and source display do not imply a separate, published optimization standard beyond Google Maps/Business Profile rules.
Defines external search API snippet and URL schemas used to ground Gemini responses.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: grounding, ai-retrieval, search-apis
Platforms: vertex-ai
Editorial note: A developer-configured private or external index is not the public Google Search index.
Microsoft Copilot web grounding and first-party Copilot Studio/Foundry mechanisms.
Microsoft documentation on how consumer/workplace Copilot sends generated search queries to Bing for web grounding.
Publisher: Microsoft | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, grounding, ai-retrieval
Platforms: microsoft-copilot
Editorial note: Documents Microsoft Copilot web grounding rather than a separate Copilot crawler or ranking system.
Defines how Copilot Studio grounds answers using public websites indexed by Bing and relevant URL restrictions.
Publisher: Microsoft | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: grounding, ai-retrieval, publisher-controls
Platforms: microsoft-copilot-studio
Editorial note: Website being indexed by Bing matters; adding a URL in a custom agent is not a global Copilot ranking lever.
Technical explanation of Copilot Studio public-web grounding using Bing Search and Bing Custom Search.
Publisher: Microsoft | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: grounding, ai-retrieval, source-attribution
Platforms: microsoft-copilot-studio
Compares official web search and Bing-grounding tools for developer-created AI agents.
Publisher: Microsoft | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: grounding, ai-retrieval, search-apis
Platforms: microsoft-foundry
Editorial note: Developer retrieval APIs are not a policy document governing organic placement in consumer Copilot.
Documents agent query formulation, Bing retrieval and citations through Grounding with Bing Search/Custom Search.
Publisher: Microsoft | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: grounding, source-attribution, search-apis
Platforms: microsoft-foundry
Editorial note: A reference for Microsoft developer agents, not a ranking-factor disclosure.
Brave AI-powered search and underlying Brave crawler documentation; not yet a full Brave Search SEO collection.
Official overview of Brave AI Answers, Ask Brave, source references, and AI-assisted snippets.
Publisher: Brave | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, source-attribution, ai-retrieval
Platforms: brave-search-ai
Editorial note: Explains product behavior, not a separate AEO optimization specification.
Brave’s official crawler and website inclusion controls, relevant to Brave’s AI-powered search index.
Publisher: Brave | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-crawlers, robots, publisher-controls
Platforms: brave-search-ai
Editorial note: Brave AI answers are grounded in its search stack; this does not identify a separate Brave AI-only crawler.
Mistral crawler controls and search indexing references.
Distinguishes MistralAI-Index, MistralAI-User and MistralAI-Training and their respective crawler purposes.
Publisher: Mistral AI | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-crawlers, publisher-controls, robots
Platforms: mistral-search
Editorial note: The official document specifies Mistral search indexing in Vibe; it should not be overstated as a universal Le Chat ranking rule.
xAI/Grok web and X retrieval and source citation documentation.
First-party specification for Grok real-time web search and cited source retrieval.
Publisher: xAI | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-retrieval, source-attribution, search-apis
Platforms: grok-api
Editorial note: API mechanisms are documented; publisher-side ranking controls are not established by this page.
First-party reference for retrieving X posts, profiles and threads as Grok sources.
Publisher: xAI | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-retrieval, source-attribution, search-apis
Platforms: grok-api
Editorial note: X-native search is distinct from general website crawling and ranking.
Defines collected-source URLs, inline citations and structured citation annotations in Grok API responses.
Publisher: xAI | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: source-attribution, ai-retrieval
Platforms: grok-api
Editorial note: A URL in an all-sources list need not be cited in the final answer.
Meta AI first-party publisher/service integration references.
First-party developer preview describing API-connected services that Meta AI may call during conversations.
Publisher: Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: publisher-integration, ai-retrieval
Platforms: meta-ai
Editorial note: Early-access connector program; not a general public-web ranking policy or evidence of universal publisher availability.
Kagi Assistant web search and direct retrieval documentation.
Official explanation of Kagi Assistant search integration, lenses, and direct URL fetching.
Publisher: Kagi | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, ai-retrieval, source-attribution
Platforms: kagi-assistant
Editorial note: Assistant uses Kagi Search; this is not a separate Kagi AI crawler or indexing policy.
Brave Search core web index, ranked search API and official search result interfaces; crawler and AI documentation remain in brave-ai.
Explains community-authored ranking adjustments, filtering and public Goggle hosting.
Publisher: Brave Search (Brave Software) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ranking, search-appearance, alternative-search
Platforms: brave-search
Editorial note: A user-defined re-ranking system; not a standard SEO ranking-control mechanism for publishers.
Describes how discussion-worthy queries trigger additional forum result retrieval and ranking.
Publisher: Brave Search (Brave Software) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ranking, search-features, alternative-search
Platforms: brave-search
Official rights and delisting guidance for Brave Search’s independently maintained index.
Publisher: Brave Search (Brave Software) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: removals, indexing, alternative-search
Platforms: brave-search
First-party API overview for Brave independent-index web, image, video, news and context searches.
Publisher: Brave Search (Brave Software) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, search-sources, alternative-search
Platforms: brave-search
Documents custom per-query ranking/selection DSL and API application of Goggles.
Publisher: Brave Search (Brave Software) | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, ranking
Platforms: brave-search
DuckDuckGo search sourcing, DuckDuckBot/DuckAssistBot, result ranking and removal mechanics, and AI-assisted search attribution.
Documents use of DuckDuckBot, first-party sources, partner search results and instant-answer sources.
Publisher: DuckDuckGo | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-sources, metasearch, indexing
Platforms: duckduckgo-search
Editorial note: Most traditional links and images are sourced largely from Bing; DuckDuckGo also uses its own crawler/indexes.
Official DuckDuckBot user agent, IP listing and robots guidance.
Publisher: DuckDuckGo | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, robots
Platforms: duckduckgo-search
User-agent, publisher opt-out and source-fetching purpose for DuckDuckGo AI-assisted answers.
Publisher: DuckDuckGo | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-crawlers, publisher-controls, source-attribution
Platforms: duckduckgo-ai
Editorial note: Official page says blocking DuckAssistBot does not change traditional organic search rankings.
Documents AI-assisted summaries grounded in linked web sources and source presentation.
Publisher: DuckDuckGo | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, source-attribution, grounding
Platforms: duckduckgo-ai
Explains removal requests through Bing and propagation to DuckDuckGo.
Publisher: DuckDuckGo | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: removals, metasearch
Platforms: duckduckgo-search
Editorial note: Partner-dependent removal; does not imply DuckDuckGo offers a general publisher submission console.
Official explanation of DuckDuckGo news-result ranking and quality selection.
Publisher: DuckDuckGo | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news, ranking
Platforms: duckduckgo-search
Official disclosure of DuckDuckGo organic, instant-answer and sponsored result sourcing/ordering.
Publisher: DuckDuckGo | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ranking, search-policies, search-sources
Platforms: duckduckgo-search
Official query syntax, including site and URL searches that can help diagnose indexed content.
Publisher: DuckDuckGo | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-operators, diagnostics
Platforms: duckduckgo-search
Ecosia result providers, ranking dependencies and removal processes; provider identity may differ by region and query.
Official account of Bing, Google and EUSP sourcing and dependence on user region, device and permissions.
Publisher: Ecosia | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-sources, metasearch, ranking
Platforms: ecosia-search
Editorial note: Ecosia is German; deliberately included in this miscellany because explicitly requested. Its results do not come from one permanent provider.
Routes removal requests to the responsible underlying result provider.
Publisher: Ecosia | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: removals, metasearch
Platforms: ecosia-search
Yahoo Search webmaster controls, Yahoo Slurp, Bing submission dependency, and index removal.
Official Yahoo Slurp user-agent, robots rules and crawling purpose.
Publisher: Yahoo Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, robots
Platforms: yahoo-search
Documents use of crawler directives and how Bing and Yahoo contribute to Yahoo Search results.
Publisher: Yahoo Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: robots, search-sources, metasearch
Platforms: yahoo-search
Directs publishers to Bing Webmaster Tools for website submission.
Publisher: Yahoo Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: submission, publisher-submission
Platforms: yahoo-search
Editorial note: No separate modern Yahoo organic submission portal is documented on this official page.
Describes Yahoo-specific site: and url: operators to check visibility.
Publisher: Yahoo Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: indexing, diagnostics, search-operators
Platforms: yahoo-search
Official steps for excluding content from Yahoo Slurp and Bing-sourced results.
Publisher: Yahoo Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: removals, robots
Platforms: yahoo-search
MapQuest local business listing claiming and presence on MapQuest; excludes navigation/map SDK implementation.
First-party workflow for claiming and updating a MapQuest local business listing.
Publisher: MapQuest | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: business-listings, local-seo, publisher-submission
Platforms: mapquest-maps
Official reference hub for MapQuest place listings, claims and corrections.
Publisher: MapQuest | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: business-listings, local-seo
Platforms: mapquest-maps
Applebot and Applebot-Extended controls for Apple search experiences and model-data use.
Official crawler documentation for Siri, Spotlight, Safari and related Apple search experiences.
Publisher: Apple | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: applebot, crawling, robots
Platforms: applebot-search
Editorial note: Applebot crawl controls do not guarantee inclusion or search placement.
Official explanation of Applebot and distinct Applebot-Extended data-use opt-out.
Publisher: Apple | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: applebot, publisher-controls, ai-crawlers
Platforms: applebot-search
Editorial note: Training-data opt-out should not be equated with search-indexing robots disallow.
Apple Maps place card information, location categories, eligibility, photos and local Insights via Apple Business.
Official procedure to create or claim an Apple Maps business location in Apple Business.
Publisher: Apple Business / Apple Maps | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: business-listings, local-seo, publisher-submission
Platforms: apple-maps
Defines place-card attributes, business categories, brand information, app links and presentation in Apple Maps.
Publisher: Apple Business / Apple Maps | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: business-listings, local-seo, metadata
Platforms: apple-maps
First-party eligibility and moderation guidelines governing place card photos and text.
Publisher: Apple Business / Apple Maps | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, images, search-policies
Platforms: apple-maps
Official search, place-card view and action analytics for Apple Maps listings.
Publisher: Apple Business / Apple Maps | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, diagnostics, visibility
Platforms: apple-maps
Official rules for promotional showcase modules on Apple Maps place cards.
Publisher: Apple Business / Apple Maps | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: business-listings, local-seo, search-appearance
Platforms: apple-maps
Documents photo asset management and reuse for business locations and place cards.
Publisher: Apple Business / Apple Maps | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: images, business-listings
Platforms: apple-maps
Apple App Store organic app discovery, ASO metadata, product-page eligibility, custom pages, localization, events, and analytics.
First-party App Store search explanation covering text relevance and user behavior ranking considerations.
Publisher: Apple Developer / App Store Connect | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-search, app-store-optimization, ranking
Platforms: apple-app-store
Describes title, subtitle, keyword and product page metadata practices for app discovery.
Publisher: Apple Developer / App Store Connect | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: store-listings, app-store-optimization, metadata
Platforms: apple-app-store
Reference for global App Store app name, subtitle, category and other listing properties.
Publisher: Apple Developer / App Store Connect | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: store-listings, metadata, app-store-optimization
Platforms: apple-app-store
Reference for localized description, keywords and per-platform store metadata.
Publisher: Apple Developer / App Store Connect | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: store-listings, metadata, app-store-optimization
Platforms: apple-app-store
Explains tags derived from metadata, models and curation that surface in App Store search.
Publisher: Apple Developer / App Store Connect | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-optimization, metadata, search-features
Platforms: apple-app-store
Official localized app metadata and keyword availability controls.
Publisher: Apple Developer / App Store Connect | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: internationalization, store-listings, app-store-optimization
Platforms: apple-app-store
Documents search-keyword targeting and eligibility for alternate custom product pages.
Publisher: Apple Developer / App Store Connect | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: store-listings, search-appearance, app-store-optimization
Platforms: apple-app-store
Official A/B testing specification for product-page creative assets and conversion.
Publisher: Apple Developer / App Store Connect | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: store-listings, experimenting, app-store-optimization
Platforms: apple-app-store
Explains how in-app events appear in search and other App Store discovery placements.
Publisher: Apple Developer / App Store Connect | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-features, app-store-optimization, store-listings
Platforms: apple-app-store
Region-by-region eligibility and sale status for app discoverability.
Publisher: Apple Developer / App Store Connect | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: visibility, internationalization, store-listings
Platforms: apple-app-store
Binding app submission rules including accurate metadata, spam and discovery fraud.
Publisher: Apple Developer / App Store Connect | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: store-policies, app-store-optimization, search-policies
Platforms: apple-app-store
Official distinction between organic App Store Search, Browse, and external download sources.
Publisher: Apple Developer / App Store Connect | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: creator-analytics, app-store-optimization, diagnostics
Platforms: apple-app-store
API report fields describing discovery, impressions, visits and source attribution.
