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* January
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* October
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* Aligning Search Console testing tools and the URL Inspection tool
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* An update to how we generate web page titles
* Google Search Console Insights behind the curtains
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* July
* A reminder on qualifying links and our link spam update
* Engage shoppers with deal pages in Google Search
* Analyzing Google Search traffic drops
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* Answers to some common questions about appearing in Google News
* Updating our job posting guidelines to improve quality of results
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power of Dalgona Coffee
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* Improved data filtering and comparison on Performance reports
* March
* Korean Blog: How CLS optimizations increased Yahoo! JAPAN News's
page views per session by 15%
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structured data
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* February
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* January
* Introducing Google News performance report
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* 2020
* December
* A weird year in review
* An update on Structured Data Testing Tool
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* November
* New and improved crawl stats for your site
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* Goodbye Google Webmasters, hello Google Search Central
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* October
* Best practices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday pages
* How can my pages appear on the search result page?
* The Search Console Training lives on
* September
* New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data
* New open source robots.txt projects
* Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2
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* August
* Make the licensing information for your images visible on Google
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* Options for retailers to control how their crawled product
information appears on Google
* Identify and fix AMP Signed Exchange errors in Search Console
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* May
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use
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* Reintroducing a community for Polish and Turkish Site Owners
* New reports for Special Announcements in Search Console
* April
* Showcasing the value of SEO
* Looking back at last year's Webmaster Conference Product Summit
* Introducing a new way for sites to highlight COVID-19 announcements
on Google Search
* March
* Helping health organizations make COVID-19 information more
accessible
* How to pause your business online in Google Search
* New properties for virtual, postponed, and canceled events
* Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Webmaster Conference
* Announcing mobile first indexing for the whole web
* February
* Best Practices for News coverage with Search
* More and better data export in Search Console
* How to showcase your events on Google Search
* New reports for review snippets in Search Console
* #TanyaTentangSearch (Google Images)
* January
* Google Search News for January 2020
* New Removals report in Search Console
* Sunsetting support for data-vocabulary
* Get Ready for New SameSite=None; Secure Cookie Settings
* The Search Console Training video series is rolling out
* 2019
* December
* An update on 2019
* Launching a new Publisher Center
* Package Tracking Early Access Program
* Introducing the new Search Console messages
* Launching the event experience on Google Search in Spain and Germany
* November
* Google Search News for November 2019
* New reporting for Products Results in Search Console
* Get faster with the new Speed report in Search Console
* Introducing the Korean webmaster blog
* October
* Site Kit is now available for all WordPress sites
* Google Webmaster Conference goes to Tel Aviv
* Video Series for New Webmasters: Search for Beginners!
* Goodbye, Flash
* New reports for video results in Search Console
* Updating the user agent of Googlebot
* Upcoming event: Webmaster Conference Tokyo and Osaka
* September
* Join us at a Webmaster Conference in Mountain View, California
* Google Search News: coming soon to a screen near you
* More options to help websites preview their content on Google Search
* Fresher data in your site's Search Performance report
* Making Review Rich Results more helpful
* Evolving nofollow- new ways to identify the nature of links
* Saying goodbye to the old Search Console
* Introducing Auto-DNS verification in the new Search Console
* #TanyaTentangSearch (Structured Data)
* August
* Minor cleaning up in the Search Console API
* You #AskGoogleWebmasters, we answer
* When indexing goes wrong: how Google Search recovered from indexing
issues and lessons learned since.
* Googlebot evergreen rendering in our testing tools
* What site owners should know about Google's core updates
* Upcoming event: Webmaster Conference Sapporo
* July
* Helping publishers and users get more out of visual searches on
Google Images with AMP
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* Google's robots.txt parser is now open source
* Formalizing the Robots Exclusion Protocol Specification
* June
* Bye Bye Preferred Domain setting
* Webmaster Conference: an event made for you
* A video series on SEO myths for web developers
* Upcoming events: Webmaster Conference Jakarta and Bali 2019
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* May
* Mobile-First Indexing by default for new domains
* Search at Google I/O 2019
* New in structured data: FAQ and How-to
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* Google I/O 2019 - What sessions should SEOs and webmasters watch?
* Monitoring structured data with Search Console
* #TanyaTentangSearch (Crawling, Indexing, and Ranking)
* April
* Enriching Search Results Through Structured Data
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* Search Console reporting for your site's Discover performance data
* User experience improvements with page speed in mobile search
* March
* How to discover and suggest Google-selected canonical URLs for your
pages
* This year in Search Spam - Webspam report 2018
* Help Google Search know the best date for your web page
* Introducing a new JavaScript SEO video series
* Google Search events coming to Okinawa and Fukuoka
* February
* Announcing domain-wide data in Search Console
* Help customers discover your products on Google
* Consolidating your website traffic on canonical URLs
* January
* Dynamic Rendering with Rendertron
* Focusing on the new Search Console
* Ways to succeed in Google News
* An update on the Google Webmaster Central blog comments
* 2018
* December
* 2018, celebrating our global Webmaster community
* Mobile-First indexing, structured data, images, and your site
* Why and how to secure your website with the HTTPS protocol
* Introducing the Indexing API and structured data for livestreams
* Rich Results expands for Question and Answer pages
* Event report: Google Dance Osaka 2018
* Japanese: A look back on 2018
* November
* PageSpeed Insights, now powered by Lighthouse
* Notifying users of unclear subscription pages
* October
* Introducing reCAPTCHA v3: the new way to stop bots
* Google is introducing its Product Experts Program!
* Upcoming event in Indonesian: Join the live stream
* Upcoming event: Google Dance Osaka 2018
* September
* The new Search Console is graduating out of Beta
* Upcoming events in France: SEO and Google in a city near you!
* The first Google Dance in Zurich
* August
* Collaboration and user management in the new Search Console
* Links, Mobile Usability, and site management in the new Search
Console
* July
* Hey Google, what's the latest news?
* An update to referral source URLs for Google Images
* A big step for Chrome security: HTTP pages now show not protected
* Real-world data in PageSpeed Insights
* An update to the comments on the German Webmaster Blog
* June
* How we fought webspam - Webspam Report 2017
* Introducing the Indexing API for job posting URLs
* New URL inspection tool and more in Search Console
* Google Search at I/O 2018
* Upcoming event: Google Dance in Singapore
* May
* Our goal: helping webmasters and content creators
* Google I/O 2018 - What sessions should SEOs and Webmasters watch
live ?
* Send your recipes to the Google Assistant
* April
* We updated our job posting guidelines
* Distrust of the Symantec PKI: Immediate action needed by site
operators
* Event report: Google Dance Tokyo 2018
* March
* Rolling out mobile-first indexing
* Introducing the Webmaster Video Series, now in Hindi
* Tips for building a hack-resistant site: For Cybersecurity Month
* February
* How listening to our users helped us build a better Search Console
* Launching SEO Audit category in Lighthouse Chrome extension
* A secure web is here to stay
* Upcoming event: Google Dance Tokyo 2018
* Upcoming SEO events in Paris in March 2018
* Strengthening Internet Security
* January
* Using page speed in mobile search ranking
* Real-world data in PageSpeed Insights
* Introducing the new Search Console
* A reminder about sponsored posts
* 2017
* December
* Introducing the new Webmaster Video Series
* Introducing Rich Results and the Rich Results Testing Tool
* #NoHacked 3.0: Useful resources
* #NoHacked 3.0: Fixing common hack cases
* Getting your site ready for mobile-first indexing
* #NoHacked 3.0: Tips on prevention
* A revamped SEO Starter Guide
* #NoHacked 3.0: How do I know if my site is hacked?
* Rendering AJAX-crawling pages
* Russian Blog: Annotating multilingual and multiregional sites
* About improving search results related to medical care and health
* Japanese: A look back on 2017
* Event report: SEO in 2018 at Google Paris
* November
* A reminder about event markup
* Engaging users through high quality AMP pages
* Make your site's complete jobs information accessible to job seekers
* Upcoming event: SEO in 2018 at Google Paris
* October
* Enabling more high quality content for users
* September
* How to move from m-dot URLs to responsive site
* Event report: Google Dance Tokyo 2017
* August
* Introducing Our New International Webmaster Blogs!
