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  • Archive
    • 2023
      • November
        • New in structured data: discussion forum and profile page
        • Upcoming deprecation of Crawl Rate Limiter Tool in Search Console
        • Search Quality Raters Guidelines update
        • List your courses with new course info structured data
        • A Q&A on Google Search updates
        • Search Central Live Taipei 2023
      • October
        • Mobile-first indexing has landed
        • Search Central Live Singapore 2023
        • Vehicle listing structured data for car dealerships
        • October 2023 Spam Update
      • September
        • Search Central Live Zurich is back!
        • Announcing the Search Central Live Mexico roadshow
        • Associate Search Console to Merchant Center to discover growth opportunities
        • How Google Search handles multilingual searches
        • Site names on Google Search now available for all languages
      • August
        • The comedy of errors
        • Search Central Live is coming to India
        • Changes to HowTo and FAQ rich results
      • July
        • An update on site names
        • Search Central Live Tokyo and Jakarta: it's a wrap
      • June
        • Sitemaps ping endpoint is going away
        • Reporting search quality issues with a new user feedback form
        • Improving prominence reporting in the Search Console video indexing report
        • Indonesian Blog: Search Central Live Jakarta 2023
        • BigQuery efficiency tips for Search Console bulk data exports
      • May
        • Understanding news topic authority
        • Search Central Live: Tokyo and future plans for APAC
        • Introducing INP to Core Web Vitals
        • How x-default can help you
      • April
        • Japanese Blog: Introducing #GoogleSearchOfficeHours
        • The role of page experience in creating helpful content
        • Shipping and Returns information on Google Search web results
        • Simplifying video presentation on Google Search Results
        • How we fought spam on Google Search in 2022
        • Event recap: Search Central Virtual Unconference en español 2023
      • March
        • Blending Search Console and internal data inside Looker Studio
        • Search Central Community in 2022
      • February
        • Updating Search Console users and permissions management
        • Bulk data export: a new and powerful way to access your Search Console data
        • Don't use 403s or 404s for rate limiting
        • Google Search's guidance about AI-generated content
        • Announcing the Search Central Live Brazil roadshow
        • New updates to the Search Console Video indexing report
      • January
        • Spanish blog: Register for the Search Central Virtual Unconference en español 2023
    • 2022
      • December
        • Thanks, 2022
        • Search Central Live 2022 Highlights
        • Our latest update to the quality rater guidelines: E-A-T gets an extra E for Experience
        • December 2022 link spam update releasing for Google Search
        • Introducing the Google Search Status Dashboard
        • Visual Elements of Google Search
        • Updates to Google's Services in Czechia in Light of the Czech Transposition of the European Copyright Directive
      • November
        • November Google SEO Office Hours
        • Introducing our new guide to Google Search ranking systems
        • Start showing your products on the Shopping tab with Search Console
      • October
        • A deep dive into Search Console performance data filtering and limits
        • Introducing site names on Google Search
        • Refreshed guidelines for site owners
        • Back in business: Search Central Live events
      • September
        • The new HTTPS report in Search Console
        • New Search Console Merchant Listings report: expanding eligibility with Product structured data
      • August
        • What creators should know about Google's helpful content update
        • New in structured data: Pros and cons
      • July
        • Announcing the new Search Console Video index report
      • June
        • Googlebot and the 15 MB thing
        • Simplifying Search Console reports with an updated item classification
        • How Google generates titles for documents with language or script misalignment
      • May
        • May 2022 core update releasing for Google Search
        • The Global Search Central Virtual Unconference 2022 is a wrap!
        • Event recap: Search Central Virtual Unconference Japan 2022
        • Spring cleaning: some sitemap extension tags are going away
      • April
        • How we fought Search spam on Google in 2021
        • Optimizing website performance with a Search Console bubble chart
      • March
        • Monitoring Search traffic (and more!) with Data Studio
        • Adding context to structured data issues in Search Console
        • Spring cleaning: the URL Parameters tool
        • Japanese Blog: Register for the first Search Central Virtual Unconference Japan 2022!
        • Improving Product Review ranking, one year on
        • Search for Beginners YouTube Series now available in Japanese!
        • Connecting Search Console to Data Studio
      • January
        • Welcoming the new Search Console URL Inspection API
        • New robots tag: indexifembedded
    • 2021
      • December
        • Our authors' take on 2021
        • Product reviews update and your site
      • November
        • A 2021 update on mobile indexing
        • One year of Google Search Central
        • Timeline for bringing page experience ranking to desktop
        • Help job seekers understand your job postings by including a complete description
      • October
        • Search Analytics API now supports Discover, Google News, and Regex
        • Aligning Search Console testing tools and the URL Inspection tool
      • September
        • More information on how Google generates titles for web page results
      • August
        • An update to how we generate web page titles
        • Google Search Console Insights behind the curtains
        • Simplifying the Page Experience report
      • July
        • A reminder on qualifying links and our link spam update
        • Engage shoppers with deal pages in Google Search
        • Analyzing Google Search traffic drops
        • A new way to enable video key moments in Search
        • Answers to some common questions about appearing in Google News
        • Updating our job posting guidelines to improve quality of results for job seekers
        • Highlight your customer support methods in Google Search
      • June
        • Learn how to improve your content with Search Console Insights
        • The Search Central Unconference is back
        • Search Console regex filters update and quick tips
        • Understanding the sources behind Google News
      • May
        • Search at Google I/O 2021
        • Prevent portions of your site from being abused by spam
        • How we worked with you in 2020 towards a safe search experience, without spam
        • Sunsetting the generic rich results search appearance on Search Console
        • Korean Blog: The lonely site owner learns about linking; and the power of Dalgona Coffee
        • Video SEO best practices for ecommerce
      • April
        • How we fought Search spam on Google in 2020
        • Korean Blog: Agrofy: A 70% improvement in LCP correlated to a 76% reduction in load abandonment
        • Korean Blog: Vodafone: A 31% improvement in LCP increased sales by 8%
        • Korean Blog: Two helpful tips: meta tags and sitemaps
        • More time, tools, and details on the page experience update
        • Upcoming changes to FeedBurner
        • Announcing the Sustainable Monetized Websites video series
        • Expanding support for APAC Search Central Help Communities
        • What creators should know about Google's product reviews update
        • Improved data filtering and comparison on Performance reports
      • March
        • Korean Blog: How CLS optimizations increased Yahoo! JAPAN News's page views per session by 15%
        • Korean Blog: How Wix improved website performance by evolving their infrastructure
        • New for education sites: Practice problems and Math solver structured data
        • SharedArrayBuffer messaging clarifications
        • New resources for video SEO
      • February
        • Providing better product information for shoppers
        • New Association functionality added to Search Console
        • Join us at Search Central Live
        • Search Console Discover report now includes Chrome data
      • January
        • Introducing Google News performance report
        • Index Coverage Data Improvements
    • 2020
      • December
        • A weird year in review
        • An update on Structured Data Testing Tool
        • Updates to Search Console's API
      • November
        • New and improved crawl stats for your site
        • We moved! Introducing the new home for the Google Webmasters blogs
        • Goodbye Google Webmasters, hello Google Search Central
        • Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search
        • PES@Home 2020: Google's first virtual summit for Product Experts
      • October
        • Best practices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday pages
        • How can my pages appear on the search result page?
        • The Search Console Training lives on
      • September
        • New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data
        • New open source robots.txt projects
        • Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2
        • Sharing what we learned on the first Virtual Webmaster Unconference
        • #TanyaTentangSearch (Search Console - Part 2)
      • August
        • Make the licensing information for your images visible on Google Images
        • Options for retailers to control how their crawled product information appears on Google
        • Identify and fix AMP Signed Exchange errors in Search Console
        • Join our first Virtual Webmaster Unconference
        • Rich Results and Search Console Webmaster Conference Lightning Talk
        • Search Console API announcements
        • Search Off The Record podcast - behind the scenes with Search Relations
      • July
        • Prepare for mobile-first indexing (with a little extra time)
        • The Rich Results Test is out of beta
        • How spam reports are used at Google
        • #TanyaTentangSearch (Search Console)
      • June
        • Why are my pages not shown on the search result page?
        • How we fought Search spam on Google - Webspam Report 2019
      • May
        • Evaluating page experience for a better web
        • Hello Search Console. Nice to meet you!