Publisher: Apple Developer / App Store Connect | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-optimization, creator-analytics, search-apis
Platforms: apple-app-store
API objects and keyword assignments for localized custom product pages.
Publisher: Apple Developer / App Store Connect | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: app-store-optimization, search-apis, metadata
Platforms: apple-app-store
Apple Podcasts search and recommendations, podcast metadata, RSS ingestion requirements and category systems.
Official Apple Podcasts Search ranking principles including metadata and popularity.
Publisher: Apple Podcasts for Creators | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: podcast-discovery, ranking, metadata
Platforms: apple-podcasts
Podcast category taxonomy, RSS tags and effects on search, recommendations and charts.
Publisher: Apple Podcasts for Creators | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: podcast-discovery, metadata, search-appearance
Platforms: apple-podcasts
Technical podcast RSS specification including feed validation, metadata and enclosures.
Publisher: Apple Podcasts for Creators | Authority: Protocol Specification | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: podcast-discovery, feeds, xml
Platforms: apple-podcasts
First-party description of podcast chart types, categories, regions and refresh behavior.
Publisher: Apple Podcasts for Creators | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: podcast-discovery, ranking, search-appearance
Platforms: apple-podcasts
Apple News publisher eligibility, JSON article metadata and publication API relevant to in-app content discovery.
Official entry point for publisher integration, articles, formats and Apple News publishing.
Publisher: Apple News for Publishers | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news-discovery, publisher-submission, news-publishing
Platforms: apple-news
Structured article JSON format including publication metadata and content representation.
Publisher: Apple News for Publishers | Authority: Official Implementation Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news-discovery, metadata, structured-data
Platforms: apple-news
Official article publication endpoint and metadata requirements including canonical URLs and duplicates.
Publisher: Apple News for Publishers | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: news-publishing, news-discovery, search-apis
Platforms: apple-news
Marginalia Search official crawler information and first-party website-submission processes.
Official bot user agent, crawl intervals, IP range, robots token and RSS polling behavior.
Publisher: Marginalia Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: small-web, crawling, robots
Platforms: marginalia-search
Official project-maintained repository explaining how to submit a website to Marginalia.
Publisher: Marginalia Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: small-web, publisher-submission, discovery
Platforms: marginalia-search
Wiby Search official small-web website submission and lightweight-page inclusion criteria.
Publisher-maintained criteria for lightweight/simple pages in Wiby Search.
Publisher: Wiby | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: small-web, publisher-submission, html
Platforms: wiby-search
Mojeek independent crawler controls and official web search API specifications.
Official crawler frequency, directives, user-agent verification and noindex handling.
Publisher: Mojeek | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, robots, small-web
Platforms: mojeek-search
Publisher-provided independent search API formats and endpoints.
Publisher: Mojeek | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, alternative-search
Platforms: mojeek-search
Official minimal API request example and required configuration.
Publisher: Mojeek | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis
Platforms: mojeek-search
Kagi Search documented result sources, ranking principles and Small Web discoverability; distinct from Kagi Assistant.
Explains Kagi proprietary Teclis/TinyGem indexes and additional outsourced and specialty results.
Publisher: Kagi | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-sources, metasearch, alternative-search
Platforms: kagi-search
First-party explanation of Kagi quality systems and how results are ranked.
Publisher: Kagi | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ranking, content-quality, alternative-search
Platforms: kagi-search
Official documentation of Small Web result inclusion and surfacing.
Publisher: Kagi | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: small-web, ranking, discovery
Platforms: kagi-search
Editorial note: Curation of small/personal-web results is not a general public webmaster submission guarantee.
Amazon Marketplace (third-party sellers): searchable product detail page rules, generic search terms, browse taxonomy and official Selling Partner APIs.
Official rules for Generic keyword backend search terms, forbidden terms, and possible listing suppression.
Publisher: Amazon | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-search, metadata, marketplace-ranking
Platforms: amazon-marketplace
Binding product detail content, duplicate ASIN, title, description and listing rules.
Publisher: Amazon | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, marketplace-eligibility, marketplace-catalog
Platforms: amazon-marketplace
Official category-specific title, image and description style-guide directory.
Publisher: Amazon | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, listing-quality, metadata
Platforms: amazon-marketplace
Amazon official distinction between ASIN product detail page content and sellers’ offers.
Publisher: Amazon | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-catalog, seller-listings
Platforms: amazon-marketplace
Official browse keyword/category selection and seller Generic Keyword discoverability guidance.
Publisher: Amazon | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: product-taxonomy, marketplace-search, metadata
Platforms: amazon-marketplace
Official product type definition, Listings Items, catalog and schema workflow reference.
Publisher: Amazon | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-catalog, search-apis, seller-listings
Platforms: amazon-marketplace
Obtain Amazon marketplace-specific schema-defined listing attributes and requirements.
Publisher: Amazon | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: product-taxonomy, marketplace-catalog, search-apis
Platforms: amazon-marketplace
Search the authorized seller’s own listings and structured item data (not public organic ranking).
Publisher: Amazon | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, seller-listings, seller-analytics
Platforms: amazon-marketplace
Etsy seller search ranking, tagging, listing attributes, search visibility and first-party Open API schemas.
Official explanation of query matching, ranking, personalization and customer-service signals.
Publisher: Etsy | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-search, marketplace-ranking, seller-listings
Platforms: etsy-marketplace
Maintained first-party Etsy instructions on 13 tags, keyword matching and taxonomy.
Publisher: Etsy | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-search, metadata, seller-listings
Platforms: etsy-marketplace
Official listing reference covering attributes, categories, imagery and tags for shopper matching.
Publisher: Etsy | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, product-taxonomy, listing-quality
Platforms: etsy-marketplace
Official explanation of Shop Manager search visibility diagnostics and score components.
Publisher: Etsy | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-analytics, diagnostics, marketplace-ranking
Platforms: etsy-marketplace
First-party documentation on conversion/engagement as an Etsy search-ranking consideration.
Publisher: Etsy | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-ranking, listing-quality
Platforms: etsy-marketplace
Maintained official search-specific checklist for tags, listing language, listing attributes and customer service.
Publisher: Etsy | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-search, seller-listings, listing-quality
Platforms: etsy-marketplace
First-party API definitions for listing attributes, buyer taxonomy, listing records and editing.
Publisher: Etsy | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, marketplace-catalog, product-taxonomy
Platforms: etsy-marketplace
eBay Best Match, listing metadata, item specifics, category taxonomy and publication APIs.
Official factors used in eBay’s default Best Match search sort.
Publisher: eBay | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-search, marketplace-ranking, listing-quality
Platforms: ebay-marketplace
Official required listing fields, condition and item specifics relevant to search visibility.
Publisher: eBay | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, metadata, marketplace-eligibility
Platforms: ebay-marketplace
First-party description of item specifics and product identifiers for filters and discovery.
Publisher: eBay | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, product-taxonomy, marketplace-search
Platforms: ebay-marketplace
Using UPC, ISBN and product details to associate marketplace offers with eBay catalog items.
Publisher: eBay | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-catalog, seller-listings
Platforms: ebay-marketplace
Official inventory item, offer, listing publication and availability API model.
Publisher: eBay | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, seller-listings, marketplace-catalog
Platforms: ebay-marketplace
Official category hierarchy and listing item-aspect API definitions.
Publisher: eBay | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, product-taxonomy, marketplace-search
Platforms: ebay-marketplace
Listing record fields and offer publishing relationships required for eBay visibility.
Publisher: eBay | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, seller-listings, marketplace-eligibility
Platforms: ebay-marketplace
Walmart Marketplace seller content requirements, listing quality, publishing, taxonomy and item management APIs.
Official Listing Quality scoring dimensions and relation to item visibility.
Publisher: Walmart Marketplace | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: listing-quality, marketplace-ranking, seller-analytics
Platforms: walmart-marketplace
Official seller dashboard remediation guidance for deficient title, images, description and item status.
Publisher: Walmart Marketplace | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: listing-quality, diagnostics, seller-listings
Platforms: walmart-marketplace
Marketplace product listing publication, category, item schema and maintenance workflow.
Publisher: Walmart Marketplace | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-catalog, seller-listings, search-apis
Platforms: walmart-marketplace
Returns Walmart product type classifications for item setup and catalog navigation.
Publisher: Walmart Marketplace | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: product-taxonomy, search-apis
Platforms: walmart-marketplace
Retrieve current allowed values, conditional fields and required product attributes.
Publisher: Walmart Marketplace | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-catalog, seller-listings, search-apis
Platforms: walmart-marketplace
Catalog search using keyword or product identifiers for published items.
Publisher: Walmart Marketplace | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-catalog, search-apis
Platforms: walmart-marketplace
Editorial note: Item Search API is catalog matching, not a specification for Walmart organic search ranking.
Official JSON feed schemas for item setup and maintenance.
Publisher: Walmart Marketplace | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-catalog, feeds, search-apis
Platforms: walmart-marketplace
Depop independent fashion resale search relevance, recommendations, listing requirements and seller search visibility.
First-party organic ranking, personalization, recommendation and paid boosting disclosure.
Publisher: Depop | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-search, marketplace-ranking, social-commerce
Platforms: depop
Official explanation of missing search listings, relevance, descriptions, photos and violations.
Publisher: Depop | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-search, listing-quality, seller-listings
Platforms: depop
Official fields and descriptions used for Depop listing discovery.
Publisher: Depop | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, metadata, product-taxonomy
Platforms: depop
Maintained listing requirements for categories, brand, condition, images and hashtags.
Publisher: Depop | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, marketplace-eligibility
Platforms: depop
Facebook Marketplace individual listing discovery, ranking systems and primary-source marketplace publishing controls.
Meta’s maintained system card on selection, ordering and delivery of Facebook Marketplace results.
Publisher: Facebook Marketplace (Meta) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-ranking, social-commerce, marketplace-search
Platforms: facebook-marketplace
Official Marketplace listing creation guidance for seller-provided metadata and images.
Publisher: Facebook Marketplace (Meta) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, social-commerce
Platforms: facebook-marketplace
Editorial note: Public Facebook Help content is access-restricted to automated fetches; title and destination verified via official indexed result.
Official bulk listing CSV import and automated category recognition rules.
Publisher: Facebook Marketplace (Meta) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, marketplace-catalog, feeds
Platforms: facebook-marketplace
Editorial note: Facebook Help may require a logged-in session for full content.
Official Marketplace content eligibility exclusions.
Publisher: Facebook Marketplace (Meta) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-eligibility, search-policies
Platforms: facebook-marketplace
Editorial note: Facebook Help may require a logged-in session for full content.
TikTok Shop seller product search, metadata requirements, ranking-related platform fields and seller listing policy.
Official US product listing policy and Shop Tab discoverability criteria.
Publisher: TikTok Shop | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, marketplace-eligibility, social-commerce
Platforms: tiktok-shop
Official hidden search term field and product highlights guidance for matching products to search.
Publisher: TikTok Shop | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-search, metadata, seller-listings
Platforms: tiktok-shop
First-party product page quality tiers and category-specific metadata requirements.
Publisher: TikTok Shop | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: listing-quality, seller-listings, marketplace-eligibility
Platforms: tiktok-shop
Official Seller University product-title/description search matching and keyword tool documentation.
Publisher: TikTok Shop | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-search, metadata, seller-listings
Platforms: tiktok-shop
Poshmark seller listing search discoverability, listing quality and platform-specific listing fields.
Official searchable listing title, category, size and description guidance.
Publisher: Poshmark | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, marketplace-search, listing-quality
Platforms: poshmark
First-party core required item fields and listing publication workflow.
Publisher: Poshmark | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, marketplace-eligibility
Platforms: poshmark
Mercari US marketplace search signals, listing rules and official discovery performance reporting.
Official seller/transaction and keyword relevance signals in Mercari search.
Publisher: Mercari | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-ranking, marketplace-search
Platforms: mercari
Official photos, honest metadata, brands, categories and search visibility requirements.
Publisher: Mercari | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, listing-quality, marketplace-search
Platforms: mercari
Defines impressions vs clicks across Mercari search and buyer feeds.
Publisher: Mercari | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-analytics, marketplace-search
Platforms: mercari
Seller listing manipulations, keyword stuffing and false category/brand restrictions.
Publisher: Mercari | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-eligibility, search-policies
Platforms: mercari
Reverb music marketplace first-party organic ranking disclosures and seller listing requirements.
Official Reverb distinctions between organic search ranking and sponsored Bump placements.
Publisher: Reverb | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-ranking, marketplace-search
Platforms: reverb
First-party category and listing data quality requirements for music gear.
Publisher: Reverb | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, listing-quality
Platforms: reverb
Discogs record marketplace listing matching, release catalog, condition grading and search/filter behavior.
First-party marketplace search and filter behavior including condition, format and buyer availability.
Publisher: Discogs | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-search, marketplace-ranking, product-taxonomy
Platforms: discogs-marketplace
First-party release-to-catalog matching and expected search appearance timeline.
Publisher: Discogs | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, marketplace-catalog
Platforms: discogs-marketplace
Official release listing with condition, listing comments and publication statuses.