* The new Search Console: a sneak peek at two experimental features
* Badges on Image Search help users find what they really want
* July
* Next steps toward more connection security
* Advanced Hosting Meetup program, progress report, and announcement
of new participants
* Upcoming event: Google Dance Tokyo 2017
* June
* Connect to job seekers with Google Search
* Making the Internet safer and faster: Introducing reCAPTCHA Android
API
* Better Snippets for your Users
* May
* A reminder about links in large-scale article campaigns
* April
* How we fought webspam - Webspam Report 2016
* Similar items: Rich products feature on Google Images
* Our latest quality improvements for Search
* March
* Updates to the Google Safe Browsing's Site Status Tool
* #NoHacked: A year in review
* Upcoming event: Introduction to Google Search for Online Media and
Best Practices for Content Creation
* February
* Closing down for a day
* Improving Japanese Search quality
* January
* Introducing the Mobile-Friendly Test API
* Protect your site from user generated spam
* What Crawl Budget Means for Googlebot
* 2016
* December
* Enhancing property sets to cover more reports in Search Console
* The 'Editor's Choice' column is now available on Google News
* Japanese: A look back on 2016
* November
* An update on Google's feature-phone crawling and indexing
* Saying goodbye to Content Keywords
* Rich Cards expands to more verticals
* Building Indexable Progressive Web Apps
* Mobile-first indexing
* Here's to more HTTPS on the web!
* October
* Using AMP? Try our new webpage tester
* The Safe browsing team, more than ever at the service of webmasters
* September
* Webmaster Forums Top AMP Questions
* Penguin is now part of our core algorithm
* 8 tips to AMPlify your clients
* How to best evaluate issues with your Accelerated Mobile Pages
* How can Google Search Console help you AMPlify your site?
* How to get started with Accelerated Mobile Pages
* What is AMP?
* A reminder about widget links
* Showcase your site's reviews in Search
* More Safe Browsing Help for Webmasters
* August
* Helping users easily access content on mobile
* Promote your local businesses reviews with schema.org markup
* AMP your content - A Preview of AMP'ed results in Search
* June
* More security notifications via Google Analytics
* Search at I/O 16 Recap: Eight things you don't want to miss
* Event report: Google Dance Tokyo
* May
* Tie your sites together with property sets in Search Console
* Introducing Rich Cards
* A new mobile friendly testing tool
* Deeper Integration of Search Console in Google Analytics
* How we fought webspam in 2015
* Advanced Hosting Meetup program: report results
* April
* Helping webmasters re-secure their sites
* No More Deceptive Download Buttons
* March
* Continuing to make the web more mobile friendly
* Updating the smartphone user-agent of Googlebot
* Best practices for bloggers reviewing products they receive from
companies
* An update on the Webmaster Central Blog
* AMP NewsLab Office Hours in your language
* February
* Advanced Hosting Meetup: announcing participating companies
* Measures have been taken for the link program network
* January
* AMP error report preview in Search Console
* New year, new look: Introducing our new Webmasters website
* Protecting hundreds of millions of mobile users
* About Accelerated Mobile Pages Project: Japanese version of the
introduction guide released today
* Introducing the Advanced Hosting Meetup
* 2015
* December
* Indexing HTTPS pages by default
* More protection for safe browsing
* Japanese: A look back on 2015
* November
* Updating Our Search Quality Rating Guidelines
* TC Summit 2015: Celebrating our Webmaster Top Contributors!
* Behind the red warning: More information about website safety
* Safe Browsing Protection from deceptive and misleading attacks
* Hangout on Air for French-speaking webmasters
* Detect and prevent deceptive unwanted redirects on mobile devices
* October
* Detect and get rid of unwanted sneaky mobile redirects
* Deprecating our AJAX crawling scheme
* An update on how we tackle hacked spam
* Introducing the Indonesian Webmaster Help Forum
* September
* First Click Free update
* Helping hacked sites with reconsideration requests
* Repeated violations of Webmaster Guidelines
* Mobile-friendly web pages using app banners
* August
* An update on CSV download scripts
* #NoHacked: Fixing the Injected Gibberish URL Hack
* #NoHacked: Identifying and Diagnosing Injected Gibberish URL Hacking
* #NoHacked: Using two-factor authentication to protect your site
* Introducing the Search Analytics API
* #NoHacked: How to recognise and protect yourself against social
engineering
* #NoHacked Blog Part 2: Detecting Social Engineering Attacks and
Preventing Damage
* July
* #NoHacked: How to avoid being the target of hackers
* Update on the Autocomplete API
* Google+: A case study on App Download Interstitials
* Google's handling of new top level domains
* Starting the #NoHacked campaign: How to avoid being the target of
fraudulent hacking
* May
* App deep linking with goo.gl
* Surfacing content from iOS apps in Google Search
* Rolling out the red carpet for app owners in Search Console
* Announcing Google Search Console - the new Webmaster Tools
* More precise data in the new Search Analytics report
* Five ways to grow your business this Small Business Week
* French: Google News Hangout on Air
* April
* Faster and lighter mobile web pages for Indonesia
* #MobileMadness: a campaign to help you go mobile-friendly
* FAQs about the April 21st mobile-friendly update
* Rolling out the mobile-friendly update
* Better presentation of URLs in search results
* Drive app installs through App Indexing
* March
* Helping users fill out online forms
* An update on doorway pages
* Deprecation of the old Webmaster Tools API
* Unblocking resources with Webmaster Tools
* Easier website development with Web Components and JSON-LD
* Safe Browsing and Google Analytics: Keeping More Users Safe,
Together
* #MobileMadness Campaign: Is your website already compatible with
mobile devices?
* Helping French-speaking site owners prepare for the April 21
algorithm change
* February
* Finding more mobile-friendly search results
* Case Studies: Fixing Hacked Sites
* January
* Crawling and indexing of locale-adaptive pages
* Upcoming Events In The Knowledge Graph
* New Structured Data Testing Tool, documentation, and more
* 2014
* December
* Google Public DNS and Location-Sensitive DNS Responses
* The four steps to appiness
* Are you a robot? Introducing No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA
* Japanese: A look back on 2014
* November
* Helping users find mobile-friendly pages
* October
* Tracking mobile usability in Webmaster Tools
* Updating our technical Webmaster Guidelines
* Best practices for XML sitemaps and RSS/Atom feeds
* Bring your local business online -- no website required!
* September
* An update to the Webmaster Tools API
* Webmaster Academy now available in 22 languages
* An improved search box within the search results
* Optimizing for Bandwidth on Apache and Nginx
* Link program guideline violations
* August
* #NoHacked: a global campaign to spread hacking awareness
* HTTPS as a ranking signal
* Introducing the Google News Publisher Center
* July
* Testing robots.txt files made easier
* Promoting modern websites for modern devices in Google search
results
* Troubleshooting hreflang annotations in Webmaster Tools
* Hangout on Air, in French
* June
* Android app indexing is now open for everyone!
* Making site moves easier
* Directing smartphone users to the page they actually wanted
* #NoHacked campaign on Google+
* Paid links and reconsideration requests
* Indonesian: Google's Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Beginner's
Guide
* Introducing the official Google blog for Indonesian webmasters
* Event report: Hosting Meetup @ Google
* This week we're launching the #NoHacked awareness campaign
* May
* App Indexing in more languages
* Rendering pages with Fetch as Google
* Understanding web pages better
* Making your site more mobile-friendly with PageSpeed Insights
* Creating the Right Homepage for your International Users
* Feedback on the feedback questionnaire on Google Webmaster Tools
* April
* Webmaster Guidelines for sneaky redirects updated
* Introducing our global Google+ page for webmasters
* Surfacing your business's contact and local info in Google
* App Indexing updates
* March
* More Precise Index Status Data for Your Site Variations
* Introducing the new Webmaster Academy
* App Engine IP Range Change Notice
* Musical artists: your official tour dates in the Knowledge Graph
* Portuguese: Interviewing Wwwhat's New on the Google Webmasters blog
* The Google Webmasters blog is now in Portuguese
* Join us at the Japanese Webmaster Office Hours
* French: Hangouts On Air on exam requests
* Introducing the official Google blog dedicated to the French
webmaster community!
* Create your own custom search engine using the schema.org standard
* Help us improve Google Webmaster Tools
* Event recap: SEO Campixx in Berlin
* February
* 3 tips to find hacking on your site, and ways to prevent and fix it
* Infinite scroll search-friendly recommendations
* Faceted navigation best (and 5 of the worst) practices
* Introducing a troubleshooter for Japanese Webmasters
* Unnatural links and reconsideration requests
* January
* Affiliate programs and added value
* A new Googlebot user-agent for crawling smartphone content
* Changes in crawl error reporting for redirects
* Google Publisher Plugin beta: Bringing our publisher products to
WordPress
* More detailed search queries in Webmaster Tools
* Improved Search Queries stats for separate mobile sites
* 2013
* December
* So long, 2013, and thanks for all the fish
* Switching to the new website verification API
* Improving URL removals on third-party sites
* Structured Data dashboard: new markup error reports for easier
debugging
* Checklist and videos for mobile website improvement
* Smartphone crawl errors in Webmaster Tools
* Holiday Season: Watch out for fraudulent shopping sites
* Japanese Webmaster Hangouts for reexamination requests
* Japanese: A look back on 2013
* Popular searches in 2013: heroes, tragedies, and Harlem shake
* Shopping season: watch out for fake shopping site
* November
* Video: Creating a SEO strategy (with Webmaster Tools!)
