Webmaster level: allIt’s been a bit more than five years now that our Webmaster Help Forum has been up and running, helping webmasters around the world. Over the years, over tens of thousands of users have discussed various topics in well over 100,000 …
Webmaster Level: Intermediate to AdvancedToday Google introduced Instant Previews, a new search feature that helps people find information faster by showing a visual preview of each result. Traditionally, elements of the search results like the title, …
Webmaster level: AllChange can happen—sometimes, as we saw in our previous post on URL removals, you may completely block or remove a page from your site. Other times you might only change parts of a page, or remove certain pieces of text. Depending …
Webmaster Level: IntermediateA multilingual website is any website that offers content in more than one language. Examples of multilingual websites might include a Canadian business with an English and a French version of its site, or a blog on Latin A…
Webmaster Level: IntermediateDid you know that a majority of users surveyed feel that having information in their own language was more important than a low price? Living in a non-English-speaking country, I’ve seen friends and family members explicitl…
You have to have some kind of super-powers to keep up with all of the issues posted in our Webmaster Help Forum—that’s why we call our Top Contributors the “Bionic Posters.” They’re able to leap through tall questions in a single bound, providing hel…
Webmaster level: IntermediateWe’ve recently discussed several ways of handling duplicate content on a single website; today we’ll look at ways of handling similar duplication across different websites, across different domains. For some sites, there ar…
Webmaster level: IntermediateLet’s take a quick look at the individual sections in the Google Webmaster Tools’ Site Performance feature:Performance overviewThe performance overview shows a graph of the aggregated speed numbers for the website, based on…
Webmaster level: intermediate We love helping publishers make their content available to large groups of readers, and working on ways to make the world’s information useful and accessible through our search results. At the same time, we’re also aware o…
How to use “Fetch as Googlebot”, part 1Webmaster level: IntermediateHas your site ever dropped suddenly from the index or disappeared mysteriously from search results? Have you ever received a notice that your site is using cloaking techniques? Unfortu…
Webmaster level: AdvancedToday we’re excited to propose a new standard for making AJAX-based websites crawlable. This will benefit webmasters and users by making content from rich and interactive AJAX-based websites universally accessible through searc…
Handling duplicate content within your own website can be a big challenge. Websites grow; features get added, changed and removed; content comes—content goes. Over time, many websites collect systematic cruft in the form of multiple URLs that return …
Did you know that the number of website hosts that have been submitting Sitemap files has almost tripled over the last year? It’s no wonder: the secret is out – as a recent research study showed, Sitemaps helps search engines to find new and changed co…
It’s been well over three years since we initially announced the Python Sitemap generator in June 2005. In this time, we’ve seen lots of people create great third-party Sitemap generators to help webmasters create better Sitemap files. While most Sitem…
Submitting a Sitemap to Google just became even easier. No longer do you have to specify the Sitemap file type—we’ll determine the type of data you’re submitting automatically. Let’s take a quick look at the kinds of Sitemap files we support as well …