April 7th, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllSitemaps are an invaluable resource for search engines. They can highlight the important content on a site and allow crawlers to quickly discover it. Images are an important element of many sites and search engines could equally be…
April 6th, 2010 | by John Mueller | published in Google Webmaster Central
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 …
April 2nd, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllWe try to communicate with webmasters in lots of different places. For example, when we send representatives to conferences we’re happy to participate in public site clinics where we share best practices on how to improve the craw…
March 31st, 2010 | by Sean Harding | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AdvancedA few weeks ago, we introduced a new way of verifying site ownership, making it easy to share verified ownership of a site with another person. This week, we bring you another new way to verify. Verification by DNS record allow…
March 30th, 2010 | by Susan Moskwa | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster level: AllThere’s a lot of content on the Internet these days. At some point, something may turn up online that you would rather not have out there—anything from an inflammatory blog post you regret publishing, to confidential data that acc…
March 30th, 2010 | by Jonathan Simon | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: IntermediateIn our recent post on the Google Online Security Blog, we described our system for identifying phishing pages. Of the millions of webpages that our scanners analyze for phishing, we successfully identify 9 out of 10 phishin…
March 19th, 2010 | by John Mueller | published in Google Webmaster Central
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…
March 15th, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllMembers of the Google Search Quality Team have participated in site clinic panels on a number of occasions. We receive a lot of positive feedback from these events and we’ve been thinking of ways to expand our efforts to reach even …
March 12th, 2010 | by John Mueller | published in Google Webmaster Central
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…
March 11th, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllHTML5 is the fifth major revision of HTML, the core language of the World Wide Web. The HTML5 specification includes a description of microdata, a new markup standard for specifying structured information within web pages.Today, we
March 8th, 2010 | by Jonathan Simon | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllLast October, we launched Webmaster Tools Labs and it has been a huge success. Malware Details have helped thousands of users identify pages on their site that may be infected with malicious code, and Fetch as Googlebot has given us…
March 2nd, 2010 | by Sean Harding | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllEverything is more fun with a friend! We’ve just added a feature to Webmaster Tools Site Verification to make it easier to share verified ownership of your websites.In the past, if more than one person needed to be a verified owner …
March 2nd, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllHow many of Google’s web pages use a descriptive title tag? Do we use description meta tags? Heading tags? While we always try to focus on the user, could our products use an SEO tune up? These are just some of the questions we set …
March 1st, 2010 | by Michael Wyszomierski | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllAs we crawl the web, we see bad content inserted on to thousands of hacked sites each day. The number of sites attacked is staggering and the problem is only getting worse. Hackers and spammers target and successfully compromise an…
February 2nd, 2010 | by Chark | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllThanks to all of you who took our webmaster quiz and waited patiently to see how well you did! Today, we’re pleased to present the Webmaster Quiz answers! We hope this quiz has provided some clarity on common issues users ask abo…