* October
* Indexing apps just like websites
* Easier recovery for hacked sites
* What are your ideas for Search policies?
* Dealing with SEO vendors who repeatedly violate the guidelines
* Event report: Top Level User Summit 2013
* September
* Video: Expanding your site to more languages
* Better backlink data for site owners
* Event report: WordCamp 2013
* Some reminders about blogs that violate the webmaster guidelines
* August
* rel="author" frequently asked (advanced) questions
* Making smartphone sites load fast
* View manual webspam actions in Webmaster Tools
* In-depth articles in search results
* July
* A reminder about manipulative or deceptive behavior
* Easier navigation without GPS
* Q&A about measures for search engines in election campaigns
* Event report: Site clinics
* June
* Introducing website satisfaction by Google Consumer Surveys
* Backlinks and reconsideration requests
* Verify your site in Webmaster Tools using Google Tag Manager
* Changes in rankings of smartphone search results
* Event report: White Hat SEO for First Grade Webmasters
* Let's prevent illegal hacking of the site
* Upcoming event: Site Clinic 2013
* Six tips for international websites
* Links to your website and reconsideration requests
* Google+: content recommendations for your mobile website
* #NoHacked campaign, helps prevent vulnerabilities on your website
* May
* 6 Quick Tips for International Websites
* Getting started with structured data
* Using schema.org markup for organization logos
* Google+: Content recommendation feature on mobile sites
* Upcoming event: White Hat SEO for First Grade Webmasters
* Recommendations for the re-review of a website
* April
* Introducing "x-default hreflang" for international landing pages
* 5 common mistakes with rel=canonical
* Five tips for new webmasters
* About measures for search engines in election campaigns
* Google's online resources for webmasters
* March
* The Webmaster Academy goes international
* A new opt-out tool
* Easier management of website verifications
* Making search-friendly mobile websites — now in 11 more languages
* We created a first steps cheat sheet for friends and family
* New first stop for hacked site recovery
* Answering a huge number of daily searches in an instant
* Webmaster Help Forum User Survey 2013
* Japanese: Introducing the Webmaster Academy
* February
* A reminder about selling links that pass PageRank
* Make the most of Search Queries in Webmaster Tools
* Introducing Webmaster Hangouts
* Improving the user interface and efficiency of Google Analytics
* Structured Data Highlighter is now in Spanish
* January
* A faster image search
* Watch videos on Google Webmaster Central Channel with Japanese
subtitles
* Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the birth of the modern
internet
* 2012
* December
* Webmaster Tools verification strategies
* Introducing Data Highlighter for event data
* Helping Webmasters with Hacked Sites
* Japanese: A look back on 2012
* To Google’s top contributors
* Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
* Event recap: SEOkomm Salzburg
* November
* Giving Tablet Users the Full-Sized Web
* To all merchants who have sent product information to Google
Shopping
* 'Send to the index' function in Webmaster Tools
* October
* A new tool to disavow links
* Make the web faster with mod_pagespeed, now out of Beta
* Rich snippets guidelines
* Google Webmaster Guidelines updated
* Keeping you informed of critical website issues
* Q&A: Link Denial Tool
* Appreciating your own content
* September
* Structured Data Testing Tool
* Answering the top questions from government webmasters
* Event report: Site clinic for NPOs
* Tips for making better use of Webmaster Tools
* Using article submission sites to get backlinks for your site
* August
* Site Errors Breakdown
* Search Queries Alerts in Webmaster Tools
* Configuring URL Parameters in Webmaster Tools
* Website testing and Google search
* Domain verification using CNAME records
* New messages about links to the site
* Clicks and impressions by author
* July
* Introducing the Structured Data Dashboard
* New notifications about inbound links
* Behold Google index secrets, revealed!
* On web semantics
* New Crawl Error alerts from Webmaster Tools
* How much time should I spend on meta tags?
* June
* Adding associates to manage your YouTube presence
* SEO essentials for startups in under 10 minutes
* Download to Google Spreadsheet from Webmaster Tools
* For webmasters: Google+ and the +1 button 101
* Recommendations for building smartphone-optimized websites
* Easier domain verification
* To site owners who outsource site production and attracting
customers
* Choose services carefully for site operation
* May
* Now you can polish up Google's translation of your website
* Multilingual and multinational site annotations in Sitemaps
* Introducing Webmaster Academy
* Making more pages load instantly
* Sorting and Filtering Results in Custom Search
* Navigation, Dashboard and Home page
* Coding guidelines for HTML and CSS
* A to Z about image search
* April
* Responsive design – harnessing the power of media queries
* Even more Top Search Queries data
* 1000 Words About Images
* How to move your content to a new location
* Webmaster Tools spring cleaning
* Another step to reward high-quality sites
* Updates to rich snippets
* Things to consider for your link strategy
* Introducing authorship markup in Germany, India, Italy, and
Singapore
* March
* Five common SEO mistakes (and six good ideas!)
* Upcoming changes in Google's HTTP Referrer
* Video about pagination with rel="next" and rel="prev"
* Crawl Errors: The Next Generation
* Keeping your hosting service valuable for searchers
* Safely share access to your site in Webmaster Tools
* Webmaster Help Forum User Survey 2012
* Notice about Google Merchant Center: A detailed analysis of Google
Shopping performance
* Enhanced search security for Google
* For a safer search
* Is mixed content on an HTTPS site a problem?
* Can cookies and tracking pixels influence ranking?
* Should I invent file extensions to improve my rankings?
* February
* Using schema.org markup for videos
* Preparing your site for a traffic spike
* Webmaster Help Forum: A new top-level user is born!
* A few tips for link building
* Geotargeting country-specific top-level domains
* How does SafeSearch work?
* Why are 404 pages showing up in Google's search results?
* An even safer search, worldwide
* January
* More Options for Google+ Badges
* What's new with Sitemaps
* Update to Top Search Queries data
* Making form-filling faster, easier and smarter
* Page layout algorithm improvement
* Better page titles in search results
* Doorway Page violates guidelines
* Recommended articles for diagnosing your site issues
* What to do about malware?
* 2011
* December
* Download search queries data using Python
* Website user research and testing on the cheap
* Rich Snippets Instructional Videos
* Introducing smartphone Googlebot-Mobile
* Clicks and impressions for authors
* Tips for hosting providers and webmasters
* New markup for multilingual content
* Japanese: A look back on 2011
* Highlights of search quality
* Matt Cutts video: How to Make Sure Google Finds Your Original
Content
* Does AdWords influence the ranking of my website?
* Is trust a ranking signal?
* Can I rank without SEO?
* Does HTTPS have a negative effect on ranking?
* November
* Grow your audience with Google+
* GET, POST, and safely surfacing more of the web
* Submit your website to participate in our site clinic
* Buying and selling of links: Remembering our position
* Matt Cutts video: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Spam
* The evolution of Search in six minutes
* Is SEO Spam?
* What is cloaking?
* What should you watch out for when moving to a new domain?
* Site clinic at the Online Motor Deutschland event
* How do you move to a new web host?
* Why did my site's ranking decrease?
* October
* Raising awareness of cross-domain URL selections
* Accessing search query data for your sites
* Create and manage Custom Search Engines from within Webmaster Tools
* Webmaster forums' Top Contributors rock
* To all TCs: you are the best!
* Webmaster Tools Search Queries data is now available in Google
Analytics
* Join us from the Webmaster Help Forum! Report of Global Top Level
User Summit 2011
* Breaking down language barriers at Google
* Matt Cutts video: Spelling and grammar when evaluating the content
and quality of a site
* Matt Cutts video: Should I add nofollow to banner ads?
* Matt Cutts video: TLD .co, generic or local domain?
* Do I need a robots.txt if I don't want to block crawlers?
* Do I need a DMOZ entry?
* How does Google determine the speed of a website?
* How does Google determine the canonical source of a content on the
web?
* What is customer service like at Google?
* Why has my PageRank decreased
* Do multiple links count from one page to another?
* September
* Work smarter, not harder, with site health
* Pagination with rel="next" and rel="prev"
* Reconsideration requests get more transparent
* View-all in search results
* Introducing: Application Rich Snippets
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* Recognizing Top Contributors in Google's Help Forums
* PDFs in Google search results
* What webmasters can do to prepare for sudden access concentration in
the event of a disaster
* Matt Cutts video: How long to leave a redirect on a domain change?
