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2023
November
Expanding markup support for Organization details, including Logo structured data
New in structured data: discussion forum and profile page
Upcoming deprecation of Crawl Rate Limiter Tool in Search Console
Search Quality Raters Guidelines update
List your courses with new course info structured data
A Q&A on Google Search updates
Search Central Live Taipei 2023
October
Mobile-first indexing has landed
Search Central Live Singapore 2023
Vehicle listing structured data for car dealerships
October 2023 Spam Update
September
Search Central Live Zurich is back!
Announcing the Search Central Live Mexico roadshow
Associate Search Console to Merchant Center to discover growth opportunities
How Google Search handles multilingual searches
Site names on Google Search now available for all languages
August
The comedy of errors
Search Central Live is coming to India
Changes to HowTo and FAQ rich results
July
An update on site names
Search Central Live Tokyo and Jakarta: it's a wrap
June
Sitemaps ping endpoint is going away
Reporting search quality issues with a new user feedback form
Improving prominence reporting in the Search Console video indexing report
Indonesian Blog: Search Central Live Jakarta 2023
BigQuery efficiency tips for Search Console bulk data exports
May
Understanding news topic authority
Search Central Live: Tokyo and future plans for APAC
Introducing INP to Core Web Vitals
How x-default can help you
April
Japanese Blog: Introducing #GoogleSearchOfficeHours
The role of page experience in creating helpful content
Shipping and Returns information on Google Search web results
Simplifying video presentation on Google Search Results
How we fought spam on Google Search in 2022
Event recap: Search Central Virtual Unconference en español 2023
March
Blending Search Console and internal data inside Looker Studio
Search Central Community in 2022
February
Updating Search Console users and permissions management
Bulk data export: a new and powerful way to access your Search Console data
Don't use 403s or 404s for rate limiting
Google Search's guidance about AI-generated content
Announcing the Search Central Live Brazil roadshow
New updates to the Search Console Video indexing report
January
Spanish blog: Register for the Search Central Virtual Unconference en español 2023
2022
December
Thanks, 2022
Search Central Live 2022 Highlights
Our latest update to the quality rater guidelines: E-A-T gets an extra E for Experience
December 2022 link spam update releasing for Google Search
Introducing the Google Search Status Dashboard
Visual Elements of Google Search
Updates to Google's Services in Czechia in Light of the Czech Transposition of the European Copyright Directive
November
November Google SEO Office Hours
Introducing our new guide to Google Search ranking systems
Start showing your products on the Shopping tab with Search Console
October
A deep dive into Search Console performance data filtering and limits
Introducing site names on Google Search
Refreshed guidelines for site owners
Back in business: Search Central Live events
September
The new HTTPS report in Search Console
New Search Console Merchant Listings report: expanding eligibility with Product structured data
August
What creators should know about Google's helpful content update
New in structured data: Pros and cons
July
Announcing the new Search Console Video index report
June
Googlebot and the 15 MB thing
Simplifying Search Console reports with an updated item classification
How Google generates titles for documents with language or script misalignment
May
May 2022 core update releasing for Google Search
The Global Search Central Virtual Unconference 2022 is a wrap!
Event recap: Search Central Virtual Unconference Japan 2022
Spring cleaning: some sitemap extension tags are going away
April
How we fought Search spam on Google in 2021
Optimizing website performance with a Search Console bubble chart
March
Monitoring Search traffic (and more!) with Data Studio
Adding context to structured data issues in Search Console
Spring cleaning: the URL Parameters tool
Japanese Blog: Register for the first Search Central Virtual Unconference Japan 2022!
Improving Product Review ranking, one year on
Search for Beginners YouTube Series now available in Japanese!
Connecting Search Console to Data Studio
January
Welcoming the new Search Console URL Inspection API
New robots tag: indexifembedded
2021
December
Our authors' take on 2021
Product reviews update and your site
November
A 2021 update on mobile indexing
One year of Google Search Central
Timeline for bringing page experience ranking to desktop
Help job seekers understand your job postings by including a complete description
October
Search Analytics API now supports Discover, Google News, and Regex
Aligning Search Console testing tools and the URL Inspection tool
September
More information on how Google generates titles for web page results
August
An update to how we generate web page titles
Google Search Console Insights behind the curtains
Simplifying the Page Experience report
July
A reminder on qualifying links and our link spam update
Engage shoppers with deal pages in Google Search
Analyzing Google Search traffic drops
A new way to enable video key moments in Search
Answers to some common questions about appearing in Google News
Updating our job posting guidelines to improve quality of results for job seekers
Highlight your customer support methods in Google Search
June
Learn how to improve your content with Search Console Insights
The Search Central Unconference is back
Search Console regex filters update and quick tips
Understanding the sources behind Google News
May
Search at Google I/O 2021
Prevent portions of your site from being abused by spam
How we worked with you in 2020 towards a safe search experience, without spam
Sunsetting the generic rich results search appearance on Search Console
Korean Blog: The lonely site owner learns about linking; and the power of Dalgona Coffee
Video SEO best practices for ecommerce
April
How we fought Search spam on Google in 2020
Korean Blog: Agrofy: A 70% improvement in LCP correlated to a 76% reduction in load abandonment
Korean Blog: Vodafone: A 31% improvement in LCP increased sales by 8%
Korean Blog: Two helpful tips: meta tags and sitemaps
More time, tools, and details on the page experience update
Upcoming changes to FeedBurner
Announcing the Sustainable Monetized Websites video series
Expanding support for APAC Search Central Help Communities
What creators should know about Google's product reviews update
Improved data filtering and comparison on Performance reports
March
Korean Blog: How CLS optimizations increased Yahoo! JAPAN News's page views per session by 15%
Korean Blog: How Wix improved website performance by evolving their infrastructure
New for education sites: Practice problems and Math solver structured data
SharedArrayBuffer messaging clarifications
New resources for video SEO
February
Providing better product information for shoppers
New Association functionality added to Search Console
Join us at Search Central Live
Search Console Discover report now includes Chrome data
January
Introducing Google News performance report
Index Coverage Data Improvements
2020
December
A weird year in review
An update on Structured Data Testing Tool
Updates to Search Console's API
November
New and improved crawl stats for your site
We moved! Introducing the new home for the Google Webmasters blogs
Goodbye Google Webmasters, hello Google Search Central
Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search
PES@Home 2020: Google's first virtual summit for Product Experts
October
Best practices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday pages
How can my pages appear on the search result page?
The Search Console Training lives on
September
New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data
New open source robots.txt projects
Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2
Sharing what we learned on the first Virtual Webmaster Unconference
#TanyaTentangSearch (Search Console - Part 2)
August
Make the licensing information for your images visible on Google Images
Options for retailers to control how their crawled product information appears on Google
Identify and fix AMP Signed Exchange errors in Search Console
Join our first Virtual Webmaster Unconference
Rich Results and Search Console Webmaster Conference Lightning Talk
Search Console API announcements
Search Off The Record podcast - behind the scenes with Search Relations
July
Prepare for mobile-first indexing (with a little extra time)
The Rich Results Test is out of beta
How spam reports are used at Google
#TanyaTentangSearch (Search Console)
June
Why are my pages not shown on the search result page?
