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Video Sitemaps 101: Making your videos searchable
Posted on 16. Jul, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
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Webmaster Level: AllWe know that some of you, or your clients or colleagues, may be new to online video publishing. To make it easier for everyone to understand video indexing and Video Sitemaps, we’ve created a video -- narrated by Nelson Lee, Video...
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Quality links to your site
Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
A popular question on our Webmaster Help Forum is in regard to best practices for organic link building. There seems to be some confusion, especially among less experienced webmasters, on how to approach the topic. Different perspectives have been shar...Continue Reading
Google Videos best practices
Posted on 12. Jun, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
Webmaster Level: AllWe'd like to highlight three best practices that address some of the most common problems found when crawling and indexing video content. These best practices include ensuring your video URLs are crawlable, stating what countries yo...Continue Reading
Chrome Extensions for web development
Posted on 27. May, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
Webmaster Level: All The Chrome Developer Tools are great for debugging HTML, JavaScript and CSS in Chrome. If you're writing a webpage or even a web app for the Chrome Web Store, you can inspect elements in the DOM, debug live JavaScript, and edit CSS...Continue Reading
Call for webspam reports in Thai, Indonesian, Romanian, Czech and Farsi
Posted on 05. May, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
Webmaster Level: AllWe pay attention to dozens of different languages in our spam fighting, but sometimes we really want to drill down and concentrate on a small number of languages. We’d like to ask for your help to identify webspam in Thai, Indones...Continue Reading
You and site performance, sitting in a tree…
Posted on 03. May, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
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...Continue Reading
Rich snippets go international
Posted on 26. Apr, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
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...Continue Reading
To slash or not to slash
Posted on 21. Apr, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
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/ (...Continue Reading
Help Google index your videos
Posted on 20. Apr, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
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...Continue Reading
Webmasters – configure Google services at your hosting panel
Posted on 15. Apr, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
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...Continue Reading
Better recipes on the web: Introducing recipe rich snippets
Posted on 14. Apr, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
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...Continue Reading
Using site speed in web search ranking
Posted on 09. Apr, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
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...Continue Reading
Adding Images to your Sitemaps
Posted on 07. Apr, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
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...Continue Reading
A word on site clinics
Posted on 02. Apr, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
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...Continue Reading
Sharing advice from our site clinic
Posted on 15. Mar, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
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 ...Continue Reading
Microdata support for Rich Snippets
Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
HTML5 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’re happy to announ...Continue Reading
Google’s SEO Report Card
Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
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 ...Continue Reading
Introducing a new Rich Snippets format: Events
Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
Webmaster Level: AllLast year we introduced Rich Snippets, a new feature that makes it possible to surface structured data from your pages on Google's search results. So far, user reaction to Rich Snippets has been enthusiastic -- after all, Rich Snipp...Continue Reading
Google SEO resources for beginners
Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by Maile Ohye.
Webmaster Level: BeginnerWant to eat healthier and exercise more in 2010? That's tough! Want to learn about search engine optimization (SEO) so you can disregard the rumors and know what's important? That's easy! Here's how to gain SEO knowledge as you...Continue Reading
Region Tags in Google Search Results
Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by Maile Ohye.
Webmaster Level: AllCountry-code top-level domains (or ccTLDs) can provide people with a quick and valuable clue about the location of a website—for example, ".fr" for France or ".co.jp" for Japan. However, for certain top level domains like .com, .i...Continue Reading
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