* Is underscore or dash better in URLs?
* What happens to my reconsideration request?
* How many 301 redirects can a website have?
* How to optimize PDFs
* August
* Reorganizing internal vs. external backlinks
* Google News now crawling with Googlebot
* Making the most of improvements to the +1 button
* Help us improve Google Search
* A new rich snippets format for music
* Introducing new and improved sitelinks
* High-quality sites algorithm launched in additional languages
* New webmaster tutorial videos
* A new, improved form for reporting webspam
* Submit URLs to Google with Fetch as Googlebot
* What shops and services can be registered in Google Place?
* BizBarcelona: Taking Advantage of Google Webmaster Tools
* Avoid personal content in search results
* Matt Cutts video: Can I flag spammy links to my site that I didn't
create?
* Matt Cutts video: Should I nofollow banner ads?
* Matt Cutts video: How long should you keep 301 redirects?
* July
* Preview the latest +1 button changes
* Page Speed Service - Web Performance, Delivered.
* The +1 Button: Now Faster
* Improved handling of URLs with parameters
* Validation: measuring and tracking code quality
* You can see the effect of +1 in Google Webmaster Tools and Google
Analytics
* Significant changes to Google Shopping feed specifications and
policies
* June
* Beyond PageRank: Graduating to actionable metrics
* +1 reporting in Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics
* +1 around the world
* Protecting your site with Gruyere
* Webinar: Implementing the +1 Button
* Announcing Instant Pages
* Authorship markup and web search
* Pilot Webmaster Tools' Search Queries data in Google Analytics
* Introducing schema.org: Search engines come together for a richer
web
* Add +1 to help your site stand out
* The +1 button is now available to Japanese webmasters
* To all webmasters who have introduced affiliates
* Tips for registering shops and services on Google Places: What is a
business listing for users?
* The homepage has disappeared from Google Search results. What should
I do?
* Search quality in the Entrepreneur Show 2011
* Matt Cutts video: How important is it to have keywords in your
domain name?
* Matt Cutts video: Do Short URLs Pass Anchor Text?
* Can SEOs guarantee a 1st position?
* Is Google lowering porn site's PageRank?
* Does Google ignore pages with invalid HTML?
* What can I do when my content is copied?
* May
* Troubleshooting Instant Previews in Webmaster Tools
* Easier URL removals for site owners
* Website Security for Webmasters
* Introducing the Google Webmaster Team
* Page Speed Online has a shiny new API
* More guidance on building high-quality sites
* Flash support in Instant Previews
* Do 404s hurt my site?
* Google Merchant Center: Changes to Unique Product ID Policy
* Removing content from Google search results
* Do you know our Spanish help forum for webmasters?
* Matt Cutts video: Do you need to validate HTML for positioning?
* Are 100 links per page enough?
* Event recap: SMX Munich 2011
* April
* An update on Google Video: Finding an easier way to migrate Google
Video content to YouTube
* WordPress Plugin for Webmaster Tools verification
* Your fast pass through security
* Sharing advice from our London site clinic
* High-quality sites algorithm goes global, incorporates user feedback
* Our SEO Guide — now available in ten more languages
* Shopping has been added to the rich snippet format
* Google Merchant Center: Unique product ID and shipping settings
* How to hide sites to find more about what you are looking for
* Google Analytics: New version in Spanish
* Matt Cutts video: The 100 Links Rule
* Matt Cutts video: Can You Make My Site # 1 on Google?
* Finding more high-quality sites in Search
* March
* Changes in the Chrome user agent
* Introducing Page Speed Online, with mobile support
* Mo' better to also detect mobile user-agent
* Introducing the +1 button
* Tag Your TV Shows!
* Page Speed for Chrome, and in 40 languages!
* 7 Reasons to Use Webmaster Tools
* Webmaster Help Forum Please help us with our user survey!
* In the event of the Great East Japan Earthquake, thank you for all
of your hard work
* New Chrome Extension: Block Sites in Google Web Search Results
* Matt Cutts video: The Webmaster Tools and their API
* Matt Cutts video: On Penalties
* Upcoming event: SMX Munich
* Does Google use data from social networks?
* SEO misinformation
* February
* Introducing Recipe View, based on rich snippets markup
* Making Websites Mobile Friendly
* Beyond Times and Arial - The New Web Safe Fonts
* Linking Google Analytics to Webmaster Tools
* Update to Webmaster Tools Search Queries
* How to avoid violating the guidelines with paid links
* Tips for creating a business listing in Google Places: adding useful
descriptions and relevant categories
* Google Search and search engine spam
* Can people find your website on the internet?
* Matt Cutts video: Do Twitter and Facebook Links Count?
* Matt Cutts video: Google and Auto-Generated Content
* Matt Cutts video: Why Does Google Give SEO Tips?
* Matt Cutts video: Search Results in Different Browsers
* What search trends do you have on your radar?
* Intro to AdSense
* Our stance on buying and selling links
* January
* Using Webmaster Tools like an SEO
* How to deal with planned site downtime
* Understanding your Opportunities with AdSense
* Do you even need HTML sitemaps?
* Intro to Webmaster Tools
* 2010
* December
* "It's on Google! YAY!" - Getting webmaster help in our forum
* Sending Video Sitemaps Q&A holiday cheer
* Improving our help content: stocking stuffers in our Help Center
* Video Sitemaps and mRSS vs. Facebook Share and RDFa
* Ring in the new year with accessible content: Website clinic for
non-profits
* Holiday source code maintenance: Website clinic for non-profits
* A helping holiday hand: Website clinic for non-profits
* New hacked site notifications in search results
* Webmaster Tools' Holiday Update
* Japanese: Thank you to everyone who used the official help forum in
2010
* Why Google Doesn't Trust Paid Links
* Tips for creating a business listing in Google Places: types of
businesses
* The Webmaster Central team wishes you happy holidays
* Event recap: SES Berlin 2010
* Top local spots to help with last-minute holiday shopping
* Video responses: Removal of other website's search results
* November
* Controlling crawling and indexing now documented on code.google.com
* Petits fours in your search results
* What a feeling! Even better indexing of SWF content
* Instant Previews
* A Chrome extension for reporting webspam
* How to help Google identify web spam
* Make your websites run faster, automatically -- try mod_pagespeed
for Apache
* Rich snippets for shopping sites
* Best practices for running multiple sites
* Google Merchant Center is open
* Introducing a new meta tag that reveals the referring article
* To all Merchant Center users
* Tips for creating a business listing in Google Places: company
listing titles
* Upcoming event: SES Berlin
* Does Google consider autogenerated content bad?
* Why is Google giving SEO tips?
* October
* Website clinic: Call for submissions
* Optimizing sites for TV
* Webmaster Tools - Links to your site updated
* Webmaster Tools: Updates to Search queries, Parameter handling and
Messages
* Google and communication about its products
* Questions and answers about rich snippets
* Why is Webmaster Tools showing my page is indexed when I can't find
it in the results?
* How do I get help with my website?
* Is the PageRank of old domains calculated differently?
* Does Google show the same results in all browsers?
* The trustworthiness of 'used' domains
* September
* SEO Starter Guide updated
* Finding Places on the Web: Rich Snippets for Local Search
* Video Sitemaps: Is your video part of a gallery?
* Tips for getting help with your site
* Unifying content under multilingual templates
* Google Instant: Impact on Search queries
* New ways to view Webmaster Tools messages
* Rich snippets: testing tool improvements, breadcrumbs, and events
* Matt Cutts video: How do I link to a site with which I have a
personal relationship?
* Matt Cutts video: Are reciprocal links bad?
* Do we need a meta tag for 'negative keywords'?
* An overview of product support: Google Web Search, Chrome, and
Google Analytics
* Are internal nofollow links helpful?
* Updates from the German Webmaster Forum
* Checking the keyword rankings for your own website?
* August
* Google now indexes SVG
* Showing more results from a domain
* Verification time savers — Analytics included!
* To err is human, Video Sitemap feedback is divine!
* Video Sitemaps: Understanding location tags
* About the new rich snippet of event information
* Back to basics: Keyword and landing page combinations
* Matt Cutts video: Do tag clouds help or hinder SEO?
* Matt Cutts video: How does Matt Cutts protect his blog?
* Matt Cutts video: Why can't I geolocate my site by country in the
Webmaster Tools?
* Matt Cutts video: What does Google think of addon domains?
* Matt Cutts video: Fake traffic?
* Can additional domains cause problems?
* How much of my traffic is generated by SEO?
