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Here's what we've uploaded in the past week:</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> As part of Google's goal to <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/">make the web faster</a>, we uploaded several video tips about optimizing the speed of your website. Check out <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/articles/">the tutorials page</a> to view the tutorials and associated videos.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Matt Cutts answered a new question each day from the Grab Bag: </div> <div> <ul> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp#play/uploads/18/OoJAcUEasBU">What are some best practices for moving to a new CMS?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp#play/uploads/8/Bz0KQNPDUoc">Is over-optimization bad for a website?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp#play/uploads/4/kXj73VDcSWk">Will having my software listed in low-quality directories harm my website's ranking?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp#play/uploads/3/keIzr3eWK8I">Can the geographic location of a web server affect SEO?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp#play/uploads/2/JfOk0gjNE5Y">Will I be penalized if all of my Sitemap URLs have the same priority?</a></li> </ul> </div> <div> And during Adam Lasnik's visit to India, he was interviewed by Webmaster Help Forum guide <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/user?userid=10128391556890284137&hl=en">Jayan Tharayil</a> about issues related to webmasters in India. We have the full three-part interview <a href="//www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D9A24B47E308E6E2">right here</a>.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> We'll get you started on this batch of videos with Matt's tips for targeting your site to a specific region:</div> <br /> <div> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/keIzr3eWK8I&hl=en&fs=1&"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/keIzr3eWK8I&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Feel free to leave comments letting us know how you liked the videos, and if you have any specific questions, ask the experts in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum</a>.</div> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality Team</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div> Want to know what's new on the <a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp">Webmaster Central YouTube channel</a>? Here's what we've uploaded in the past week:</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> As part of Google's goal to <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/">make the web faster</a>, we uploaded several video tips about optimizing the speed of your website. Check out <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/articles/">the tutorials page</a> to view the tutorials and associated videos.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Matt Cutts answered a new question each day from the Grab Bag: </div> <div> <ul> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp#play/uploads/18/OoJAcUEasBU">What are some best practices for moving to a new CMS?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp#play/uploads/8/Bz0KQNPDUoc">Is over-optimization bad for a website?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp#play/uploads/4/kXj73VDcSWk">Will having my software listed in low-quality directories harm my website's ranking?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp#play/uploads/3/keIzr3eWK8I">Can the geographic location of a web server affect SEO?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp#play/uploads/2/JfOk0gjNE5Y">Will I be penalized if all of my Sitemap URLs have the same priority?</a></li> </ul> </div> <div> And during Adam Lasnik's visit to India, he was interviewed by Webmaster Help Forum guide <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/user?userid=10128391556890284137&hl=en">Jayan Tharayil</a> about issues related to webmasters in India. We have the full three-part interview <a href="//www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D9A24B47E308E6E2">right here</a>.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> We'll get you started on this batch of videos with Matt's tips for targeting your site to a specific region:</div> <br /> <div> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/keIzr3eWK8I&hl=en&fs=1&"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/keIzr3eWK8I&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Feel free to leave comments letting us know how you liked the videos, and if you have any specific questions, ask the experts in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum</a>.</div> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality Team</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 22nd - 26th&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for_30.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for_30.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for_30.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/feedback%20and%20communication?hl=en' rel='tag'> feedback and communication </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4419769863084228981' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/traffic-drops-and-site-architecture_29.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Traffic drops and site architecture issues'> Traffic drops and site architecture issues </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Sunday, June 28, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Webmaster Level: Intermediate.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> We hear lots of questions about site architecture issues and traffic drops, so it was a pleasure to talk about it in greater detail at <a href="http://searchmarketingexpo.com/london/2009/full_agenda2">SMX London</a> and I'd like to highlight some key concepts from my presentation here. First off, let's gain a better understanding of drops in traffic, and then we'll take a look at site design and architecture issues.<br /> <br /> <b> Understanding drops in traffic </b><br /> <br /> As you know, fluctuations in search results happen all the time; <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=70897">the web is constantly evolving and so is our index</a>. Improvements in our ability to understand our users' interests and queries also often lead to differences in how our algorithms select and rank pages. We realize, however, that such changes might be confusing and sometimes foster misconceptions, so we'd like to address a couple of these myths head-on.<br /> <br /> <b> Myth number 1: Duplicate content causes drops in traffic! </b><br /> Webmasters often wonder if the duplicates on their site can have a negative effect on their site's traffic. As <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359">mentioned in our guidelines</a>, unless this duplication is intended to manipulate Google and/or users, the duplication is not a violation of our Webmaster Guidelines. The second part of my presentation illustrates in greater detail how to deal with duplicate content <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394">using canonicalization</a>.