        • Frequently asked questions about JavaScript and links
        • Google Translate's Website Translator - available for non-commercial use
        • New reports for Guided Recipes on Assistant in Search Console
        • Reintroducing a community for Polish and Turkish Site Owners
        • New reports for Special Announcements in Search Console
      • April
        • Showcasing the value of SEO
        • Looking back at last year's Webmaster Conference Product Summit
        • Introducing a new way for sites to highlight COVID-19 announcements on Google Search
      • March
        • Helping health organizations make COVID-19 information more accessible
        • How to pause your business online in Google Search
        • New properties for virtual, postponed, and canceled events
        • Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Webmaster Conference
        • Announcing mobile first indexing for the whole web
      • February
        • Best Practices for News coverage with Search
        • More and better data export in Search Console
        • How to showcase your events on Google Search
        • New reports for review snippets in Search Console
        • #TanyaTentangSearch (Google Images)
      • January
        • Google Search News for January 2020
        • New Removals report in Search Console
        • Sunsetting support for data-vocabulary
        • Get Ready for New SameSite=None; Secure Cookie Settings
        • The Search Console Training video series is rolling out
    • 2019
      • December
        • An update on 2019
        • Launching a new Publisher Center
        • Package Tracking Early Access Program
        • Introducing the new Search Console messages
        • Launching the event experience on Google Search in Spain and Germany
      • November
        • Google Search News for November 2019
        • New reporting for Products Results in Search Console
        • Get faster with the new Speed report in Search Console
        • Introducing the Korean webmaster blog
      • October
        • Site Kit is now available for all WordPress sites
        • Google Webmaster Conference goes to Tel Aviv
        • Video Series for New Webmasters: Search for Beginners!
        • Goodbye, Flash
        • New reports for video results in Search Console
        • Updating the user agent of Googlebot
        • Upcoming event: Webmaster Conference Tokyo and Osaka
      • September
        • Join us at a Webmaster Conference in Mountain View, California
        • Google Search News: coming soon to a screen near you
        • More options to help websites preview their content on Google Search
        • Fresher data in your site's Search Performance report
        • Making Review Rich Results more helpful
        • Evolving nofollow- new ways to identify the nature of links
        • Saying goodbye to the old Search Console
        • Introducing Auto-DNS verification in the new Search Console
        • #TanyaTentangSearch (Structured Data)
      • August
        • Minor cleaning up in the Search Console API
        • You #AskGoogleWebmasters, we answer
        • When indexing goes wrong: how Google Search recovered from indexing issues and lessons learned since.
        • Googlebot evergreen rendering in our testing tools
        • What site owners should know about Google's core updates
        • Upcoming event: Webmaster Conference Sapporo
      • July
        • Helping publishers and users get more out of visual searches on Google Images with AMP
        • A note on unsupported rules in robots.txt
        • Google's robots.txt parser is now open source
        • Formalizing the Robots Exclusion Protocol Specification
      • June
        • Bye Bye Preferred Domain setting
        • Webmaster Conference: an event made for you
        • A video series on SEO myths for web developers
        • Upcoming events: Webmaster Conference Jakarta and Bali 2019
        • Upcoming event: Webmaster Conference in India
      • May
        • Mobile-First Indexing by default for new domains
        • Search at Google I/O 2019
        • New in structured data: FAQ and How-to
        • The new evergreen Googlebot
        • Google I/O 2019 - What sessions should SEOs and webmasters watch?
        • Monitoring structured data with Search Console
        • #TanyaTentangSearch (Crawling, Indexing, and Ranking)
      • April
        • Enriching Search Results Through Structured Data
        • Instant-loading AMP pages from your own domain
        • Search Console reporting for your site's Discover performance data
        • User experience improvements with page speed in mobile search
      • March
        • How to discover and suggest Google-selected canonical URLs for your pages
        • This year in Search Spam - Webspam report 2018
        • Help Google Search know the best date for your web page
        • Introducing a new JavaScript SEO video series
        • Google Search events coming to Okinawa and Fukuoka
      • February
        • Announcing domain-wide data in Search Console
        • Help customers discover your products on Google
        • Consolidating your website traffic on canonical URLs
      • January
        • Dynamic Rendering with Rendertron
        • Focusing on the new Search Console
        • Ways to succeed in Google News
        • An update on the Google Webmaster Central blog comments
    • 2018
      • December
        • 2018, celebrating our global Webmaster community
        • Mobile-First indexing, structured data, images, and your site
        • Why and how to secure your website with the HTTPS protocol
        • Introducing the Indexing API and structured data for livestreams
        • Rich Results expands for Question and Answer pages
        • Event report: Google Dance Osaka 2018
        • Japanese: A look back on 2018
      • November
        • PageSpeed Insights, now powered by Lighthouse
        • Notifying users of unclear subscription pages
      • October
        • Introducing reCAPTCHA v3: the new way to stop bots
        • Google is introducing its Product Experts Program!
        • Upcoming event in Indonesian: Join the live stream
        • Upcoming event: Google Dance Osaka 2018
      • September
        • The new Search Console is graduating out of Beta
        • Upcoming events in France: SEO and Google in a city near you!
        • The first Google Dance in Zurich
      • August
        • Collaboration and user management in the new Search Console
        • Links, Mobile Usability, and site management in the new Search Console
      • July
        • Hey Google, what's the latest news?
        • An update to referral source URLs for Google Images
        • A big step for Chrome security: HTTP pages now show not protected
        • Real-world data in PageSpeed Insights
        • An update to the comments on the German Webmaster Blog
      • June
        • How we fought webspam - Webspam Report 2017
        • Introducing the Indexing API for job posting URLs
        • New URL inspection tool and more in Search Console
        • Google Search at I/O 2018
        • Upcoming event: Google Dance in Singapore
      • May
        • Our goal: helping webmasters and content creators
        • Google I/O 2018 - What sessions should SEOs and Webmasters watch live ?
        • Send your recipes to the Google Assistant
      • April
        • We updated our job posting guidelines
        • Distrust of the Symantec PKI: Immediate action needed by site operators
        • Event report: Google Dance Tokyo 2018
      • March
        • Rolling out mobile-first indexing
        • Introducing the Webmaster Video Series, now in Hindi
        • Tips for building a hack-resistant site: For Cybersecurity Month
      • February
        • How listening to our users helped us build a better Search Console
        • Launching SEO Audit category in Lighthouse Chrome extension
        • A secure web is here to stay
        • Upcoming event: Google Dance Tokyo 2018
        • Upcoming SEO events in Paris in March 2018
        • Strengthening Internet Security
      • January
        • Using page speed in mobile search ranking
        • Real-world data in PageSpeed Insights
        • Introducing the new Search Console
        • A reminder about sponsored posts
    • 2017
      • December
        • Introducing the new Webmaster Video Series
        • Introducing Rich Results and the Rich Results Testing Tool
        • #NoHacked 3.0: Useful resources
        • #NoHacked 3.0: Fixing common hack cases
        • Getting your site ready for mobile-first indexing
        • #NoHacked 3.0: Tips on prevention
        • A revamped SEO Starter Guide
        • #NoHacked 3.0: How do I know if my site is hacked?
        • Rendering AJAX-crawling pages
        • Russian Blog: Annotating multilingual and multiregional sites
        • About improving search results related to medical care and health
        • Japanese: A look back on 2017
        • Event report: SEO in 2018 at Google Paris
      • November
        • A reminder about event markup
        • Engaging users through high quality AMP pages
        • Make your site's complete jobs information accessible to job seekers
        • Upcoming event: SEO in 2018 at Google Paris
      • October
        • Enabling more high quality content for users
      • September
        • How to move from m-dot URLs to responsive site
        • Event report: Google Dance Tokyo 2017
      • August
        • Introducing Our New International Webmaster Blogs!