Publisher: Discogs | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, metadata
Platforms: discogs-marketplace
Discogs media and sleeve grading fields, which are also Marketplace search filters.
Publisher: Discogs | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, marketplace-catalog, product-taxonomy
Platforms: discogs-marketplace
Grailed fashion resale listing publication requirements, search bumps and moderation/visibility.
Official search bump, listing removals and category placement explanations.
Publisher: Grailed | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, marketplace-ranking, marketplace-eligibility
Platforms: grailed
Official new listing and pre-publication authentication requirements.
Publisher: Grailed | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, marketplace-eligibility
Platforms: grailed
Shop by Shopify multi-merchant search, AI/conversational product discovery, catalog eligibility and visible listings.
Official Shop keyword and conversational search, metadata and personalized ranking explanation.
Publisher: Shopify Shop | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-search, ai-search, marketplace-ranking
Platforms: shop-app
Official seller visibility and eligibility conditions for Shop marketplace discovery.
Publisher: Shopify Shop | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-eligibility, search-policies
Platforms: shop-app
Shop product discovery requirements for catalog inclusion, imagery, categories and publication.
Publisher: Shopify Shop | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, marketplace-catalog, product-taxonomy
Platforms: shop-app
OfferUp local secondhand search discovery, image matching and listing status/metadata.
Official disclosure that OfferUp search uses listing terms and information extracted from listing photos.
Publisher: OfferUp | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-search, images, product-taxonomy
Platforms: offerup
First-party guidance on titles, photos and item attributes that appear in OfferUp search.
Publisher: OfferUp | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, listing-quality
Platforms: offerup
Official explanation of active, archived and sold listing visibility in search.
Publisher: OfferUp | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, removals, marketplace-eligibility
Platforms: offerup
Whatnot seller search and live-shopping personalized discovery, publishing rules and recommended feeds.
Official separate ranking signals in Whatnot For You, Followed Hosts and category feeds.
Publisher: Whatnot | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-ranking, social-commerce, marketplace-search
Platforms: whatnot
Official listing metadata, types, search keywords and discoverability fields.
Publisher: Whatnot | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, metadata, marketplace-search
Platforms: whatnot
First-party search, category browsing, personalized recommendations and discovery guide.
Publisher: Whatnot | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-search, social-commerce, product-taxonomy
Platforms: whatnot
Binding photo, item title, description, category and duplicate-listing requirements.
Publisher: Whatnot | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, marketplace-eligibility, search-policies
Platforms: whatnot
GOAT third-party resale listing catalog matching, conditions and listing eligibility.
Seller SKU catalog matching, condition and photo requirements for listing publication.
Publisher: GOAT | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, marketplace-catalog, marketplace-eligibility
Platforms: goat-marketplace
StockX third-party verified and listings marketplace, searchable item catalogs, Asks and listing eligibility.
Distinguishes StockX Verified, Listings and Live marketplaces and their product placement mechanisms.
Publisher: StockX | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-eligibility, marketplace-catalog, seller-listings
Platforms: stockx
Official lowest Ask, highest Offer and matching behavior in the Verified Marketplace.
Publisher: StockX | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-ranking, marketplace-search
Platforms: stockx
Official condition requirements, review, and listing eligibility for used/unique independent seller items.
Publisher: StockX | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, marketplace-catalog, marketplace-eligibility
Platforms: stockx
Instagram Search, hashtag/place discovery, Explore, Reels and related recommendation-system documentation (not Instagram Shopping).
Official first-party system card explaining eligibility, retrieval and ranking of Instagram search results.
Publisher: Instagram / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, ranking
Platforms: instagram-search
Editorial note: Official page confirmed through indexed publisher description; direct Meta Transparency content fetching may be rate-limited (snippet-backed verification).
Instagram Help instructions describing search across accounts, posts, audio, tags, places and Reels.
Publisher: Instagram / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, search-features
Platforms: instagram-search
Editorial note: Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
Documents account-level discoverability limits when content repeatedly violates recommendation rules.
Publisher: Instagram / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, social-eligibility
Platforms: instagram-search
Editorial note: Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
Official help on content eligibility restrictions affecting Instagram Explore and search.
Publisher: Instagram / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, social-eligibility
Platforms: instagram-search
Editorial note: Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
Official instructions on third-party search indexing of publicly shared Instagram media.
Publisher: Instagram / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, search-appearance
Platforms: instagram-search
Editorial note: Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
Explains Instagram public content eligibility on location and hashtag discovery pages.
Publisher: Instagram / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: hashtags, social-search
Platforms: instagram-search
Editorial note: Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
Official rules identifying why Instagram limits certain hashtag search results.
Publisher: Instagram / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: hashtags, social-eligibility
Platforms: instagram-search
Editorial note: Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
First-party system card documenting Instagram Explore retrieval and ranking stages.
Publisher: Instagram / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, ranking
Platforms: instagram-search
Editorial note: Official page confirmed through indexed publisher description; direct Meta Transparency content fetching may be rate-limited (snippet-backed verification).
First-party system card describing unconnected account recommendations in Instagram Feed.
Publisher: Instagram / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, ranking
Platforms: instagram-search
Editorial note: Official page confirmed through indexed publisher description; direct Meta Transparency content fetching may be rate-limited (snippet-backed verification).
First-party system card describing ordering and selection of Instagram Feed posts.
Publisher: Instagram / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, ranking
Platforms: instagram-search
Editorial note: Official page confirmed through indexed publisher description; direct Meta Transparency content fetching may be rate-limited (snippet-backed verification).
Official explanation of sequential Reels recommendations.
Publisher: Instagram / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, video, ranking
Platforms: instagram-search
Editorial note: Official page confirmed through indexed publisher description; direct Meta Transparency content fetching may be rate-limited (snippet-backed verification).
First-party system card documenting account suggestions and their ranking.
Publisher: Instagram / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, social-recommendations
Platforms: instagram-search
Editorial note: Official page confirmed through indexed publisher description; direct Meta Transparency content fetching may be rate-limited (snippet-backed verification).
First-party system card explaining ordering of Instagram Stories.
Publisher: Instagram / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, ranking
Platforms: instagram-search
Editorial note: Official page confirmed through indexed publisher description; direct Meta Transparency content fetching may be rate-limited (snippet-backed verification).
Facebook on-platform Search, Feed/Reels and account discoverability (Marketplace already in v9).
First-party system card explaining Facebook Search candidate retrieval and result ranking.
Publisher: Facebook / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, ranking
Platforms: facebook-search
Editorial note: Official page confirmed through indexed publisher description; direct Meta Transparency content fetching may be rate-limited (snippet-backed verification).
Facebook Help documentation of personalized search results and content types.
Publisher: Facebook / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, ranking
Platforms: facebook-search
Editorial note: Some Facebook Help pages block unauthenticated full-page fetching; title and topical content corroborated by official search indexing. Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
Help article explaining Facebook searchable posts, accounts, pages and other entities.
Publisher: Facebook / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, search-features
Platforms: facebook-search
Editorial note: Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
First-party search discoverability and profile audience controls.
Publisher: Facebook / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, social-eligibility
Platforms: facebook-search
Editorial note: Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
Explains suggested search results and differences from account search history.
Publisher: Facebook / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, search-features
Platforms: facebook-search
Editorial note: Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
First-party system card on Facebook Reels ranking and recommendations.
Publisher: Facebook / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, video, ranking
Platforms: facebook-search
Editorial note: Official page confirmed through indexed publisher description; direct Meta Transparency content fetching may be rate-limited (snippet-backed verification).
TikTok organic content search, For You and recommendation eligibility (TikTok Shop already in v9).
Official descriptions of TikTok Search, For You, Following, LIVE and other recommender signals.
Publisher: TikTok | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, social-recommendations, ranking
Platforms: tiktok-search
Explains recommendation restrictions that can also make accounts harder to find via search.
Publisher: TikTok | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-eligibility, social-search
Platforms: tiktok-search
Official procedures for ineligible For You content and appeal mechanisms.
Publisher: TikTok | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-eligibility, social-recommendations
Platforms: tiktok-search
First-party explanation of For You recommendation display and personalization.
Publisher: TikTok | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, video
Platforms: tiktok-search
Defines the Friends Tab and suggested account discovery.
Publisher: TikTok | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, social-recommendations
Platforms: tiktok-search
Describes additional review and eligibility for STEM feed inclusion.
Publisher: TikTok | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-eligibility, social-recommendations
Platforms: tiktok-search
Pinterest Pins, Rich Pins, on-platform search, domain claiming, trend research and analytics (not merchant catalogs).
Explains how Pinterest distributes Pins using relevance, engagement, keywords and content/landing-page data.
Publisher: Pinterest | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, social-recommendations, ranking
Platforms: pinterest-search
Official title, description, media format and Pin specification requirements.
Publisher: Pinterest | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-metadata, images, video
Platforms: pinterest-search
First-party rules for descriptive titles, links, boards and related topic tags.
Publisher: Pinterest | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-metadata, hashtags
Platforms: pinterest-search
Specifications for automatic Rich Pin metadata synchronization and supported Open Graph/Schema.org markup.
Publisher: Pinterest | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-metadata, structured-data
Platforms: pinterest-search
Official domain verification methods linking saved website content to a Pinterest profile.
Publisher: Pinterest | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-eligibility, profile-discovery
Platforms: pinterest-search
Documents controls affecting indexing of Pinterest profiles and boards by external search engines.
Publisher: Pinterest | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-eligibility, removals
Platforms: pinterest-search
Private profiles and associated Pins are excluded from internal and external search.
Publisher: Pinterest | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, social-eligibility
Platforms: pinterest-search
Explains public boards visibility in search and private boards exclusion.
Publisher: Pinterest | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, social-eligibility
Platforms: pinterest-search
Official organic Pin impressions, clicks, saves and outbound clicks measurement.
Publisher: Pinterest | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-analytics
Platforms: pinterest-search
Official search trend volume normalization and keyword research tool reference.
Publisher: Pinterest | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-analytics, search-features
Platforms: pinterest-search
Official Pinterest API method for enumerating owned Pins and their metadata.
Publisher: Pinterest | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-apis, social-metadata
Platforms: pinterest-search
X organic search, Trends, hashtags and recommendation systems.
First-party technical outline of X Top, Latest, People, Media and Lists search recommendations.
Publisher: X (formerly Twitter) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, ranking
Platforms: x-search
X documentation on Top search selection, personalization and filter behavior.
Publisher: X (formerly Twitter) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, ranking
Platforms: x-search
Official troubleshooting for missing posts, hashtags and accounts in X search.
Publisher: X (formerly Twitter) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, social-eligibility
Platforms: x-search
Search filters and content discovery through X.
Publisher: X (formerly Twitter) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, search-features
Platforms: x-search
Advanced search field and operator definitions.
Publisher: X (formerly Twitter) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, search-operators
Platforms: x-search
Official hashtag syntax and search-indexed topic organization.
Publisher: X (formerly Twitter) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: hashtags, social-search
Platforms: x-search
X explanation of trend candidate generation, filtering, and ranking.
Publisher: X (formerly Twitter) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, ranking
Platforms: x-search
First-party description of For You feed candidate generation and personalized relevance ranking.
Publisher: X (formerly Twitter) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, ranking
Platforms: x-search
Official directory of separate recommendation mechanisms across X surfaces.
Publisher: X (formerly Twitter) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, search-features
Platforms: x-search
LinkedIn member, company and service search, off-platform profile indexing and discovery analytics.
Search filters for people, posts, companies, services and other LinkedIn entities.
Publisher: LinkedIn | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, search-features
Platforms: linkedin-search
LinkedIn maintained explanation of feed ranking and personalization.
Publisher: LinkedIn | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, ranking
Platforms: linkedin-search
Official control over profile information exposed to internal and external search engines.
Publisher: LinkedIn | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, social-eligibility
Platforms: linkedin-search
Defines third-party discovery controls distinct from the public-profile search setting.
Publisher: LinkedIn | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, social-eligibility
Platforms: linkedin-search
Official LinkedIn instructions for external search engine indexing of public member profiles.
Publisher: LinkedIn | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, social-eligibility
Platforms: linkedin-search
Definitions and filters for members discovery through LinkedIn search.
Publisher: LinkedIn | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-analytics, profile-discovery
Platforms: linkedin-search
Company Page search impression counts and search keywords.
Publisher: LinkedIn | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-analytics, profile-discovery
Platforms: linkedin-search
Definitions of search impressions versus other profile exposures.
Publisher: LinkedIn | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-analytics, profile-discovery
Platforms: linkedin-search
Eligibility and visibility of searchable LinkedIn Service Pages.
Publisher: LinkedIn | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, profile-discovery
Platforms: linkedin-search
Reddit community/post/comment search, sorting, recommendations and search API.
Search surfaces for posts, comments, communities, media and people; includes AI-powered search.
Publisher: Reddit | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, search-features
Platforms: reddit-search
First-party relevance sorting factors including term rarity, post age, votes and comments.
