Search Central Community in 2022  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google Developers

Tuesday, March 07, 2023

The Search Central Community is
an online forum where site owners can help each other troubleshoot issues around their site’s
presence on Google Search, discuss various Search updates, and share tips on improving their site’s
visibility on Search.

2022 was a great year for our community. With over 9 million unique users and 32,000 threads posted
across 17 languages last year, the community has not only been an important place for site owners
to learn about and tackle Search issues—but also for Google to improve its systems based on the
issues surfaced here.

The community further evolved as a place for announcements on product issues, updates and outages
from Googlers and our Product Experts. 2022
also had the return of in-person summits to gather Product Experts from around the world.

Celebrating our Product Experts

We are quite fortunate to have many Product Experts who are passionate about Google Search and
enjoy helping other users.

Our Product Experts regularly share valuable feedback that helps us identify and address issues to
improve Search for site owners. Highlights include community feedback that helped us resolve
multiple Sitemap and URL Removal tool issues in Search Console, and remove multiple networks of
hacked sites in various languages like Turkish and Chinese.

Our Product Experts also contributed a wealth of knowledge to help users in the forums. Some of
the highlights include:

We also couldn’t have had smooth launches for many features and reports in Search Console like the
new URL Inspection API, GA4 in Search Console, Video Indexing report and many more without the
valuable feedback from our Product Experts.

Product Expert Summits

To thank our Product Experts, we hosted Product Expert Summits in three locations including New
York in June, Dublin in September, and Singapore in December with our Platinum and Diamond Product
Experts joining in-person and our Gold Product Experts joining online.

We had around 120 experts join us for 10 Search-specific breakout sessions across all three summits.
The sessions covered a variety of topics including new features in Search Console, How Structured
Data is ingested, Video Indexing in Search among others. Attendees reported positive feedback on
the quality and technical nature of the sessions. Many Product Experts also mentioned the opportunity
to engage in-person with other Product Experts and Googlers as a key reason for their joining the event.

We also took this unique opportunity to celebrate our experts with an award ceremony during the
summits where our Experts Lino Uruñuela and
Le Van Phu received the Troubleshooter award in recognition
of their ability to take on complex problems. Mohamed Eloueryaghly
received the Extra Mile award for going above and beyond in helping other users, while
Daniel Ulczyk and Suzuki Kenichi
received the Mentor award to recognize their efforts in guiding many other experts in the program.

Throughout the year, we also hosted multiple hangouts for our Product Experts on product updates
and general Q&A where they can raise questions and provide feedback on both Google Search as well
as the Product Experts program.

Interested in joining the Search Central Community
to help other users, learn more about different aspects of Google Search, and participate in early
feature releases for Search Console? You can sign up for the Product Experts program.

Posted by Aaseesh Marina,
Search Product Support Manager