        • The new Search Console: a sneak peek at two experimental features
        • Badges on Image Search help users find what they really want
      • July
        • Next steps toward more connection security
        • Advanced Hosting Meetup program, progress report, and announcement of new participants
        • Upcoming event: Google Dance Tokyo 2017
      • June
        • Connect to job seekers with Google Search
        • Making the Internet safer and faster: Introducing reCAPTCHA Android API
        • Better Snippets for your Users
      • May
        • A reminder about links in large-scale article campaigns
      • April
        • How we fought webspam - Webspam Report 2016
        • Similar items: Rich products feature on Google Images
        • Our latest quality improvements for Search
      • March
        • Updates to the Google Safe Browsing's Site Status Tool
        • #NoHacked: A year in review
        • Upcoming event: Introduction to Google Search for Online Media and Best Practices for Content Creation
      • February
        • Closing down for a day
        • Improving Japanese Search quality
      • January
        • Introducing the Mobile-Friendly Test API
        • Protect your site from user generated spam
        • What Crawl Budget Means for Googlebot
    • 2016
      • December
        • Enhancing property sets to cover more reports in Search Console
        • The 'Editor's Choice' column is now available on Google News
        • Japanese: A look back on 2016
      • November
        • An update on Google's feature-phone crawling and indexing
        • Saying goodbye to Content Keywords
        • Rich Cards expands to more verticals
        • Building Indexable Progressive Web Apps
        • Mobile-first indexing
        • Here's to more HTTPS on the web!
      • October
        • Using AMP? Try our new webpage tester
        • The Safe browsing team, more than ever at the service of webmasters
      • September
        • Webmaster Forums Top AMP Questions
        • Penguin is now part of our core algorithm
        • 8 tips to AMPlify your clients
        • How to best evaluate issues with your Accelerated Mobile Pages
        • How can Google Search Console help you AMPlify your site?
        • How to get started with Accelerated Mobile Pages
        • What is AMP?
        • A reminder about widget links
        • Showcase your site's reviews in Search
        • More Safe Browsing Help for Webmasters
      • August
        • Helping users easily access content on mobile
        • Promote your local businesses reviews with schema.org markup
        • AMP your content - A Preview of AMP'ed results in Search
      • June
        • More security notifications via Google Analytics
        • Search at I/O 16 Recap: Eight things you don't want to miss
        • Event report: Google Dance Tokyo
      • May
        • Tie your sites together with property sets in Search Console
        • Introducing Rich Cards
        • A new mobile friendly testing tool
        • Deeper Integration of Search Console in Google Analytics
        • How we fought webspam in 2015
        • Advanced Hosting Meetup program: report results
      • April
        • Helping webmasters re-secure their sites
        • No More Deceptive Download Buttons
      • March
        • Continuing to make the web more mobile friendly
        • Updating the smartphone user-agent of Googlebot
        • Best practices for bloggers reviewing products they receive from companies
        • An update on the Webmaster Central Blog
        • AMP NewsLab Office Hours in your language
      • February
        • Advanced Hosting Meetup: announcing participating companies
        • Measures have been taken for the link program network
      • January
        • AMP error report preview in Search Console
        • New year, new look: Introducing our new Webmasters website
        • Protecting hundreds of millions of mobile users
        • About Accelerated Mobile Pages Project: Japanese version of the introduction guide released today
        • Introducing the Advanced Hosting Meetup
    • 2015
      • December
        • Indexing HTTPS pages by default
        • More protection for safe browsing
        • Japanese: A look back on 2015
      • November
        • Updating Our Search Quality Rating Guidelines
        • TC Summit 2015: Celebrating our Webmaster Top Contributors!
        • Behind the red warning: More information about website safety
        • Safe Browsing Protection from deceptive and misleading attacks
        • Hangout on Air for French-speaking webmasters
        • Detect and prevent deceptive unwanted redirects on mobile devices
      • October
        • Detect and get rid of unwanted sneaky mobile redirects
        • Deprecating our AJAX crawling scheme
        • An update on how we tackle hacked spam
        • Introducing the Indonesian Webmaster Help Forum
      • September
        • First Click Free update
        • Helping hacked sites with reconsideration requests
        • Repeated violations of Webmaster Guidelines
        • Mobile-friendly web pages using app banners
      • August
        • An update on CSV download scripts
        • #NoHacked: Fixing the Injected Gibberish URL Hack
        • #NoHacked: Identifying and Diagnosing Injected Gibberish URL Hacking
        • #NoHacked: Using two-factor authentication to protect your site
        • Introducing the Search Analytics API
        • #NoHacked: How to recognise and protect yourself against social engineering
        • #NoHacked Blog Part 2: Detecting Social Engineering Attacks and Preventing Damage
      • July
        • #NoHacked: How to avoid being the target of hackers
        • Update on the Autocomplete API
        • Google+: A case study on App Download Interstitials
        • Google's handling of new top level domains
        • Starting the #NoHacked campaign: How to avoid being the target of fraudulent hacking
      • May
        • App deep linking with goo.gl
        • Surfacing content from iOS apps in Google Search
        • Rolling out the red carpet for app owners in Search Console
        • Announcing Google Search Console - the new Webmaster Tools
        • More precise data in the new Search Analytics report
        • Five ways to grow your business this Small Business Week
        • French: Google News Hangout on Air
      • April
        • Faster and lighter mobile web pages for Indonesia
        • #MobileMadness: a campaign to help you go mobile-friendly
        • FAQs about the April 21st mobile-friendly update
        • Rolling out the mobile-friendly update
        • Better presentation of URLs in search results
        • Drive app installs through App Indexing
      • March
        • Helping users fill out online forms
        • An update on doorway pages
        • Deprecation of the old Webmaster Tools API
        • Unblocking resources with Webmaster Tools
        • Easier website development with Web Components and JSON-LD
        • Safe Browsing and Google Analytics: Keeping More Users Safe, Together
        • #MobileMadness Campaign: Is your website already compatible with mobile devices?
        • Helping French-speaking site owners prepare for the April 21 algorithm change
      • February
        • Finding more mobile-friendly search results
        • Case Studies: Fixing Hacked Sites
      • January
        • Crawling and indexing of locale-adaptive pages
        • Upcoming Events In The Knowledge Graph
        • New Structured Data Testing Tool, documentation, and more
    • 2014
      • December
        • Google Public DNS and Location-Sensitive DNS Responses
        • The four steps to appiness
        • Are you a robot? Introducing No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA
        • Japanese: A look back on 2014
      • November
        • Helping users find mobile-friendly pages
      • October
        • Tracking mobile usability in Webmaster Tools
        • Updating our technical Webmaster Guidelines
        • Best practices for XML sitemaps and RSS/Atom feeds
        • Bring your local business online -- no website required!
      • September
        • An update to the Webmaster Tools API
        • Webmaster Academy now available in 22 languages
        • An improved search box within the search results
        • Optimizing for Bandwidth on Apache and Nginx
        • Link program guideline violations
      • August
        • #NoHacked: a global campaign to spread hacking awareness
        • HTTPS as a ranking signal
        • Introducing the Google News Publisher Center
      • July
        • Testing robots.txt files made easier
        • Promoting modern websites for modern devices in Google search results
        • Troubleshooting hreflang annotations in Webmaster Tools
        • Hangout on Air, in French
      • June
        • Android app indexing is now open for everyone!
        • Making site moves easier
        • Directing smartphone users to the page they actually wanted
        • #NoHacked campaign on Google+
        • Paid links and reconsideration requests
        • Indonesian: Google's Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Beginner's Guide
        • Introducing the official Google blog for Indonesian webmasters
        • Event report: Hosting Meetup @ Google
        • This week we're launching the #NoHacked awareness campaign
      • May
        • App Indexing in more languages
        • Rendering pages with Fetch as Google
        • Understanding web pages better
        • Making your site more mobile-friendly with PageSpeed Insights
        • Creating the Right Homepage for your International Users
        • Feedback on the feedback questionnaire on Google Webmaster Tools
      • April
        • Webmaster Guidelines for sneaky redirects updated
        • Introducing our global Google+ page for webmasters
        • Surfacing your business's contact and local info in Google
        • App Indexing updates
      • March
        • More Precise Index Status Data for Your Site Variations
        • Introducing the new Webmaster Academy
        • App Engine IP Range Change Notice
        • Musical artists: your official tour dates in the Knowledge Graph
        • Portuguese: Interviewing Wwwhat's New on the Google Webmasters blog
        • The Google Webmasters blog is now in Portuguese
        • Join us at the Japanese Webmaster Office Hours
        • French: Hangouts On Air on exam requests
        • Introducing the official Google blog dedicated to the French webmaster community!