How we fought Search spam on Google - Webspam Report 2019
May
Evaluating page experience for a better web
Hello Search Console. Nice to meet you!
Frequently asked questions about JavaScript and links
Google Translate's Website Translator - available for non-commercial use
New reports for Guided Recipes on Assistant in Search Console
Reintroducing a community for Polish and Turkish Site Owners
New reports for Special Announcements in Search Console
April
Showcasing the value of SEO
Looking back at last year's Webmaster Conference Product Summit
Introducing a new way for sites to highlight COVID-19 announcements on Google Search
March
Helping health organizations make COVID-19 information more accessible
How to pause your business online in Google Search
New properties for virtual, postponed, and canceled events
Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Webmaster Conference
Announcing mobile first indexing for the whole web
February
Best Practices for News coverage with Search
More and better data export in Search Console
How to showcase your events on Google Search
New reports for review snippets in Search Console
#TanyaTentangSearch (Google Images)
January
Google Search News for January 2020
New Removals report in Search Console
Sunsetting support for data-vocabulary
Get Ready for New SameSite=None; Secure Cookie Settings
The Search Console Training video series is rolling out
2019
December
An update on 2019
Launching a new Publisher Center
Package Tracking Early Access Program
Introducing the new Search Console messages
Launching the event experience on Google Search in Spain and Germany
November
Google Search News for November 2019
New reporting for Products Results in Search Console
Get faster with the new Speed report in Search Console
Introducing the Korean webmaster blog
October
Site Kit is now available for all WordPress sites
Google Webmaster Conference goes to Tel Aviv
Video Series for New Webmasters: Search for Beginners!
Goodbye, Flash
New reports for video results in Search Console
Updating the user agent of Googlebot
Upcoming event: Webmaster Conference Tokyo and Osaka
September
Join us at a Webmaster Conference in Mountain View, California
Google Search News: coming soon to a screen near you
More options to help websites preview their content on Google Search
Fresher data in your site's Search Performance report
Making Review Rich Results more helpful
Evolving nofollow- new ways to identify the nature of links
Saying goodbye to the old Search Console
Introducing Auto-DNS verification in the new Search Console
#TanyaTentangSearch (Structured Data)
August
Minor cleaning up in the Search Console API
You #AskGoogleWebmasters, we answer
When indexing goes wrong: how Google Search recovered from indexing issues and lessons learned since.
Googlebot evergreen rendering in our testing tools
What site owners should know about Google's core updates
Upcoming event: Webmaster Conference Sapporo
July
Helping publishers and users get more out of visual searches on Google Images with AMP
A note on unsupported rules in robots.txt
Google's robots.txt parser is now open source
Formalizing the Robots Exclusion Protocol Specification
June
Bye Bye Preferred Domain setting
Webmaster Conference: an event made for you
A video series on SEO myths for web developers
Upcoming events: Webmaster Conference Jakarta and Bali 2019
Upcoming event: Webmaster Conference in India
May
Mobile-First Indexing by default for new domains
Search at Google I/O 2019
New in structured data: FAQ and How-to
The new evergreen Googlebot
Google I/O 2019 - What sessions should SEOs and webmasters watch?
Monitoring structured data with Search Console
#TanyaTentangSearch (Crawling, Indexing, and Ranking)
April
Enriching Search Results Through Structured Data
Instant-loading AMP pages from your own domain
Search Console reporting for your site's Discover performance data
User experience improvements with page speed in mobile search
March
How to discover and suggest Google-selected canonical URLs for your pages
This year in Search Spam - Webspam report 2018
Help Google Search know the best date for your web page
Introducing a new JavaScript SEO video series
Google Search events coming to Okinawa and Fukuoka
February
Announcing domain-wide data in Search Console
Help customers discover your products on Google
Consolidating your website traffic on canonical URLs
January
Dynamic Rendering with Rendertron
Focusing on the new Search Console
Ways to succeed in Google News
An update on the Google Webmaster Central blog comments
2018
December
2018, celebrating our global Webmaster community
Mobile-First indexing, structured data, images, and your site
Why and how to secure your website with the HTTPS protocol
Introducing the Indexing API and structured data for livestreams
Rich Results expands for Question and Answer pages
Event report: Google Dance Osaka 2018
Japanese: A look back on 2018
November
PageSpeed Insights, now powered by Lighthouse
Notifying users of unclear subscription pages
October
Introducing reCAPTCHA v3: the new way to stop bots
Google is introducing its Product Experts Program!
Upcoming event in Indonesian: Join the live stream
Upcoming event: Google Dance Osaka 2018
September
The new Search Console is graduating out of Beta
Upcoming events in France: SEO and Google in a city near you!
The first Google Dance in Zurich
August
Collaboration and user management in the new Search Console
Links, Mobile Usability, and site management in the new Search Console
July
Hey Google, what's the latest news?
An update to referral source URLs for Google Images
A big step for Chrome security: HTTP pages now show not protected
Real-world data in PageSpeed Insights
An update to the comments on the German Webmaster Blog
June
How we fought webspam - Webspam Report 2017
Introducing the Indexing API for job posting URLs
New URL inspection tool and more in Search Console
Google Search at I/O 2018
Upcoming event: Google Dance in Singapore
May
Our goal: helping webmasters and content creators
Google I/O 2018 - What sessions should SEOs and Webmasters watch live ?
Send your recipes to the Google Assistant
April
We updated our job posting guidelines
Distrust of the Symantec PKI: Immediate action needed by site operators
Event report: Google Dance Tokyo 2018
March
Rolling out mobile-first indexing
Introducing the Webmaster Video Series, now in Hindi
Tips for building a hack-resistant site: For Cybersecurity Month
February
How listening to our users helped us build a better Search Console
Launching SEO Audit category in Lighthouse Chrome extension
A secure web is here to stay
Upcoming event: Google Dance Tokyo 2018
Upcoming SEO events in Paris in March 2018
Strengthening Internet Security
January
Using page speed in mobile search ranking
Real-world data in PageSpeed Insights
Introducing the new Search Console
A reminder about sponsored posts
2017
December
Introducing the new Webmaster Video Series
Introducing Rich Results and the Rich Results Testing Tool
#NoHacked 3.0: Useful resources
#NoHacked 3.0: Fixing common hack cases
Getting your site ready for mobile-first indexing
#NoHacked 3.0: Tips on prevention
A revamped SEO Starter Guide
#NoHacked 3.0: How do I know if my site is hacked?
Rendering AJAX-crawling pages
Russian Blog: Annotating multilingual and multiregional sites
About improving search results related to medical care and health
Japanese: A look back on 2017
Event report: SEO in 2018 at Google Paris
November
A reminder about event markup
Engaging users through high quality AMP pages
Make your site's complete jobs information accessible to job seekers
Upcoming event: SEO in 2018 at Google Paris
October
Enabling more high quality content for users
September
How to move from m-dot URLs to responsive site
Event report: Google Dance Tokyo 2017
August
Introducing Our New International Webmaster Blogs!