<br /> <br /> <b> Myth number 2: Affiliate programs cause drops in traffic!</b><br /> Original and compelling content is crucial for a good user experience. If your website participates in <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=76465">affiliate programs</a>, it's essential to consider whether the same content is available in many other places on the web. Affiliate sites with little or no original and compelling content are not likely to rank well in Google search results, but including affiliate links within the context of original and compelling content isn't in itself the sort of thing that leads to traffic drops.<br /> <br /> Having reviewed a few of the most common concerns, I'd like to highlight two important sections of the presentation. The first illustrates how malicious attacks -- such as an injection of <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66353">hidden text and links</a> -- might cause your site to be removed from Google's search results. On a happier note, it also covers how you can use the Google cache and Webmaster Tools to identify this issue. On a related note, if we've found a violation of the Webmaster Guidelines such as the use of hidden text or the presence of <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/message-center-warnings-for-hackable.html">malware on your site</a>, you will typically find a note regarding this in your Webmaster Tools Message center.<br /> You may also find your site's traffic decreased if your users are being redirected to another site...for example, due to a hacker-applied server- or page-level redirection triggered by referrals from search engines. A similar scenario -- but with different results -- is the case in which a hacker has instituted a redirection for crawlers only. While this will cause no immediate drop in traffic since users and their visits are not affected, it might lead to a decrease in pages indexed over time.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="342" src="http://docs.google.com/EmbedSlideshow?id=dc75gmks_22ht5dh9hb" width="410"></iframe></div> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <b>Site design and architecture issues </b><br /> Now that we've seen how malicious changes might affect your site and its traffic, let's examine some design and architecture issues. Specifically, you want to ensure that your site is able to be both effectively crawled and indexed, which is the prerequisite to being shown in our search results. What should you consider?<br /> <br /> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li>First off, check that your robots.txt file has the correct status code and is not <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35147">returning an error</a>.</li> <li>Keep in mind some best practices when <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-practices-when-moving-your-site.html">moving to a new site</a> and the new "<a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83106">Change of address</a>" feature <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/out-with-old-in-with-new.html">recently added</a> to Webmaster Tools. </li> <li>Review the settings of the robots.txt file to make sure no pages -- particularly those rewritten and/or dynamic -- are blocked inappropriately.</li> <li>Finally, make good use of <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394">the rel="canonical" attribute</a> to reduce the indexing of duplicate content on your domain. The example in the presentation shows how using this attribute helps Google understand that a duplicate can be clustered with the canonical and that the original, or canonical, page should be indexed.</li> </ul> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="342" src="http://docs.google.com/EmbedSlideshow?id=dc75gmks_73dvznqhd5" width="410"></iframe></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> In conclusion, remember that fluctuations in search results are normal but there are steps that you can take to avoid malicious attacks or design and architecture issues that might cause your site to disappear or fluctuate unpredictably in search results. Start by learning more about <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/01/preventing-virtual-blight-my.html">attacks by hackers and spammers</a>, make sure everything is running properly at crawling and indexing level by double-checking the <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80407">HTML suggestions in Webmaster Tools</a>, and finally, <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35237">test your robots.txt</a> file in case you are accidentally blocking Googlebot. And don't forget about those <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35147">"robots.txt unreachable" errors</a>!<br /> <br /></div> <span class="byline-author">Written by Luisella Mazza, Search Quality Senior Analyst</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Webmaster Level: Intermediate.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> We hear lots of questions about site architecture issues and traffic drops, so it was a pleasure to talk about it in greater detail at <a href="http://searchmarketingexpo.com/london/2009/full_agenda2">SMX London</a> and I'd like to highlight some key concepts from my presentation here. First off, let's gain a better understanding of drops in traffic, and then we'll take a look at site design and architecture issues.<br /> <br /> <b> Understanding drops in traffic </b><br /> <br /> As you know, fluctuations in search results happen all the time; <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=70897">the web is constantly evolving and so is our index</a>. Improvements in our ability to understand our users' interests and queries also often lead to differences in how our algorithms select and rank pages. We realize, however, that such changes might be confusing and sometimes foster misconceptions, so we'd like to address a couple of these myths head-on.<br /> <br /> <b> Myth number 1: Duplicate content causes drops in traffic! </b><br /> Webmasters often wonder if the duplicates on their site can have a negative effect on their site's traffic. As <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359">mentioned in our guidelines</a>, unless this duplication is intended to manipulate Google and/or users, the duplication is not a violation of our Webmaster Guidelines. The second part of my presentation illustrates in greater detail how to deal with duplicate content <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394">using canonicalization</a>.<br /> <br /> <b> Myth number 2: Affiliate programs cause drops in traffic!</b><br /> Original and compelling content is crucial for a good user experience. If your website participates in <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=76465">affiliate programs</a>, it's essential to consider whether the same content is available in many other places on the web. Affiliate sites with little or no original and compelling content are not likely to rank well in Google search results, but including affiliate links within the context of original and compelling content isn't in itself the sort of thing that leads to traffic drops.