We’ve got a new URL! You may have noticed the Google Webmaster Central blog has a new address: webmasters.googleblog.com. That’s because starting today, Google is moving its blogs to a new domain to help people recognize when they’re reading anRead more…
AMP NewsLab Office Hours in your language
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is a global, industry-wide initiative, with publishers large and small all focused on the same goal: a better, faster mobile web.We’ve had a great response to our English language AMP office hours, but we know thatRead more…
AMP error report preview in Search Console
More and more sites are implementing Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) for news content, so we’ve decided to provide a preview of error reports in Search Console to help you get ready for the upcoming official AMP launch and get earlyRead more…
New year, new look: Introducing our new Webmasters website
It’s a new year and a perfect time to share with you our brand new Webmasters website. We spent a lot of time making this site right for you. We took our own advice by analyzing visitor behavior and conductingRead more…
Indexing HTTPS pages by default
At Google, user security has always been a top priority. Over the years, we’ve worked hard to promote a more secure web and to provide a better browsing experience for users. Gmail, Google search, and YouTube have had secure connectionsRead more…
Updating Our Search Quality Rating Guidelines
Developing algorithmic changes to search involves a process of experimentation. Part of that experimentation is having evaluators—people who assess the quality of Google’s search results—give us feedback on our experiments. Ratings from evaluators do not determine individual site rankings, butRead more…
TC Summit 2015: Celebrating our Webmaster Top Contributors!
Two weeks ago, we were extremely lucky to host the 2015 edition of the Top Contributor Summit (#TCsummit), in San Francisco and on Google’s campus in Mountain View, California. Google Top Contributors are an exceptional group of passionate Google productRead more…
Detect and get rid of unwanted sneaky mobile redirects
In many cases, it is OK to show slightly different content on different devices. For example, optimizing the smaller space of a smartphone screen can mean that some content, like images, will have to be modified. Or you might wantRead more…
Deprecating our AJAX crawling scheme
tl;dr: We are no longer recommending the AJAX crawling proposal we made back in 2009. In 2009, we made a proposal to make AJAX pages crawlable. Back then, our systems were not able to render and understand pages that useRead more…
An update on how we tackle hacked spam
Recently we have started rolling out a series of algorithmic changes that aim to tackle hacked spam in our search results. A huge amount of legitimate sites are hacked by spammers and used to engage in abusive behavior, such asRead more…