Publisher: Reddit | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, ranking
Platforms: reddit-search
Documents post search filters, flair, Boolean operators, and AI-supported search.
Publisher: Reddit | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, search-operators
Platforms: reddit-search
Official recommendation and feed-ranking factors, separate from search sorting.
Publisher: Reddit | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, ranking
Platforms: reddit-search
Official documented /search and /subreddits/search interfaces and parameters.
Publisher: Reddit | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-apis, social-search
Platforms: reddit-search
Snapchat Spotlight, Discover, Maps and recommendation eligibility.
Rules determining when public content is recommendable in Spotlight, Discover and Snap Map.
Publisher: Snapchat / Snap Inc. | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-eligibility, social-recommendations
Platforms: snapchat-discovery
First-party limits on unoriginal, republished and certain externally linked content.
Publisher: Snapchat / Snap Inc. | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-eligibility, social-recommendations
Platforms: snapchat-discovery
Official description of public Spotlight submissions and recommendation personalization.
Publisher: Snapchat / Snap Inc. | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, video
Platforms: snapchat-discovery
Explains friend/account suggestions and opt-out from account discovery.
Publisher: Snapchat / Snap Inc. | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, social-eligibility
Platforms: snapchat-discovery
Bluesky and AT Protocol post search, metadata and custom feeds.
First-party reference for hashtag, URL/domain, language, author and date search operators.
Publisher: Bluesky | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, search-operators
Platforms: bluesky-search
Editorial note: Official maintained product feature guide published as a dated blog post; included as a first-party search operator reference, not commentary.
Official aggregate API reference documenting app.bsky.feed.searchPosts among feed endpoints.
Publisher: Bluesky | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-apis, social-search
Platforms: bluesky-search
Official AT Protocol post record schema for text, language metadata, facets, mentions and link cards.
Publisher: Bluesky | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-metadata, social-apis
Platforms: bluesky-search
Official tutorials for creating custom feed algorithms with the AT Protocol.
Publisher: Bluesky | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-apis, social-recommendations
Platforms: bluesky-search
Mastodon/fediverse hashtags, federation-sensitive search and directory discoverability.
Federated search limitations and behavior for accounts, hashtags and posts.
Publisher: Mastodon project | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, search-features
Platforms: mastodon-search
Official syntax and discoverability rules for post hashtags and visibility.
Publisher: Mastodon project | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: hashtags, social-search
Platforms: mastodon-search
Profile directory opt-in, featured hashtags and pinned public posts.
Publisher: Mastodon project | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, hashtags
Platforms: mastodon-search
Official metadata and directory visibility options for Mastodon profiles.
Publisher: Mastodon project | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, social-metadata
Platforms: mastodon-search
Official v2 search endpoint and federated backend limitations.
Publisher: Mastodon project | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-apis, social-search
Platforms: mastodon-search
Tumblr native search/tag indexes and recommendation eligibility.
First-party Tumblr search and tag pages documentation.
Publisher: Tumblr | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, search-features
Platforms: tumblr-search
Official restrictions on blog discoverability, reblog eligibility and indexed tag limits.
Publisher: Tumblr | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, social-eligibility
Platforms: tumblr-search
First-party documentation of tags as discoverability signals for Tumblr search.
Publisher: Tumblr | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: hashtags, social-search
Platforms: tumblr-search
Official troubleshooting for missing posts on Tumblr-wide tag pages.
Publisher: Tumblr | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: hashtags, social-eligibility
Platforms: tumblr-search
Tag page URL handling and the relationship between tagged and searchable content.
Publisher: Tumblr | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: hashtags, social-search
Platforms: tumblr-search
Defines when reblogged material can appear in global versus tag search.
Publisher: Tumblr | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, social-eligibility
Platforms: tumblr-search
Tumblr Help reference on For You recommendations, followed-tag discovery and ranking.
Publisher: Tumblr | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, ranking
Platforms: tumblr-search
Editorial note: Included only for the first-party explanations of discovery mechanics, not as a generic growth-advice endorsement.
Twitch stream search, Browse, tags, Clips and discovery analytics.
How live-stream tags work in Twitch search and Browse filters.
Publisher: Twitch | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, hashtags
Platforms: twitch-discovery
Official account of Twitch Browse, recommendations and search ordering.
Publisher: Twitch | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, social-recommendations
Platforms: twitch-discovery
Search/Browse/tag impressions and viewer acquisition sources.
Publisher: Twitch | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-analytics
Platforms: twitch-discovery
Explains featuring Clips for Discovery Feed and other discovery placements.
Publisher: Twitch | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, video
Platforms: twitch-discovery
Distinguishes content labels from search/browse tags and provides disclosure requirements.
Publisher: Twitch | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-eligibility, social-search
Platforms: twitch-discovery
Discord community search/discovery eligibility and server visibility.
Currently documented Discord server join settings, including eligibility-dependent Discoverable mode.
Publisher: Discord | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-eligibility, profile-discovery
Platforms: discord-discovery
Official eligibility rules for Discord Community Server Discovery.
Publisher: Discord | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-eligibility, profile-discovery
Platforms: discord-discovery
Editorial note: Cross-check against the current Discover interface; other Discord help states the earlier Server Discovery experiment ended.
Threads text/topic search, communities, cross-app suggestions, insights, and fediverse distribution.
Official instructions explaining on-platform search in Threads.
Publisher: Threads / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-search, search-features
Platforms: threads-search
Editorial note: Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
Documents topic tagging in Threads posts and topic-based discovery.
Publisher: Threads / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: hashtags, social-search, social-metadata
Platforms: threads-search
Editorial note: Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
Explains official Threads communities and topic-centered discovery.
Publisher: Threads / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, social-search
Platforms: threads-search
Editorial note: Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
Official controls for suggested Threads content on Instagram and Facebook.
Publisher: Threads / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-recommendations, social-eligibility
Platforms: threads-search
Editorial note: Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
Official creator insights and performance metrics for Threads activity.
Publisher: Threads / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-analytics
Platforms: threads-search
Editorial note: Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
Documents Threads federation and how posts can be distributed beyond Threads.
Publisher: Threads / Meta | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: social-eligibility, profile-discovery
Platforms: threads-search
Editorial note: Official Meta Help URL and topic identified through indexed first-party results; complete body could not be independently retrieved without authenticated access (snippet-backed verification).
Yandex web search, Yandex Webmaster, crawling, indexing, structured data, regional results and Yandex AI answers (principally Russia; English documentation available).
Yandex’s official entry point for webmaster, crawling, indexing and search appearance documentation.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: webmaster-tools, indexing
Platforms: yandex-webmaster
Documents Yandex crawling, indexing, searchable-page selection and search result generation.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, indexing, ranking
Platforms: yandex-search
Documents search discovery methods including sitemaps, reindexing, IndexNow and Metrica.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: discovery, submission
Platforms: yandex-search
Yandex-specific robots.txt interpretation including Clean-param and sitemap directives.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: robots, crawling
Platforms: yandex-search
Specifies selection of Yandex user-agent groups and precedence of robots.txt rules.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: robots, crawling
Platforms: yandex-search
Describes verification of claimed Yandex bots with reverse and forward DNS.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, security
Platforms: yandex-search
Explains supported sitemap formats, file constraints and submission requirements.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, discovery
Platforms: yandex-search
Documents sitemap submission, status and processing in Yandex Webmaster.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, webmaster-tools
Platforms: yandex-webmaster
Lists page metadata and supported indexing directives for the Yandex indexing bot.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: metadata, robots, indexing
Platforms: yandex-search
Documents canonical grouping of similar URLs and limitations on canonical hints.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: canonicalization, indexing
Platforms: yandex-search
Describes HTML structure, title/description fields, JavaScript rendering and crawler-visible content.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: rendering, html, metadata
Platforms: yandex-search
Instructions for requesting priority recrawling and interpreting reindex requests.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: submission, indexing
Platforms: yandex-webmaster
Official comparison of methods for notifying Yandex about content changes.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: discovery, submission
Platforms: yandex-search
Details Yandex IndexNow API workflow and its non-guarantee of indexing.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: submission, indexing
Platforms: yandex-search
Explains regional relevance and site-region assignment for Yandex search.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-targeting, international-seo, local-seo
Platforms: yandex-search
Describes treatment of geographic and language subdomains.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: indexing, international-seo
Platforms: yandex-search
Explains how Yandex consumes structured data to inform search presentation.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, schema-org, search-appearance
Platforms: yandex-search
Documents Yandex validation support for Schema.org, microformats, Open Graph and RDFa.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, diagnostics
Platforms: yandex-webmaster
Lists schema types and attributes used by Yandex for software snippets.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, search-appearance
Platforms: yandex-search
Explains Yandex search restrictions and how site owners address violations.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-policies, security, ranking
Platforms: yandex-search
Explains search-source citations and publisher robots.txt controls for Yandex AI answers.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, publisher-controls, source-attribution
Platforms: yandex-search, yandex-ai
First-party acknowledgement of leaked Yandex code and caveat that portions were outdated, unused or otherwise non-operational.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Dated Publication | Status: Historical | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-leaks, incident-records
Platforms: yandex-search
Editorial note: Historical incident acknowledgment, NOT operational ranking documentation. Yandex says leaked material is outdated and parts were never used.
Baidu Search Resource Platform webmaster documentation, ranking principles and indexing rules (China; Chinese documentation, with older-source verification caveats).
Original title: 官方文档
Baidu’s publicly retrievable official document directory for search resource owners and webmasters.
Publisher: Baidu Search Resource Platform (百度搜索资源平台) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: webmaster-tools, search-policies, native-language-docs
Platforms: baidu-resource-platform
Original title: 百度搜索的工作原理
Baidu Search Resource Platform explanation of its search process and result ordering.
Publisher: Baidu Search Resource Platform (百度搜索资源平台) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, ranking, indexing, native-language-docs
Platforms: baidu-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned article is visible in indexed first-party search results, but an exact full-body fetch failed or redirected in the current tooling. Lifecycle and feature support not independently confirmed; treat as archival/reference pending re-verification.
Original title: 百度搜索网页标题规范
Official Baidu title construction and search presentation requirements.
Publisher: Baidu Search Resource Platform (百度搜索资源平台) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: metadata, search-appearance, native-language-docs
Platforms: baidu-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned article is visible in indexed first-party search results, but an exact full-body fetch failed or redirected in the current tooling. Lifecycle and feature support not independently confirmed; treat as archival/reference pending re-verification.
Original title: 搜索资源平台使用指南
Baidu documentation hub for developer tools, site verification and content submission.
Publisher: Baidu Search Resource Platform (百度搜索资源平台) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: webmaster-tools, submission, native-language-docs
Platforms: baidu-resource-platform
Editorial note: Publisher-owned article is visible in indexed first-party search results, but an exact full-body fetch failed or redirected in the current tooling. Lifecycle and feature support not independently confirmed; treat as archival/reference pending re-verification.
Original title: 百度搜索优质内容解读
First-party explanation of quality content from Baidu Search’s perspective.
Publisher: Baidu Search Resource Platform (百度搜索资源平台) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: content-quality, search-policies, native-language-docs
Platforms: baidu-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned article is visible in indexed first-party search results, but an exact full-body fetch failed or redirected in the current tooling. Lifecycle and feature support not independently confirmed; treat as archival/reference pending re-verification.
Original title: 百度搜索违规低质页面问题说明
First-party Baidu guidance about low-quality pages and search violations.
Publisher: Baidu Search Resource Platform (百度搜索资源平台) | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: search-policies, content-quality, native-language-docs
Platforms: baidu-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned article is visible in indexed first-party search results, but an exact full-body fetch failed or redirected in the current tooling. Lifecycle and feature support not independently confirmed; treat as archival/reference pending re-verification.
Original title: 搜索资源平台工具解读
First-party overview of indexing, submission and webmaster reporting tools.
Publisher: Baidu Search Resource Platform (百度搜索资源平台) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: webmaster-tools, diagnostics, native-language-docs
Platforms: baidu-resource-platform
Editorial note: Publisher-owned article is visible in indexed first-party search results, but an exact full-body fetch failed or redirected in the current tooling. Lifecycle and feature support not independently confirmed; treat as archival/reference pending re-verification.
Original title: 移动站点对百度友好全解
Baidu-owned guidance on mobile URL configurations and corresponding markup.
Publisher: Baidu Search Resource Platform (百度搜索资源平台) | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: mobile, responsive, native-language-docs
Platforms: baidu-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned article is visible in indexed first-party search results, but an exact full-body fetch failed or redirected in the current tooling. Lifecycle and feature support not independently confirmed; treat as archival/reference pending re-verification.
Seznam.cz Search, SeznamBot, IndexNow, AI-answer controls, image search and Webmaster (Czech Republic; Czech and English).