* July
* New Message Center notifications for detecting an increase in Crawl
Errors
* Video Sitemaps 101: Making your videos searchable
* About Google's secret formula which is not so secret
* Using the wrong tracking code can cost you
* Ten tips to improve your site's visibility in Google searches
* Cloaking to speed up your site
* Longer loading times through analytics? Reason for a headache?
* June
* Sitemaps: One file, many content types
* Quality links to your site
* Google Videos best practices
* Our new search index: Caffeine
* Crawl Errors now reports soft 404s
* Grab bag videos are back!
* How to display recipe information in recipe search
* How to create a multilingual site
* Video: Tips for Google to index your site faster
* Matt Cutts video: How are the loading times offered in the Webmaster
Tools calculated?
* Matt Cutts video: Does the order of the heading tags affect?
* Matt Cutts video: Does PageRank pass a link to a blocked page?
* Matt Cutts video: Can I tell Google not to use my published date in
my snippet?
* Caffeine or Mayday? Changes to long-tail search results
* The effect of location and previous searches on search results
* Speed and relevance: how are they related?
* Can moving to the cloud harm my website's ranking?
* Video Response: Getting started with content removal
* German video responses: Removal of your own content from search
results
* How do backlinks to press releases affect my site?
* May
* Chrome Extensions for web development
* Top Search Queries is now Search Queries with Average Position and
Stars
* Call for webspam reports in Thai, Indonesian, Romanian, Czech and
Farsi
* Do know evil
* URL removal explained, Part IV: Tracking your requests and what not
to remove
* You and site performance, sitting in a tree...
* Questions and answers ... on video!
* Video: Is the weight of my site important for better indexing?
* Phishing: some guidelines
* Matt Cutts video: What is the best way to check the links to my
site?
* Matt Cutts video: How many pages can Google index from the same
site?
* Matt Cutts video: Is excessive white space in HTML considered
inappropriate?
* Matt Cutts video: Are product descriptions considered duplicate
content?
* WordCamp Argentina 2010: Tips for WordPress users
* Help resources on Google Webmaster Central
* April
* Rich snippets go international
* To slash or not to slash
* URL removal explained, Part III: Removing content that you don't own
* Help Google index your videos
* Updated malware feature in Webmaster Tools
* Webmasters - configure Google services at your hosting panel
* More data and charts in Top Search Queries
* Better recipes on the web: Introducing recipe rich snippets
* Using site speed in web search ranking
* When and why was my site flagged for malware? Learn in near
real-time!
* Adding Images to your Sitemaps
* URL removals explained, part II: Removing sensitive text from a page
* A word on site clinics
* Searching a little easier
* Video: Mobile websites
* Matt Cutts video: Is speed more important than relevance?
* Matt Cutts video: Should I include my logo text using alt or CSS?
* Google Grants site clinic: content is king
* Does PageRank from Twitter profiles play a role?
* March
* DNS Verification FTW
* URL removal explained, Part I: URLs and directories
* Will the Real <Your Site Here> Please Stand Up?
* Working with multilingual websites
* Sharing advice from our site clinic
* Working with multi-regional websites
* Microdata support for Rich Snippets
* Fetch as Googlebot Mobile and Claim your Sidewiki comment - added to
Webmaster Tools Labs!
* Sharing the verification love
* Google's SEO Report Card
* Is your site hacked? New Message Center notifications for hacking
and abuse
* Help the Webmaster Help Forum 1st Anniversary Survey
* Matt Cutts video: Does the geographic location of a web server
affect, from an SEO point of view?
* Matt Cutts video: What structure do you recommend for a website?
* Does Google Analytics affect Ranking?
* February
* How did you do on the Webmaster Quiz?
* How to solve problems on a site
* Google mobile service spring festival tips
* Matt Cutts video: Will Google detect text in images?
* Search becomes more social
* Matt Cutts video: How do I get my new pages indexed fast?
* Matt Cutts video: Will I be penalized if my URLs all have the same
priority?
* Matt Cutts video: Will Google offer tools for positioning?
* Matt Cutts video: Ecommerce site optimization without rich content
* Matt Cutts video: Positioning and keywords in the URL
* Best Practices for Breadcrumbs
* Google Search: predictions for 2010
* Links from Twitter and Facebook? How much are they worth?
* January
* Request visitors' permission before installing software
* Protect your site from spammers with reCAPTCHA
* Introducing a new Rich Snippets format: Events
* Google SEO resources for beginners
* State of the Index 2009
* Test your webmaster know-how!
* Answering your December Grab Bag questions
* Happy new year
* Clarifying false rumors
* Shorten your URLs
* Calling all webmasters
* Fighting online fraud: Google Money scammers on trial
* Thanks for attending our site clinic
* Test for webmasters: dare to participate!
* Matt Cutts video: How are spam reports prioritized?
* Google Grants site clinic: review of the site structure
* 2009
* December
* Helping webmasters from user to user
* Handling legitimate cross-domain content duplication
* Your site's performance in Webmaster Tools
* How fast is your site?
* New User Agent for News
* Region Tags in Google Search Results
* Changes in First Click Free
* Japanese: Thanks to everyone who uses the official help forum for
webmasters
* Hidden text violates Google's guidelines for webmasters
* Google Analytics releases asynchronous tracking code
* How to recommend and submit news website content to Google News
* Updates to Google News Sitemap
* We wish you happy holidays!
* The Webmaster Central team wishes you happy holidays, in German
* Site Clinic part 5: Site search, organization and pages not found
* Site Clinic part 4: Flash Pages
* Site Clinic part 3: Who are your users?
* Matt Cutts video: Does Google prioritize brands?
* Matt Cutts video: Why is the @ character ignored in searches?
* Matt Cutts video: Positioning and pages under construction
* Matt Cutts video: Relevance of social sites
* Paid links in JavaScript code
* Do Google links pass PageRank?
* Can I benefit from my content being scraped?
* Link-less references a ranking signal?
* Matt Cutts is waiting for your questions
* New Top Contributors in the Google Webmasters forum
* Does the order of H elements play a role?
* Why is Webmaster Tools not notifying about penalties?
* What should I do when my site was hacked?
* How to make my content available to local users?
* Welcome to the Google Grants site clinic
* November
* GENERIC CIALIS on my website? I think my site has been hacked!
* Hard facts about comment spam
* 'New software version' notifications for your site
* Running desktop and mobile versions of your site
* Pros and cons of watermarked images
* Help Google index your mobile site
* Post-Halloween Treat: New Keywords User Interface!
* New personalization features in Google Friend Connect
* Get your site ready for the holidays: Webmasters - make your list
and check it twice!
* About the introduction of rich snippets
* To open source software contributors: Are you willing to develop an
operating system for network users?
* Google Chromium OS open source project is released
* Directly access the information you want from the search fragments
* Matt Cutts video: CSS versus tables in SEO
* Stay away from scams
* Site Clinic part 2: Home page, titles, and duplicate content
* Let's see where that malware is!
* Viewing site hierarchy in search results
* Matt Cutts video: Blogrolls and reputation from blogs
* Keyword's position in URLs
* Upcoming event: SES Berlin
* Text recognition in images
* Video results in Universal Search
* Matt Cutts Video: What can I do if a competitor is spamming?
* Which site structure is better?
* Two questions about the link: operator
* October
* Using RSS/Atom feeds to discover new URLs
* Help us make the web better: An update on Rich Snippets
* Verifying a Blogger blog in Webmaster Tools
* One million YouTube views!
* Dealing with low-quality backlinks
* Let's make the mobile web faster
* Managing your reputation through search results
* Fetch as Googlebot and Malware details -- now in Webmaster Tools
Labs!
* A proposal for making AJAX crawlable
* Reunifying duplicate content on your website
* New parameter handling tool helps with duplicate content issues
* Google Friend Connect: No more FTP... just get started!
* Changes to website verification in Webmaster Tools
* Matt Cutts video: Link architecture and PageRank
* Webmasters Conference 09: Google Webmaster Tools
* Matt Cutts video: Links in the footers
* Retweet @google: tweets, updates, and search
* Site Clinic part 1: Framed Websites
* Site Clinic: The analysis
* Site Clinic: Have you already submitted your website?
* Layout - CSS or tables?
* More about PagerRank sculpting
* Search queries require topicality. True or myth?
* Is anchor text included in a 301 redirect?
* September
* Translate your website with Google: Expand your audience globally
* Using named anchors to identify sections on your pages
* Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking
* Spanish Site Clinic now live
* Duplicate content and multiple site issues
* Recommendations for webmaster friendly hosting services
* Supporting Facebook Share and RDFa for videos
* Tips for News Search
* Thank you for your support of the Google Webmaster Support Forum
Call for articles!