The new Search Console: a sneak peek at two experimental features
Badges on Image Search help users find what they really want
July
Next steps toward more connection security
Advanced Hosting Meetup program, progress report, and announcement of new participants
Upcoming event: Google Dance Tokyo 2017
June
Connect to job seekers with Google Search
Making the Internet safer and faster: Introducing reCAPTCHA Android API
Better Snippets for your Users
May
A reminder about links in large-scale article campaigns
April
How we fought webspam - Webspam Report 2016
Similar items: Rich products feature on Google Images
Our latest quality improvements for Search
March
Updates to the Google Safe Browsing's Site Status Tool
#NoHacked: A year in review
Upcoming event: Introduction to Google Search for Online Media and Best Practices for Content Creation
February
Closing down for a day
Improving Japanese Search quality
January
Introducing the Mobile-Friendly Test API
Protect your site from user generated spam
What Crawl Budget Means for Googlebot
2016
December
Enhancing property sets to cover more reports in Search Console
The 'Editor's Choice' column is now available on Google News
Japanese: A look back on 2016
November
An update on Google's feature-phone crawling and indexing
Saying goodbye to Content Keywords
Rich Cards expands to more verticals
Building Indexable Progressive Web Apps
Mobile-first indexing
Here's to more HTTPS on the web!
October
Using AMP? Try our new webpage tester
The Safe browsing team, more than ever at the service of webmasters
September
Webmaster Forums Top AMP Questions
Penguin is now part of our core algorithm
8 tips to AMPlify your clients
How to best evaluate issues with your Accelerated Mobile Pages
How can Google Search Console help you AMPlify your site?
How to get started with Accelerated Mobile Pages
What is AMP?
A reminder about widget links
Showcase your site's reviews in Search
More Safe Browsing Help for Webmasters
August
Helping users easily access content on mobile
Promote your local businesses reviews with schema.org markup
AMP your content - A Preview of AMP'ed results in Search
June
More security notifications via Google Analytics
Search at I/O 16 Recap: Eight things you don't want to miss
Event report: Google Dance Tokyo
May
Tie your sites together with property sets in Search Console
Introducing Rich Cards
A new mobile friendly testing tool
Deeper Integration of Search Console in Google Analytics
How we fought webspam in 2015
Advanced Hosting Meetup program: report results
April
Helping webmasters re-secure their sites
No More Deceptive Download Buttons
March
Continuing to make the web more mobile friendly
Updating the smartphone user-agent of Googlebot
Best practices for bloggers reviewing products they receive from companies
An update on the Webmaster Central Blog
AMP NewsLab Office Hours in your language
February
Advanced Hosting Meetup: announcing participating companies
Measures have been taken for the link program network
January
AMP error report preview in Search Console
New year, new look: Introducing our new Webmasters website
Protecting hundreds of millions of mobile users
About Accelerated Mobile Pages Project: Japanese version of the introduction guide released today
Introducing the Advanced Hosting Meetup
2015
December
Indexing HTTPS pages by default
More protection for safe browsing
Japanese: A look back on 2015
November
Updating Our Search Quality Rating Guidelines
TC Summit 2015: Celebrating our Webmaster Top Contributors!
Behind the red warning: More information about website safety
Safe Browsing Protection from deceptive and misleading attacks
Hangout on Air for French-speaking webmasters
Detect and prevent deceptive unwanted redirects on mobile devices
October
Detect and get rid of unwanted sneaky mobile redirects
Deprecating our AJAX crawling scheme
An update on how we tackle hacked spam
Introducing the Indonesian Webmaster Help Forum
September
First Click Free update
Helping hacked sites with reconsideration requests
Repeated violations of Webmaster Guidelines
Mobile-friendly web pages using app banners
August
An update on CSV download scripts
#NoHacked: Fixing the Injected Gibberish URL Hack
#NoHacked: Identifying and Diagnosing Injected Gibberish URL Hacking
#NoHacked: Using two-factor authentication to protect your site
Introducing the Search Analytics API
#NoHacked: How to recognise and protect yourself against social engineering
#NoHacked Blog Part 2: Detecting Social Engineering Attacks and Preventing Damage
July
#NoHacked: How to avoid being the target of hackers
Update on the Autocomplete API
Google+: A case study on App Download Interstitials
Google's handling of new top level domains
Starting the #NoHacked campaign: How to avoid being the target of fraudulent hacking
May
App deep linking with goo.gl
Surfacing content from iOS apps in Google Search
Rolling out the red carpet for app owners in Search Console
Announcing Google Search Console - the new Webmaster Tools
More precise data in the new Search Analytics report
Five ways to grow your business this Small Business Week
French: Google News Hangout on Air
April
Faster and lighter mobile web pages for Indonesia
#MobileMadness: a campaign to help you go mobile-friendly
FAQs about the April 21st mobile-friendly update
Rolling out the mobile-friendly update
Better presentation of URLs in search results
Drive app installs through App Indexing
March
Helping users fill out online forms
An update on doorway pages
Deprecation of the old Webmaster Tools API
Unblocking resources with Webmaster Tools
Easier website development with Web Components and JSON-LD
Safe Browsing and Google Analytics: Keeping More Users Safe, Together
#MobileMadness Campaign: Is your website already compatible with mobile devices?
Helping French-speaking site owners prepare for the April 21 algorithm change
February
Finding more mobile-friendly search results
Case Studies: Fixing Hacked Sites
January
Crawling and indexing of locale-adaptive pages
Upcoming Events In The Knowledge Graph
New Structured Data Testing Tool, documentation, and more
2014
December
Google Public DNS and Location-Sensitive DNS Responses
The four steps to appiness
Are you a robot? Introducing No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA
Japanese: A look back on 2014
November
Helping users find mobile-friendly pages
October
Tracking mobile usability in Webmaster Tools
Updating our technical Webmaster Guidelines
Best practices for XML sitemaps and RSS/Atom feeds
Bring your local business online -- no website required!
September
An update to the Webmaster Tools API
Webmaster Academy now available in 22 languages
An improved search box within the search results
Optimizing for Bandwidth on Apache and Nginx
Link program guideline violations
August
#NoHacked: a global campaign to spread hacking awareness
HTTPS as a ranking signal
Introducing the Google News Publisher Center
July
Testing robots.txt files made easier
Promoting modern websites for modern devices in Google search results
Troubleshooting hreflang annotations in Webmaster Tools
Hangout on Air, in French
June
Android app indexing is now open for everyone!
