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Using schema.org markup for videos
Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by admin in Google Webmaster Central Blog
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 2:00 PM Webmaster level: All Videos are one of the most common types of results on Google and we want to make sure that your videos get indexed. Today, we’re also launching video support for schema.org. Schema.org is a joint effort between Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! and is now the [...]
Preparing your site for a traffic spike
Posted on 10. Feb, 2012 by admin in Google Webmaster Central Blog
Thursday, February 09, 2012 at 6:30 AM Webmaster level: Intermediate It’s a moment any site owner both looks forward to, and dreads: a huge surge in traffic to your site (yay!) can often cause your site to crash (boo!). Maybe you’ll create a piece of viral content, or get Slashdotted, or maybe Larry Page will [...]
What’s new with Sitemaps
Posted on 28. Jan, 2012 by admin in Google Webmaster Central Blog
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 12:18 PM Webmaster level: All Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your site. Webmaster Tools’ Sitemaps feature gives you feedback on your submitted Sitemaps, such as how many Sitemap URLs have been indexed, or whether your Sitemaps have any errors. Recently, we’ve added even more information! [...]
More Options for Google+ Badges
Posted on 27. Jan, 2012 by admin in Google Webmaster Central Blog
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 1:53 PM Webmaster Level: All When we launched Google+ pages in November, we also released Google+ badges to promote your Google+ presence right on your site. Starting today in developer preview (and soon available to all your users), we’re adding more options for integrating the Google+ badge into your website. [...]
Update to Top Search Queries data
Posted on 26. Jan, 2012 by admin in Google Webmaster Central Blog
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 2:00 PM Webmaster level: All Starting today, we’re updating our Top Search Queries feature to make it better match expectations about search engine rankings. Previously we reported the average position of all URLs from your site for a given query. As of today, we’ll instead average only the top position [...]
Making form-filling faster, easier and smarter
Posted on 25. Jan, 2012 by admin in Google Webmaster Central Blog
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 10:00 AM Webmaster Level: Intermediate One of the biggest bottlenecks on any conversion funnel is filling out an online form – shopping and registration flows all rely on forms as a crucial and demanding step in accomplishing the goals of your site. For many users, online forms mean repeatedly typing [...]
Page layout algorithm improvement
Posted on 22. Jan, 2012 by admin in Google Webmaster Central Blog
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 3:00 PM Webmaster Level: All In our ongoing effort to help you find more high-quality websites in search results, today we’re launching an algorithmic change that looks at the layout of a webpage and the amount of content you see on the page once you click on a result. As [...]
Better page titles in search results
Posted on 12. Jan, 2012 by admin in Google Webmaster Central Blog
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 3:59 AM Page titles are an important part of our search results: they’re the first line of each result and they’re the actual links our searchers click to reach websites. Our advice to webmasters has always been to write unique, descriptive page titles (and meta descriptions for the snippets) to [...]
Download search queries data using Python
Posted on 23. Dec, 2011 by admin in Google Webmaster Central Blog
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 11:01 AM Webmaster level: Advanced For all the developers who have expressed interest in getting programmatic access to the search queries data for their sites in Webmaster Tools, we’ve got some good news. You can now get access to your search queries data in CSV format using a open source [...]
Website user research and testing on the cheap
Posted on 22. Dec, 2011 by admin in Google Webmaster Central Blog
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 5:51 PM Webmaster level: Intermediate As the team responsible for tens of thousands of Google’s informational web pages, the Webmaster Team is here to offer tips and advice based on their experiences as hands-on webmasters. If you’ve never tested or analyzed usage of your website, ask yourself if you really [...]
