Webmaster Level: Intermediate to AdvancedTo the fabulous, savvy audience that attended our Video Sitemap webinar several months ago, please accept our re-gift: a summary of your questions from the Video Sitemaps Q&A!To those who were unable to attend t…
Webmaster Level: Intermediate to AdvancedWhat are the benefits of submitting feeds like Video Sitemaps and mRSS vs. the benefits of Facebook Share and RDFa? Is one better than the other? Let’s start the discussion.Functionality of feeds vs. on-page m…
Webmaster level: AllToday we’ve added a new notification to our search results that helps people know when a site may have been hacked. We’ve provided notices for malware for years, which also involve a separate warning page. Now we’re expanding …
Webmaster Level: AllRecently we made a change to show more results from a domain for certain types of queries — this helped searchers get to their desired result even faster. Today we’re expanding the feature so that, when appropriate, more queries …
Webmaster Level: AllWe often get questions from webmasters about how we index content designed for Flash Player, so we wanted to take a moment to update you on some of our latest progress.About two years ago we announced that through a collaboration wi…
Webmaster Level: AllAt Google, we continually strive to improve our algorithms to keep search results relevant and clean. You have been supporting us on this mission by sending spam reports for websites that violate our Webmaster Guidelines, using the …
Webmaster level: AllEveryone who uses the web knows how frustrating it is to land on a page that sounds promising in the search results but ends up being useless when you visit it. We work hard to make sure Google’s algorithms catch as much as possib…
Webmaster Level: AllLast year, as part of Google’s initiative to make the web faster, we introduced Page Speed, a tool that gives developers suggestions to speed up web pages. It’s usually pretty straightforward for developers and webmasters to im…
Webmaster Level: AllIn time for the holiday season, we now support rich snippets for shopping (e-commerce) sites! As many of you know, rich snippets are search results that have been enhanced using structured data from your web pages. Our new format s…
Webmaster Level: AllJust as mobile phones make your site accessible to people on the go, Google TV makes your site easily viewable to people lounging on their couch. Google TV is a platform that combines your current TV programming with the web and, be…
Webmaster Level: AllCross-posted from the Lat Long Blog.We’re sharing some news today that we hope webmasters will find exciting. As you know, we’re constantly working to organize the world’s information – be it textual, visual, geographic or an…
Webmaster Level: AllOften a website which hosts videos will have a common top-level page that groups conceptually related videos together. Such a page may be of interest to a user searching on that subject. Sites with many videos about a single subject…
Webmaster Level: AdvancedIf you have a global site containing pages where the:template (i.e. side navigation, footer) is machine-translated into various languages,main content remains unchanged, creating largely duplicate pages,and sometimes search res…
Webmaster Level: AllWebmasters, you may notice some changes in you Search queries data due to the launch of Google Instant. With Google Instant, the page updates dynamically to show results for the top completion of what the user has typed, so this mea…
Webmaster Level: AllSince the initial roll-out of rich snippets in 2009, webmasters have shown a great deal of interest in adding markup to their web pages to improve their listings in search results. When webmasters add markup using microdata, microfo…