Directing smartphone users to the page they actually wanted
Webmaster level: all Have you ever used Google Search on your smartphone and clicked on a promising-looking result, only to end up on the mobile site’s homepage, with no idea why the page you were...
View ArticleAndroid app indexing is now open for everyone!
Webmaster level: All Do you have an Android app in addition to your website? You can now connect the two so that users searching from their smartphones and tablets can easily find and reach your app...
View ArticleTroubleshooting hreflang annotations in Webmaster Tools
If you are targeting users in more than one country, chances are you already heard about rel-alternate-hreflang. If you haven’t, in short, this annotation enables Google and other search engines to...
View ArticleTesting robots.txt files made easier
Webmaster level: intermediate-advanced To crawl, or not to crawl, that is the robots.txt question. Making and maintaining correct robots.txt files can sometimes be difficult. While most sites have it...
View ArticleIntroducing the Google News Publisher Center
(Cross-posted on the Google News Blog) Webmaster level: All UPDATE: Great News — The Publisher Center is now available in all countries where Google News has an edition. If you’re a news publisher,...
View ArticleAn update to the Webmaster Tools API
Webmaster level: advanced Over the summer the Webmaster Tools team has been cooking up an update to the Webmaster Tools API. The new API is consistent with other Google APIs, makes it easier to...
View ArticleTracking mobile usability in Webmaster Tools
Webmaster Level: intermediate Mobile is growing at a fantastic pace – in usage, not just in screen size. To keep you informed of issues mobile users might be seeing across your website, we’ve added the...
View ArticleThe four steps to appiness
Webmaster Level: intermediate to advanced App deep links are the new kid on the block in organic search, and they’re picking up speed faster than you can say “schema.org ViewAction”! For signed-in...
View ArticleUnblocking resources with Webmaster Tools
Webmasters often use linked images, CSS, and JavaScript files in web pages to make them pretty and functional. If these resources are blocked from crawling, then Googlebot can’t use them when it...
View ArticleDeprecation of the old Webmaster Tools API
Last fall we announced the new Webmaster Tools API, which helps you to automate a number of important aspects using code. With the pending shutdown of ClientLogin, we’re going to turn down the old...
View ArticleGoogle Publisher Plugin beta: Bringing our publisher products to WordPress
Go-posted from the Inside of AdSense blog. We’ve heard from many publishers the usage of WordPress that they’re searching for an more uncomplicated method to work with Google products inside the...
View ArticleChanges in crawl error reporting for redirects
Webmaster stage: intermediate-advanced Prior to now, we’ve got considered occasional confusion by means of webmasters relating to how crawl blunders on redirecting pages have been proven in Webmaster...
View ArticleMore Precise Index Status Data for Your Site Variations
Webmaster Stage: Intermediate The Google Webmaster Gadgets Index Standing attribute prognosis what assortment of pages to your internet internet net internet internet internet internet net internet net...
View ArticleRendering pages with Fetch as Google
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