Making site moves easier
Directing smartphone users to the page they actually wanted
#NoHacked campaign on Google+
Paid links and reconsideration requests
Indonesian: Google's Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Beginner's Guide
Introducing the official Google blog for Indonesian webmasters
Event report: Hosting Meetup @ Google
This week we're launching the #NoHacked awareness campaign
May
App Indexing in more languages
Rendering pages with Fetch as Google
Understanding web pages better
Making your site more mobile-friendly with PageSpeed Insights
Creating the Right Homepage for your International Users
Feedback on the feedback questionnaire on Google Webmaster Tools
April
Webmaster Guidelines for sneaky redirects updated
Introducing our global Google+ page for webmasters
Surfacing your business's contact and local info in Google
App Indexing updates
March
More Precise Index Status Data for Your Site Variations
Introducing the new Webmaster Academy
App Engine IP Range Change Notice
Musical artists: your official tour dates in the Knowledge Graph
Portuguese: Interviewing Wwwhat's New on the Google Webmasters blog
The Google Webmasters blog is now in Portuguese
Join us at the Japanese Webmaster Office Hours
French: Hangouts On Air on exam requests
Introducing the official Google blog dedicated to the French webmaster community!
Create your own custom search engine using the schema.org standard
Help us improve Google Webmaster Tools
Event recap: SEO Campixx in Berlin
February
3 tips to find hacking on your site, and ways to prevent and fix it
Infinite scroll search-friendly recommendations
Faceted navigation best (and 5 of the worst) practices
Introducing a troubleshooter for Japanese Webmasters
Unnatural links and reconsideration requests
January
Affiliate programs and added value
A new Googlebot user-agent for crawling smartphone content
Changes in crawl error reporting for redirects
Google Publisher Plugin beta: Bringing our publisher products to WordPress
More detailed search queries in Webmaster Tools
Improved Search Queries stats for separate mobile sites
2013
December
So long, 2013, and thanks for all the fish
Switching to the new website verification API
Improving URL removals on third-party sites
Structured Data dashboard: new markup error reports for easier debugging
Checklist and videos for mobile website improvement
Smartphone crawl errors in Webmaster Tools
Holiday Season: Watch out for fraudulent shopping sites
Japanese Webmaster Hangouts for reexamination requests
Japanese: A look back on 2013
Popular searches in 2013: heroes, tragedies, and Harlem shake
Shopping season: watch out for fake shopping site
November
Video: Creating a SEO strategy (with Webmaster Tools!)
October
Indexing apps just like websites
Easier recovery for hacked sites
What are your ideas for Search policies?
Dealing with SEO vendors who repeatedly violate the guidelines
Event report: Top Level User Summit 2013
September
Video: Expanding your site to more languages
Better backlink data for site owners
Event report: WordCamp 2013
Some reminders about blogs that violate the webmaster guidelines
August
rel="author" frequently asked (advanced) questions
Making smartphone sites load fast
View manual webspam actions in Webmaster Tools
In-depth articles in search results
July
A reminder about manipulative or deceptive behavior
Easier navigation without GPS
Q&A about measures for search engines in election campaigns
Event report: Site clinics
June
Introducing website satisfaction by Google Consumer Surveys
Backlinks and reconsideration requests
Verify your site in Webmaster Tools using Google Tag Manager
Changes in rankings of smartphone search results
Event report: White Hat SEO for First Grade Webmasters
Let's prevent illegal hacking of the site
Upcoming event: Site Clinic 2013
Six tips for international websites
Links to your website and reconsideration requests
Google+: content recommendations for your mobile website
#NoHacked campaign, helps prevent vulnerabilities on your website
May
6 Quick Tips for International Websites
Getting started with structured data
Using schema.org markup for organization logos
Google+: Content recommendation feature on mobile sites
Upcoming event: White Hat SEO for First Grade Webmasters
Recommendations for the re-review of a website
April
Introducing "x-default hreflang" for international landing pages
5 common mistakes with rel=canonical
Five tips for new webmasters
About measures for search engines in election campaigns
Google's online resources for webmasters
March
The Webmaster Academy goes international
A new opt-out tool
Easier management of website verifications
Making search-friendly mobile websites — now in 11 more languages
We created a first steps cheat sheet for friends and family
New first stop for hacked site recovery
Answering a huge number of daily searches in an instant
Webmaster Help Forum User Survey 2013
Japanese: Introducing the Webmaster Academy
February
A reminder about selling links that pass PageRank
Make the most of Search Queries in Webmaster Tools
Introducing Webmaster Hangouts
Improving the user interface and efficiency of Google Analytics
Structured Data Highlighter is now in Spanish
January
A faster image search
Watch videos on Google Webmaster Central Channel with Japanese subtitles
Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the birth of the modern internet
2012
December
Webmaster Tools verification strategies
Introducing Data Highlighter for event data
Helping Webmasters with Hacked Sites
Japanese: A look back on 2012
To Google’s top contributors
Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
Event recap: SEOkomm Salzburg
November
Giving Tablet Users the Full-Sized Web
To all merchants who have sent product information to Google Shopping
'Send to the index' function in Webmaster Tools
October
A new tool to disavow links
Make the web faster with mod_pagespeed, now out of Beta
Rich snippets guidelines
Google Webmaster Guidelines updated
Keeping you informed of critical website issues
Q&A: Link Denial Tool
Appreciating your own content
September
Structured Data Testing Tool
Answering the top questions from government webmasters
Event report: Site clinic for NPOs
Tips for making better use of Webmaster Tools
Using article submission sites to get backlinks for your site
August
Site Errors Breakdown
Search Queries Alerts in Webmaster Tools
Configuring URL Parameters in Webmaster Tools
Website testing and Google search
Domain verification using CNAME records
New messages about links to the site
Clicks and impressions by author
July
Introducing the Structured Data Dashboard
New notifications about inbound links
Behold Google index secrets, revealed!
On web semantics
New Crawl Error alerts from Webmaster Tools
How much time should I spend on meta tags?
June
Adding associates to manage your YouTube presence
SEO essentials for startups in under 10 minutes
Download to Google Spreadsheet from Webmaster Tools
For webmasters: Google+ and the +1 button 101
Recommendations for building smartphone-optimized websites
Easier domain verification
To site owners who outsource site production and attracting customers
Choose services carefully for site operation
May
Now you can polish up Google's translation of your website
Multilingual and multinational site annotations in Sitemaps
Introducing Webmaster Academy
Making more pages load instantly
Sorting and Filtering Results in Custom Search
Navigation, Dashboard and Home page
Coding guidelines for HTML and CSS
A to Z about image search
April
Responsive design – harnessing the power of media queries
Even more Top Search Queries data
1000 Words About Images
How to move your content to a new location
Webmaster Tools spring cleaning
Another step to reward high-quality sites
Updates to rich snippets
Things to consider for your link strategy
Introducing authorship markup in Germany, India, Italy, and Singapore
March
Five common SEO mistakes (and six good ideas!)
Upcoming changes in Google's HTTP Referrer
Video about pagination with rel="next" and rel="prev"
Crawl Errors: The Next Generation
Keeping your hosting service valuable for searchers
Safely share access to your site in Webmaster Tools
Webmaster Help Forum User Survey 2012
Notice about Google Merchant Center: A detailed analysis of Google Shopping performance
Enhanced search security for Google
For a safer search
Is mixed content on an HTTPS site a problem?
Can cookies and tracking pixels influence ranking?
Should I invent file extensions to improve my rankings?
February
Using schema.org markup for videos
Preparing your site for a traffic spike
Webmaster Help Forum: A new top-level user is born!
A few tips for link building
Geotargeting country-specific top-level domains
How does SafeSearch work?
