May 19, 2012

Updates to rich snippets

Posted on 17. Apr, 2012 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

Updates to rich snippets

Monday, April 16, 2012 at 2:55 PM Webmaster level: All Today we’re announcing two updates to rich snippets. First, we’re happy to announce that product rich snippets, which previously were only available in a limited set of locales, are supported globally.  Users viewing your site’s results in Google search can now preview information about products [...]

Upcoming changes in Google’s HTTP Referrer

Posted on 21. Mar, 2012 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

Monday, March 19, 2012 at 4:13 PM Webmaster level: all Protecting users’ privacy is a priority for us and it’s helped drive recent changes. Helping users save time is also very important; it’s explicitly mentioned as a part of our philosophy. Today, we’re happy to announce that Google Web Search will soon be using a [...]

Five common SEO mistakes (and six good ideas!)

Posted on 20. Mar, 2012 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

Monday, March 19, 2012 at 9:06 PM Webmaster Level: Beginner to Intermediate To help you avoid common mistakes webmasters face with regard to search engine optimization (SEO), I filmed a video outlining five common mistakes I’ve noticed in the SEO industry. Almost four years ago, we also gathered information from all of you (our readers) [...]

Crawl Errors: The Next Generation

Posted on 14. Mar, 2012 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

Crawl Errors: The Next Generation

Monday, March 12, 2012 at 3:00 PM Webmaster level: All Crawl errors is one of the most popular features in Webmaster Tools, and today we’re rolling out some very significant enhancements that will make it even more useful. We now detect and report many new types of errors. To help make sense of the new [...]

Video about pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev”

Posted on 13. Mar, 2012 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 6:00 AM Webmaster Level: Beginner to Intermediate If you’re curious about the rel=”next” and rel=prev” for paginated content announcement we made several months ago, we filmed a video covering more of the basics of pagination to help answer your questions. Paginated content includes things like an article that spans several [...]

Keeping your free hosting service valuable for searchers

Posted on 07. Mar, 2012 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

Keeping your free hosting service valuable for searchers

Tuesday, March 06, 2012 at 11:23 AM Webmaster level: Advanced Free web hosting services can be great! Many of these services have helped to lower costs and technical barriers for webmasters and they continue to enable beginner webmasters to start their adventure on the web. Unfortunately, sometimes these lower barriers (meant to encourage less techy [...]

Safely share access to your site in Webmaster Tools

Posted on 06. Mar, 2012 by in Google Webmaster Central Blog

Safely share access to your site in Webmaster Tools

Monday, March 05, 2012 at 4:45 PM Webmaster Level: All We just launched a new feature that allows you as a verified site owner to grant limited access to your site’s data and settings in Webmaster Tools. You’ve had the ability to grant full verified access to others for a couple of years. Since then [...]

Using schema.org markup for videos

Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by 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 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 in Google Webmaster Central Blog

What’s new with Sitemaps

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! [...]