June 1st, 2010 | by Michael Wyszomierski | published in Google Webmaster Central
We’re kicking off June with the start of a new round of webmaster Q&A on the Webmaster Central YouTube channel. You submitted and voted on questions for Matt Cutts to answer, and Matt sat in the studio for a full day sharing advice for webmasters…
May 6th, 2010 | by Jonathan Simon | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllSince we released the latest version of Top Search Queries in Webmaster Tools we’ve gotten a bunch of feedback, most of which was overwhelmingly positive. Today, we’re happy to bring even more improvements to Top Search Queries that…
May 5th, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllUpdate on May 19, 2010: We have several translated versions of this post! If you’re more comfortable reading Thai, Indonesian, Romanian, Czech, or Farsi, the links above will take you to your preferred version. Thanks again for yo…
May 3rd, 2010 | by Susan Moskwa | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllIn this final installation in our URL removal series, let’s talk about following up on your removal requests, as well as when not to use Google’s URL removal tool. If you haven’t already, I recommend reading the previous posts in th…
May 3rd, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: Beginner to Intermediate…k, i, s, s, i, n, g! Perhaps you heard our announcement that speed is a signal in rankings, but didn’t know where to start. We’d like to help foster a lasting relationship between you and a responsive exp…
April 26th, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllAs part of our efforts to make search results more useful to our users around the world, we’re announcing the international availability of rich snippets. If you’ve been following our blog posts, you already know that rich snip…
April 21st, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: IntermediateThat is the question we hear often. Onward to the answers! Historically, it’s common for URLs with a trailing slash to indicate a directory, and those without a trailing slash to denote a file:http://example.com/foo/ (…
April 20th, 2010 | by Jonathan Simon | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllWelcome to the third episode of our URL removals series! In episodes one and two, we talked about expediting the removal of content that’s under your control and requesting expedited cache removals. Today, we’re covering how to use …
April 19th, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllThe single best way to make Google aware of all your videos on your website is to create and maintain a Video Sitemap. Video Sitemaps provide Google with essential information about your videos, including the URLs for the pages wher…
April 19th, 2010 | by Javier Tordable | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllA little over six months ago we released a new malware diagnostic tool in Webmaster Tools with the help of Lucas Ballard from the anti-malware team. This feature has been a great success; many of you were interested to know if Googl…
April 15th, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllToday, as announced on the Official Google Blog, we’ve taken an additional step to improve access to Google webmaster services. Parallels, one of the leading providers of control panel software to hosting companies, has integrated…
April 14th, 2010 | by Jonathan Simon | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllWe’ve got good news for site owners who are frequent users of the Top search queries feature in Webmaster Tools: we’re now providing more detailed data for each individual search query. We previously just reported the average posi…
April 13th, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllAnticipating the start of the season of barbecues and potlucks, we’ve added recipes as our newest rich snippets format. This means that for certain sites with recipe content, Google users will see quick facts when these recipe pag…
April 9th, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllYou may have heard that here at Google we’re obsessed with speed, in our products and on the web. As part of that effort, today we’re including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site speed reflects how quick…
April 8th, 2010 | by Jonathan Simon | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllWe’ve been hearing this question for many years from webmasters. That’s why we built features such as the Safe Browsing API, the malware review form, and our Malware details Labs feature. As of today, once we notice your site i…