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Changes in the Chrome user agent
Posted on 31. Mar, 2011 by John Mueller.
Webmaster Level: Intermediate to Advanced
The Chrome team is exploring a few changes to Chrome’s UA string. These changes are designed to provide additional details in the user-agent, remove redundancy, and increase compatibility with Internet Explo…
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Introducing Page Speed Online, with mobile support
Posted on 31. Mar, 2011 by John Mueller.
Webmaster level: intermediate
At Google, we’re striving to make the whole web fast. As part of that effort, we’re launching a new web-based tool in Google Labs, Page Speed Online, which analyzes the performance of web pages and gives specific sugg…
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Introducing the +1 button
Posted on 28. Mar, 2011 by John Mueller.
Webmaster level: AllWe all know what it’s like to get a bit of help when you’re looking for it. Online, that advice can come from a number of places: a tweet, a shared video, or a blog post, to name a few. With Google Social Search we’ve been wor…
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Introducing Recipe View, based on rich snippets markup
Posted on 24. Feb, 2011 by John Mueller.
Webmaster level: All
Today, we’re happy to introduce Recipe View, a new way of finding recipes when searching on Google. Recipe View enables you to filter your regular web search results to show only recipes and to restrict results based on ingredie…
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"It’s on Google! YAY!" – Getting webmaster help in our forum
Posted on 28. Dec, 2010 by John Mueller.
Webmaster level: all
It’s been a bit more than five years now that our Webmaster Help Forum has been up and running, helping webmasters around the world. Over the years, over tens of thousands of users have discussed various topics in well over 100,00…
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Instant Previews
Posted on 09. Nov, 2010 by John Mueller.
Webmaster Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Today 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,…
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URL removals explained, part II: Removing sensitive text from a page
Posted on 06. Apr, 2010 by John Mueller.
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 …
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Working with multilingual websites
Posted on 19. Mar, 2010 by John Mueller.
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…
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Working with multi-regional websites
Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by John Mueller.
Webmaster Level: Intermediate
Did 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 explici…
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Helping webmasters from user to user
Posted on 24. Dec, 2009 by John Mueller.
You have to have some kind of super-powers to keep up with all of the issues posted in our Webmaster Help Forum—that’s why we call our Top Contributors the “Bionic Posters.” They’re able to leap through tall questions in a single bound, providing hel…
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Handling legitimate cross-domain content duplication
Posted on 15. Dec, 2009 by John Mueller.
Webmaster level: IntermediateWe’ve recently discussed several ways of handling duplicate content on a single website; today we’ll look at ways of handling similar duplication across different websites, across different domains. For some sites, there ar…
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Your site’s performance in Webmaster Tools
Posted on 04. Dec, 2009 by John Mueller.
Webmaster level: IntermediateLet’s take a quick look at the individual sections in the Google Webmaster Tools’ Site Performance feature:Performance overviewThe performance overview shows a graph of the aggregated speed numbers for the website, based on…
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Changes in First Click Free
Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by John Mueller.
Webmaster level: intermediate We love helping publishers make their content available to large groups of readers, and working on ways to make the world’s information useful and accessible through our search results. At the same time, we’re also aware o…
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GENERIC CIALIS on my website? I think my site has been hacked!
Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by John Mueller.
How to use “Fetch as Googlebot”, part 1Webmaster level: IntermediateHas your site ever dropped suddenly from the index or disappeared mysteriously from search results? Have you ever received a notice that your site is using cloaking techniques? Unfortu…