English-language introduction to Seznam independent web search and webmaster controls.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, indexing, regional-search
Platforms: seznam-search
Official Seznam crawler identities, IPs, DNS records and JSON address list.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, robots
Platforms: seznam-search
Explains robots.txt and sitemap crawl-control mechanisms for SeznamBot.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: robots, crawling
Platforms: seznam-search
English-language indexing controls for SeznamBot including noindex and nofollow.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: indexing, robots
Platforms: seznam-search
Original title: Robots.txt
Detailed Seznam robots syntax, wildcard matching, request-rate and site-map directives.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: cs | Format: HTML
Topics: robots, crawling, native-language-docs
Platforms: seznam-search
Original title: Sitemap.xml
The supported sitemap implementation for SeznamBot.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: cs | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, submission, native-language-docs
Platforms: seznam-search
Original title: RSS kanály
RSS-feed discovery supported by SeznamBot.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: cs | Format: HTML
Topics: feeds, discovery, native-language-docs
Platforms: seznam-search
Original title: Kanonické URL
Official Seznam treatment of canonical URLs.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: cs | Format: HTML
Topics: canonicalization, native-language-docs
Platforms: seznam-search
Original title: Meta tag robots
How SeznamBot interprets page-level robots meta directives.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: cs | Format: HTML
Topics: robots, indexing, native-language-docs
Platforms: seznam-search
Original title: Odstraňování stránek
Seznam’s official procedures for search-result removal.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: cs | Format: HTML
Topics: removals, indexing, native-language-docs
Platforms: seznam-search
Original title: Zakázání tvorby snippetů
Controls and conditions for Seznam search snippets.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: cs | Format: HTML
Topics: search-appearance, publisher-controls, native-language-docs
Platforms: seznam-search
Original title: Zákaz tvorby AI odpovědí z vašeho webu
Official Seznam controls for excluding publisher content from AI answers.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: cs | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, publisher-controls, native-language-docs
Platforms: seznam-search, seznam-ai
Original title: Protokol IndexNow
Seznam’s first-party IndexNow API endpoints and result codes.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: cs | Format: HTML
Topics: submission, search-apis, native-language-docs
Platforms: seznam-search
Original title: Optimalizace
Official Seznam search optimization and inclusion guidance.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: cs | Format: HTML
Topics: search-policies, indexing, native-language-docs
Platforms: seznam-search
Original title: Vyhledávání obrázků
Official documentation describing image-search indexing and eligibility.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: cs | Format: HTML
Topics: images, discovery, native-language-docs
Platforms: seznam-search
First-party webmaster tools for crawl, index and redirect status.
Publisher: Seznam.cz Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: cs | Format: HTML
Topics: webmaster-tools, diagnostics, native-language-docs
Platforms: seznam-webmaster
Qwant indexing, QwantBot, publisher controls and AI-source/citation documentation (France/European search).
Official description of Qwant’s own crawling, indexing and eligibility behavior.
Publisher: Qwant Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, indexing, regional-search
Platforms: qwant-search
Documents crawler user agents, Qwant News crawler, DNS verification and robots restrictions.
Publisher: Qwant Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, robots, security
Platforms: qwant-search
Official eligibility checklist for troubleshooting absent web results.
Publisher: Qwant Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: diagnostics, indexing
Platforms: qwant-search
Explains how Qwant uses its web index and cites sources in AI answers.
Publisher: Qwant Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, grounding, source-attribution
Platforms: qwant-search, qwant-ai
First-party statement distinguishing web indexing and AI-answer retrieval from training.
Publisher: Qwant Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, publisher-controls
Platforms: qwant-search, qwant-ai
Daum web-document search, crawler and webmaster documentation (South Korea; Korean).
Original title: Daum 웹문서 검색이란?
Details Daum/4.1 search crawler and Daum Preview user-triggered metadata fetches.
Publisher: Daum Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ko | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, indexing, native-language-docs
Platforms: daum-search
Original title: 웹문서 검색 도움말
Official resource directory for Daum search inclusion, crawler rules and beta webmaster support.
Publisher: Daum Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ko | Format: HTML
Topics: webmaster-tools, indexing, native-language-docs
Platforms: daum-search
Original title: 검색 등록
Official Daum search registration, update and deletion help categories.
Publisher: Daum Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ko | Format: HTML
Topics: submission, business-listings, native-language-docs
Platforms: daum-search
Editorial note: Search-registration help also includes directory/site listings, not solely organic web indexing.
Huawei Petal Search OpenWeb webmaster platform and discovery reporting (China/international; JavaScript-gated details).
Official Petal Search site registration, sitemap submission, index coverage and search performance portal.
Publisher: Petal Search / Huawei | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: webmaster-tools, submission, indexing
Platforms: petal-search
Editorial note: Official product landing content is search-indexed; direct fetch requires JavaScript and did not reveal full help reference.
360 Search (China), official webmaster help for indexing, crawling, structured results and webmaster tools.
Original title: 360搜索站长平台简介
360 webmaster tools and how site verification and submission work.
Publisher: 360 Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: site-validation, search-console, chinese-search
Platforms: 360-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 网站收录标准
First-party URL inclusion and site exclusion policies.
Publisher: 360 Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: search-policies, crawling, content-quality
Platforms: 360-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: Robots协议支持
First-party robots.txt controls and crawler conduct.
Publisher: 360 Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: robots, crawling
Platforms: 360-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: sitemap提交
Defines accepted sitemap file types, sizes, and site submission process.
Publisher: 360 Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, submission
Platforms: 360-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 结构化数据引入
Describes direct structured-content feed integrations into 360 Search results.
Publisher: 360 Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: structured-data, search-appearance, submission
Platforms: 360-search
Editorial note: This is a partner feed integration, not proof of automatic support for all on-page Schema.org markup. Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 新闻源收录标准
Official publisher eligibility rules for the 360 news vertical.
Publisher: 360 Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: news, search-policies, submission
Platforms: 360-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 网站身份验证常见问题和解决方法
Official website owner verification methods.
Publisher: 360 Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: site-validation, search-console
Platforms: 360-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 智能摘要
First-party submission and display documentation for enhanced snippets.
Publisher: 360 Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: search-appearance, structured-data
Platforms: 360-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: onebox开放平台
Publisher data integration for OneBox search presentation.
Publisher: 360 Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: search-appearance, publisher-integration
Platforms: 360-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 360蜘蛛ip
Official documentation of IP addresses associated with the 360 crawler.
Publisher: 360 Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, security
Platforms: 360-search
Editorial note: Confirm present crawler addresses independently before applying firewall rules; list may be stale.
Original title: 360搜索网页质量白皮书发布上线
Official 2017 release page linking to the webpage-quality whitepaper.
Publisher: 360 Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: content-quality, search-policies
Platforms: 360-search
Editorial note: This is a 2017 first-party whitepaper release page and should not be mistaken for updated 2026 ranking rules.
Original title: 拟公示算法机制机理内容
First-party public description of search ranking mechanisms.
Publisher: 360 Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: ranking, search-policies
Platforms: 360-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 站点子链
First-party documentation of search-result sublinks for websites.
Publisher: 360 Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: links, search-appearance
Platforms: 360-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Sogou Search (China), official first-party search and webmaster resource-platform help.
Original title: 站长指南
First-party webmaster guidelines for indexing, robots, search placement and penalties.
Publisher: Sogou | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, robots, ranking, content-quality
Platforms: sogou-search
Editorial note: Official content includes legacy technologies and dated recommendations; not all guidance is confirmed applicable in 2026.
Original title: 工具说明
Official overview of resource-platform webmaster tools.
Publisher: Sogou | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: search-console, site-validation, diagnostics
Platforms: sogou-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 网站验证帮助
Verifying webmaster property control via HTML tag or file, with applicable publisher requirements.
Publisher: Sogou | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: site-validation, crawling
Platforms: sogou-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: Sitemap提交帮助
Sitemap formats, per-file limits, and invitation-based sitemap access in Sogou.
Publisher: Sogou | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, submission
Platforms: sogou-search
Editorial note: Document states sitemap tool is invitation-based; verify eligibility before relying on it. Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 死链提交帮助
Dead URL submission, files and directory/pattern removal.
Publisher: Sogou | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: removals, status-codes
Platforms: sogou-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 域名变更帮助
Official procedure to report site-domain moves with 301 redirects.
Publisher: Sogou | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: site-migrations, redirects
Platforms: sogou-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 移动适配帮助
PC-to-WAP matching rules and structured mappings for mobile results.
Publisher: Sogou | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: mobile, international-seo
Platforms: sogou-search
Editorial note: Legacy PC/WAP-era tool; availability and current utility unconfirmed.
Original title: 抓取诊断
How Sogou crawler sees site pages and diagnosis of missing content.
Publisher: Sogou | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, diagnostics, rendering
Platforms: sogou-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 收录索引查询
First-party index coverage and site indexing measurement.
Publisher: Sogou | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: search-console, diagnostics
Platforms: sogou-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 作弊问题
Sogou search penalties and prohibited deceptive indexing tactics.
Publisher: Sogou | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: search-policies, manual-actions
Platforms: sogou-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 收录常见问题
Sogou Spider, search indexing and site operator FAQ.
Publisher: Sogou | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, discovery, removals
Platforms: sogou-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Shenma Search (China), official mobile-search webmaster platform and submission tools.
Original title: 帮助
Official Shenma webmaster help center for verifying sites, mapping, sitemaps, analytics.
Publisher: Shenma | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: site-validation, chinese-search, search-console
Platforms: shenma-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 提交Sitemap
Official sitemap-submission procedure for mobile-oriented Shenma web search.
Publisher: Shenma | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, submission
Platforms: shenma-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Original title: 数据开放
Shenma first-party guide to data-open integration for its results.
Publisher: Shenma | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: submission, structured-data
Platforms: shenma-search
Editorial note: Publisher-owned page remains online but its age and continued feature availability are not established; verify against the live platform before implementation.
Yahoo! JAPAN (Japan), first-party documentation of web results, result metadata, index updates and removals.
Original title: 検索結果に表示されるタイトルや説明文を変更したい
First-party explanation of title and description signals in Yahoo! JAPAN web results.
Publisher: Yahoo! JAPAN Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ja | Format: HTML
Topics: metadata, search-appearance
Platforms: yahoo-japan-search
Original title: インデックスの更新について
Index update timing and eligibility for changed or removed pages.
Publisher: Yahoo! JAPAN Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ja | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, indexing
Platforms: yahoo-japan-search
Original title: 検索結果に情報を表示しないようにするには
Search result removal procedures for publishers and affected users.
Publisher: Yahoo! JAPAN Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ja | Format: HTML
Topics: removals, search-policies
Platforms: yahoo-japan-search
Original title: 私のホームページの画像、動画が検索されないようにしたい
Search exclusion of published image/video content via robots/meta controls.
Publisher: Yahoo! JAPAN Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ja | Format: HTML
Topics: images, video, robots
Platforms: yahoo-japan-search
Original title: 検索結果に表示される店舗情報モジュールの修正について
How publishers correct business location modules in Japanese search.
Publisher: Yahoo! JAPAN Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ja | Format: HTML
Topics: local-seo, entities
Platforms: yahoo-japan-search
Original title: Yahoo!検索における生成AIを用いた回答生成機能の利用に関するガイドライン
First-party terms/guidance for the search-integrated AI answer feature.
Publisher: Yahoo! JAPAN Search | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: ja | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, search-policies
Platforms: yahoo-japan-search
Editorial note: Linked from LY Corporation official product documentation; deep-link page not independently content-verified.
Startpage (Netherlands), official documentation about sourcing results from Google/Bing and inherited removal paths.
Startpage confirms reliance on third-party Google and Bing result feeds rather than its own crawl index.
Publisher: Startpage | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: discovery, regional-search
Platforms: startpage-search
First-party explanation of differences between provider SERPs and Startpage result feeds.
Publisher: Startpage | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: ranking, discovery
Platforms: startpage-search
Explains why website inclusion depends on Google/Bing and cannot be fixed in a separate Startpage index.
Publisher: Startpage | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: diagnostics, discovery
Platforms: startpage-search
Directs publishers to the original Google or Bing index for ordinary removals.
Publisher: Startpage | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: removals
Platforms: startpage-search
DeepSeek (China), first-party web-search and fetch API references (not a publisher ranking guide).
Developer guide for DeepSeek in-house Search API and Markdown page Fetch API, including result schemas.
Publisher: DeepSeek | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, search-grounding
Platforms: deepseek-search
Formal Search API request and response parameters including query operators, result ranking and URLs.
Publisher: DeepSeek | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, search-grounding
Platforms: deepseek-search
Formal API schema for retrieving third-party webpages as Markdown.
Publisher: DeepSeek | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, search-grounding
Platforms: deepseek-search
Qwen / Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (China), official AI grounding and web retrieval API documentation.
Original title: 大模型如何联网搜索
Qwen/Model Studio web search feature, source links and citation behavior.
Publisher: Alibaba Cloud | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, search-grounding
Platforms: qwen-grounding
Original title: 千问联网检索Agent产品简介
First-party developer documentation for Qwen network-search agent and source traceability.
Publisher: Alibaba Cloud | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, search-grounding
Platforms: qwen-grounding
Original title: 深入研究（Qwen-Deep-Research）
Official Qwen deep research tool API including source references.