* Matt Cutts video: Ajax and Google SERP
* Search help: Analyzing your web
* How NOT to optimize your website: doorways or door pages
* Conference for Webmasters and Google
* Matt Cutts video: Meta descriptions and use of hyphens in URLs
* Matt Cutts video: Indexed internal pages and the importance of
quality of links and content
* Matt Cutts video: 301 redirects and links
* Matt Cutts video: Influence of geo meta tags on search
* Matt Cutts video: Search results on Google vs. Twitter
* Content or links? What's more important?
* Domain age ranking
* Does loading time affect ranking?
* Short URL services and 301 redirects
* SEO with small budget?
* Underscores or dashes in URLs?
* Is Google no longer using meta descriptions?
* Directories as sources of paid links?
* How can Google find my sub-pages?
* August
* Specifying an image's license using RDFa
* New tools for Google Services for Websites
* Help test some next-generation infrastructure
* Optimize your crawling and indexing
* How do you use Webmaster Tools? Share your stories and become a
YouTube star!
* Advanced Q&A from (the appropriately-named) SMX Advanced
* 10 misconceptions about Google's indexing and ranking
* Will SEO still exist in 5 years?
* Matt Cutts video: Domain age and URL shorteners
* How does server location affect ranking?
* Matt Cutts video: Searching on Twitter and its PageRank
* Matt Cutts video: Over-optimization and loading times
* Webmaster Videos with Matt Cutts - now in German
* Matt Cutts video: Server location and geographic meta tags
* Usability and accessibility
* Google Search and AJAX
* Blank pages in the index
* July
* Webmaster Tools gets a "Summer Shine"
* Google Friend Connect - Now in 47 new languages
* Webmaster Central YouTube update for July 6th - 10th
* Google Maps gadget: Help customers find their way
* Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 29th - July 3rd
* Organic Search Tips: Optimize Your Site for Search Engines
* Make information universally accessible and useful
* How to steer clear of money scams
* June
* Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 22nd - 26th
* Traffic drops and site architecture issues
* Spam2.0: Fake user accounts and spam profiles
* Tell us what you think!
* Watch out for your .yu domain!
* Let's make the web faster
* Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 15th - 19th
* Flash indexing with external resource loading
* Reconsideration requests: Now with notifications
* Best practices for Product Search
* Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 8th - 12th
* An Update on Sitemaps at Google
* Out with the old, in with the new
* Message Forwarding
* Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 1st - 5th
* SEO Starter Guide now available in 40 languages
* Introducing Page Speed
* Webmaster Central YouTube update for May 26-29
* Thanks to the super users in the Chinese Webmasters forum
* Webmaster Q&A
* Universal Search and Site Clinic at SMX Madrid 2009
* Universal Search and SMX Madrid
* Googlebot verification
* Q&A at Google Ambassador Day in Istanbul
* Event recap: SMX Munich 2009
* May
* Let visitors recommend your content
* Introducing Rich Snippets
* Google Trends for your website
* More ways to engage your community
* Survey says...
* Event report: Xiamen SMX Assembly Part II
* Introducing the Official Google Measurement Tools Blog, in Spanish
* Tips for requesting reconsideration
* How many links per page?
* Google and SMX Madrid 2009
* April
* Spring time design refresh!
* Google Webmaster Help Forums in more languages
* Research study of Sitemaps
* Tips on requesting reconsideration
* One-line sitelinks
* Event report: Xiamen SMX Assembly Part I
* Make sense of your site: tips for webpage design
* Two new improvements to Google results pages
* Search finds its way into the Google I / O developer conference
* The Webspam team's plans for 2009
* Upward trend in hacking cases in the Latin American market
* Upcoming event: SMX Munich
* March
* Helping your site look great with Google Chrome
* Making more tools available with just a click
* Get up-to-date on Image Search
* Using stats from site: and Sitemap details
* Announcing an official help forum for webmasters
* Google, at your service
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* February
* Canonical Link Element: presentation from SMX West
* Introducing the Google Webmaster Central YouTube Channel
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* State of the Index: my presentation from PubCon Vegas
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* About paid links
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* Webmaster Tools: Creating and submitting sitemaps
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Tools
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* Preventing Virtual Blight: my presentation from Web 2.0 Summit
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* December
* Japanese WMC Blog launched
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* A new look for our Webmaster Help Group
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* Thanks to the super users in the Chinese Webmasters forum
* Contact Google
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* November
* Date with Googlebot, Part II: HTTP status codes and
If-Modified-Since
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* On-Demand Sitemaps for Custom Search
* Google's SEO Starter Guide
* Event report: Nanjing SMX Assembly Part II
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results
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* Join the first Google Webmaster Live Chat in German
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* October
* Spookier than malware
* Reflections on the "Tricks and Treats" webmaster event
* Malware? We don't need no stinking malware!
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* Video Tutorial: Google for Webmasters
* Helping you break the language barrier
* Webmaster Tools API updated with Site Settings
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* Importance of link architecture
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* Chinese: standardization of the Internet and Google Chrome
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* Advanced Website Diagnostics with Google Webmaster Tools
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* Interview with Matt Cutts, part 3
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* Google's blog for webmasters, now in Spanish
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* silver_medal_count++
* Hey Google, I no longer have badware
* Make your 404 pages more useful
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* Farewell to soft 404s
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* Matt Cutts on ranking, spam and the future of search
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* Improved Flash indexing
* What are your SEO recommendations?
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* Get Cooking with the Webmaster Tools API
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* Duplicate content due to scrapers
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* How Google defines IP delivery, geolocation, and cloaking
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global internationalization
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* Making more housecalls
* Webmaster Tools now in 26 languages
* Becoming Social
* Design patterns for accessible, crawlable and indexable content
* Sitemaps offer better coverage for your Custom Search Engine
* Creating a great user experience for your site
* Simplified Chinese blog: Search for life, search for hope
* Condolences to the victims
* How to apply for reconsideration
* SEO advice: Getting links
* Introduction to Google Search Quality
* Search operators for webmasters
* April
* Where in the world is your site?
* Retiring support for OAI-PMH in Sitemaps
* Best practices when moving your site
* Webmaster tips for creating accessible, crawlable sites
* Crawling through HTML forms
* My site's been hacked - now what?
* Improvements to iGoogle Gadgets for Webmaster Tools
* Event recap: SMX Munich
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* March
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* Speaking the language of robots
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* German Webmaster Blog turns one
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* First date with the Googlebot: Headers and compression
* Launching the Chinese version of the Webmaster support forum
* How to use robots.txt
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* Leap day hackathon for Google Gadgets, Maps, and more
* 7 must-read Webmaster Central blog posts
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* Information about buying and selling links that pass PageRank
* Matt Cutts on removing URLs from Google's index
* November
* The anatomy of a search result
* A dozen ways to discuss "webmaster help"
* Bringing the conference to you
* Go Daddy and Google offer easy access to Webmaster Tools
* A spider's view of Web 2.0
* SEO advice: URL canonicalization
* Simplified Chinese blog: Tips for reducing comment spam
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* Happy Halloween to our spooktacular webmasters!
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* Introducing Code Search Sitemaps
* Webmasters can now provide feedback on Sitelinks
* Data freshness
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* September
* Improve snippets with a meta description makeover
* Quick security checklist for webmasters
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* Google, duplicate content caused by URL parameters, and you
* Webmaster Central gets a new look
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problems
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* Control how search engines crawl and index your site
* How we use spam reports
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* Update on penalty notifications
* Register non-English domain names with Webmaster Tools
* Join us at cool SES San Jose - it'll be hot!
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* July
* Supplemental goes mainstream
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* Explaining algorithm updates and data refreshes
* Simplified Chinese blog: SEO secret weapon, Google Webmaster Tools
* Launching the Chinese version of Google Webmaster Tools
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* June
* We are back from the SES Milan!
* Google's email communication with webmasters
* Revamping the Webmaster Tools Help Center
* Expanding the webmaster central team
* Duplicate content summit at SMX Advanced
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GOOGLE SEARCH CENTRAL BLOG
The Google Search Central Blog is where you can find official Google Search core
algorithm updates, announcements of new Google Search features, and SEO best
practices. Subscribe to our RSS feed and get the latest updates in your favorite
feed reader.
