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…