<br /> <br /> Having reviewed a few of the most common concerns, I'd like to highlight two important sections of the presentation. The first illustrates how malicious attacks -- such as an injection of <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66353">hidden text and links</a> -- might cause your site to be removed from Google's search results. On a happier note, it also covers how you can use the Google cache and Webmaster Tools to identify this issue. On a related note, if we've found a violation of the Webmaster Guidelines such as the use of hidden text or the presence of <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/message-center-warnings-for-hackable.html">malware on your site</a>, you will typically find a note regarding this in your Webmaster Tools Message center.<br /> You may also find your site's traffic decreased if your users are being redirected to another site...for example, due to a hacker-applied server- or page-level redirection triggered by referrals from search engines. A similar scenario -- but with different results -- is the case in which a hacker has instituted a redirection for crawlers only. While this will cause no immediate drop in traffic since users and their visits are not affected, it might lead to a decrease in pages indexed over time.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="342" src="http://docs.google.com/EmbedSlideshow?id=dc75gmks_22ht5dh9hb" width="410"></iframe></div> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <b>Site design and architecture issues </b><br /> Now that we've seen how malicious changes might affect your site and its traffic, let's examine some design and architecture issues. Specifically, you want to ensure that your site is able to be both effectively crawled and indexed, which is the prerequisite to being shown in our search results. What should you consider?<br /> <br /> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li>First off, check that your robots.txt file has the correct status code and is not <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35147">returning an error</a>.</li> <li>Keep in mind some best practices when <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-practices-when-moving-your-site.html">moving to a new site</a> and the new "<a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83106">Change of address</a>" feature <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/out-with-old-in-with-new.html">recently added</a> to Webmaster Tools. </li> <li>Review the settings of the robots.txt file to make sure no pages -- particularly those rewritten and/or dynamic -- are blocked inappropriately.</li> <li>Finally, make good use of <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394">the rel="canonical" attribute</a> to reduce the indexing of duplicate content on your domain. The example in the presentation shows how using this attribute helps Google understand that a duplicate can be clustered with the canonical and that the original, or canonical, page should be indexed.</li> </ul> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="342" src="http://docs.google.com/EmbedSlideshow?id=dc75gmks_73dvznqhd5" width="410"></iframe></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> In conclusion, remember that fluctuations in search results are normal but there are steps that you can take to avoid malicious attacks or design and architecture issues that might cause your site to disappear or fluctuate unpredictably in search results. Start by learning more about <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/01/preventing-virtual-blight-my.html">attacks by hackers and spammers</a>, make sure everything is running properly at crawling and indexing level by double-checking the <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80407">HTML suggestions in Webmaster Tools</a>, and finally, <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35237">test your robots.txt</a> file in case you are accidentally blocking Googlebot. And don't forget about those <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35147">"robots.txt unreachable" errors</a>!<br /> <br /></div> <span class="byline-author">Written by Luisella Mazza, Search Quality Senior Analyst</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Traffic drops and site architecture issues&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/traffic-drops-and-site-architecture_29.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/traffic-drops-and-site-architecture_29.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/traffic-drops-and-site-architecture_29.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/crawling%20and%20indexing?hl=en' rel='tag'> crawling and indexing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/events?hl=en' rel='tag'> events </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3573081942401416892' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/spam20-fake-user-accounts-and-spam.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Spam2.0: Fake user accounts and spam profiles'> Spam2.0: Fake user accounts and spam profiles </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Friday, June 26, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> You're a good webmaster or web developer, and you've done everything you can <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/best-practices-against-hacking.html" title="to keep your site from being hacked">to keep your site from being hacked</a> and <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/keeping-comment-spam-off-your-site-and.html" title="keep your forums and comment sections free of spam">keep your forums and comment sections free of spam</a>. You're now the proud owner of a buzzing web2.0 social community, filling the web with user-generated content, and probably getting lots of visitors from Google and other search engines.<br /> <br /> Many of your site's visitors will create user profiles, and some will spend hours posting in forums, joining groups, and getting the sparkles exactly right on the rainbow-and-unicorn image for their <a href="//www.google.com/search?q=define:bff" title="BFF">BFF</a>'s birthday. This is all great.<br /> <br /> Others, however, will create accounts and fill their profiles with gibberish, blatherskite and palaver. Even worse, they'll add a sneaky link, a bit of redirecting JavaScript code, or a big fake embedded video that takes your users off to the seediest corners of the web.<br /> <br /> Welcome to the world of spam profiles. The social web is growing incredibly quickly and spammers look at every kind of user content on the web as an opportunity for traffic. I've spoken with a number of experienced webmasters who were surprised to find out this was even a problem, so I thought I would talk a little bit about spam profiles and what you might do to find and clean them out of your site.