        • Create your own custom search engine using the schema.org standard
        • Help us improve Google Webmaster Tools
        • Event recap: SEO Campixx in Berlin
      • February
        • 3 tips to find hacking on your site, and ways to prevent and fix it
        • Infinite scroll search-friendly recommendations
        • Faceted navigation best (and 5 of the worst) practices
        • Introducing a troubleshooter for Japanese Webmasters
        • Unnatural links and reconsideration requests
      • January
        • Affiliate programs and added value
        • A new Googlebot user-agent for crawling smartphone content
        • Changes in crawl error reporting for redirects
        • Google Publisher Plugin beta: Bringing our publisher products to WordPress
        • More detailed search queries in Webmaster Tools
        • Improved Search Queries stats for separate mobile sites
    • 2013
      • December
        • So long, 2013, and thanks for all the fish
        • Switching to the new website verification API
        • Improving URL removals on third-party sites
        • Structured Data dashboard: new markup error reports for easier debugging
        • Checklist and videos for mobile website improvement
        • Smartphone crawl errors in Webmaster Tools
        • Holiday Season: Watch out for fraudulent shopping sites
        • Japanese Webmaster Hangouts for reexamination requests
        • Japanese: A look back on 2013
        • Popular searches in 2013: heroes, tragedies, and Harlem shake
        • Shopping season: watch out for fake shopping site
      • November
        • Video: Creating a SEO strategy (with Webmaster Tools!)
      • October
        • Indexing apps just like websites
        • Easier recovery for hacked sites
        • What are your ideas for Search policies?
        • Dealing with SEO vendors who repeatedly violate the guidelines
        • Event report: Top Level User Summit 2013
      • September
        • Video: Expanding your site to more languages
        • Better backlink data for site owners
        • Event report: WordCamp 2013
        • Some reminders about blogs that violate the webmaster guidelines
      • August
        • rel="author" frequently asked (advanced) questions
        • Making smartphone sites load fast
        • View manual webspam actions in Webmaster Tools
        • In-depth articles in search results
      • July
        • A reminder about manipulative or deceptive behavior
        • Easier navigation without GPS
        • Q&A about measures for search engines in election campaigns
        • Event report: Site clinics
      • June
        • Introducing website satisfaction by Google Consumer Surveys
        • Backlinks and reconsideration requests
        • Verify your site in Webmaster Tools using Google Tag Manager
        • Changes in rankings of smartphone search results
        • Event report: White Hat SEO for First Grade Webmasters
        • Let's prevent illegal hacking of the site
        • Upcoming event: Site Clinic 2013
        • Six tips for international websites
        • Links to your website and reconsideration requests
        • Google+: content recommendations for your mobile website
        • #NoHacked campaign, helps prevent vulnerabilities on your website
      • May
        • 6 Quick Tips for International Websites
        • Getting started with structured data
        • Using schema.org markup for organization logos
        • Google+: Content recommendation feature on mobile sites
        • Upcoming event: White Hat SEO for First Grade Webmasters
        • Recommendations for the re-review of a website
      • April
        • Introducing "x-default hreflang" for international landing pages
        • 5 common mistakes with rel=canonical
        • Five tips for new webmasters
        • About measures for search engines in election campaigns
        • Google's online resources for webmasters
      • March
        • The Webmaster Academy goes international
        • A new opt-out tool
        • Easier management of website verifications
        • Making search-friendly mobile websites — now in 11 more languages
        • We created a first steps cheat sheet for friends and family
        • New first stop for hacked site recovery
        • Answering a huge number of daily searches in an instant
        • Webmaster Help Forum User Survey 2013
        • Japanese: Introducing the Webmaster Academy
      • February
        • A reminder about selling links that pass PageRank
        • Make the most of Search Queries in Webmaster Tools
        • Introducing Webmaster Hangouts
        • Improving the user interface and efficiency of Google Analytics
        • Structured Data Highlighter is now in Spanish
      • January
        • A faster image search
        • Watch videos on Google Webmaster Central Channel with Japanese subtitles
        • Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the birth of the modern internet
    • 2012
      • December
        • Webmaster Tools verification strategies
        • Introducing Data Highlighter for event data
        • Helping Webmasters with Hacked Sites
        • Japanese: A look back on 2012
        • To Google’s top contributors
        • Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
        • Event recap: SEOkomm Salzburg
      • November
        • Giving Tablet Users the Full-Sized Web
        • To all merchants who have sent product information to Google Shopping
        • 'Send to the index' function in Webmaster Tools
      • October
        • A new tool to disavow links
        • Make the web faster with mod_pagespeed, now out of Beta
        • Rich snippets guidelines
        • Google Webmaster Guidelines updated
        • Keeping you informed of critical website issues
        • Q&A: Link Denial Tool
        • Appreciating your own content
      • September
        • Structured Data Testing Tool
        • Answering the top questions from government webmasters
        • Event report: Site clinic for NPOs
        • Tips for making better use of Webmaster Tools
        • Using article submission sites to get backlinks for your site
      • August
        • Site Errors Breakdown
        • Search Queries Alerts in Webmaster Tools
        • Configuring URL Parameters in Webmaster Tools
        • Website testing and Google search
        • Domain verification using CNAME records
        • New messages about links to the site
        • Clicks and impressions by author
      • July
        • Introducing the Structured Data Dashboard
        • New notifications about inbound links
        • Behold Google index secrets, revealed!
        • On web semantics
        • New Crawl Error alerts from Webmaster Tools
        • How much time should I spend on meta tags?
      • June
        • Adding associates to manage your YouTube presence
        • SEO essentials for startups in under 10 minutes
        • Download to Google Spreadsheet from Webmaster Tools
        • For webmasters: Google+ and the +1 button 101
        • Recommendations for building smartphone-optimized websites
        • Easier domain verification
        • To site owners who outsource site production and attracting customers
        • Choose services carefully for site operation
      • May
        • Now you can polish up Google's translation of your website
        • Multilingual and multinational site annotations in Sitemaps
        • Introducing Webmaster Academy
        • Making more pages load instantly
        • Sorting and Filtering Results in Custom Search
        • Navigation, Dashboard and Home page
        • Coding guidelines for HTML and CSS
        • A to Z about image search
      • April
        • Responsive design – harnessing the power of media queries
        • Even more Top Search Queries data
        • 1000 Words About Images
        • How to move your content to a new location
        • Webmaster Tools spring cleaning
        • Another step to reward high-quality sites
        • Updates to rich snippets
        • Things to consider for your link strategy
        • Introducing authorship markup in Germany, India, Italy, and Singapore
      • March
        • Five common SEO mistakes (and six good ideas!)
        • Upcoming changes in Google's HTTP Referrer
        • Video about pagination with rel="next" and rel="prev"
        • Crawl Errors: The Next Generation
        • Keeping your hosting service valuable for searchers
        • Safely share access to your site in Webmaster Tools
        • Webmaster Help Forum User Survey 2012
        • Notice about Google Merchant Center: A detailed analysis of Google Shopping performance
        • Enhanced search security for Google
        • For a safer search
        • Is mixed content on an HTTPS site a problem?
        • Can cookies and tracking pixels influence ranking?
        • Should I invent file extensions to improve my rankings?
      • February
        • Using schema.org markup for videos
        • Preparing your site for a traffic spike
        • Webmaster Help Forum: A new top-level user is born!
        • A few tips for link building
        • Geotargeting country-specific top-level domains
        • How does SafeSearch work?
        • Why are 404 pages showing up in Google's search results?
        • An even safer search, worldwide
      • January
        • More Options for Google+ Badges
        • What's new with Sitemaps
        • Update to Top Search Queries data
        • Making form-filling faster, easier and smarter
        • Page layout algorithm improvement
        • Better page titles in search results
        • Doorway Page violates guidelines
        • Recommended articles for diagnosing your site issues
        • What to do about malware?
    • 2011
      • December
        • Download search queries data using Python
        • Website user research and testing on the cheap
        • Rich Snippets Instructional Videos
        • Introducing smartphone Googlebot-Mobile
        • Clicks and impressions for authors
        • Tips for hosting providers and webmasters
        • New markup for multilingual content
        • Japanese: A look back on 2011
        • Highlights of search quality
        • Matt Cutts video: How to Make Sure Google Finds Your Original Content
        • Does AdWords influence the ranking of my website?
        • Is trust a ranking signal?
        • Can I rank without SEO?
        • Does HTTPS have a negative effect on ranking?
      • November
        • Grow your audience with Google+
        • GET, POST, and safely surfacing more of the web
        • Submit your website to participate in our site clinic
        • Buying and selling of links: Remembering our position
        • Matt Cutts video: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Spam
        • The evolution of Search in six minutes
        • Is SEO Spam?