UNDERSTANDING NEWS TOPIC AUTHORITY
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Major news events are often covered by a wide array of
news sites. This can present a challenge for Google users who are looking for
publications with a particular expertise on a topic—such as a finance outlet for
a query about
May 23, 2023
SEARCH CENTRAL LIVE: TOKYO AND FUTURE PLANS FOR APAC
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 Search Central Live is back in Asia Pacific throughout
2023 and we can’t wait to meet you in person! In November 2022 we resumed our
search event series with SCL Singapore. Encouraged by the success of the event,
we're now ready
May 16, 2023
INTRODUCING INP TO CORE WEB VITALS
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 In early 2020, Google's Chrome Team introduced the Core
Web Vitals to provide a suite of quality signals for web pages. Today, the
Google Chrome team announced an upcoming change in the metrics for the Core Web
Vitals to
May 10, 2023
HOW X-DEFAULT CAN HELP YOU
Monday, May 8, 2023 A few recent issues made us realize that the hreflang
x-default value is potentially underused by sites that already use hreflang to
help search users find the right version of their pages. We want to remind you
that it can be a
May 5, 2023
JAPANESE BLOG: INTRODUCING #GOOGLESEARCHOFFICEHOURS
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 We published a blog post in Japanese, however it's not
translated to English.
April 25, 2023
THE ROLE OF PAGE EXPERIENCE IN CREATING HELPFUL CONTENT
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Helpful content generally offers a good page
experience. That's why today, we've added a section on page experience to our
guidance on creating helpful content and revised our help page about page
experience. We think this
April 19, 2023
SHIPPING AND RETURNS INFORMATION ON GOOGLE SEARCH WEB RESULTS
Monday, April 17, 2023 Google Search now shows an expanded display of shipping
and return information on Google Search text results for merchant sites. We're
also making it easier to monitor and fix the structured data required to enable
this display
April 17, 2023
SIMPLIFYING VIDEO PRESENTATION ON GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS
Thursday, April 13, 2023 Today, we're making a change so that video thumbnails
only appear next to Google search results when the video is the main content of
a page. This will make it easier for users to understand what to expect when
they visit a
April 13, 2023
HOW WE FOUGHT SPAM ON GOOGLE SEARCH IN 2022
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 Every day, we're discovering, indexing, and serving
billions of web pages, and a significant portion of pages we discover are spam.
In 2022 we launched multiple updates to our systems to thwart these attacks and
ensure a
April 11, 2023
EVENT RECAP: SEARCH CENTRAL VIRTUAL UNCONFERENCE EN ESPAÑOL 2023
Monday, April 3, 2023 When we launched the Search Central Virtual Unconference
series, we got a lot of feedback to organize events in multiple languages. On
February 17, 2023 we held the first Virtual Unconference en español after
receiving a lot of
April 3, 2023
BLENDING SEARCH CONSOLE AND INTERNAL DATA INSIDE LOOKER STUDIO
One advantage of analyzing your performance data outside Search Console is that
it allows you to add more context to your reports, you can enrich the data with
internal data you have about your site. In this post we discuss how to enrich
your Search Console data using Looker Studio (formerly known as Data Studio).
March 22, 2023
SEARCH CENTRAL COMMUNITY IN 2022
Tuesday, March 07, 2023 The Search Central Community is an online forum where
site owners can help each other troubleshoot issues around their site's presence
on Google Search, discuss various Search updates, and share tips on improving
their site's
March 7, 2023
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GOOGLE SEARCH CORE UPDATES, RANKING CHANGES, AND ALGORITHM UPDATES
Explore our blog posts around Google Search algorithm updates and ranking
changes. For a list of recent ranking updates, see the ranking updates release
history.
THE ROLE OF PAGE EXPERIENCE IN CREATING HELPFUL CONTENT
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Helpful content generally offers a good page
experience. That's why today, we've added a section on page experience to our
guidance on creating helpful content and revised our help page about page
experience. We think this
April 19, 2023
DECEMBER 2022 LINK SPAM UPDATE RELEASING FOR GOOGLE SEARCH
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 Today, we're leveraging the power of SpamBrain to
neutralize the impact of unnatural links on search results. SpamBrain is our
AI-based spam-prevention system. Besides using it to detect spam directly, it
can now detect
December 14, 2022
WHAT CREATORS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GOOGLE'S AUGUST 2022 HELPFUL CONTENT UPDATE
Thursday, August 18, 2022 Google Search is always working to better connect
people to helpful information. To this end, we're launching what we're calling
the “helpful content update” that's part of a broader effort to ensure people
see more
August 18, 2022
HOW GOOGLE GENERATES TITLES FOR DOCUMENTS WITH LANGUAGE OR SCRIPT MISALIGNMENT
Friday, June 3, 2022 This week, we introduced an algorithmic improvement that
identifies documents where the title element is written in a different language
or script from its content, and chooses a title that is similar to the language
and script
June 3, 2022
MAY 2022 CORE UPDATE RELEASING FOR GOOGLE SEARCH
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 Several times per year, we make substantial improvements
to our overall ranking processes, which we refer to as core updates. Core
updates are designed to increase the overall relevancy of our search results and
make them more
May 25, 2022
IMPROVING PRODUCT REVIEW RANKING, ONE YEAR ON
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 We’ve regularly heard through user feedback that
people prefer detailed reviews with evidence of products actually being tested.
Over the past year, we’ve updated how Search ranks product reviews to prioritize
in-depth and
March 23, 2022
DECEMBER 2021 PRODUCT REVIEWS UPDATE AND YOUR SITE
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 Back in April 2021, we shared a product reviews
update that was designed to promote high quality product reviews. We are now
rolling out a new update, the first major update since April, that may change
how your product
December 1, 2021
TIMELINE FOR BRINGING PAGE EXPERIENCE RANKING TO DESKTOP
Thursday, November 4, 2021 At I/O 2021, we previewed our plans to bring page
experience ranking to desktop. Today we're announcing more details, including
the timeline for these changes. This work builds on top of the page experience
update we rolled
November 4, 2021
MORE INFORMATION ON HOW GOOGLE GENERATES TITLES FOR WEB PAGE RESULTS
Friday, September 17, 2021 Last month, we shared about our new system for
generating titles for web page results. Thanks to your feedback, which has been
much appreciated, we've further refined our titles system. Here's more about
what we've been
September 17, 2021
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STRUCTURED DATA UPDATES
Learn about what's new in structured data and Google Search, including new
Google Search features that use structured data, changes in requirements, and
best practices.
SHIPPING AND RETURNS INFORMATION ON GOOGLE SEARCH WEB RESULTS
Monday, April 17, 2023 Google Search now shows an expanded display of shipping
and return information on Google Search text results for merchant sites. We're
also making it easier to monitor and fix the structured data required to enable
this display
April 17, 2023
INTRODUCING SITE NAMES ON GOOGLE SEARCH
Friday, October 14, 2022 Today, Search is introducing site names on mobile
search results to make it easier to identify the website that's associated with
each result, and we're sharing how you can indicate your preferred site name
with structured
October 14, 2022
NEW SEARCH CONSOLE MERCHANT LISTINGS REPORT: EXPANDING ELIGIBILITY WITH PRODUCT
STRUCTURED DATA
Tuesday, September 13, 2022 Google is pleased to announce expanded eligibility
for enhanced product experiences in Google Search through the use of Product
structured data. These enhanced product experiences were previously only open to
Merchant
September 13, 2022
NEW IN STRUCTURED DATA: PROS AND CONS
Friday, August 5, 2022 Product reviews are a valuable resource for users
researching which product to buy. Product reviews often contain a list of pros
and cons, which our research has shown to be popular with shoppers when making
their purchasing
August 5, 2022
HELP JOB SEEKERS UNDERSTAND YOUR JOB POSTINGS BY INCLUDING A COMPLETE
DESCRIPTION
Monday, November 01, 2021 We've uncovered an opportunity to improve your job
posting pages, and it only takes a few changes to the description field. In the
description section of a posting in the jobs experience on Google Search, we
only present
November 1, 2021
A NEW WAY TO ENABLE VIDEO KEY MOMENTS IN SEARCH
Monday, July 19, 2021 Since video key moments first launched in 2019, we've
continued to expand and improve the feature. We've evolved the design and
brought key moments to more videos, including mobile and desktop, across all
regions where Google
July 19, 2021
UPDATING OUR JOB POSTING GUIDELINES TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF RESULTS FOR JOB
SEEKERS
Tuesday, July 13, 2021 Searching for a job can be a time-consuming process and
the outcome of the application may be life changing. That's why providing job
seekers with authentic, fresh, and trustworthy content when they come to Google
Search is our
July 13, 2021
NEW FOR EDUCATION SITES: PRACTICE PROBLEMS AND MATH SOLVERS STRUCTURED DATA
Thursday, March 25, 2021 According to Unesco, nearly 1.5 billion learners had
their education disrupted due to COVID-19. Almost overnight, students, parents,
and educators had to adapt to new learning norms. Many folks turned to Google
for help
March 25, 2021
AN UPDATE ON THE STRUCTURED DATA TESTING TOOL
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 In July, we announced that the Rich Results Test is
out of beta. In that blog post, we said that the Structured Data Testing Tool
would be deprecated. Since then, we've heard your feedback and we'd like to give
an update on
December 15, 2020
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NEW IN SEARCH CONSOLE
Wondering what's changed in Search Console? Explore recent announcements about
Search Console, including new reports, the Search Console API, and updates to
the tool.