<br /> <br /> <h3> Why is this important?</h3> Imagine the following scenario:<br /> <br /> <div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0px;"> "Hello there, welcome to our new web2.0 social networking site. Boy, have I got a new friend for you. His name is Mr. BuyMaleEnhancementRingtonesNow, and he'd love for you to check out his profile. He's a NaN-year-old from Pharmadelphia, PA and you can check out his exciting home page at http://example.com/obviousflimflam.</div> <br /> <br /> <div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0px;"> Not interested? Then let me introduce you to my dear friend PrettyGirlsWebCam1234, she says she's an old college friend of yours and has exciting photos and videos you might want to see."</div> <br /> <br /> You probably don't want your visitors' first impression of your site to include inappropriate images or bogus business offers. You definitely don't want your users hounded by fake invites to the point where they stop visiting altogether. If your site becomes filled with spammy content and links to bad parts of the web, search engines may lose trust in your otherwise fine site.<br /> <br /> <h3> Why would anyone create spam profiles?</h3> Spammers create fake profiles for a number of nefarious purposes. Sometimes they're just a way to reach users internally on a social networking site. This is somewhat similar to the way email spam works - the point is to send your users messages or friend invites and trick them into following a link, making a purchase, or downloading malware by sending a fake or low-quality proposition.<br /> <br /> Spammers are also using spam profiles as yet another avenue to generate webspam on otherwise good domains. They scour the web for opportunities to get their links, redirects, and malware to users. They use your site because it's no cost to them and they hope to piggyback off your good reputation.<br /> <br /> The latter case is becoming more and more common. Some fake profiles are obvious, using popular pharmaceuticals as the profile name, for example; but we've noticed an increase in savvier spammers that try to use real names and realistic data to sneak in their bad links. To make sure their newly-minted gibberish profile shows up in searches they will also generate links on hacked sites, comment spam, and yes, other spam profiles. This results in a lot of bad content on your domain, unwanted incoming links from spam sites, and annoyed users.<br /> <br /> <h3> Which sites are being abused?</h3> You may be thinking to yourself, "But my site isn't a huge social networking juggernaut; surely I don't need to worry." Unfortunately, we see spam profiles on everything from the largest social networking sites to the smallest forums and bulletin boards. Many popular bulletin boards and content management systems (CMS) such as vBulletin, phpBB, Moodle, Joomla, etc. generate member pages for every user that creates an account. In general CMSs are great because they make it easy for you to deploy content and interactive features to your site, but auto-generated pages can be abused if you're not aware.<br /> <br /> For all of you out there who do work for huge social networking juggernauts, your site is a target as well. Spammers want access to your large userbase, hoping that users on social sites will be more trusting of incoming friend requests, leading to larger success rates.<br /> <br /> <h3> What can you do?</h3> This isn't an easy problem to solve - the bad guys are attacking a wide range of sites and seem to be able to adapt their scripts to get around countermeasures. Google is constantly under attack by spammers trying to create fake accounts and generate spam profiles on our sites, and despite all of our efforts some have managed to slip through. Here are some things you can do to make their lives more difficult and keep your site clean and useful:<br /> <br /> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Make sure you have standard security features in place</b>, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha" title="CAPTCHAs">CAPTCHAs</a>, to make it harder for spammers to create accounts en masse. Watch out for unlikely behavior - thousands of new user accounts created from the same IP address, new users sending out thousands of friend requests, etc. There is no simple solution to this problem, but often some simple checks will catch most of the worst spam.<br /></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Use a blacklist to prevent repetitive spamming attempts</b>. We often see large numbers of fake profiles on one innocent site all linking to the same domain, so once you find one, you should make it simple to remove all of them.<br /></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Watch out for <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-security-checklist-for-webmasters.html" title="cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities">cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities</a></b> and other security holes that allow spammers to inject questionable code onto their profile pages. We've seen techniques such as JavaScript used to redirect users to other sites, iframes that attempt to give users malware, and custom CSS code used to cover over your page with spammy content.<br /></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Consider </b><b><a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=96569" title="Nofollow the links">nofollowing the links</a> on untrusted user profile pages.</b> This makes your site less attractive to anyone trying to pass PageRank from your site to their spammy site. Spammers seem to go after the low-hanging fruit, so even just nofollowing new profiles with few signals of trustworthiness will go a long way toward mitigating the problem. On the flip side, you could also consider manually or automatically lifting the nofollow attribute on links created by community members that are likely more trustworthy, such as those who have contributed substantive content over time.<br /></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Consider <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=93708" title="noindexing profile pages">noindexing profile pages</a></b> for new, not yet trustworthy users. You may even want to make initial profile pages completely private, especially if the bulk of the content on your site is in blogs, forums, or other types of pages.<br /></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Add a "report spam" feature to user profiles and friend invitations</b>. Let your users help you solve the problem - they care about your community and are annoyed by spam too.<br /></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Monitor your site for spammy pages</b>. One of the best tools for this is <a href="//www.google.com/alerts" title="Google Alerts">Google Alerts</a> - set up a site: query along with commercial or adult keywords that you wouldn't expect to see on your site. This is also a great tool <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/best-practices-against-hacking.html" title="to help detect hacked pages">to help detect hacked pages</a>. You can also <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35255" title="check 'Keywords' data in Webmaster Tools">check 'Keywords' data in Webmaster Tools</a> for strange, volatile vocabulary.