Webmaster Level: BeginnerWe’re very glad to announce that our recently updated SEO guide is now available in ten more languages: Spanish, French, German, Russian, Turkish, Finnish, Swedish, Hungarian, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. For t…
Mo’ better to also detect “mobile” user-agent
Webmaster Level: Intermediate to AdvancedHere’s a trending User-Agent detection misstep we hope to help you prevent: While it seems completely reasonable to key off the string “android” in the User-Agent and then redirect users to your mobile ver…
Tag Your TV Shows!
Webmaster Level: All If your website is the authoritative source for the video of a particular TV show, make sure we know about it! Hopefully, you already submit Video Sitemaps or mRSS feeds to inform us about video content on your website. We now supp…
Page Speed for Chrome, and in 40 languages!
Webmaster Level: All
This article is cross-posted on the Google Code Blog.
Today we’re launching the most requested feature for Page Speed, Page Speed for Chrome. Now Google Chrome users can get Page Speed performance suggestions to make their site…
Beyond Times and Arial – The New Web Safe Fonts
Webmaster level: AllIn the past, when you created a website or web app, you were largely limited to a few select “web safe” fonts such as Times and Arial. If you deviated from these fonts, you were required to use Adobe Flash or your embed text in …
Sending Video Sitemaps Q&A holiday cheer
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…
Video Sitemaps & mRSS vs. Facebook Share & RDFa
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…
New hacked site notifications in search results
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 …
Petits fours in your search results
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 …
What a feeling! Even better indexing of SWF content
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…
A Chrome extension for reporting webspam
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 …
How to help Google identify web spam
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…
Make your websites run faster, automatically — try mod_pagespeed for Apache
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…
Rich snippets for shopping sites
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…
Optimizing sites for TV
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…
Finding Places on the Web: Rich Snippets for Local Search
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…
Video Sitemaps: Is your video part of a gallery?
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…
Unifying content under multilingual templates
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…
Google Instant: Impact on Search queries
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…
Rich snippets: testing tool improvements, breadcrumbs, and events
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…