        • What is cloaking?
        • What should you watch out for when moving to a new domain?
        • Site clinic at the Online Motor Deutschland event
        • How do you move to a new web host?
        • Why did my site's ranking decrease?
      • October
        • Raising awareness of cross-domain URL selections
        • Accessing search query data for your sites
        • Create and manage Custom Search Engines from within Webmaster Tools
        • Webmaster forums' Top Contributors rock
        • To all TCs: you are the best!
        • Webmaster Tools Search Queries data is now available in Google Analytics
        • Join us from the Webmaster Help Forum! Report of Global Top Level User Summit 2011
        • Breaking down language barriers at Google
        • Matt Cutts video: Spelling and grammar when evaluating the content and quality of a site
        • Matt Cutts video: Should I add nofollow to banner ads?
        • Matt Cutts video: TLD .co, generic or local domain?
        • Do I need a robots.txt if I don't want to block crawlers?
        • Do I need a DMOZ entry?
        • How does Google determine the speed of a website?
        • How does Google determine the canonical source of a content on the web?
        • What is customer service like at Google?
        • Why has my PageRank decreased
        • Do multiple links count from one page to another?
      • September
        • Work smarter, not harder, with site health
        • Pagination with rel="next" and rel="prev"
        • Reconsideration requests get more transparent
        • View-all in search results
        • Introducing: Application Rich Snippets
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        • Recognizing Top Contributors in Google's Help Forums
        • PDFs in Google search results
        • What webmasters can do to prepare for sudden access concentration in the event of a disaster
        • Matt Cutts video: How long to leave a redirect on a domain change?
        • Is underscore or dash better in URLs?
        • What happens to my reconsideration request?
        • How many 301 redirects can a website have?
        • How to optimize PDFs
      • August
        • Reorganizing internal vs. external backlinks
        • Google News now crawling with Googlebot
        • Making the most of improvements to the +1 button
        • Help us improve Google Search
        • A new rich snippets format for music
        • Introducing new and improved sitelinks
        • High-quality sites algorithm launched in additional languages
        • New webmaster tutorial videos
        • A new, improved form for reporting webspam
        • Submit URLs to Google with Fetch as Googlebot
        • What shops and services can be registered in Google Place?
        • BizBarcelona: Taking Advantage of Google Webmaster Tools
        • Avoid personal content in search results
        • Matt Cutts video: Can I flag spammy links to my site that I didn't create?
        • Matt Cutts video: Should I nofollow banner ads?
        • Matt Cutts video: How long should you keep 301 redirects?
      • July
        • Preview the latest +1 button changes
        • Page Speed Service - Web Performance, Delivered.
        • The +1 Button: Now Faster
        • Improved handling of URLs with parameters
        • Validation: measuring and tracking code quality
        • You can see the effect of +1 in Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics
        • Significant changes to Google Shopping feed specifications and policies
      • June
        • Beyond PageRank: Graduating to actionable metrics
        • +1 reporting in Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics
        • +1 around the world
        • Protecting your site with Gruyere
        • Webinar: Implementing the +1 Button
        • Announcing Instant Pages
        • Authorship markup and web search
        • Pilot Webmaster Tools' Search Queries data in Google Analytics
        • Introducing schema.org: Search engines come together for a richer web
        • Add +1 to help your site stand out
        • The +1 button is now available to Japanese webmasters
        • To all webmasters who have introduced affiliates
        • Tips for registering shops and services on Google Places: What is a business listing for users?
        • The homepage has disappeared from Google Search results. What should I do?
        • Search quality in the Entrepreneur Show 2011
        • Matt Cutts video: How important is it to have keywords in your domain name?
        • Matt Cutts video: Do Short URLs Pass Anchor Text?
        • Can SEOs guarantee a 1st position?
        • Is Google lowering porn site's PageRank?
        • Does Google ignore pages with invalid HTML?
        • What can I do when my content is copied?
      • May
        • Troubleshooting Instant Previews in Webmaster Tools
        • Easier URL removals for site owners
        • Website Security for Webmasters
        • Introducing the Google Webmaster Team
        • Page Speed Online has a shiny new API
        • More guidance on building high-quality sites
        • Flash support in Instant Previews
        • Do 404s hurt my site?
        • Google Merchant Center: Changes to Unique Product ID Policy
        • Removing content from Google search results
        • Do you know our Spanish help forum for webmasters?
        • Matt Cutts video: Do you need to validate HTML for positioning?
        • Are 100 links per page enough?
        • Event recap: SMX Munich 2011
      • April
        • An update on Google Video: Finding an easier way to migrate Google Video content to YouTube
        • WordPress Plugin for Webmaster Tools verification
        • Your fast pass through security
        • Sharing advice from our London site clinic
        • High-quality sites algorithm goes global, incorporates user feedback
        • Our SEO Guide — now available in ten more languages
        • Shopping has been added to the rich snippet format
        • Google Merchant Center: Unique product ID and shipping settings
        • How to hide sites to find more about what you are looking for
        • Google Analytics: New version in Spanish
        • Matt Cutts video: The 100 Links Rule
        • Matt Cutts video: Can You Make My Site # 1 on Google?
        • Finding more high-quality sites in Search
      • March
        • Changes in the Chrome user agent
        • Introducing Page Speed Online, with mobile support
        • Mo' better to also detect mobile user-agent
        • Introducing the +1 button
        • Tag Your TV Shows!
        • Page Speed for Chrome, and in 40 languages!
        • 7 Reasons to Use Webmaster Tools
        • Webmaster Help Forum Please help us with our user survey!
        • In the event of the Great East Japan Earthquake, thank you for all of your hard work
        • New Chrome Extension: Block Sites in Google Web Search Results
        • Matt Cutts video: The Webmaster Tools and their API
        • Matt Cutts video: On Penalties
        • Upcoming event: SMX Munich
        • Does Google use data from social networks?
        • SEO misinformation
      • February
        • Introducing Recipe View, based on rich snippets markup
        • Making Websites Mobile Friendly
        • Beyond Times and Arial - The New Web Safe Fonts
        • Linking Google Analytics to Webmaster Tools
        • Update to Webmaster Tools Search Queries
        • How to avoid violating the guidelines with paid links
        • Tips for creating a business listing in Google Places: adding useful descriptions and relevant categories
        • Google Search and search engine spam
        • Can people find your website on the internet?
        • Matt Cutts video: Do Twitter and Facebook Links Count?
        • Matt Cutts video: Google and Auto-Generated Content
        • Matt Cutts video: Why Does Google Give SEO Tips?
        • Matt Cutts video: Search Results in Different Browsers
        • What search trends do you have on your radar?
        • Intro to AdSense
        • Our stance on buying and selling links
      • January
        • Using Webmaster Tools like an SEO
        • How to deal with planned site downtime
        • Understanding your Opportunities with AdSense
        • Do you even need HTML sitemaps?
        • Intro to Webmaster Tools
    • 2010
      • December
        • "It's on Google! YAY!" - Getting webmaster help in our forum
        • Sending Video Sitemaps Q&A holiday cheer
        • Improving our help content: stocking stuffers in our Help Center
        • Video Sitemaps and mRSS vs. Facebook Share and RDFa
        • Ring in the new year with accessible content: Website clinic for non-profits
        • Holiday source code maintenance: Website clinic for non-profits
        • A helping holiday hand: Website clinic for non-profits
        • New hacked site notifications in search results
        • Webmaster Tools' Holiday Update
        • Japanese: Thank you to everyone who used the official help forum in 2010
        • Why Google Doesn't Trust Paid Links
        • Tips for creating a business listing in Google Places: types of businesses
        • The Webmaster Central team wishes you happy holidays
        • Event recap: SES Berlin 2010
        • Top local spots to help with last-minute holiday shopping
        • Video responses: Removal of other website's search results
      • November
        • Controlling crawling and indexing now documented on code.google.com
        • Petits fours in your search results
        • What a feeling! Even better indexing of SWF content
        • Instant Previews
        • A Chrome extension for reporting webspam
        • How to help Google identify web spam
        • Make your websites run faster, automatically -- try mod_pagespeed for Apache
        • Rich snippets for shopping sites
        • Best practices for running multiple sites
        • Google Merchant Center is open
        • Introducing a new meta tag that reveals the referring article
        • To all Merchant Center users
        • Tips for creating a business listing in Google Places: company listing titles
        • Upcoming event: SES Berlin
        • Does Google consider autogenerated content bad?