<br /></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Watch for spikes in traffic from suspicious queries</b>. It's always great to see the line on your pageviews chart head upward, but pay attention to commercial or adult queries that don't fit your site's content. In cases like this where a spammer has abused your site, that traffic will provide little if any benefit while introducing users to your site as "the place that redirected me to that virus."</li> </ul> <br /> <br /> Have any other tips to share? Please feel free to comment below. If you have any questions, you can always ask in our <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en" title="Webmaster Help Forums">Webmaster Help Forum</a>.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Written by Jason Morrison, Search Quality Team</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> You're a good webmaster or web developer, and you've done everything you can <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/best-practices-against-hacking.html" title="to keep your site from being hacked">to keep your site from being hacked</a> and <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/keeping-comment-spam-off-your-site-and.html" title="keep your forums and comment sections free of spam">keep your forums and comment sections free of spam</a>. You're now the proud owner of a buzzing web2.0 social community, filling the web with user-generated content, and probably getting lots of visitors from Google and other search engines.<br /> <br /> Many of your site's visitors will create user profiles, and some will spend hours posting in forums, joining groups, and getting the sparkles exactly right on the rainbow-and-unicorn image for their <a href="//www.google.com/search?q=define:bff" title="BFF">BFF</a>'s birthday. This is all great.<br /> <br /> Others, however, will create accounts and fill their profiles with gibberish, blatherskite and palaver. Even worse, they'll add a sneaky link, a bit of redirecting JavaScript code, or a big fake embedded video that takes your users off to the seediest corners of the web.<br /> <br /> Welcome to the world of spam profiles. The social web is growing incredibly quickly and spammers look at every kind of user content on the web as an opportunity for traffic. I've spoken with a number of experienced webmasters who were surprised to find out this was even a problem, so I thought I would talk a little bit about spam profiles and what you might do to find and clean them out of your site.<br /> <br /> <h3> Why is this important?</h3> Imagine the following scenario:<br /> <br /> <div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0px;"> "Hello there, welcome to our new web2.0 social networking site. Boy, have I got a new friend for you. His name is Mr. BuyMaleEnhancementRingtonesNow, and he'd love for you to check out his profile. He's a NaN-year-old from Pharmadelphia, PA and you can check out his exciting home page at http://example.com/obviousflimflam.</div> <br /> <br /> <div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0px;"> Not interested? Then let me introduce you to my dear friend PrettyGirlsWebCam1234, she says she's an old college friend of yours and has exciting photos and videos you might want to see."</div> <br /> <br /> You probably don't want your visitors' first impression of your site to include inappropriate images or bogus business offers. You definitely don't want your users hounded by fake invites to the point where they stop visiting altogether. If your site becomes filled with spammy content and links to bad parts of the web, search engines may lose trust in your otherwise fine site.<br /> <br /> <h3> Why would anyone create spam profiles?</h3> Spammers create fake profiles for a number of nefarious purposes. Sometimes they're just a way to reach users internally on a social networking site. This is somewhat similar to the way email spam works - the point is to send your users messages or friend invites and trick them into following a link, making a purchase, or downloading malware by sending a fake or low-quality proposition.<br /> <br /> Spammers are also using spam profiles as yet another avenue to generate webspam on otherwise good domains. They scour the web for opportunities to get their links, redirects, and malware to users. They use your site because it's no cost to them and they hope to piggyback off your good reputation.<br /> <br /> The latter case is becoming more and more common. Some fake profiles are obvious, using popular pharmaceuticals as the profile name, for example; but we've noticed an increase in savvier spammers that try to use real names and realistic data to sneak in their bad links. To make sure their newly-minted gibberish profile shows up in searches they will also generate links on hacked sites, comment spam, and yes, other spam profiles. This results in a lot of bad content on your domain, unwanted incoming links from spam sites, and annoyed users.<br /> <br /> <h3> Which sites are being abused?</h3> You may be thinking to yourself, "But my site isn't a huge social networking juggernaut; surely I don't need to worry." Unfortunately, we see spam profiles on everything from the largest social networking sites to the smallest forums and bulletin boards. Many popular bulletin boards and content management systems (CMS) such as vBulletin, phpBB, Moodle, Joomla, etc. generate member pages for every user that creates an account. In general CMSs are great because they make it easy for you to deploy content and interactive features to your site, but auto-generated pages can be abused if you're not aware.<br /> <br /> For all of you out there who do work for huge social networking juggernauts, your site is a target as well. Spammers want access to your large userbase, hoping that users on social sites will be more trusting of incoming friend requests, leading to larger success rates.<br /> <br /> <h3> What can you do?</h3> This isn't an easy problem to solve - the bad guys are attacking a wide range of sites and seem to be able to adapt their scripts to get around countermeasures. Google is constantly under attack by spammers trying to create fake accounts and generate spam profiles on our sites, and despite all of our efforts some have managed to slip through. Here are some things you can do to make their lives more difficult and keep your site clean and useful:<br /> <br /> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Make sure you have standard security features in place</b>, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha" title="CAPTCHAs">CAPTCHAs</a>, to make it harder for spammers to create accounts en masse. Watch out for unlikely behavior - thousands of new user accounts created from the same IP address, new users sending out thousands of friend requests, etc. There is no simple solution to this problem, but often some simple checks will catch most of the worst spam.