Why are 404 pages showing up in Google's search results?
An even safer search, worldwide
January
More Options for Google+ Badges
What's new with Sitemaps
Update to Top Search Queries data
Making form-filling faster, easier and smarter
Page layout algorithm improvement
Better page titles in search results
Doorway Page violates guidelines
Recommended articles for diagnosing your site issues
What to do about malware?
2011
December
Download search queries data using Python
Website user research and testing on the cheap
Rich Snippets Instructional Videos
Introducing smartphone Googlebot-Mobile
Clicks and impressions for authors
Tips for hosting providers and webmasters
New markup for multilingual content
Japanese: A look back on 2011
Highlights of search quality
Matt Cutts video: How to Make Sure Google Finds Your Original Content
Does AdWords influence the ranking of my website?
Is trust a ranking signal?
Can I rank without SEO?
Does HTTPS have a negative effect on ranking?
November
Grow your audience with Google+
GET, POST, and safely surfacing more of the web
Submit your website to participate in our site clinic
Buying and selling of links: Remembering our position
Matt Cutts video: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Spam
The evolution of Search in six minutes
Is SEO Spam?
What is cloaking?
What should you watch out for when moving to a new domain?
Site clinic at the Online Motor Deutschland event
How do you move to a new web host?
Why did my site's ranking decrease?
October
Raising awareness of cross-domain URL selections
Accessing search query data for your sites
Create and manage Custom Search Engines from within Webmaster Tools
Webmaster forums' Top Contributors rock
To all TCs: you are the best!
Webmaster Tools Search Queries data is now available in Google Analytics
Join us from the Webmaster Help Forum! Report of Global Top Level User Summit 2011
Breaking down language barriers at Google
Matt Cutts video: Spelling and grammar when evaluating the content and quality of a site
Matt Cutts video: Should I add nofollow to banner ads?
Matt Cutts video: TLD .co, generic or local domain?
Do I need a robots.txt if I don't want to block crawlers?
Do I need a DMOZ entry?
How does Google determine the speed of a website?
How does Google determine the canonical source of a content on the web?
What is customer service like at Google?
Why has my PageRank decreased
Do multiple links count from one page to another?
September
Work smarter, not harder, with site health
Pagination with rel="next" and rel="prev"
Reconsideration requests get more transparent
View-all in search results
Introducing: Application Rich Snippets
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Recognizing Top Contributors in Google's Help Forums
PDFs in Google search results
What webmasters can do to prepare for sudden access concentration in the event of a disaster
Matt Cutts video: How long to leave a redirect on a domain change?
Is underscore or dash better in URLs?
What happens to my reconsideration request?
How many 301 redirects can a website have?
How to optimize PDFs
August
Reorganizing internal vs. external backlinks
Google News now crawling with Googlebot
Making the most of improvements to the +1 button
Help us improve Google Search
A new rich snippets format for music
Introducing new and improved sitelinks
High-quality sites algorithm launched in additional languages
New webmaster tutorial videos
A new, improved form for reporting webspam
Submit URLs to Google with Fetch as Googlebot
What shops and services can be registered in Google Place?
BizBarcelona: Taking Advantage of Google Webmaster Tools
Avoid personal content in search results
Matt Cutts video: Can I flag spammy links to my site that I didn't create?
Matt Cutts video: Should I nofollow banner ads?
Matt Cutts video: How long should you keep 301 redirects?
July
Preview the latest +1 button changes
Page Speed Service - Web Performance, Delivered.
The +1 Button: Now Faster
Improved handling of URLs with parameters
Validation: measuring and tracking code quality
You can see the effect of +1 in Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics
Significant changes to Google Shopping feed specifications and policies
June
Beyond PageRank: Graduating to actionable metrics
+1 reporting in Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics
+1 around the world
Protecting your site with Gruyere
Webinar: Implementing the +1 Button
Announcing Instant Pages
Authorship markup and web search
Pilot Webmaster Tools' Search Queries data in Google Analytics
Introducing schema.org: Search engines come together for a richer web
Add +1 to help your site stand out
The +1 button is now available to Japanese webmasters
To all webmasters who have introduced affiliates
Tips for registering shops and services on Google Places: What is a business listing for users?
The homepage has disappeared from Google Search results. What should I do?
Search quality in the Entrepreneur Show 2011
Matt Cutts video: How important is it to have keywords in your domain name?
Matt Cutts video: Do Short URLs Pass Anchor Text?
Can SEOs guarantee a 1st position?
Is Google lowering porn site's PageRank?
Does Google ignore pages with invalid HTML?
What can I do when my content is copied?
May
Troubleshooting Instant Previews in Webmaster Tools
Easier URL removals for site owners
Website Security for Webmasters
Introducing the Google Webmaster Team
Page Speed Online has a shiny new API
More guidance on building high-quality sites
Flash support in Instant Previews
Do 404s hurt my site?
Google Merchant Center: Changes to Unique Product ID Policy
Removing content from Google search results
Do you know our Spanish help forum for webmasters?
Matt Cutts video: Do you need to validate HTML for positioning?
Are 100 links per page enough?
Event recap: SMX Munich 2011
April
An update on Google Video: Finding an easier way to migrate Google Video content to YouTube
WordPress Plugin for Webmaster Tools verification
Your fast pass through security
Sharing advice from our London site clinic
High-quality sites algorithm goes global, incorporates user feedback
Our SEO Guide — now available in ten more languages
Shopping has been added to the rich snippet format
Google Merchant Center: Unique product ID and shipping settings
How to hide sites to find more about what you are looking for
Google Analytics: New version in Spanish
Matt Cutts video: The 100 Links Rule
Matt Cutts video: Can You Make My Site # 1 on Google?
Finding more high-quality sites in Search
March
Changes in the Chrome user agent
Introducing Page Speed Online, with mobile support
Mo' better to also detect mobile user-agent
Introducing the +1 button
Tag Your TV Shows!
Page Speed for Chrome, and in 40 languages!
7 Reasons to Use Webmaster Tools
Webmaster Help Forum Please help us with our user survey!
In the event of the Great East Japan Earthquake, thank you for all of your hard work
New Chrome Extension: Block Sites in Google Web Search Results
Matt Cutts video: The Webmaster Tools and their API
Matt Cutts video: On Penalties
Upcoming event: SMX Munich
Does Google use data from social networks?
SEO misinformation
February
Introducing Recipe View, based on rich snippets markup
Making Websites Mobile Friendly
Beyond Times and Arial - The New Web Safe Fonts
Linking Google Analytics to Webmaster Tools
Update to Webmaster Tools Search Queries
How to avoid violating the guidelines with paid links
Tips for creating a business listing in Google Places: adding useful descriptions and relevant categories
Google Search and search engine spam
Can people find your website on the internet?
Matt Cutts video: Do Twitter and Facebook Links Count?
Matt Cutts video: Google and Auto-Generated Content
Matt Cutts video: Why Does Google Give SEO Tips?
Matt Cutts video: Search Results in Different Browsers
What search trends do you have on your radar?
