While working on our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, we sometimes run into situations where important content is not publicly available. In order to help users find and access content that may …
Running a website can be complicated—so we’ve provided Google Webmaster Tools to help webmasters to recognize potential issues before they become real problems. Some of the issues that you can spot there are relatively small (such as having duplicate…
We’re always working for new ways to make life a bit easier for webmasters. We’ve had great feedback to many of the initiatives that have taken place in Webmaster Tools and beyond, but given the complex nature of managing a website, there are some ques…
By John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google ZürichLast Thursday, many of you just couldn’t get enough of us and joined our second live Webmaster Central chat, “JuneTune.” It was an action-packed session with live presentations, questions and an…
Written by Kaspar Szymanski and the European Guides Team, DublinA year ago Google Guides from the Search Quality Team started monitoring Google Webmaster Help Groups in European languages. It has been an interesting time and a great, rewarding experien…
By John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google ZürichWhen we originally launched Sitemaps, we included support for the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) 2.0 protocol, an interoperability framework based on met…
By John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google ZurichSetting up and running a website is getting easier and easier, and it’s wonderful to see so many new webmasters sharing their voices with the world! For you as a webmaster it’s pretty easy going…..
By John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google ZürichThe latest version of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer (beta) just added a neat feature to help users arrive at your website, or at least see your content, even when things go awry.It’s frust…
Written by John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, ZürichIn writing and maintaining accurate meta tags (e.g., descriptive titles and robots information), you help Google to more accurately crawl, index and return your site in search results. Meta tags…