<br /></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Use a blacklist to prevent repetitive spamming attempts</b>. We often see large numbers of fake profiles on one innocent site all linking to the same domain, so once you find one, you should make it simple to remove all of them.<br /></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Watch out for <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-security-checklist-for-webmasters.html" title="cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities">cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities</a></b> and other security holes that allow spammers to inject questionable code onto their profile pages. We've seen techniques such as JavaScript used to redirect users to other sites, iframes that attempt to give users malware, and custom CSS code used to cover over your page with spammy content.<br /></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Consider </b><b><a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=96569" title="Nofollow the links">nofollowing the links</a> on untrusted user profile pages.</b> This makes your site less attractive to anyone trying to pass PageRank from your site to their spammy site. Spammers seem to go after the low-hanging fruit, so even just nofollowing new profiles with few signals of trustworthiness will go a long way toward mitigating the problem. On the flip side, you could also consider manually or automatically lifting the nofollow attribute on links created by community members that are likely more trustworthy, such as those who have contributed substantive content over time.<br /></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Consider <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=93708" title="noindexing profile pages">noindexing profile pages</a></b> for new, not yet trustworthy users. You may even want to make initial profile pages completely private, especially if the bulk of the content on your site is in blogs, forums, or other types of pages.<br /></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Add a "report spam" feature to user profiles and friend invitations</b>. Let your users help you solve the problem - they care about your community and are annoyed by spam too.<br /></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Monitor your site for spammy pages</b>. One of the best tools for this is <a href="//www.google.com/alerts" title="Google Alerts">Google Alerts</a> - set up a site: query along with commercial or adult keywords that you wouldn't expect to see on your site. This is also a great tool <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/best-practices-against-hacking.html" title="to help detect hacked pages">to help detect hacked pages</a>. You can also <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35255" title="check 'Keywords' data in Webmaster Tools">check 'Keywords' data in Webmaster Tools</a> for strange, volatile vocabulary.<br /></li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Watch for spikes in traffic from suspicious queries</b>. It's always great to see the line on your pageviews chart head upward, but pay attention to commercial or adult queries that don't fit your site's content. In cases like this where a spammer has abused your site, that traffic will provide little if any benefit while introducing users to your site as "the place that redirected me to that virus."</li> </ul> <br /> <br /> Have any other tips to share? Please feel free to comment below. If you have any questions, you can always ask in our <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en" title="Webmaster Help Forums">Webmaster Help Forum</a>.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Written by Jason Morrison, Search Quality Team</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Spam2.0: Fake user accounts and spam profiles&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/spam20-fake-user-accounts-and-spam.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/spam20-fake-user-accounts-and-spam.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/spam20-fake-user-accounts-and-spam.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/general%20tips?hl=en' rel='tag'> general tips </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1199443878614266758' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/tell-us-what-you-think.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Tell us what you think!'> Tell us what you think! </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, June 24, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(Cross-posted on the </span></i><a href="http://googleproductideas.blogspot.com/2009/06/tell-us-what-you-think-about-webmaster.html"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Google Product Ideas Blog</span></i></a><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></i></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> The Webmaster Central team does our best to support the webmaster community via <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/">Webmaster Tools</a>, the <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/">Webmaster Central Blog</a>, the <a href="//www.youtube.com/googlewebmasterhelp">Webmaster YouTube Channel</a>, <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/?hl=en">Help Center</a>, our <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">forum</a>, and a fellow named Matt Cutts.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> If you've got ideas and suggestions for Webmaster Central - features you want, things we can do better - tell us. From now until Friday, July 24, 2009, <a href="http://productideas.appspot.com/#16/e=1bb11">Product Ideas for Webmaster Central</a> will be open for feedback. Every suggestion you add will be seen not only by the Webmaster Central team, but by other users and webmasters. We'll review every submission, and we'll update you regularly with our progress and feedback. </div> <div> <br /></div> <div> </div> <div> The more feedback the better, <a href="http://productideas.appspot.com/#16/e=1bb11">so get started now</a>.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Sagar Kamdar, Product Manager, Webmaster Tools</span></div> </div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(Cross-posted on the </span></i><a href="http://googleproductideas.blogspot.com/2009/06/tell-us-what-you-think-about-webmaster.html"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Google Product Ideas Blog</span></i></a><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></i></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> The Webmaster Central team does our best to support the webmaster community via <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/">Webmaster Tools</a>, the <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/">Webmaster Central Blog</a>, the <a href="//www.youtube.com/googlewebmasterhelp">Webmaster YouTube Channel</a>, <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/?hl=en">Help Center</a>, our <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">forum</a>, and a fellow named Matt Cutts.