Intro to AdSense
Our stance on buying and selling links
January
Using Webmaster Tools like an SEO
How to deal with planned site downtime
Understanding your Opportunities with AdSense
Do you even need HTML sitemaps?
Intro to Webmaster Tools
2010
December
"It's on Google! YAY!" - Getting webmaster help in our forum
Sending Video Sitemaps Q&A holiday cheer
Improving our help content: stocking stuffers in our Help Center
Video Sitemaps and mRSS vs. Facebook Share and RDFa
Ring in the new year with accessible content: Website clinic for non-profits
Holiday source code maintenance: Website clinic for non-profits
A helping holiday hand: Website clinic for non-profits
New hacked site notifications in search results
Webmaster Tools' Holiday Update
Japanese: Thank you to everyone who used the official help forum in 2010
Why Google Doesn't Trust Paid Links
Tips for creating a business listing in Google Places: types of businesses
The Webmaster Central team wishes you happy holidays
Event recap: SES Berlin 2010
Top local spots to help with last-minute holiday shopping
Video responses: Removal of other website's search results
November
Controlling crawling and indexing now documented on code.google.com
Petits fours in your search results
What a feeling! Even better indexing of SWF content
Instant Previews
A Chrome extension for reporting webspam
How to help Google identify web spam
Make your websites run faster, automatically -- try mod_pagespeed for Apache
Rich snippets for shopping sites
Best practices for running multiple sites
Google Merchant Center is open
Introducing a new meta tag that reveals the referring article
To all Merchant Center users
Tips for creating a business listing in Google Places: company listing titles
Upcoming event: SES Berlin
Does Google consider autogenerated content bad?
Why is Google giving SEO tips?
October
Website clinic: Call for submissions
Optimizing sites for TV
Webmaster Tools - Links to your site updated
Webmaster Tools: Updates to Search queries, Parameter handling and Messages
Google and communication about its products
Questions and answers about rich snippets
Why is Webmaster Tools showing my page is indexed when I can't find it in the results?
How do I get help with my website?
Is the PageRank of old domains calculated differently?
Does Google show the same results in all browsers?
The trustworthiness of 'used' domains
September
SEO Starter Guide updated
Finding Places on the Web: Rich Snippets for Local Search
Video Sitemaps: Is your video part of a gallery?
Tips for getting help with your site
Unifying content under multilingual templates
Google Instant: Impact on Search queries
New ways to view Webmaster Tools messages
Rich snippets: testing tool improvements, breadcrumbs, and events
Matt Cutts video: How do I link to a site with which I have a personal relationship?
Matt Cutts video: Are reciprocal links bad?
Do we need a meta tag for 'negative keywords'?
An overview of product support: Google Web Search, Chrome, and Google Analytics
Are internal nofollow links helpful?
Updates from the German Webmaster Forum
Checking the keyword rankings for your own website?
August
Google now indexes SVG
Showing more results from a domain
Verification time savers — Analytics included!
To err is human, Video Sitemap feedback is divine!
Video Sitemaps: Understanding location tags
About the new rich snippet of event information
Back to basics: Keyword and landing page combinations
Matt Cutts video: Do tag clouds help or hinder SEO?
Matt Cutts video: How does Matt Cutts protect his blog?
Matt Cutts video: Why can't I geolocate my site by country in the Webmaster Tools?
Matt Cutts video: What does Google think of addon domains?
Matt Cutts video: Fake traffic?
Can additional domains cause problems?
How much of my traffic is generated by SEO?
July
New Message Center notifications for detecting an increase in Crawl Errors
Video Sitemaps 101: Making your videos searchable
About Google's secret formula which is not so secret
Using the wrong tracking code can cost you
Ten tips to improve your site's visibility in Google searches
Cloaking to speed up your site
Longer loading times through analytics? Reason for a headache?
June
Sitemaps: One file, many content types
Quality links to your site
Google Videos best practices
Our new search index: Caffeine
Crawl Errors now reports soft 404s
Grab bag videos are back!
How to display recipe information in recipe search
How to create a multilingual site
Video: Tips for Google to index your site faster
Matt Cutts video: How are the loading times offered in the Webmaster Tools calculated?
Matt Cutts video: Does the order of the heading tags affect?
Matt Cutts video: Does PageRank pass a link to a blocked page?
Matt Cutts video: Can I tell Google not to use my published date in my snippet?
Caffeine or Mayday? Changes to long-tail search results
The effect of location and previous searches on search results
Speed and relevance: how are they related?
Can moving to the cloud harm my website's ranking?
Video Response: Getting started with content removal
German video responses: Removal of your own content from search results
How do backlinks to press releases affect my site?
May
Chrome Extensions for web development
Top Search Queries is now Search Queries with Average Position and Stars
Call for webspam reports in Thai, Indonesian, Romanian, Czech and Farsi
Do know evil
URL removal explained, Part IV: Tracking your requests and what not to remove
You and site performance, sitting in a tree...
Questions and answers ... on video!
Video: Is the weight of my site important for better indexing?
Phishing: some guidelines
Matt Cutts video: What is the best way to check the links to my site?
Matt Cutts video: How many pages can Google index from the same site?
Matt Cutts video: Is excessive white space in HTML considered inappropriate?
Matt Cutts video: Are product descriptions considered duplicate content?
WordCamp Argentina 2010: Tips for WordPress users
Help resources on Google Webmaster Central
April
Rich snippets go international
To slash or not to slash
URL removal explained, Part III: Removing content that you don't own
Help Google index your videos
Updated malware feature in Webmaster Tools
Webmasters - configure Google services at your hosting panel
More data and charts in Top Search Queries
Better recipes on the web: Introducing recipe rich snippets
Using site speed in web search ranking
When and why was my site flagged for malware? Learn in near real-time!
Adding Images to your Sitemaps
URL removals explained, part II: Removing sensitive text from a page
A word on site clinics
Searching a little easier
Video: Mobile websites
Matt Cutts video: Is speed more important than relevance?
Matt Cutts video: Should I include my logo text using alt or CSS?
Google Grants site clinic: content is king
Does PageRank from Twitter profiles play a role?
March
DNS Verification FTW
URL removal explained, Part I: URLs and directories
Will the Real <Your Site Here> Please Stand Up?
Working with multilingual websites
Sharing advice from our site clinic
Working with multi-regional websites
Microdata support for Rich Snippets
Fetch as Googlebot Mobile and Claim your Sidewiki comment - added to Webmaster Tools Labs!
Sharing the verification love
Google's SEO Report Card
Is your site hacked? New Message Center notifications for hacking and abuse
Help the Webmaster Help Forum 1st Anniversary Survey
Matt Cutts video: Does the geographic location of a web server affect, from an SEO point of view?
Matt Cutts video: What structure do you recommend for a website?
Does Google Analytics affect Ranking?
February
How did you do on the Webmaster Quiz?
How to solve problems on a site
Google mobile service spring festival tips
Matt Cutts video: Will Google detect text in images?
Search becomes more social
Matt Cutts video: How do I get my new pages indexed fast?
Matt Cutts video: Will I be penalized if my URLs all have the same priority?