        • Why is Google giving SEO tips?
      • October
        • Website clinic: Call for submissions
        • Optimizing sites for TV
        • Webmaster Tools - Links to your site updated
        • Webmaster Tools: Updates to Search queries, Parameter handling and Messages
        • Google and communication about its products
        • Questions and answers about rich snippets
        • Why is Webmaster Tools showing my page is indexed when I can't find it in the results?
        • How do I get help with my website?
        • Is the PageRank of old domains calculated differently?
        • Does Google show the same results in all browsers?
        • The trustworthiness of 'used' domains
      • September
        • SEO Starter Guide updated
        • Finding Places on the Web: Rich Snippets for Local Search
        • Video Sitemaps: Is your video part of a gallery?
        • Tips for getting help with your site
        • Unifying content under multilingual templates
        • Google Instant: Impact on Search queries
        • New ways to view Webmaster Tools messages
        • Rich snippets: testing tool improvements, breadcrumbs, and events
        • Matt Cutts video: How do I link to a site with which I have a personal relationship?
        • Matt Cutts video: Are reciprocal links bad?
        • Do we need a meta tag for 'negative keywords'?
        • An overview of product support: Google Web Search, Chrome, and Google Analytics
        • Are internal nofollow links helpful?
        • Updates from the German Webmaster Forum
        • Checking the keyword rankings for your own website?
      • August
        • Google now indexes SVG
        • Showing more results from a domain
        • Verification time savers —  Analytics included!
        • To err is human, Video Sitemap feedback is divine!
        • Video Sitemaps: Understanding location tags
        • About the new rich snippet of event information
        • Back to basics: Keyword and landing page combinations
        • Matt Cutts video: Do tag clouds help or hinder SEO?
        • Matt Cutts video: How does Matt Cutts protect his blog?
        • Matt Cutts video: Why can't I geolocate my site by country in the Webmaster Tools?
        • Matt Cutts video: What does Google think of addon domains?
        • Matt Cutts video: Fake traffic?
        • Can additional domains cause problems?
        • How much of my traffic is generated by SEO?
      • July
        • New Message Center notifications for detecting an increase in Crawl Errors
        • Video Sitemaps 101: Making your videos searchable
        • About Google's secret formula which is not so secret
        • Using the wrong tracking code can cost you
        • Ten tips to improve your site's visibility in Google searches
        • Cloaking to speed up your site
        • Longer loading times through analytics? Reason for a headache?
      • June
        • Sitemaps: One file, many content types
        • Quality links to your site
        • Google Videos best practices
        • Our new search index: Caffeine
        • Crawl Errors now reports soft 404s
        • Grab bag videos are back!
        • How to display recipe information in recipe search
        • How to create a multilingual site
        • Video: Tips for Google to index your site faster
        • Matt Cutts video: How are the loading times offered in the Webmaster Tools calculated?
        • Matt Cutts video: Does the order of the heading tags affect?
        • Matt Cutts video: Does PageRank pass a link to a blocked page?
        • Matt Cutts video: Can I tell Google not to use my published date in my snippet?
        • Caffeine or Mayday? Changes to long-tail search results
        • The effect of location and previous searches on search results
        • Speed and relevance: how are they related?
        • Can moving to the cloud harm my website's ranking?
        • Video Response: Getting started with content removal
        • German video responses: Removal of your own content from search results
        • How do backlinks to press releases affect my site?
      • May
        • Chrome Extensions for web development
        • Top Search Queries is now Search Queries with Average Position and Stars
        • Call for webspam reports in Thai, Indonesian, Romanian, Czech and Farsi
        • Do know evil
        • URL removal explained, Part IV: Tracking your requests and what not to remove
        • You and site performance, sitting in a tree...
        • Questions and answers ... on video!
        • Video: Is the weight of my site important for better indexing?
        • Phishing: some guidelines
        • Matt Cutts video: What is the best way to check the links to my site?
        • Matt Cutts video: How many pages can Google index from the same site?
        • Matt Cutts video: Is excessive white space in HTML considered inappropriate?
        • Matt Cutts video: Are product descriptions considered duplicate content?
        • WordCamp Argentina 2010: Tips for WordPress users
        • Help resources on Google Webmaster Central
      • April
        • Rich snippets go international
        • To slash or not to slash
        • URL removal explained, Part III: Removing content that you don't own
        • Help Google index your videos
        • Updated malware feature in Webmaster Tools
        • Webmasters - configure Google services at your hosting panel
        • More data and charts in Top Search Queries
        • Better recipes on the web: Introducing recipe rich snippets
        • Using site speed in web search ranking
        • When and why was my site flagged for malware? Learn in near real-time!
        • Adding Images to your Sitemaps
        • URL removals explained, part II: Removing sensitive text from a page
        • A word on site clinics
        • Searching a little easier
        • Video: Mobile websites
        • Matt Cutts video: Is speed more important than relevance?
        • Matt Cutts video: Should I include my logo text using alt or CSS?
        • Google Grants site clinic: content is king
        • Does PageRank from Twitter profiles play a role?
      • March
        • DNS Verification FTW
        • URL removal explained, Part I: URLs and directories
        • Will the Real <Your Site Here> Please Stand Up?
        • Working with multilingual websites
        • Sharing advice from our site clinic
        • Working with multi-regional websites
        • Microdata support for Rich Snippets
        • Fetch as Googlebot Mobile and Claim your Sidewiki comment - added to Webmaster Tools Labs!
        • Sharing the verification love
        • Google's SEO Report Card
        • Is your site hacked? New Message Center notifications for hacking and abuse
        • Help the Webmaster Help Forum 1st Anniversary Survey
        • Matt Cutts video: Does the geographic location of a web server affect, from an SEO point of view?
        • Matt Cutts video: What structure do you recommend for a website?
        • Does Google Analytics affect Ranking?
      • February
        • How did you do on the Webmaster Quiz?
        • How to solve problems on a site
        • Google mobile service spring festival tips
        • Matt Cutts video: Will Google detect text in images?
        • Search becomes more social
        • Matt Cutts video: How do I get my new pages indexed fast?
        • Matt Cutts video: Will I be penalized if my URLs all have the same priority?
        • Matt Cutts video: Will Google offer tools for positioning?
        • Matt Cutts video: Ecommerce site optimization without rich content
        • Matt Cutts video: Positioning and keywords in the URL
        • Best Practices for Breadcrumbs
        • Google Search: predictions for 2010
        • Links from Twitter and Facebook? How much are they worth?
      • January
        • Request visitors' permission before installing software
        • Protect your site from spammers with reCAPTCHA
        • Introducing a new Rich Snippets format: Events
        • Google SEO resources for beginners
        • State of the Index 2009
        • Test your webmaster know-how!
        • Answering your December Grab Bag questions
        • Happy new year
        • Clarifying false rumors
        • Shorten your URLs
        • Calling all webmasters
        • Fighting online fraud: Google Money scammers on trial
        • Thanks for attending our site clinic
        • Test for webmasters: dare to participate!
        • Matt Cutts video: How are spam reports prioritized?
        • Google Grants site clinic: review of the site structure
    • 2009
      • December
        • Helping webmasters from user to user
        • Handling legitimate cross-domain content duplication
        • Your site's performance in Webmaster Tools
        • How fast is your site?
        • New User Agent for News
        • Region Tags in Google Search Results
        • Changes in First Click Free
        • Japanese: Thanks to everyone who uses the official help forum for webmasters
        • Hidden text violates Google's guidelines for webmasters
        • Google Analytics releases asynchronous tracking code
        • How to recommend and submit news website content to Google News
        • Updates to Google News Sitemap
        • We wish you happy holidays!
        • The Webmaster Central team wishes you happy holidays, in German
        • Site Clinic part 5: Site search, organization and pages not found
        • Site Clinic part 4: Flash Pages
        • Site Clinic part 3: Who are your users?
        • Matt Cutts video: Does Google prioritize brands?
        • Matt Cutts video: Why is the @ character ignored in searches?
        • Matt Cutts video: Positioning and pages under construction
        • Matt Cutts video: Relevance of social sites
        • Paid links in JavaScript code
        • Do Google links pass PageRank?
