May 25, 2013

Using schema.org markup for organization logos

Posted on 16. May, 2013 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

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Introducing "x-default hreflang" for international landing pages

Posted on 10. Apr, 2013 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

Introducing "x-default hreflang" for international landing pages

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 2:00 AM Webmaster Level: All The homepages of multinational and multilingual websites are sometimes configured to point visitors to localized pages, either via redirects or by changing the content to reflect the user’s language. Today we’ll introduce a new rel-alternate-hreflang annotation that the webmaster can use to specify such homepages [...]

5 common mistakes with rel=canonical

Posted on 09. Apr, 2013 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

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The Webmaster Academy goes international

Posted on 28. Mar, 2013 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 4:05 AM Webmaster level: All Since we launched the Webmaster Academy in English back in May 2012, its educational content has been viewed well over 1 million times. The Webmaster Academy was built to guide webmasters in creating great sites that perform well in Google search results. It is an [...]

A new opt-out tool

Posted on 26. Mar, 2013 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

Monday, March 25, 2013 at 2:39 PM Webmasters have several ways to keep their sites’ content out of Google’s search results. Today, as promised, we’re providing a way for websites to opt out of having their content that Google has crawled appear on Google Shopping, Advisor, Flights, Hotels, and Google+ Local search. Webmasters can now [...]

Easier management of website verifications

Posted on 22. Mar, 2013 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

Easier management of website verifications

Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 1:53 PM Webmaster level: All To help webmasters manage the verified owners for their websites in Webmaster Tools, we’ve recently introduced three new features: Verification details view: You can now see the methods used to verify an owner for your site. In the Manage owners page for your site, you [...]

Making search-friendly mobile websites — now in 11 more languages

Posted on 21. Mar, 2013 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 8:58 AM Webmaster level: Intermediate As more and more users worldwide with mobile devices access the Internet, it’s fantastic to see so many websites making their content accessible and useful for those devices. To help webmasters optimize their sites we launched our recommendations for smartphones, feature-phones, tablets, and Googlebot-friendly sites [...]

We created a first steps cheat sheet for friends & family

Posted on 15. Mar, 2013 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

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New first stop for hacked site recovery

Posted on 13. Mar, 2013 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 10:00 AM Webmaster Level: All We certainly hope you never have to use our new Help for hacked sites informational series. It’s a dozen articles and over an hour of videos dedicated to helping webmasters in the unfortunate event that their site is compromised. If you have further interest in [...]

A reminder about selling links that pass PageRank

Posted on 23. Feb, 2013 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

Friday, February 22, 2013 at 12:00 PM Webmaster level: all Google has said for years that selling links that pass PageRank violates our quality guidelines. We continue to reiterate that guidance periodically to help remind site owners and webmasters of that policy. Please be wary if someone approaches you and wants to pay you for [...]