Working with multilingual websites
Friday, March 19, 2010
Webmaster Level: Intermediate A multilingual website is any website that offers content in more than one language. Examples of multilingual websites might include a Canadian business with an English and a French version of its site, or a blog on Latin American soccer available in both Spanish and Po.. .. read more..
Sharing advice from our site clinic
Monday, March 15, 2010
Webmaster Level: All Members of the Google Search Quality Team have participated in site clinic panels on a number of occasions. We receive a lot of positive feedback from these events and we\'ve been thinking of ways to expand our efforts to reach even more webmasters. We decided to organize a small.. .. read more..
Working with multi-regional websites
Friday, March 12, 2010
Webmaster Level: Intermediate Did you know that a majority of users surveyed feel that having information in their own language was more important than a low price? Living in a non-English-speaking country, I\'ve seen friends and family members explicitly look for and use local and localized websites.. .. read more..
Microdata support for Rich Snippets
Friday, March 12, 2010
Webmaster Level: All HTML5 is the fifth major revision of HTML, the core language of the World Wide Web. The HTML5 specification includes a description of microdata , a new markup standard for specifying structured information within web pages. Today, we’re happy to announce support for microdata fo.. .. read more..
Fetch as Googlebot Mobile and Claim your Sidewiki comment - added to Webmaster T..
Monday, March 8, 2010
Webmaster Level: All Last October, we launched Webmaster Tools Labs and it has been a huge success. Malware Details have helped thousands of users identify pages on their site that may be infected with malicious code, and Fetch as Googlebot has given users more insight into our crawler. Today, we\'re.. .. read more..
Sharing the verification love
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Webmaster Level: All Everything is more fun with a friend! We\'ve just added a feature to Webmaster Tools Site Verification to make it easier to share verified ownership of your websites. In the past, if more than one person needed to be a verified owner of a website, they each had to go through the .. .. read more..
Google\'s SEO Report Card
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Webmaster Level: All How many of Google\'s web pages use a descriptive title tag? Do we use description meta tags? Heading tags? While we always try to focus on the user, could our products use an SEO tune up? These are just some of the questions we set out to answer with Google\'s SEO Report Card. Go.. .. read more..
Is your site hacked? New Message Center notifications for hacking and abuse
Monday, March 1, 2010
Webmaster Level: All As we crawl the web, we see bad content inserted on to thousands of hacked sites each day. The number of sites attacked is staggering and the problem is only getting worse. Hackers and spammers target and successfully compromise any sites they can - small personal sites, school.. .. read more..
How did you do on the Webmaster Quiz?
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Webmaster Level: All Thanks to all of you who took our webmaster quiz and waited patiently to see how well you did! Today, we\'re pleased to present the Webmaster Quiz answers ! We hope this quiz has provided some clarity on common issues users ask about in the Webmaster Help Forum. We\'ll go over a f.. .. read more..
Request visitors\' permission before installing software
Friday, January 29, 2010
(Cross-posted on the Google Korea Blog ) Webmaster Level: All Legitimate websites may require that their visitors install software. These sites often do so to provide their users with additional functionality beyond what\'s available in standard web browsers, like viewing a special type of document. .. .. read more..