        • Can I benefit from my content being scraped?
        • Link-less references a ranking signal?
        • Matt Cutts is waiting for your questions
        • New Top Contributors in the Google Webmasters forum
        • Does the order of H elements play a role?
        • Why is Webmaster Tools not notifying about penalties?
        • What should I do when my site was hacked?
        • How to make my content available to local users?
        • Welcome to the Google Grants site clinic
      • November
        • GENERIC CIALIS on my website? I think my site has been hacked!
        • Hard facts about comment spam
        • 'New software version' notifications for your site
        • Running desktop and mobile versions of your site
        • Pros and cons of watermarked images
        • Help Google index your mobile site
        • Post-Halloween Treat: New Keywords User Interface!
        • New personalization features in Google Friend Connect
        • Get your site ready for the holidays: Webmasters - make your list and check it twice!
        • About the introduction of rich snippets
        • To open source software contributors: Are you willing to develop an operating system for network users?
        • Google Chromium OS open source project is released
        • Directly access the information you want from the search fragments
        • Matt Cutts video: CSS versus tables in SEO
        • Stay away from scams
        • Site Clinic part 2: Home page, titles, and duplicate content
        • Let's see where that malware is!
        • Viewing site hierarchy in search results
        • Matt Cutts video: Blogrolls and reputation from blogs
        • Keyword's position in URLs
        • Upcoming event: SES Berlin
        • Text recognition in images
        • Video results in Universal Search
        • Matt Cutts Video: What can I do if a competitor is spamming?
        • Which site structure is better?
        • Two questions about the link: operator
      • October
        • Using RSS/Atom feeds to discover new URLs
        • Help us make the web better: An update on Rich Snippets
        • Verifying a Blogger blog in Webmaster Tools
        • One million YouTube views!
        • Dealing with low-quality backlinks
        • Let's make the mobile web faster
        • Managing your reputation through search results
        • Fetch as Googlebot and Malware details -- now in Webmaster Tools Labs!
        • A proposal for making AJAX crawlable
        • Reunifying duplicate content on your website
        • New parameter handling tool helps with duplicate content issues
        • Google Friend Connect: No more FTP... just get started!
        • Changes to website verification in Webmaster Tools
        • Matt Cutts video: Link architecture and PageRank
        • Webmasters Conference 09: Google Webmaster Tools
        • Matt Cutts video: Links in the footers
        • Retweet @google: tweets, updates, and search
        • Site Clinic part 1: Framed Websites
        • Site Clinic: The analysis
        • Site Clinic: Have you already submitted your website?
        • Layout - CSS or tables?
        • More about PagerRank sculpting
        • Search queries require topicality. True or myth?
        • Is anchor text included in a 301 redirect?
      • September
        • Translate your website with Google: Expand your audience globally
        • Using named anchors to identify sections on your pages
        • Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking
        • Spanish Site Clinic now live
        • Duplicate content and multiple site issues
        • Recommendations for webmaster friendly hosting services
        • Supporting Facebook Share and RDFa for videos
        • Tips for News Search
        • Thank you for your support of the Google Webmaster Support Forum Call for articles!
        • Matt Cutts video: Ajax and Google SERP
        • Search help: Analyzing your web
        • How NOT to optimize your website: doorways or door pages
        • Conference for Webmasters and Google
        • Matt Cutts video: Meta descriptions and use of hyphens in URLs
        • Matt Cutts video: Indexed internal pages and the importance of quality of links and content
        • Matt Cutts video: 301 redirects and links
        • Matt Cutts video: Influence of geo meta tags on search
        • Matt Cutts video: Search results on Google vs. Twitter
        • Content or links? What's more important?
        • Domain age ranking
        • Does loading time affect ranking?
        • Short URL services and 301 redirects
        • SEO with small budget?
        • Underscores or dashes in URLs?
        • Is Google no longer using meta descriptions?
        • Directories as sources of paid links?
        • How can Google find my sub-pages?
      • August
        • Specifying an image's license using RDFa
        • New tools for Google Services for Websites
        • Help test some next-generation infrastructure
        • Optimize your crawling and indexing
        • How do you use Webmaster Tools? Share your stories and become a YouTube star!
        • Advanced Q&A from (the appropriately-named) SMX Advanced
        • 10 misconceptions about Google's indexing and ranking
        • Will SEO still exist in 5 years?
        • Matt Cutts video: Domain age and URL shorteners
        • How does server location affect ranking?
        • Matt Cutts video: Searching on Twitter and its PageRank
        • Matt Cutts video: Over-optimization and loading times
        • Webmaster Videos with Matt Cutts - now in German
        • Matt Cutts video: Server location and geographic meta tags
        • Usability and accessibility
        • Google Search and AJAX
        • Blank pages in the index
      • July
        • Webmaster Tools gets a "Summer Shine"
        • Google Friend Connect - Now in 47 new languages
        • Webmaster Central YouTube update for July 6th - 10th
        • Google Maps gadget: Help customers find their way
        • Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 29th - July 3rd
        • Organic Search Tips: Optimize Your Site for Search Engines
        • Make information universally accessible and useful
        • How to steer clear of money scams
      • June
        • Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 22nd - 26th
        • Traffic drops and site architecture issues
        • Spam2.0: Fake user accounts and spam profiles
        • Tell us what you think!
        • Watch out for your .yu domain!
        • Let's make the web faster
        • Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 15th - 19th
        • Flash indexing with external resource loading
        • Reconsideration requests: Now with notifications
        • Best practices for Product Search
        • Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 8th - 12th
        • An Update on Sitemaps at Google
        • Out with the old, in with the new
        • Message Forwarding
        • Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 1st - 5th
        • SEO Starter Guide now available in 40 languages
        • Introducing Page Speed
        • Webmaster Central YouTube update for May 26-29
        • Thanks to the super users in the Chinese Webmasters forum
        • Webmaster Q&A
        • Universal Search and Site Clinic at SMX Madrid 2009
        • Universal Search and SMX Madrid
        • Googlebot verification
        • Q&A at Google Ambassador Day in Istanbul
        • Event recap: SMX Munich 2009
      • May
        • Let visitors recommend your content
        • Introducing Rich Snippets
        • Google Trends for your website
        • More ways to engage your community
        • Survey says...
        • Event report: Xiamen SMX Assembly Part II
        • Introducing the Official Google Measurement Tools Blog, in Spanish
        • Tips for requesting reconsideration
        • How many links per page?
        • Google and SMX Madrid 2009
      • April
        • Spring time design refresh!
        • Google Webmaster Help Forums in more languages
        • Research study of Sitemaps
        • Tips on requesting reconsideration
        • One-line sitelinks
        • Event report: Xiamen SMX Assembly Part I
        • Make sense of your site: tips for webpage design
        • Two new improvements to Google results pages
        • Search finds its way into the Google I / O developer conference
        • The Webspam team's plans for 2009
        • Upward trend in hacking cases in the Latin American market
        • Upcoming event: SMX Munich
      • March
        • Helping your site look great with Google Chrome
        • Making more tools available with just a click
        • Get up-to-date on Image Search
        • Using stats from site: and Sitemap details
        • Announcing an official help forum for webmasters
        • Google, at your service
        • Paid links: effects and options
        • Webmaster Tools: Removing content from our index
      • February
        • Canonical Link Element: presentation from SMX West
        • Introducing the Google Webmaster Central YouTube Channel
        • Best practices against hacking
        • State of the Index: my presentation from PubCon Vegas
        • Specify your canonical
        • Help us help you
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        • About paid links
        • How to contact Google
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        • New Google Help Forum for webmasters in Spanish
        • Webmaster Tools: Creating and submitting sitemaps
      • January
        • Open redirect URLs: Is your site being abused?
        • Year in Review
        • Adding a social playlist to your site
        • Seamless verification of Google Sites and Blogger with Webmaster Tools
        • A new Google Sitemap Generator for your website
        • Preventing Virtual Blight: my presentation from Web 2.0 Summit
        • An update on the spam report
        • Webspam in 2009
    • 2008
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        • Japanese WMC Blog launched
        • Feliz Navidad from the Spanish Webmaster Central team!
        • Wishing you and your site a happy holiday!
        • Quick and easy tips for the holiday rush
        • Sitemap Submission Made Simple
        • Webmaster Tools in 40 languages!
