Search Console, AI, and HTTPs updates Search Console (Q4 ‘25)

Get all the vital information for your website’s performance and search engine optimization with this edition of Google Search News. John Mueller dives into Search Console enhancements, including custom annotations in performance reports that help you label and track events affecting your site.

Explore how AI mode is transforming user interactions by allowing direct execution of tasks in search, such as reserving tables, and understand how Google is improving discoverability for high-quality content creators in Discover.

This episode also clarifies how Google is streamlining shopping policies for e-commerce sites, emphasizing the importance of structured data, and highlights the upcoming enforcement of HTTPS by default in Chrome for a more secure and trustworthy web.

Resources:
Search Console achievements →https://goo.gle/4oHN7d1
Query groups →https://goo.gle/49U1vu7
Custom annotations →https://goo.gle/49HN4cP
AI Mode expansions → https://goo.gle/43vh4Vm
Agentic features → https://goo.gle/3X1kJGM
Web Guide → https://goo.gle/47OLdBC
Creators in Discover → https://goo.gle/4pdTIf9
Shipping and return policies → https://goo.gle/3LMVK7x
HTTPS by default → https://goo.gle/483bFpK
Revenue Manager in Site Kit for WordPress → https://goo.gle/4r6uvF4
llms.txt →

And of course:
Hannah Masters: Maximising the click: the two-way relationship between SEO & UX → https://goo.gle/43z9usJ
Charles Meaden: Lessons Learnt from Crawling 1000+ websites → https://goo.gle/47VEjup
Barry Adams: AI Survival Strategies for Publishers → https://goo.gle/4oTnOVK

Watch more Google Search News → https://goo.gle/SearchNews
Subscribe to the Google Search Central YouTube Channel → https://goo.gle/SearchCentral

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Speaker: John Mueller
Products Mentioned: Search Console

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