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> If you've got ideas and suggestions for Webmaster Central - features you want, things we can do better - tell us. From now until Friday, July 24, 2009, <a href="http://productideas.appspot.com/#16/e=1bb11">Product Ideas for Webmaster Central</a> will be open for feedback. Every suggestion you add will be seen not only by the Webmaster Central team, but by other users and webmasters. We'll review every submission, and we'll update you regularly with our progress and feedback. </div> <div> <br /></div> <div> </div> <div> The more feedback the better, <a href="http://productideas.appspot.com/#16/e=1bb11">so get started now</a>.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Sagar Kamdar, Product Manager, Webmaster Tools</span></div> </div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Tell us what you think!&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/tell-us-what-you-think.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/tell-us-what-you-think.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/tell-us-what-you-think.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5290902182917463594' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/watch-out-for-your-yu-domain.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Watch out for your .yu domain!'> Watch out for your .yu domain! </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, June 24, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Are you the owner of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.yu">a .yu domain</a>? Then you might have heard the news: as of September 30,<a href="http://www.nic.yu/index-e.html"> all .yu domains will stop working</a>, regardless of their renewal date. This means that any content you're hosting on a .yu domain will no longer be online. For those of you who would still like to have your site online, we've prepared some recommendations to make sure that Google keeps crawling, indexing, and serving your content appropriately.</div> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li><b>Check your backlinks</b>. Since it won't be possible to set up a redirection from the old .yu domain to your new one, all links pointing to .yu domains will lead to dead ends. This means that it will be increasingly difficult for search engines to retrieve your new content. To find out who is linking to you, sign up with Google Webmaster Tools and check the <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=55281">links to your site</a> (you can also download this list as a "comma separated value" -- .csv -- file for ease of use). Then read through the list for sites that you recognize as important and contact their webmasters to make sure that they update their links to your new website.</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li><b>Check your internal links</b>. If you are planning to simply move your content in bulk from the old to the new site, make sure that the new <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=138752">internal navigation</a> is up to date. For example, if you are renaming pages on your site from "www.example.yu/home.htm" to "www.example.com/home.htm" make sure that your internal navigation reflects such changes to prevent broken links.</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li><b>Start moving the site to your new domain</b>. It's a good idea to start moving while you can still maintain control of your old domain, so don't wait! As mentioned in our <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-practices-when-moving-your-site.html">best practices when moving your site</a>, we recommend starting by moving a single directory or subdomain, and testing the results before completing the move. Remember that you will not be able to keep a 301 redirection on your old domain after September 30, so start your test early.</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> While you're moving your site, you can test how Google crawls and indexes your new site at its new location by <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34575">submitting a Sitemap</a> via Google Webmaster Tools. Although we may not crawl or index all the pages listed in each Sitemap, we recommend that you submit one because doing so helps Google understand your site better. You can read more on this topic in our answers to the most <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/01/sitemaps-faqs.html">frequently asked questions on Sitemaps</a>. And remember that for any question or concerns we're waiting for you in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Google Webmaster Help Forum</a>!<br /> <b>Update</b>: as mentioned <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/out-with-old-in-with-new.html">here</a>, we have introduced a new feature: <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83106">Change of Address</a>. Check it out if you are moving from one domain to another! By using this feature you will help us update our index faster and hopefully make the transition for your users smoother.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Written by Luisella Mazza, Search Quality Senior Analyst</span></div> </div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Are you the owner of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.yu">a .yu domain</a>? Then you might have heard the news: as of September 30,<a href="http://www.nic.yu/index-e.html"> all .yu domains will stop working</a>, regardless of their renewal date. This means that any content you're hosting on a .yu domain will no longer be online. For those of you who would still like to have your site online, we've prepared some recommendations to make sure that Google keeps crawling, indexing, and serving your content appropriately.</div> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li><b>Check your backlinks</b>. Since it won't be possible to set up a redirection from the old .yu domain to your new one, all links pointing to .yu domains will lead to dead ends. This means that it will be increasingly difficult for search engines to retrieve your new content. To find out who is linking to you, sign up with Google Webmaster Tools and check the <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=55281">links to your site</a> (you can also download this list as a "comma separated value" -- .csv -- file for ease of use). Then read through the list for sites that you recognize as important and contact their webmasters to make sure that they update their links to your new website.</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li><b>Check your internal links</b>. If you are planning to simply move your content in bulk from the old to the new site, make sure that the new <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=138752">internal navigation</a> is up to date. For example, if you are renaming pages on your site from "www.example.yu/home.htm" to "www.example.com/home.htm" make sure that your internal navigation reflects such changes to prevent broken links.