An update on Google's feature-phone crawling & indexing

Limited mobile devices, " feature-phones ", require a special form of markup or a transcoder for web content. Most websites don't provide…

Building Indexable Progressive Web Apps

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are taking advantage of new technologies to bring the best of mobile sites and native applications to users -- and they’r…

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 t…

Deprecation 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 o…

Finding more mobile-friendly search results

Webmaster level: all When it comes to search on mobile devices, users should get the most relevant and timely results, no matter if the information li…

Google Public DNS and Location-Sensitive DNS Responses

Webmaster level: advanced Recently the Google Public DNS team, in collaboration with Akamai, reached an important milestone: Google Public DNS now pro…

The 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 …

Are you a robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA”

reCAPTCHA protects the websites you love from spam and abuse. So, when you go online—say, for some last-minute holiday shopping—you won't be comp…

Tracking 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 m…

Best practices for XML sitemaps RSS/Atom feeds

Webmaster level: intermediate-advanced Submitting sitemaps can be an important part of optimizing websites. Sitemaps enable search engines to discover…

An 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…

Optimizing for Bandwidth on Apache and Nginx

Webmaster level: advanced Everyone wants to use less bandwidth: hosts want lower bills, mobile users want to stay under their limits, and no one wants…

HTTPS as a ranking signal

Webmaster level: all Security is a top priority for Google. We invest a lot in making sure that our services use industry-leading security, like stron…

Introducing 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 …

Testing 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 …

Rendering pages with Fetch as Google

Webmaster level: all The Fetch as Google feature in Webmaster Tools provides webmasters with the results of Googlebot attempting to fetch their pag…

Making your site more mobile-friendly with PageSpeed Insights

Webmaster level: all To help developers and webmasters make their pages mobile-friendly, we recently updated PageSpeed Insights with additional reco…

Webmaster Guidelines for sneaky redirects updated

Webmaster Level: All Redirects are often used by webmasters to help forward visitors from one page to another. They are a normal part of how the web …

Introducing our global Google+ page for webmasters

Webmaster Level: All We’ve recently launched our global Google Webmasters Google+ page . Have you checked it out yet? Our page covers a plethora of t…

App Indexing updates

Webmaster Level: Advanced In October, we announced guidelines for App Indexing for deep linking directly from Google Search results to your Android …