Publisher: Alibaba Cloud | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, search-grounding
Platforms: qwen-grounding
Baidu Qianfan AI Search (China), official grounded web search, citations and retrieval APIs.
Original title: 联网搜索
Web search controls, source tracing and citation flags in Baidu Qianfan.
Publisher: Baidu Qianfan | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, search-grounding
Platforms: baidu-ai-grounding
Original title: 智能搜索生成
Baidu search-augmented answer generation, deep search and cited website fields.
Publisher: Baidu Qianfan | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, search-grounding
Platforms: baidu-ai-grounding
Original title: 深度研究Agent
Baidu search-supported deep research with public web source citations.
Publisher: Baidu Qianfan | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: ai-search, search-grounding
Platforms: baidu-ai-grounding
Kimi / Moonshot AI (China), first-party documented web-search tool integration.
Original title: 如何在Kimi API 中使用官方工具
Kimi official-tools API and web-search tool integration for supported models.
Publisher: Moonshot AI | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, search-grounding
Platforms: kimi-grounding
Moonshot API overview exposing current search and fetch REST endpoints.
Publisher: Moonshot AI | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, search-grounding
Platforms: kimi-grounding
Z.AI / Zhipu GLM (China), first-party search retrieval and search APIs.
GLM developer web search overview and online source retrieval.
Publisher: Zhipu AI | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, search-grounding
Platforms: zai-grounding
Formal web-search API returning structured webpages for LLM consumption.
Publisher: Zhipu AI | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, search-grounding
Platforms: zai-grounding
Original title: 工具
Zhipu Agent tools for public web search and fetch, with structured citation inputs.
Publisher: Zhipu AI | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: zh-CN | Format: HTML
Topics: search-apis, search-grounding
Platforms: zai-grounding
Cốc Cốc (Vietnam): own webmaster console, robots directives, sitemap and index management.
Original title: Giới Thiệu
Official portal for submitting URLs and sitemaps and accessing Cốc Cốc crawler controls.
Publisher: Cốc Cốc | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-search, search-tools, discovery
Platforms: coc-coc-webmaster
Original title: Cách hoạt động của Tìm kiếm Cốc Cốc
Explains Cốc Cốc search crawler, indexer, query processing and its specialized search result composition.
Publisher: Cốc Cốc | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-search, crawling, indexing
Platforms: coc-coc-search
Editorial note: Article displays a 2022 revision date although still linked from the current first-party webmaster manual.
Original title: Cách tối ưu hóa cho Tìm kiếm Cốc Cốc
Search engine published webmaster instructions covering crawlable links, metadata, robots, sitemap declarations and search relevance.
Publisher: Cốc Cốc | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-search, crawling, links, content-quality
Platforms: coc-coc-webmaster
Original title: Đưa trang web của bạn lên Tìm kiếm Cốc Cốc
Official URL indexing submission instructions.
Publisher: Cốc Cốc | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: indexing, url-submission
Platforms: coc-coc-webmaster
Original title: Gửi sitemap cho Tìm kiếm Cốc Cốc
Publisher instructions for sitemap submission to Cốc Cốc index.
Publisher: Cốc Cốc | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, indexing
Platforms: coc-coc-webmaster
Original title: Gỡ trang web của bạn khỏi Tìm kiếm Cốc Cốc
Official controls for requesting removal of a website from results.
Publisher: Cốc Cốc | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: indexing, removals
Platforms: coc-coc-webmaster
Original title: Xử lý tình trạng quá tải trang web do các robot của Cốc Cốc
Publisher documentation for crawler-induced server load and responses.
Publisher: Cốc Cốc | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, robots
Platforms: coc-coc-webmaster
Original title: Robots.txt - Giao thức loại trừ robot
Platform-specific robots.txt rules published by the crawler operator.
Publisher: Cốc Cốc | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: robots, crawling
Platforms: coc-coc-webmaster
Original title: Các robot của Cốc Cốc
Identifies Cốc Cốc robots for webmaster identification and access control.
Publisher: Cốc Cốc | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: crawling, robots
Platforms: coc-coc-webmaster
Original title: Lệnh Noindex
Platform indexing controls using noindex directives.
Publisher: Cốc Cốc | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: indexing, robots
Platforms: coc-coc-webmaster
Yandex Business and Maps (Russia and other markets): location listings, owner controls, reviews and discovery metrics.
Publisher overview of free Yandex Maps and Search business inclusion.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: place-profiles, directory-listings
Platforms: yandex-maps
First-party business listing creation and verification including category and website fields.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: directory-listings, place-verification
Platforms: yandex-maps
Documents how listing data appears in Yandex Maps, Search and Navigator.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: place-profiles, discovery
Platforms: yandex-maps
Required listing fields, category, location, services and updates awaiting moderation.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: metadata, place-profiles
Platforms: yandex-maps
Official business owner verification procedure for managing profiles.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: place-verification, directory-listings
Platforms: yandex-maps
Image requirements and photo selection rules for business profiles and map display.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: images, place-profiles
Platforms: yandex-maps
Official explanation of ratings visible in Yandex Search and Maps.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-ranking, reviews
Platforms: yandex-maps
Publisher rules for online businesses without public storefront addresses.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: directory-listings, place-profiles
Platforms: yandex-maps
Posting and moderation rules for business profiles; Yandex says posts do not affect search ranking.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: place-profiles, metadata
Platforms: yandex-maps
Editorial note: Posts are a listing feature, not asserted as an organic ranking factor.
Documentation of nearby-category competitor comparison and discovery clicks.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-ranking, search-analytics
Platforms: yandex-maps
Official business profile traffic and click reporting across Yandex properties.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-analytics, place-profiles
Platforms: yandex-maps
Official distinction between removing owner access and marking a place closed on the map.
Publisher: Yandex | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: removals, place-profiles
Platforms: yandex-maps
Kakao Maps business listing and KakaoTalk channel discovery (South Korea).
Original title: 카카오비즈니스 매장관리
Kakao listing service allows merchant information to display in Kakao Maps, Daum and Kakao Navi.
Publisher: Kakao | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ko | Format: HTML
Topics: directory-listings, place-profiles
Platforms: kakao-maps
Original title: 매장관리
Detailed first-party guide to listing eligibility, store hours, categories, imagery, representative tags and reviews.
Publisher: Kakao | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ko | Format: HTML
Topics: place-profiles, metadata, place-verification
Platforms: kakao-maps
Original title: 채널관리
Publisher explains public and search visibility toggles, country exposure and channel identity.
Publisher: Kakao | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ko | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, directory-listings
Platforms: kakao-channel
Original title: 채널 만들기
Kakao channel registration and linking to business premises.
Publisher: Kakao | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ko | Format: HTML
Topics: directory-listings, place-verification
Platforms: kakao-channel
LY Corporation Yahoo! Place: Japan-specific business listing rules and discovery reports.
Original title: Yahoo!プレイス
Official service describes how submitted place data may appear in Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Maps.
Publisher: Ly Corporation | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ja | Format: HTML
Topics: place-profiles, directory-listings
Platforms: yahoo-japan-places
Original title: Yahoo!プレイス ヘルプ
Maintained help catalog covering business data, images, visibility, analytics and bulk submissions.
Publisher: Ly Corporation | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ja | Format: HTML
Topics: directory-listings, place-profiles
Platforms: yahoo-japan-places
Original title: 情報管理
Official reference on business attributes, operating hours, categories and service details.
Publisher: Ly Corporation | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ja | Format: HTML
Topics: metadata, place-profiles
Platforms: yahoo-japan-places
Original title: 写真管理
Official image format, minimum dimensions, type and cover-photo display guidance.
Publisher: Ly Corporation | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ja | Format: HTML
Topics: images, place-profiles
Platforms: yahoo-japan-places
Original title: お知らせ管理
Official notices and campaigns posting requirements and where announcements can surface on maps.
Publisher: Ly Corporation | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ja | Format: HTML
Topics: metadata, place-profiles
Platforms: yahoo-japan-places
Original title: 分析
Official metrics for business impressions in Search and Maps and follow-on actions.
Publisher: Ly Corporation | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ja | Format: HTML
Topics: search-analytics, local-ranking
Platforms: yahoo-japan-places
Original title: 一括入稿
Bulk listing submission reference for managing multiple facilities.
Publisher: Ly Corporation | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ja | Format: HTML
Topics: directory-listings, metadata
Platforms: yahoo-japan-places
Original title: Yahoo!プレイス登録情報の表示について
Official documentation of how uploaded listing information is presented on supported Yahoo! surfaces.
Publisher: Ly Corporation | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ja | Format: HTML
Topics: directory-listings, discovery
Platforms: yahoo-japan-places
Mapy.com/Seznam (Czechia): local/map search, business profiles and listing visibility.
Publisher describes map viewport, language, location and paid business auctions affecting local result presentation.
Publisher: Mapy.com | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-ranking, regional-search
Platforms: mapy-com
Official company search matching, business claim and listing inclusion rules, with paid-result distinctions.
Publisher: Mapy.com | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: directory-listings, place-profiles
Platforms: mapy-com
Publisher lists visible profile fields and relevance-oriented place detail modules.
Publisher: Mapy.com | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: place-profiles, metadata
Platforms: mapy-com
Official place-submission and correction options for Czech and international businesses.
Publisher: Mapy.com | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: directory-listings, place-verification
Platforms: mapy-com
MetaGer (Germany): primary-source metasearch composition, results and source-provider controls.
MetaGer explains its relationship to crawled source search indexes and results aggregation.
Publisher: Metager | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: metasearch, regional-search
Platforms: metager-search
Official guidance for selecting contributing engines and search filters.
Publisher: Metager | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: metasearch, search-features
Platforms: metager-search
Editorial note: Metasearch provider; not evidence of an independent MetaGer crawl index.
Swiss local.ch/search.ch directory publication and edits (not a general web crawler).
Original title: Ihr Eintrag auf local.ch, search.ch und localcities.ch
First-party business directory registration, updating and deletion across three Swiss platforms.
Publisher: Localsearch Ch | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: de | Format: HTML
Topics: directory-listings, place-verification
Platforms: swiss-directories
Justdial (India): local business category search and listing-management rules.
First-party FAQ details business listing edits, category/keyword selection and moderation.
Publisher: Justdial | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: directory-listings, place-profiles
Platforms: justdial-local
Editorial note: Hosted in Justdial-branded help/blog section; verify present-day interface and publication freshness before treating detailed procedures as current.
LINE Official Account search eligibility, verified business-profile appearance and account-level search visibility in Japan, Taiwan and Thailand.
Documents visibility switches for official accounts in LINE search and recommendations, including verification prerequisites.
Publisher: Line | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-eligibility, profile-discovery
Platforms: line-official-account
Describes which official account types qualify to appear in LINE in-app search results.
Publisher: Line | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-eligibility, profile-discovery
Platforms: line-official-account
Specifies which verified business profile fields may appear on the public web and within LINE or LY services.
Publisher: Line | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, search-eligibility
Platforms: line-official-account
Explains how account-level data propagates to LINE and other LY Corporation search surfaces.
Publisher: Line | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, content-discovery
Platforms: line-official-account
Defines deep-link and web URI forms for opening a searchable official account business profile.
Publisher: Line | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, social-apis
Platforms: line-official-account
Kakao/Daum first-party web, blog, image, video and Cafe search API specifications in Korea; retrieval interfaces, not publisher ranking promises.
Defines Daum indexed web, blog, image, video, book and Cafe search API capabilities.
Publisher: Kakao | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: vertical-search-apis, search-apis
Platforms: daum-vertical-search
Documents Daum Search REST endpoints, required query parameters and result sorting for multiple vertical indices.
Publisher: Kakao | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: vertical-search-apis, search-apis
Platforms: daum-vertical-search
Baidu Maps POI inclusion, merchant management, and first-party location search API schemas in mainland China.
Original title: 百度地图商户中心
Official merchant portal describing location submission, data editing, photos, reviews and business profile fields.
Publisher: Baidu Maps | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: zh-Hans | Format: HTML
Topics: directory-listings, place-profiles
Platforms: baidu-maps
Editorial note: Merchant management landing page, not an organic map ranking-factor specification.
Original title: 地点检索3.0
Defines searchable location fields, query semantics, POI attributes and place detail responses in Baidu Maps API.
Publisher: Baidu Maps | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: zh-Hans | Format: HTML
Topics: vertical-search-apis, local-ranking
Platforms: baidu-maps
Editorial note: API schema and search retrieval, not a guarantee of first-party consumer Maps ranking. Publisher page updated October 20, 2026.
Original title: 开始使用
Official location API guide covering regional, radial, polygon, place-detail and suggested-query endpoints.
Publisher: Baidu Maps | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: zh-Hans | Format: HTML
Topics: vertical-search-apis, directory-listings
Platforms: baidu-maps
2GIS official local discovery, directory listing, result ordering, profile editing and ratings (Russia and other served markets).
Official statement linking business search ordering to card completeness and platform engagement.