        • Message Center info through our API
        • Reintroducing your English Webmaster Help Google Guides
        • Friend Connect now available in beta to everyone
        • One place for changing your site's settings
        • A new look for our Webmaster Help Group
        • More control of Googlebot's crawl rate
        • Thanks to the super users in the Chinese Webmasters forum
        • Contact Google
        • Webmaster Tools: Crawling, indexing, and geo-targeting
      • November
        • Date with Googlebot, Part II: HTTP status codes and If-Modified-Since
        • Better targeting your indic language site
        • On-Demand Sitemaps for Custom Search
        • Google's SEO Starter Guide
        • Event report: Nanjing SMX Assembly Part II
        • Improve the indexing and performance of your website in search results
        • Our approach to international search
        • What if I don't want it to appear on Google?
        • Join the first Google Webmaster Live Chat in German
        • Adam Lasnik talks about ranking issues
        • Adam Lasnik and Germany
        • Adam Lasnik: Help for hacked sites
      • October
        • Spookier than malware
        • Reflections on the "Tricks and Treats" webmaster event
        • Malware? We don't need no stinking malware!
        • Webmaster chat event: Vote early and often!
        • Join us for our third live online webmaster chat!
        • Where's my data?
        • First Click Free for Web Search
        • Message Center warnings for hackable sites
        • Video Tutorial: Google for Webmasters
        • Helping you break the language barrier
        • Webmaster Tools API updated with Site Settings
        • Webmaster Tools shows Crawl error sources
        • Good times with inbound links
        • Linking out: Often it's just applying common sense
        • Importance of link architecture
        • Links information straight from the source
        • Chinese: standardization of the Internet and Google Chrome
        • Webmaster Tools - How to set preferences
        • Sitemaps exposed
      • September
        • Advanced Website Diagnostics with Google Webmaster Tools
        • Keeping comment spam off your site and away from users
        • More webmaster questions - Answered!
        • Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs
        • Webmaster Tools made easier in French, Italian, German and Spanish
        • Demystifying the "duplicate content penalty"
        • Your burning questions - Answered!
        • Workin' it on all browsers
        • Message Center: allow us to better communicate with you
        • Event report: Nanjing SMX Assembly Part I
        • Webmaster tools: now a little easier for Spanish Webmasters
        • Interview with Matt Cutts, part 3
        • Interview with Matt Cutts, part 2
        • Interview with Matt Cutts, part 1
        • Google's blog for webmasters, now in Spanish
        • Search evaluation at Google
      • August
        • The Impact of User Feedback, Part 2 (and more Popular Picks!)
        • silver_medal_count++
        • Hey Google, I no longer have badware
        • Make your 404 pages more useful
        • More on 404
        • Farewell to soft 404s
        • It's 404 week at Webmaster Central
        • How to start a multilingual site
        • To infinity and beyond? No!
        • Google Developer Day in Munich
        • Search quality, continued
        • Search experiments, large and small
      • July
        • A day in the life of webmaster support
        • Matt Cutts on ranking, spam and the future of search
        • Google Trifecta recording now available
        • Helping yourself to Webmaster Tools
        • Requesting reconsideration using Google Webmaster Tools
        • Event recap: SES Hamburg
        • Using data to fight webspam
        • Technologies behind Google ranking
        • Introduction to Google ranking
      • June
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        • What are your SEO recommendations?
        • Online seminar: The Google Trifecta
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        • Get Cooking with the Webmaster Tools API
        • A new layer to Google Trends
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        • Duplicate content due to scrapers
        • The Impact of User Feedback, Part 1
        • Improving on Robots Exclusion Protocol
        • How Google defines IP delivery, geolocation, and cloaking
        • The Google Translate widget makes your website immediately ready for global internationalization
        • Meet the Google Search Quality team
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      • May
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        • Webmaster Tools now in 26 languages
        • Becoming Social
        • Design patterns for accessible, crawlable and indexable content
        • Sitemaps offer better coverage for your Custom Search Engine
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        • Simplified Chinese blog: Search for life, search for hope
        • Condolences to the victims
        • How to apply for reconsideration
        • SEO advice: Getting links
        • Introduction to Google Search Quality
        • Search operators for webmasters
      • April
        • Where in the world is your site?
        • Retiring support for OAI-PMH in Sitemaps
        • Best practices when moving your site
        • Webmaster tips for creating accessible, crawlable sites
        • Crawling through HTML forms
        • My site's been hacked - now what?
        • Improvements to iGoogle Gadgets for Webmaster Tools
        • Event recap: SMX Munich
        • For questions about search engine created text
      • March
        • Making harmonious use of Webmaster Tools and Analytics
        • Speaking the language of robots
        • Bionic Posters help site owners worldwide
        • Taking advantage of universal search, part 2
        • Join us for an online live chat this Friday!
        • Good housekeeping
        • SES London Calling!
        • Tips for making information universally accessible
        • German Webmaster Blog turns one
        • Webmaster Tools keeps your "messages waiting"
        • First date with the Googlebot: Headers and compression
        • Launching the Chinese version of the Webmaster support forum
        • How to use robots.txt
      • February
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        • Cross-submissions via robots.txt on Sitemaps.org
        • Leap day hackathon for Google Gadgets, Maps, and more
        • 7 must-read Webmaster Central blog posts
      • January
        • Feeling lucky at PubCon
        • Sitemaps FAQs
        • Remove your content from Google
        • Growing the Webmaster Help Groups Team
        • Looking back on 2007
        • Subdomains and subdirectories
    • 2007
      • December
        • A Festivus for our webmasterus
        • The Ultimate Fate of Supplemental Results
        • Taking feeds out of our web search results
        • Introducing Video Sitemaps
        • FYI on Google Toolbar's latest features
        • New: Content analysis and Sitemap details, plus more languages
        • Using ALT attributes smartly
        • Answering more popular picks: meta tags and web search
        • Information about buying and selling links that pass PageRank
        • Matt Cutts on removing URLs from Google's index
      • November
        • The anatomy of a search result
        • A dozen ways to discuss "webmaster help"
        • Bringing the conference to you
        • Go Daddy and Google offer easy access to Webmaster Tools
        • A spider's view of Web 2.0
        • SEO advice: URL canonicalization
        • Simplified Chinese blog: Tips for reducing comment spam
      • October
        • Happy Halloween to our spooktacular webmasters!
        • Better geographic choices for webmasters
        • Dealing with Sitemap cross-submissions
        • Blast from the past
        • Introducing Code Search Sitemaps
        • Webmasters can now provide feedback on Sitelinks
        • Data freshness
        • Affiliate programs can enrich your site
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        • Improve snippets with a meta description makeover
        • Quick security checklist for webmasters
        • Subscriber stats and more
        • Google, duplicate content caused by URL parameters, and you
        • Webmaster Central gets a new look
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        • StopBadware.org's tips to cleaning and protecting your site
        • Control how search engines crawl and index your site
        • How we use spam reports
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        • Update on penalty notifications
        • Register non-English domain names with Webmaster Tools
        • Join us at cool SES San Jose - it'll be hot!
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        • Stay away from automatically generated links
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        • Supplemental goes mainstream
        • Message Center: Let us communicate with you about your site
        • New warnings feedback
        • Best uses of Flash
        • How to create valuable startpages
        • Explaining algorithm updates and data refreshes
        • Simplified Chinese blog: SEO secret weapon, Google Webmaster Tools
        • Launching the Chinese version of Google Webmaster Tools
        • Opening remarks for the Simplified Chinese Blog
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        • We are back from the SES Milan!
        • Google's email communication with webmasters
        • Revamping the Webmaster Tools Help Center
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        • More details about our webmaster guidelines
      • May
        • Plumbing the web
        • Why we attend conferences
        • Taking advantage of universal search
        • Musings on Down Under
        • Analytics - Another tool for webmasters
        • About those fake penalty notification emails
        • Relaunching the German discussion group for webmasters
      • April
        • Getting your site indexed
        • Come out to SMX Advanced in Seattle and party with Webmaster Central
        • We were in Madrid
        • More insight into anchor text
        • Requesting removal of content from our index
        • What's new with Sitemaps.org?
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        • BlogHer 2007: Building your audience
        • An update on spam reporting
        • Tips for Eastern European webmasters
        • Site content and use of web catalogues
        • Get a more complete picture about how other sites link to you
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      • December
        • Better understanding of your site
        • Deftly dealing with duplicate content
        • Building link-based popularity
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