Matt Cutts video: Will Google offer tools for positioning?
Matt Cutts video: Ecommerce site optimization without rich content
Matt Cutts video: Positioning and keywords in the URL
Best Practices for Breadcrumbs
Google Search: predictions for 2010
Links from Twitter and Facebook? How much are they worth?
January
Request visitors' permission before installing software
Protect your site from spammers with reCAPTCHA
Introducing a new Rich Snippets format: Events
Google SEO resources for beginners
State of the Index 2009
Test your webmaster know-how!
Answering your December Grab Bag questions
Happy new year
Clarifying false rumors
Shorten your URLs
Calling all webmasters
Fighting online fraud: Google Money scammers on trial
Thanks for attending our site clinic
Test for webmasters: dare to participate!
Matt Cutts video: How are spam reports prioritized?
Google Grants site clinic: review of the site structure
2009
December
Helping webmasters from user to user
Handling legitimate cross-domain content duplication
Your site's performance in Webmaster Tools
How fast is your site?
New User Agent for News
Region Tags in Google Search Results
Changes in First Click Free
Japanese: Thanks to everyone who uses the official help forum for webmasters
Hidden text violates Google's guidelines for webmasters
Google Analytics releases asynchronous tracking code
How to recommend and submit news website content to Google News
Updates to Google News Sitemap
We wish you happy holidays!
The Webmaster Central team wishes you happy holidays, in German
Site Clinic part 5: Site search, organization and pages not found
Site Clinic part 4: Flash Pages
Site Clinic part 3: Who are your users?
Matt Cutts video: Does Google prioritize brands?
Matt Cutts video: Why is the @ character ignored in searches?
Matt Cutts video: Positioning and pages under construction
Matt Cutts video: Relevance of social sites
Paid links in JavaScript code
Do Google links pass PageRank?
Can I benefit from my content being scraped?
Link-less references a ranking signal?
Matt Cutts is waiting for your questions
New Top Contributors in the Google Webmasters forum
Does the order of H elements play a role?
Why is Webmaster Tools not notifying about penalties?
What should I do when my site was hacked?
How to make my content available to local users?
Welcome to the Google Grants site clinic
November
GENERIC CIALIS on my website? I think my site has been hacked!
Hard facts about comment spam
'New software version' notifications for your site
Running desktop and mobile versions of your site
Pros and cons of watermarked images
Help Google index your mobile site
Post-Halloween Treat: New Keywords User Interface!
New personalization features in Google Friend Connect
Get your site ready for the holidays: Webmasters - make your list and check it twice!
About the introduction of rich snippets
To open source software contributors: Are you willing to develop an operating system for network users?
Google Chromium OS open source project is released
Directly access the information you want from the search fragments
Matt Cutts video: CSS versus tables in SEO
Stay away from scams
Site Clinic part 2: Home page, titles, and duplicate content
Let's see where that malware is!
Viewing site hierarchy in search results
Matt Cutts video: Blogrolls and reputation from blogs
Keyword's position in URLs
Upcoming event: SES Berlin
Text recognition in images
Video results in Universal Search
Matt Cutts Video: What can I do if a competitor is spamming?
Which site structure is better?
Two questions about the link: operator
October
Using RSS/Atom feeds to discover new URLs
Help us make the web better: An update on Rich Snippets
Verifying a Blogger blog in Webmaster Tools
One million YouTube views!
Dealing with low-quality backlinks
Let's make the mobile web faster
Managing your reputation through search results
Fetch as Googlebot and Malware details -- now in Webmaster Tools Labs!
A proposal for making AJAX crawlable
Reunifying duplicate content on your website
New parameter handling tool helps with duplicate content issues
Google Friend Connect: No more FTP... just get started!
Changes to website verification in Webmaster Tools
Matt Cutts video: Link architecture and PageRank
Webmasters Conference 09: Google Webmaster Tools
Matt Cutts video: Links in the footers
Retweet @google: tweets, updates, and search
Site Clinic part 1: Framed Websites
Site Clinic: The analysis
Site Clinic: Have you already submitted your website?
Layout - CSS or tables?
More about PagerRank sculpting
Search queries require topicality. True or myth?
Is anchor text included in a 301 redirect?
September
Translate your website with Google: Expand your audience globally
Using named anchors to identify sections on your pages
Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking
Spanish Site Clinic now live
Duplicate content and multiple site issues
Recommendations for webmaster friendly hosting services
Supporting Facebook Share and RDFa for videos
Tips for News Search
Thank you for your support of the Google Webmaster Support Forum Call for articles!
Matt Cutts video: Ajax and Google SERP
Search help: Analyzing your web
How NOT to optimize your website: doorways or door pages
Conference for Webmasters and Google
Matt Cutts video: Meta descriptions and use of hyphens in URLs
Matt Cutts video: Indexed internal pages and the importance of quality of links and content
Matt Cutts video: 301 redirects and links
Matt Cutts video: Influence of geo meta tags on search
Matt Cutts video: Search results on Google vs. Twitter
Content or links? What's more important?
Domain age ranking
Does loading time affect ranking?
Short URL services and 301 redirects
SEO with small budget?
Underscores or dashes in URLs?
Is Google no longer using meta descriptions?
Directories as sources of paid links?
How can Google find my sub-pages?
August
Specifying an image's license using RDFa
New tools for Google Services for Websites
Help test some next-generation infrastructure
Optimize your crawling and indexing
How do you use Webmaster Tools? Share your stories and become a YouTube star!
Advanced Q&A from (the appropriately-named) SMX Advanced
10 misconceptions about Google's indexing and ranking
Will SEO still exist in 5 years?
Matt Cutts video: Domain age and URL shorteners
How does server location affect ranking?
Matt Cutts video: Searching on Twitter and its PageRank
Matt Cutts video: Over-optimization and loading times
Webmaster Videos with Matt Cutts - now in German
Matt Cutts video: Server location and geographic meta tags
Usability and accessibility
Google Search and AJAX
Blank pages in the index
July
Webmaster Tools gets a "Summer Shine"
Google Friend Connect - Now in 47 new languages
Webmaster Central YouTube update for July 6th - 10th
Google Maps gadget: Help customers find their way
Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 29th - July 3rd
Organic Search Tips: Optimize Your Site for Search Engines
Make information universally accessible and useful
How to steer clear of money scams
June
Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 22nd - 26th
Traffic drops and site architecture issues
Spam2.0: Fake user accounts and spam profiles
Tell us what you think!
Watch out for your .yu domain!
Let's make the web faster
Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 15th - 19th
Flash indexing with external resource loading
Reconsideration requests: Now with notifications
Best practices for Product Search
Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 8th - 12th
An Update on Sitemaps at Google
Out with the old, in with the new
Message Forwarding
Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 1st - 5th
SEO Starter Guide now available in 40 languages
Introducing Page Speed
Webmaster Central YouTube update for May 26-29
Thanks to the super users in the Chinese Webmasters forum
Webmaster Q&A
Universal Search and Site Clinic at SMX Madrid 2009
Universal Search and SMX Madrid
Googlebot verification
Q&A at Google Ambassador Day in Istanbul
Event recap: SMX Munich 2009
May
Let visitors recommend your content
Introducing Rich Snippets
Google Trends for your website
More ways to engage your community
Survey says...
