Preparing your site for a traffic spike
Thursday, February 9, 2012
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 get a tattoo and your site o.. .. read more..
More Options for Google+ Badges
Thursday, January 26, 2012
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 webs.. .. read more..
What’s new with Sitemaps
Thursday, January 26, 2012
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! Le.. .. read more..
Update to Top Search Queries data
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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 tha.. .. read more..
Making form-filling faster, easier and smarter
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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 common .. .. read more..
Page layout algorithm improvement
Thursday, January 19, 2012
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 we’ve mentioned previously , we’ve .. .. read more..
Better page titles in search results
Thursday, January 12, 2012
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 describe t.. .. read more..
Download search queries data using Python
Thursday, December 22, 2011
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 Python script from.. .. read more..
Website user research and testing on the cheap
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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.. .. read more..
Rich Snippets Instructional Videos
Friday, December 16, 2011
Webmaster level: All When users come to Google, they have a pretty good idea of what they’re looking for, but they need help deciding which result might have the information that best suits their needs. So, the challenge for Google is to make it very clear to our users what content exists on a page .. .. read more..