Publisher: 2GIS | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-search-ranking, place-profiles
Platforms: two-gis
Explains free business submissions and 2GIS verification procedures.
Publisher: 2GIS | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: directory-listings, place-verification
Platforms: two-gis
Explains business-owned profile corrections, images, review responses and business-card performance information.
Publisher: 2GIS | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: place-profiles, search-analytics
Platforms: two-gis
Defines business-card attributes used as filters for company searches, including rating, images, hours and accessibility.
Publisher: 2GIS | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-search-ranking, directory-listings
Platforms: two-gis
Official description of company searches by name, categories, website, phone and service.
Publisher: 2GIS | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: local-search-ranking, content-discovery
Platforms: two-gis
Original title: Отзывы в 2ГИС: откуда берётся рейтинг компаний
Describes weighted review score inputs including recency and confirmation signals.
Publisher: 2GIS | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ru | Format: HTML
Topics: reviews, local-search-ranking
Platforms: two-gis
Original title: Как компании попасть в путеводитель
Official eligibility and editorial selection guidance for featured 2GIS guidebook listings.
Publisher: 2GIS | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ru | Format: HTML
Topics: content-discovery, directory-listings
Platforms: two-gis
Original title: Как изменить и дополнить информацию об объектах и организациях
Documents business data edits, new categories, contact details and user-submitted corrections.
Publisher: 2GIS | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: ru | Format: HTML
Topics: place-profiles, directory-listings
Platforms: two-gis
Mercado Libre third-party product-discovery, listing quality and category/attribute APIs across Latin American marketplaces.
First-party listing-quality API documentation connecting metadata completeness with product exposure.
Publisher: Mercadolibre | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: listing-quality, seller-analytics
Platforms: mercadolibre-marketplace
Editorial note: Official page notes that /health API was replaced by /performance in February 2026.
Explains category-specific required attributes that may affect ranking in on-site product search.
Publisher: Mercadolibre | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: product-taxonomy, regional-marketplace-search
Platforms: mercadolibre-marketplace
Describes product category trees and attribute schemas used to structure searchable product listings.
Publisher: Mercadolibre | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: product-taxonomy, marketplace-catalog
Platforms: mercadolibre-marketplace
Specifies title-based category prediction and API lookup for listing preparation.
Publisher: Mercadolibre | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: product-taxonomy, marketplace-catalog
Platforms: mercadolibre-marketplace
OLX Brazil first-party classified-ad search relevance, listing visibility and eligibility (not general-web indexing).
Original title: Como fazer uma busca
Official description of on-platform search matching, relevance sorting, listing completeness and region filters.
Publisher: OLX Brazil | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: pt-BR | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-marketplace-search, listing-quality
Platforms: olx-brazil
Original title: Como publicar anúncio
Documents category, photo and complete-field requirements that affect classified search visibility.
Publisher: OLX Brazil | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: pt-BR | Format: HTML
Topics: listing-moderation, regional-marketplace-search
Platforms: olx-brazil
Original title: Anúncios inativos
Specifies keyword stuffing, wrong categories and duplicates that can lead to removal or restricted publication.
Publisher: OLX Brazil | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: pt-BR | Format: HTML
Topics: listing-moderation, spam-policies
Platforms: olx-brazil
Flipkart India marketplace listing publication and product metadata APIs relevant to on-platform discoverability.
Describes customer-visible listing creation, titles, descriptions, product attributes and image completeness.
Publisher: Flipkart | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, listing-quality
Platforms: flipkart-marketplace
Seller API semantics for active/inactive listing state and publishing metadata.
Publisher: Flipkart | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-catalog, seller-listings
Platforms: flipkart-marketplace
Official API payload for publishing marketplace listings and controlling their visibility.
Publisher: Flipkart | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-catalog, search-eligibility
Platforms: flipkart-marketplace
Official mechanism for editing catalog listing fields and status.
Publisher: Flipkart | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: marketplace-catalog, seller-listings
Platforms: flipkart-marketplace
sahibinden.com Turkey classified-search ordering, listing approval and moderation.
Original title: Gelişmiş Sıralama Nedir?
Discloses listing completeness, recency, location, duplicated-ad and paid-highlight interactions in search sorting.
Publisher: Sahibinden | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: tr | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-marketplace-search, listing-quality
Platforms: sahibinden
Original title: İlan Arama
Explains phrase/keyword matching in Turkey classified listings.
Publisher: Sahibinden | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: tr | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-marketplace-search
Platforms: sahibinden
Original title: İlanım Ne Zaman Yayınlanır?
Official listing review and rejection conditions involving category, photos, contact information and prices.
Publisher: Sahibinden | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: tr | Format: HTML
Topics: listing-moderation, search-eligibility
Platforms: sahibinden
Jiji Nigeria/Kenya classified listing publication, search eligibility and moderation in African markets.
First-party rules for classified titles, descriptions, images, categories, duplicate prevention and eligibility.
Publisher: Jiji | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: listing-moderation, seller-listings
Platforms: jiji-africa
States that listings are not searchable during initial or renewed moderation.
Publisher: Jiji | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-eligibility, listing-moderation
Platforms: jiji-africa
Explains free ad limits, draft-only listings and purchase of additional publication slots.
Publisher: Jiji | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-eligibility, listing-moderation
Platforms: jiji-africa
Specifies why ads must pass moderation before returning in on-platform search.
Publisher: Jiji | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: listing-moderation, search-eligibility
Platforms: jiji-africa
Kenya-specific official requirements governing classifieds acceptance and searchable listing presentation.
Publisher: Jiji | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: listing-moderation, seller-listings
Platforms: jiji-africa
idealista Spain/Portugal property-search ordering, organic/paid result positions and listing publishing.
Original title: Cómo ordenamos los resultados
First-party explanation of relevance sorting, listing completeness, freshness and paid placement.
Publisher: Idealista | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: es | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-marketplace-search, listing-quality
Platforms: idealista
Original title: ¿Cómo poner un anuncio de un inmueble?
Documents structured property detail fields required for listing publication.
Publisher: Idealista | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: es | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, search-eligibility
Platforms: idealista
Original title: Destacar tu anuncio en los listados con alguno de nuestros servicios
Describes separately purchased highlighting services; labels them as paid rather than organic ranking.
Publisher: Idealista | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: es | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-marketplace-search, listing-quality
Platforms: idealista
Original title: Todo sobre: Publicación
Official publisher-facing tool for which inventory listings are submitted into idealista search.
Publisher: Idealista | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: es | Format: HTML
Topics: seller-listings, search-eligibility
Platforms: idealista
Yell UK official business-profile discoverability and directory inclusion.
Yell first-party directory inclusion and owner profile presentation rules.
Publisher: Yell | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: directory-listings, place-profiles
Platforms: yell-uk
Editorial note: Product landing documentation; no independent organic ordering factors provided.
WeChat Search / mini-program discoverability and documented content-indexing controls (China); distinguishes public product overview from unverified developer URL.
Original title: 搜一搜
Tencent describes WeChat Search as discovery across accounts, messages, publisher content and services.
Publisher: Tencent Wechat | Authority: Official Spec Overview | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: zh-Hans | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-search, content-discovery
Platforms: wechat-search
Original title: sitemap 配置
Developer documentation URL for mini-program page indexing permissions and sitemap.json rules.
Publisher: Tencent Wechat | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-Hans | Format: HTML
Topics: mini-app-indexing, sitemaps, publisher-controls
Platforms: wechat-search
Editorial note: Official developers.weixin.qq.com URL corroborated by multiple developer references; direct retrieval failed during this pass. Treat implementation status as unverified and revisit.
Amap/Gaode first-party Chinese map and point-of-interest search API fields; developer retrieval rather than organic POI-ranking policy.
Original title: 搜索POI 2.0
Documents POI keyword, nearby, polygon and identifier retrieval, filters, supported metadata and result constraints in the new place search API.
Publisher: Amap | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: zh-Hans | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-local-discovery, geocoding, search-apis
Platforms: amap-gaode
Editorial note: API output/sorting is not an official consumer Maps organic-ranking specification.
Original title: 输入提示
Autocomplete and place category/location bias parameters for point-of-interest query suggestions.
Publisher: Amap | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: zh-Hans | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-local-discovery, geocoding, search-apis
Platforms: amap-gaode
Original title: 搜索POI
Earlier v3 point-of-interest retrieval endpoint; retained as implementation reference alongside POI 2.0.
Publisher: Amap | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-Hans | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-local-discovery, geocoding, search-apis
Platforms: amap-gaode
Editorial note: Older v3 API documentation; newer POI 2.0 exists. Check legacy availability before implementation.
Vietnam Zalo Official Account publisher identity, searchable profiles, imagery and content presentation requirements.
Original title: Khởi tạo Zalo Official Account
Business categories, visible account names, description and verification requirements for searchable official accounts.
Publisher: Zalo | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, search-eligibility, regional-local-discovery
Platforms: zalo-discovery
Original title: Chính sách về đăng ký và sử dụng tài khoản OA
Platform name conventions and identity/image policies for visible business accounts.
Publisher: Zalo | Authority: Platform Policy | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, search-eligibility, search-policies
Platforms: zalo-discovery
Original title: Trang thông tin OA
Defines public-facing profile name, branded imagery, branch association and account information fields.
Publisher: Zalo | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, metadata, search-eligibility
Platforms: zalo-discovery
Original title: Hướng dẫn xác thực
Official required verification documents and business account approval steps.
Publisher: Zalo | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: place-verification, search-eligibility
Platforms: zalo-discovery
Original title: Ảnh đại diện, ảnh bìa OA
Defines logo/cover image type, size and content rules for business account identity.
Publisher: Zalo | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, images, metadata
Platforms: zalo-discovery
Original title: Tạo bài viết
Official formats and visible title, cover and description limits for Zalo OA articles and videos.
Publisher: Zalo | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: content-discovery, metadata, video
Platforms: zalo-discovery
Original title: Thiết lập OA thu hút tương tác
Zalo first-party account documentation explicitly discusses how completed business profiles are found via Zalo search.
Publisher: Zalo | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: vi | Format: HTML
Topics: profile-discovery, search-eligibility, regional-local-discovery
Platforms: zalo-discovery
Editorial note: First-party prescriptive account setup material, not a precise organic search ranking-factor specification.
GrabFood and Grab regional restaurant discovery, searchable menu data, marketplace profiles and paid-versus-organic visibility (Southeast Asia).
Merchant-facing menu item names, categories, descriptions, image and translation fields influencing what consumers can find.
Publisher: Grab | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: restaurant-discovery, metadata, product-taxonomy
Platforms: grab-discovery
Country-specific merchant reference for searchable menu items, translated names and listing categories.
Publisher: Grab | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: restaurant-discovery, metadata, language
Platforms: grab-discovery
Official merchant listing media, branding and menu-material submission for restaurant discovery.
Publisher: Grab | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: restaurant-discovery, listing-quality, images
Platforms: grab-discovery
Rules for visible restaurant profile descriptions and acceptable listing claims.
Publisher: Grab | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: restaurant-discovery, metadata
Platforms: grab-discovery
Grab distinguishes paid top-of-search visibility from promotions, preventing paid placement from being mislabeled organic.
Publisher: Grab | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: restaurant-discovery, ranking, search-appearance
Platforms: grab-discovery
Definitions for merchant customer reach, visits and orders in on-platform performance insights.
Publisher: Grab | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: restaurant-discovery, seller-analytics
Platforms: grab-discovery
Wongnai / LINE MAN Thailand restaurant discovery and partner listing rules.
Wongnai/LINE MAN partner documentation describing placement of participating restaurants in the search interface.
Publisher: Wongnai | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: th | Format: HTML
Topics: restaurant-discovery, search-appearance
Platforms: wongnai-lineman
Editorial note: Commercial partner program may affect placement and is not a neutral disclosure of organic restaurant result sorting.
iFood Brazil official explanations of restaurant discovery, on-platform ranking, menu metadata and recommendation surfaces.
Original title: Como aparecer mais no iFood
First-party explanation of restaurant and dish search relevance, behavioral recommendations and operating-quality considerations.
Publisher: Ifood | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: pt-BR | Format: HTML
Topics: restaurant-discovery, ranking, search-eligibility
Platforms: ifood-brasil
Editorial note: First-party blog article expressly addressing ranking and discovery; not a machine-readable formal ranking specification.
Original title: Super Restaurantes iFood: como se destacar?
Official verified badge eligibility and exclusive customer search filters for Super Restaurante status.
Publisher: Ifood | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: pt-BR | Format: HTML
Topics: restaurant-discovery, search-eligibility, reviews
Platforms: ifood-brasil
Original title: Confira as mudanças nos destaques do Cardápio
Official description of automatic time-of-day recommendations based on recent menu-item sales.
Publisher: Ifood | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: pt-BR | Format: HTML
Topics: restaurant-discovery, social-recommendations, content-discovery
Platforms: ifood-brasil
Original title: Tudo sobre o módulo de cardápio no App do Parceiro
Defines partner-side product names, categories and visibility windows for searchable menus.
