November 11th, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
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…
November 9th, 2010 | by John Mueller | published in Google Webmaster Central
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, …
November 8th, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
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 …
November 4th, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
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…
November 3rd, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
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…
November 2nd, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
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…
November 1st, 2010 | by Michael Wyszomierski | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllRunning a single compelling, high quality site can be time- and resource-consuming, not to mention the creativity it requires to make the site a great one. At times–particularly when it comes to rather commercial topics like forei…
October 25th, 2010 | by Michael Wyszomierski | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: BeginnerCross-posted on the Google Grants BlogGooglers often participate in live site clinics at conferences, giving advice about real-world sites and allowing webmasters to learn by example. Now Google’s Search Quality team is exci…
October 21st, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
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…
October 13th, 2010 | by Jonathan Simon | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllThe “Links to your site” feature in Webmaster Tools is now updated to show you which domains link the most to your site, in addition to other improvements. On the overview page you’ll notice that there are three main sections: the d…
October 8th, 2010 | by Jonathan Simon | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster level: AllWe’ve just released updates to several features in Webmaster Tools to provide you with more detail and more control of how your site appears in search results.Search queries: Time does not stand still and neither should your site. W…
September 28th, 2010 | by Michael Wyszomierski | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: BeginnerUpdate on October 3, 2010: We have fixed the issue causing the highlighted text to be obscured on Linux PDF readers.About two years ago we published our first SEO Starter Guide, which we have since translated into 40 languages….
September 22nd, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
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…
September 17th, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
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…
September 15th, 2010 | by Susan Moskwa | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllAs a search company, we at Google try to develop scalable solutions to problems. In fact, Webmaster Tools was born out of this instinct: rather than fighting the losing battle of trying to respond to questions via email (and in mult…