Tuesday, March 31, 2020<\/p>\n
\n Health organizations are busier than ever providing information to help with the COVID-19 \n By default, Google tries to show the most relevant, authoritative information in response to any \n To better guide health-related organizations in this process (known as \n In addition to our best practices help page, health organizations can take part in our new \n We’ll be approving requests for access on a case-by-case basis. At first we’ll be accepting only \n Fill this form<\/a> to request access to the \n The group was created to respond to the current needs of health organizations, and we intend to \n Everyone is welcome to use our existing webmaster help forum<\/a>, \n
\n pandemic. To better assist them, Google has created a
\n best practices article<\/a> to
\n guide health organizations to make COVID-19 information more accessible on Search. We’ve also
\n created a new technical support group for eligible health organizations.\n <\/p>\n\n Best practices for search visibility
\n <\/h2>\n
\n search. This process is more effective when content owners help Google understand their content
\n in appropriate ways.\n <\/p>\n
\n SEO<\/a>, for “search engine
\n optimization”), we have produced a new help center article with some
\n important best practices<\/b><\/a>,
\n with emphasis on health information sites, including:<\/p>\n\n
\n New support group for health organizations
\n <\/h2>\n
\n technical support group that’s focused on helping health organizations who publish COVID-19
\n information with Search related questions.\n <\/p>\n
\n domains under national health ministries and US state level agencies. We’ll inform of future
\n expansions here in this blog post, and on our Twitter account<\/a>.
\n You’ll need to register using either an email under those domains (for example, name@health.gov) or have
\n access<\/a> to the website Search
\n Console account.\n <\/p>\n
\n COVID-19 Google Search group.<\/b>\n <\/p>\n
\n deprecate the group as soon as COVID-19 is no longer considered a Public Health Emergency by WHO
\n or some similar deescalation is widely in place.\n <\/p>\n
\n and if you have any questions or comments, please let us know on Twitter<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n