SHIPPING AND RETURNS INFORMATION ON GOOGLE SEARCH WEB RESULTS
Monday, April 17, 2023 Google Search now shows an expanded display of shipping
and return information on Google Search text results for merchant sites. We're
also making it easier to monitor and fix the structured data required to enable
this display
April 17, 2023
BLENDING SEARCH CONSOLE AND INTERNAL DATA INSIDE LOOKER STUDIO
One advantage of analyzing your performance data outside Search Console is that
it allows you to add more context to your reports, you can enrich the data with
internal data you have about your site. In this post we discuss how to enrich
your Search Console data using Looker Studio (formerly known as Data Studio).
March 22, 2023
UPDATING SEARCH CONSOLE USERS AND PERMISSIONS MANAGEMENT
This post discusses an update to Search Console's user and permissions to
incorporate functionality related to ownership and user management.
February 22, 2023
BULK DATA EXPORT: A NEW AND POWERFUL WAY TO ACCESS YOUR SEARCH CONSOLE DATA
In this post, we discuss bulk data export, a new Search Console feature that
allows you to export data to Google BigQuery on an ongoing basis. You can
configure an export in Search Console to get a daily data dump into your
BigQuery project.
February 21, 2023
NEW UPDATES TO THE SEARCH CONSOLE VIDEO INDEXING REPORT
Wednesday, February 01, 2023 Last July we launched a new report in Search
Console to help you understand the performance of your videos on Google and
identify possible areas of improvement. Today, we are happy to share a few more
updates to the
February 1, 2023
START SHOWING YOUR PRODUCTS ON THE SHOPPING TAB WITH SEARCH CONSOLE
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 Continuing our efforts to support merchants and
help them grow their businesses across Google, Search Console is introducing a
new section for Shopping tab listings to help online store owners show their
products on the
November 16, 2022
A DEEP DIVE INTO SEARCH CONSOLE PERFORMANCE DATA FILTERING AND LIMITS
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 Google Search performance data is the most widely
used data in Search Console, both through the Performance report and the Search
Analytics API. This post explains in detail the data available and how Google
processes it,
October 19, 2022
THE NEW HTTPS REPORT IN SEARCH CONSOLE
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 Last year, we released the Page Experience report
in Search Console to help site owners understand and fix issues affecting how
Google evaluates the page experience for their site. One of the common requests
we heard
September 14, 2022
NEW SEARCH CONSOLE MERCHANT LISTINGS REPORT: EXPANDING ELIGIBILITY WITH PRODUCT
STRUCTURED DATA
Tuesday, September 13, 2022 Google is pleased to announce expanded eligibility
for enhanced product experiences in Google Search through the use of Product
structured data. These enhanced product experiences were previously only open to
Merchant
September 13, 2022
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CORE WEB VITALS AND PAGE SPEED
Discover recent blog posts around Core Web Vitals and their role in Google
Search, including updates about the page experience ranking signal and page
speed.
INTRODUCING INP TO CORE WEB VITALS
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 In early 2020, Google's Chrome Team introduced the Core
Web Vitals to provide a suite of quality signals for web pages. Today, the
Google Chrome team announced an upcoming change in the metrics for the Core Web
Vitals to
May 10, 2023
THE ROLE OF PAGE EXPERIENCE IN CREATING HELPFUL CONTENT
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Helpful content generally offers a good page
experience. That's why today, we've added a section on page experience to our
guidance on creating helpful content and revised our help page about page
experience. We think this
April 19, 2023
TIMELINE FOR BRINGING PAGE EXPERIENCE RANKING TO DESKTOP
Thursday, November 4, 2021 At I/O 2021, we previewed our plans to bring page
experience ranking to desktop. Today we're announcing more details, including
the timeline for these changes. This work builds on top of the page experience
update we rolled
November 4, 2021
MORE TIME, TOOLS, AND DETAILS ON THE PAGE EXPERIENCE UPDATE
Monday, April 19, 2021 Last November we announced that the page experience
ranking change will go live on Google Search this year, in what we're calling
the "page experience update". To help publishers and site owners improve their
page experience
April 19, 2021
TIMING FOR BRINGING PAGE EXPERIENCE TO GOOGLE SEARCH
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 This past May, we announced that page experience
signals would be included in Google Search ranking. These signals measure how
users perceive the experience of interacting with a web page and contribute to
our ongoing work
November 10, 2020
EVALUATING PAGE EXPERIENCE FOR A BETTER WEB
Thursday, May 28, 2020 Through both internal studies and industry research,
users show they prefer sites with a great page experience. In recent years,
Search has added a variety of user experience criteria, such as how quickly
pages load and
May 28, 2020
GET FASTER WITH THE NEW SPEED REPORT IN SEARCH CONSOLE
Monday, November 04, 2019 A fast web experience has long been an important user
experience factor that we have promoted and advocated for. To help site owners
on this quest we showed a preview of the Speed report in Search Console at
Google I/O 2019.
November 4, 2019
USER EXPERIENCE IMPROVEMENTS WITH PAGE SPEED IN MOBILE SEARCH
Thursday, April 04, 2019 To help users find the answers to their questions
faster, we included page speed as a ranking factor for mobile searches in 2018.
Since then, we've observed improvements on many pages across the web. We want to
recognize the
April 4, 2019
PAGESPEED INSIGHTS, NOW POWERED BY LIGHTHOUSE
Monday, November 12, 2018 At Google, we know that speed matters and we provide a
variety of tools to help everyone understand the performance of a page or site.
Historically, these tools have used different analysis engines. Unfortunately,
this
November 12, 2018
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MOBILE-FIRST INDEXING UPDATES
Find out what's new with mobile-first indexing in Google Search, including
rollout updates, timeline announcements, and best practices for preparing your
site.
A 2021 UPDATE ON MOBILE-INDEXING
Friday, November 26, 2021 We first started working on mobile-first indexing a
number of years ago. Since then, we've switched to indexing the majority of web
pages with Googlebot-Smartphone. Our existing plan was to complete mobile-first
indexing by
November 26, 2021
PREPARE FOR MOBILE-FIRST INDEXING (WITH A LITTLE EXTRA TIME)
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 Mobile-first indexing has been an ongoing effort of
Google for several years. We've enabled mobile-first indexing for most currently
crawled sites, and enabled it by default for all the new sites. Our initial plan
was to
July 22, 2020
ANNOUNCING MOBILE FIRST INDEXING FOR THE WHOLE WEB
Thursday, March 05, 2020 It's been a few years now that Google started working
on mobile-first indexing - Google's crawling of the web using a smartphone
Googlebot. From our analysis, most sites shown in search results are good to go
for mobile-first
March 5, 2020
MOBILE-FIRST INDEXING BY DEFAULT FOR NEW DOMAINS
Tuesday, May 28, 2019 Over the years since announcing mobile-first indexing
—Google's crawling of the web using a smartphone Googlebot—our analysis has
shown that new websites are generally ready for this method of crawling.
Accordingly, we're happy
May 28, 2019
MOBILE-FIRST INDEXING, STRUCTURED DATA, IMAGES, AND YOUR SITE
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 It's been two years since we started working on
"mobile-first indexing"—crawling the web with smartphone Googlebot, similar to
how most users access it. We've seen websites across the world embrace the
mobile web, making
December 19, 2018
ROLLING OUT MOBILE-FIRST INDEXING
Monday, March 26, 2018 Today we're announcing that after a year and a half of
careful experimentation and testing, we've started migrating sites that follow
the best practices for mobile-first indexing. To recap, our crawling, indexing,
and ranking
March 26, 2018
GETTING YOUR SITE READY FOR MOBILE-FIRST INDEXING
Monday, December 18, 2017 When we announced almost a year ago that we're
experimenting with mobile-first indexing, we said we'd update publishers about
our progress, something that we've done the past few months through public talks
in office hours
December 18, 2017
MOBILE-FIRST INDEXING
Friday, November 04, 2016 Today, most people are searching on Google using a
mobile device. However, our ranking systems still typically look at the desktop
version of a page's content to evaluate its relevance to the user. This can
cause issues when
November 4, 2016
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