Note from the editors: After previously looking into various ways to handle internationalization for Google’s web-search, here’s a post from Google Web Studio team members with tips for web developers.Many websites exist in more than one language, and more and more websites are made available for more...
The Webmaster Academy goes international
Webmaster level: AllSince we launched the Webmaster Academy in English back in May 2012, its educational content has been viewed well over 1 million times.The Webmaster Academy was built to guide webmasters in creating great sites that perform well in Google search results. It is an ideal guide for...
We created a first steps cheat sheet for friends & family
Webmaster level: beginnerEveryone knows someone who just set up their first blog on Blogger, installed WordPress for the first time or maybe who had a web site for some time but never gave search much thought. We came up with a first steps cheat sheet for just these folks. It’s a short how-to list...
Badware alerts for your sites
As part of our efforts to protect users, we have been warning people using Google search before they visit sites that have been determined to distribute badware under the guidelines published by StopBadware. Warning users is only part of the solution, though; the real win comes from helping webmasters...
Got a website? Get gadgets.
Google Gadgets are miniature-sized devices that offer cool and dynamic content -- they can be games, news clips, weather reports, maps, or most anything you can dream up. They've been around for a while, but their reach got a lot broader last week when we made it possible for anyone to add gadgets...
How to verify Googlebot
Lately I've heard a couple smart people ask that search engines provide a way know that a bot is authentic. After all, any spammer could name their bot "Googlebot" and claim to be Google, so which bots do you trust and which do you block?The common request we hear is to post a list of Googlebot IP addresses...