Event report: Xiamen SMX Assembly Part II
Introducing the Official Google Measurement Tools Blog, in Spanish
Tips for requesting reconsideration
How many links per page?
Google and SMX Madrid 2009
April
Spring time design refresh!
Google Webmaster Help Forums in more languages
Research study of Sitemaps
Tips on requesting reconsideration
One-line sitelinks
Event report: Xiamen SMX Assembly Part I
Make sense of your site: tips for webpage design
Two new improvements to Google results pages
Search finds its way into the Google I / O developer conference
The Webspam team's plans for 2009
Upward trend in hacking cases in the Latin American market
Upcoming event: SMX Munich
March
Helping your site look great with Google Chrome
Making more tools available with just a click
Get up-to-date on Image Search
Using stats from site: and Sitemap details
Announcing an official help forum for webmasters
Google, at your service
Paid links: effects and options
Webmaster Tools: Removing content from our index
February
Canonical Link Element: presentation from SMX West
Introducing the Google Webmaster Central YouTube Channel
Best practices against hacking
State of the Index: my presentation from PubCon Vegas
Specify your canonical
Help us help you
Google Friend Connect introduces the social bar
About paid links
How to contact Google
'This site may harm your computer' for every search result?
New official blog about Google products in Spanish
New Google Help Forum for webmasters in Spanish
Webmaster Tools: Creating and submitting sitemaps
January
Open redirect URLs: Is your site being abused?
Year in Review
Adding a social playlist to your site
Seamless verification of Google Sites and Blogger with Webmaster Tools
A new Google Sitemap Generator for your website
Preventing Virtual Blight: my presentation from Web 2.0 Summit
An update on the spam report
Webspam in 2009
2008
December
Japanese WMC Blog launched
Feliz Navidad from the Spanish Webmaster Central team!
Wishing you and your site a happy holiday!
Quick and easy tips for the holiday rush
Sitemap Submission Made Simple
Webmaster Tools in 40 languages!
Message Center info through our API
Reintroducing your English Webmaster Help Google Guides
Friend Connect now available in beta to everyone
One place for changing your site's settings
A new look for our Webmaster Help Group
More control of Googlebot's crawl rate
Thanks to the super users in the Chinese Webmasters forum
Contact Google
Webmaster Tools: Crawling, indexing, and geo-targeting
November
Date with Googlebot, Part II: HTTP status codes and If-Modified-Since
Better targeting your indic language site
On-Demand Sitemaps for Custom Search
Google's SEO Starter Guide
Event report: Nanjing SMX Assembly Part II
Improve the indexing and performance of your website in search results
Our approach to international search
What if I don't want it to appear on Google?
Join the first Google Webmaster Live Chat in German
Adam Lasnik talks about ranking issues
Adam Lasnik and Germany
Adam Lasnik: Help for hacked sites
October
Spookier than malware
Reflections on the "Tricks and Treats" webmaster event
Malware? We don't need no stinking malware!
Webmaster chat event: Vote early and often!
Join us for our third live online webmaster chat!
Where's my data?
First Click Free for Web Search
Message Center warnings for hackable sites
Video Tutorial: Google for Webmasters
Helping you break the language barrier
Webmaster Tools API updated with Site Settings
Webmaster Tools shows Crawl error sources
Good times with inbound links
Linking out: Often it's just applying common sense
Importance of link architecture
Links information straight from the source
Chinese: standardization of the Internet and Google Chrome
Webmaster Tools - How to set preferences
Sitemaps exposed
September
Advanced Website Diagnostics with Google Webmaster Tools
Keeping comment spam off your site and away from users
More webmaster questions - Answered!
Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs
Webmaster Tools made easier in French, Italian, German and Spanish
Demystifying the "duplicate content penalty"
Your burning questions - Answered!
Workin' it on all browsers
Message Center: allow us to better communicate with you
Event report: Nanjing SMX Assembly Part I
Webmaster tools: now a little easier for Spanish Webmasters
Interview with Matt Cutts, part 3
Interview with Matt Cutts, part 2
Interview with Matt Cutts, part 1
Google's blog for webmasters, now in Spanish
Search evaluation at Google
August
The Impact of User Feedback, Part 2 (and more Popular Picks!)
silver_medal_count++
Hey Google, I no longer have badware
Make your 404 pages more useful
More on 404
Farewell to soft 404s
It's 404 week at Webmaster Central
How to start a multilingual site
To infinity and beyond? No!
Google Developer Day in Munich
Search quality, continued
Search experiments, large and small
July
A day in the life of webmaster support
Matt Cutts on ranking, spam and the future of search
Google Trifecta recording now available
Helping yourself to Webmaster Tools
Requesting reconsideration using Google Webmaster Tools
Event recap: SES Hamburg
Using data to fight webspam
Technologies behind Google ranking
Introduction to Google ranking
June
Improved Flash indexing
What are your SEO recommendations?
Online seminar: The Google Trifecta
Get the audio and Q&As from our recent live chat
One year of monitored European Webmaster Help Groups
Get Cooking with the Webmaster Tools API
A new layer to Google Trends
Join us for another live chat - June 19, 2008
Duplicate content due to scrapers
The Impact of User Feedback, Part 1
Improving on Robots Exclusion Protocol
How Google defines IP delivery, geolocation, and cloaking
The Google Translate widget makes your website immediately ready for global internationalization
Meet the Google Search Quality team
Web directories in the spotlight
May
Making more housecalls
Webmaster Tools now in 26 languages
Becoming Social
Design patterns for accessible, crawlable and indexable content
Sitemaps offer better coverage for your Custom Search Engine
Creating a great user experience for your site
Simplified Chinese blog: Search for life, search for hope
Condolences to the victims
How to apply for reconsideration
SEO advice: Getting links
Introduction to Google Search Quality
Search operators for webmasters
April
Where in the world is your site?
Retiring support for OAI-PMH in Sitemaps
Best practices when moving your site
Webmaster tips for creating accessible, crawlable sites
Crawling through HTML forms
My site's been hacked - now what?
Improvements to iGoogle Gadgets for Webmaster Tools
Event recap: SMX Munich
For questions about search engine created text
March
Making harmonious use of Webmaster Tools and Analytics
Speaking the language of robots
Bionic Posters help site owners worldwide
Taking advantage of universal search, part 2
Join us for an online live chat this Friday!
Good housekeeping
SES London Calling!
Tips for making information universally accessible
German Webmaster Blog turns one
Webmaster Tools keeps your "messages waiting"
First date with the Googlebot: Headers and compression
Launching the Chinese version of the Webmaster support forum
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Dealing with Sitemap cross-submissions
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September
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August
Update on penalty notifications
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Message Center: Let us communicate with you about your site
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February
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For Those Wondering About Public Service Search
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August
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July
Support for Polish
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June
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May
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April
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Back from Pubcon
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March
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Google Sitemaps in your language
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