Publisher: Ifood | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: pt-BR | Format: HTML
Topics: restaurant-discovery, metadata, product-taxonomy
Platforms: ifood-brasil
Bayut UAE property search, verified listings, agent-search result rankings and visibility controls.
Ranking based on platform TruPoints, agent verification and search criteria, with a documented moving timeframe.
Publisher: Bayut | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: property-search, ranking, profile-discovery
Platforms: bayut-uae
Defines authenticity verification and government-registration signals for official listing-quality badges.
Publisher: Bayut | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: property-search, search-eligibility, listing-quality
Platforms: bayut-uae
Bayut directly explains the association between higher listing-quality scores and placement in property-search results.
Publisher: Bayut | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: property-search, ranking, listing-quality
Platforms: bayut-uae
First-party definition of recency-based order for agent stories after property filters are applied.
Publisher: Bayut | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: property-search, social-recommendations, ranking
Platforms: bayut-uae
Official profile identity, photo, language and specialization fields needed for published agent profiles.
Publisher: Bayut | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: property-search, profile-discovery, search-eligibility
Platforms: bayut-uae
Specifies how rejected or inactive property listings affect listing-quality visibility and diagnostics.
Publisher: Bayut | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: property-search, listing-moderation, listing-quality
Platforms: bayut-uae
Documents platform agent-performance credentials displayed alongside property and agent search results.
Publisher: Bayut | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: property-search, profile-discovery, listing-quality
Platforms: bayut-uae
Mappls / MapmyIndia place search and autocomplete data/API contracts in India; not a general web index.
Official location autocomplete API with place name, address, type, category and regional-language search attributes.
Publisher: Mappls | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-local-discovery, geocoding, search-apis
Platforms: mappls-india
Mappls API parameters for localized point-of-interest retrieval, including proximity and region filters.
Publisher: Mappls | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-local-discovery, geocoding, search-apis
Platforms: mappls-india
Editorial note: Describes API ranking bias and retrieval fields, not universal Mappls consumer app ranking signals.
Place search widget API and configuration specifying address, locality and place-type matching.
Publisher: Mappls | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-local-discovery, geocoding, search-apis
Platforms: mappls-india
OpenStreetMap community-maintained first-party mapping data conventions for business name, website, address, shop and opening hours, relevant to downstream search.
OSM project wiki documents shop=* classifications and complementary business identity fields.
Publisher: Openstreetmap | Authority: Official Vocabulary Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: place-data, local-seo, structured-data
Platforms: openstreetmap-data
Editorial note: Primary community-maintained OSM documentation; not a guarantee of ranking or inclusion in any particular downstream map product.
Official project wiki conventions for local, multilingual, alternative and historical geographic names.
Publisher: Openstreetmap | Authority: Official Vocabulary Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: place-data, internationalization, language
Platforms: openstreetmap-data
Official OSM website tag format, preferred canonical business links and common markup errors.
Publisher: Openstreetmap | Authority: Official Vocabulary Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: place-data, links, urls
Platforms: openstreetmap-data
Defines addr:* structured map attributes for place addresses and searchable mapped objects.
Publisher: Openstreetmap | Authority: Official Vocabulary Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: place-data, geocoding, structured-data
Platforms: openstreetmap-data
OSM service-business categorization and recommended identity/address fields.
Publisher: Openstreetmap | Authority: Official Vocabulary Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: place-data, local-seo, structured-data
Platforms: openstreetmap-data
Community-defined grammar for machine-readable place opening hours.
Publisher: Openstreetmap | Authority: Protocol Specification | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: place-data, structured-data
Platforms: openstreetmap-data
Editorial note: An OSM tagging grammar, not a W3C or IETF ratified standard.
Nominatim official location-search APIs and ranking internals used by OpenStreetMap-based geocoding services.
Official search endpoint, free-form and structured query handling and how OSM tags affect matching.
Publisher: Nominatim | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: geocoding, search-apis, regional-local-discovery
Platforms: nominatim-search
Official geocoder ranking configuration and distinction between search rank, address rank and importance.
Publisher: Nominatim | Authority: Official Implementation Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: geocoding, ranking, regional-local-discovery
Platforms: nominatim-search
Waze official business/place inclusion, editing and publication procedures for local destination discovery.
Official submission, category, name and community approval steps for Waze place search inclusion.
Publisher: Waze | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-local-discovery, business-listings, search-eligibility
Platforms: waze-maps
Official Map Editor route for place-name and map data correction and review.
Publisher: Waze | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-local-discovery, business-listings, place-verification
Platforms: waze-maps
Explains review and scheduled map-build delays before corrected business data appears in the app.
Publisher: Waze | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: regional-local-discovery, search-eligibility, business-listings
Platforms: waze-maps
Property24 South Africa first-party property-listing search and listing-quality disclosure.
Property24 states its Listing Quality Score identifies factors that can improve listing visibility in property search.
Publisher: Property24 | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: property-search, ranking, listing-quality
Platforms: property24-za
Editorial note: Product documentation; names ranking/quality relationship but does not enumerate its full search algorithm.
Additional official reference for German MetaGer metasearch operators and search behaviors.
German nonprofit metasearch engine documents exact-phrase operators, exclusion and query behavior.
Publisher: Metager | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: metasearch, search-operators
Platforms: metager-search-additional
Editorial note: Consumer search controls, not a first-party independent crawler or publisher SEO policy.
Vivo Quick App indexing and sitemap controls for Chinese quick-app discovery; historical-document caveat.
Original title: Sitemap配置
Developer syntax for enable/disable rules and quick-app search snippets, applicable to the vivo quick-app implementation.
Publisher: Vivo | Authority: Official Implementation Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Unknown | Language: zh-Hans | Format: HTML
Topics: mini-app-indexing, sitemaps, search-eligibility
Platforms: vivo-quick-app
Editorial note: Historical Quick App documentation; product/feature availability in 2026 was not independently verified.
First-party technical reference for CMS and web publishing behavior directly affecting crawling, indexing or canonicalization.
WordPress function that emits the robots meta tag with filtered directives.
Publisher: WordPress Core Developer Resources | Authority: Official Implementation Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: cms-indexing, robots
Platforms: web, wordpress
Core filter hook for modifying per-page robots meta directives.
Publisher: WordPress Core Developer Resources | Authority: Official Implementation Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: cms-indexing, robots
Platforms: web, wordpress
Outputs rel=canonical link tags for WordPress singular requests.
Publisher: WordPress Core Developer Resources | Authority: Official Implementation Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: cms-canonicalization, canonicalization
Platforms: web, wordpress
Computes the canonical URL for a WordPress post, including pagination behavior.
Publisher: WordPress Core Developer Resources | Authority: Official Implementation Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: cms-canonicalization, canonicalization
Platforms: web, wordpress
Core WordPress class implementing public XML sitemap output and routing.
Publisher: WordPress Core Developer Resources | Authority: Official Implementation Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, cms-indexing
Platforms: web, wordpress
Retrieves and initializes the WordPress core sitemap provider server.
Publisher: WordPress Core Developer Resources | Authority: Official Implementation Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: sitemaps, cms-indexing
Platforms: web, wordpress
Crawl datasets, bot verification and access-control infrastructure documented by the operating organization.
CCBot identification, crawling behavior and webmaster controls for the Common Crawl public web dataset.
Publisher: Common Crawl Foundation | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawl-corpora, crawling, robots
Platforms: web, common-crawl
Common Crawl first-party explanations of collection mechanics and crawler robots behavior.
Publisher: Common Crawl Foundation | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: crawl-corpora, crawling
Platforms: web, common-crawl
Operator documentation for identifying AI crawlers and managing automated access to a site.
Publisher: Cloudflare | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: bot-access-controls, crawling
Platforms: web, cloudflare-edge
Editorial note: These access controls are Cloudflare-specific implementations, not universally supported search engine protocols.
Official crawler-identification, categorization and per-crawler access-management controls.
Publisher: Cloudflare | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: bot-access-controls, crawling
Platforms: web, cloudflare-edge
Monitor robots.txt preferences and compare them with observed AI crawler requests.
Publisher: Cloudflare | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: bot-access-controls, robots
Platforms: web, cloudflare-edge
Cloudflare-generated robots.txt instructions and Content Signals Policy, with stated distinction between preferences and enforcement.
Publisher: Cloudflare | Authority: Official Implementation Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: bot-access-controls, robots, publisher-rights
Platforms: web, cloudflare-edge
Editorial note: Current feature names and defaults may change independently of robots.txt RFC semantics.
Official enforcement order and interaction between Cloudflare WAF rules and AI Crawl Control.
Publisher: Cloudflare | Authority: Official Implementation Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: bot-access-controls, crawling
Platforms: web, cloudflare-edge
First-party bot identity verification using HTTP message signatures and implementation-specific limitations.
Publisher: Cloudflare | Authority: Official Implementation Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: bot-authentication, crawling
Platforms: web, cloudflare-edge
Editorial note: Cloudflare implementation details are not a W3C or IETF ratified universal Web Bot Auth standard.
Official search diagnostics, change history, and field-performance measurement specifications.
Google Search operational status and incident history for crawling, indexing, ranking and serving.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Tool Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-operations, indexing, crawling
Platforms: google-search
Official explanation of status definitions, incident scope, ranking update notifications and historical records.
Publisher: Google | Authority: Official Practice Guide | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: search-operations
Platforms: google-search
Official documentation of Chrome real-user experience metrics and data availability.
Publisher: Google Chrome for Developers | Authority: Platform Documentation | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: web-performance-data, core-web-vitals
Platforms: web, chrome-crux
HTTP endpoint and request schema for querying Chrome UX Report field metrics.
Publisher: Google Chrome for Developers | Authority: Official API Reference | Stage: Publisher Maintained | Status: Current | Language: en | Format: HTML
Topics: web-performance-data, core-web-vitals
Platforms: web, chrome-crux
Officially released court documents, exhibits, and patent registries. These are historical or evidentiary sources, not current rules for search ranking or publisher eligibility.
Official directory linking opinions, judgment, litigation motions, and remedies exhibits.
Repository: U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division | Type: Court Case Repository
Interpretation limit: Historical legal or technical record, not a current ranking algorithm specification or webmaster instruction.
Government-hosted archive of publicly released admitted trial exhibits from the search monopoly case.
Repository: U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division | Type: Admitted Exhibits Repository
Interpretation limit: Historical legal or technical record, not a current ranking algorithm specification or webmaster instruction.
First-party remedies hearing exhibit repository from the 2025 proceedings.
Repository: U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division | Type: Admitted Exhibits Repository
Interpretation limit: Historical legal or technical record, not a current ranking algorithm specification or webmaster instruction.
Public abridged exhibit about Google user interactions and the search experience.
Repository: U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division | Document date: 2017-05-15 | Type: Court Exhibit
Interpretation limit: Historical legal or technical record, not a current ranking algorithm specification or webmaster instruction.
Internal presentation discussing historical click prediction approaches and their limitations.
Repository: U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division | Document date: 2016-01-05 | Type: Court Exhibit
Interpretation limit: Historical legal or technical record, not a current ranking algorithm specification or webmaster instruction.
Abridged internal presentation introducing historical web ranking discussions and research constraints.
Repository: U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division | Document date: 2018-11-16 | Type: Court Exhibit
Interpretation limit: Historical legal or technical record, not a current ranking algorithm specification or webmaster instruction.
Historical internal presentation about logged interactions and search ranking systems.
Repository: U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division | Document date: 2020-05-08 | Type: Court Exhibit
Interpretation limit: Historical legal or technical record, not a current ranking algorithm specification or webmaster instruction.
Court-issued final judgment governing remedies and conduct in the search monopolization case.
Repository: U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division | Document date: 2025-12-05 | Type: Court Judgment
Interpretation limit: Legal judgment; regulatory obligations are not search implementation guidelines and may be affected by appeals or subsequent orders.
Court opinion on wording of the remedial judgment and its implementation.
Repository: U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division | Document date: 2025-12-05 | Type: Court Opinion
Interpretation limit: Judicial analysis, not Google Search webmaster documentation; see the continuing DOJ case docket for subsequent developments.
Official search interface for grants and published applications involving search and information-retrieval techniques.
Repository: United States Patent and Trademark Office | Type: Patent Record Search
Interpretation limit: Patents protect claimed inventions, including unrealized ones; a granted patent is not evidence that any feature was deployed or determines current ranking.
These are NOT official documentation. They are explicitly segregated, individually selected independent investigations of unusual primary evidence.
Original independent technical investigation of disclosed ranking-factor identifiers and deprecation flags.
Author: Dan Taylor | Publisher: Search Engine Journal | Published: 2023-02-01
Interpretation limit: Analysis of leaked historical code; not first-party policy, not evidence these factors govern current Yandex or Google rankings.
Technical analysis of historical Yandex search relevance code and factor coefficients.
Author: Michael King | Publisher: Search Engine Land | Published: 2023-01-31
Interpretation limit: Independent interpretation of leaked repository, with no representation of current algorithm or parallel Google implementation.