Introducing the new Webmaster Video Series

Google has a broad range of resources to help you better understand your website and improve its performance. This Webmaster Central Blog, the Help C…

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…

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…

Bring your local business online -- no website required!

Webmaster Level: Beginner “Hey, how do I get my business on the web?” Having worked at Google for nine years, if I had a penny for every time someon…

Webmaster Academy now available in 22 languages

Webmaster level: Beginner Today, the new Webmaster Academy goes live in 22 languages! New or beginner webmasters speaking a multitude of languages c…

#NoHacked: a global campaign to spread hacking awareness

Webmaster level: All This June, we introduced a weeklong social campaign called #NoHacked. The goals for #NoHacked are to bring awareness to hacking …

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 …

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…

Introducing the new Webmaster Academy

Webmaster level: Beginner Our Webmaster Academy is now available with new and targeted content! Two years ago , Webmaster Academy launched to teach ne…

Musical artists: your official tour dates in the Knowledge Graph

Webmaster level: all When music lovers search for their favorite band on Google, we often show them a Knowledge Graph panel with lots of information a…

3 tips to find hacking on your site, and ways to prevent and fix it

Google shows this message in search results for sites that we believe may have been compromised .You might not think your site is a target for hacker…

Affiliate programs and added value

Webmaster level: All Our quality guidelines warn against running a site with thin or scraped content without adding substantial added value to the u…

Improved Search Queries stats for separate mobile sites

Webmaster Level: All Search Queries in Webmaster Tools just became more cohesive for those who manage a mobile site on a separate URL from desktop, …

So long, 2013, and thanks for all the fish

Now that 2013 is almost over, we'd love to take a quick look back, and venture a glimpse into the future. Some of the important topics on our blo…

Improving URL removals on third-party sites

Webmaster level: all Content on the Internet changes or disappears, and occasionally it's helpful to have search results for it updated quickly. …

View manual webspam actions in Webmaster Tools

Webmaster level: All We strive to keep spam out of our users’ search results. This includes both improving our webspam algorithms as well as taking …