</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li><b>Start moving the site to your new domain</b>. It's a good idea to start moving while you can still maintain control of your old domain, so don't wait! As mentioned in our <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-practices-when-moving-your-site.html">best practices when moving your site</a>, we recommend starting by moving a single directory or subdomain, and testing the results before completing the move. Remember that you will not be able to keep a 301 redirection on your old domain after September 30, so start your test early.</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> While you're moving your site, you can test how Google crawls and indexes your new site at its new location by <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34575">submitting a Sitemap</a> via Google Webmaster Tools. Although we may not crawl or index all the pages listed in each Sitemap, we recommend that you submit one because doing so helps Google understand your site better. You can read more on this topic in our answers to the most <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/01/sitemaps-faqs.html">frequently asked questions on Sitemaps</a>. And remember that for any question or concerns we're waiting for you in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Google Webmaster Help Forum</a>!<br /> <b>Update</b>: as mentioned <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/out-with-old-in-with-new.html">here</a>, we have introduced a new feature: <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83106">Change of Address</a>. Check it out if you are moving from one domain to another! By using this feature you will help us update our index faster and hopefully make the transition for your users smoother.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Written by Luisella Mazza, Search Quality Senior Analyst</span></div> </div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Watch out for your .yu domain!&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/watch-out-for-your-yu-domain.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/watch-out-for-your-yu-domain.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/watch-out-for-your-yu-domain.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/general%20tips?hl=en' rel='tag'> general tips </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/localization?hl=en' rel='tag'> localization </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1759200840053564565' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/lets-make-web-faster.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Let's make the web faster'> Let's make the web faster </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, June 23, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-style: italic;">(Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/lets-make-web-faster.html">Official Google Blog</a> and the <a href="http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/06/lets-make-web-faster.html">Google Code Blog</a>)</span><br /> <br /> From building data centers in different parts of the world to designing highly efficient user interfaces, we at Google always strive to make our services faster. We focus on speed as a key requirement in product and infrastructure development, because our <a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/speed-matters.html">research</a> indicates that people prefer faster, more responsive apps. Over the years, through continuous experimentation, we've identified some performance best practices that we'd like to share with the web community on <a href="http://code.google.com/speed">code.google.com/speed</a>, a new site for web developers, with tutorials, tips and performance tools.<br /> <br /> We are excited to <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/make-the-web-faster">discuss</a> what we've learned about web performance with the Internet community. However, to optimize the speed of web applications and make browsing the web as fast as turning the pages of a magazine, we need to work together as a community, to tackle some larger challenges that keep the web slow and prevent it from delivering its full potential:<br /> <ul> <li>Many protocols that power the Internet and the web were developed when broadband and rich interactive web apps were in their infancy. Networks have become much faster in the past 20 years, and by collaborating to update protocols such as HTML and TCP/IP we can create a better web experience for everyone. A great example of the community working together is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_5">HTML5</a>. With HTML5 features such as AppCache, developers are now able to write JavaScript-heavy web apps that run instantly and work and feel like desktop applications.<br /></li> <li>In the last decade, we have seen close to a <a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/print/blog/Google_Throws_Its_Weight_Behind_HTML_5">100x improvement</a> in JavaScript speed. Browser developers and the communities around them need to maintain this recent focus on performance improvement in order for the browser to become the platform of choice for more feature-rich and computationally-complex applications.<br /></li> <li> Many websites can become faster with little effort, and collective attention to performance can speed up the entire web. Tools such as Yahoo!'s <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/">YSlow</a> and our own recently launched <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/">Page Speed</a> help web developers create faster, more responsive web apps. As a community, we need to invest further in developing a new generation of tools for performance measurement, diagnostics, and optimization that work at the click of a button.<br /></li> <li> While there are now more than 400 million broadband subscribers worldwide, broadband penetration is still relatively low in many areas of the world. Steps have been taken to bring the benefits of broadband to more people, such as the <a href="http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/11/vote-for-broadband-in-white-spaces.html">FCC's decision</a> to open up the white spaces spectrum, for which the Internet community, including Google, was a strong champion. Bringing the benefits of cheap reliable broadband access around the world should be one of the primary goals of our industry. </li> </ul> To find out what Googlers think about making the web faster, see the video below. If you have ideas on how to speed up the web, please <a href="http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=79951&t=79d39">share</a> them with the rest of the community. Let's all work together to make the web faster!<br /> <br /> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/IWWBnJEsUtU&hl=en&fs=1&"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/IWWBnJEsUtU&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="295" width="480"></embed></object><br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Urs Hoelzle, SVP, Operations and Bill Coughran, SVP, Engineering</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-style: italic;">(Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/lets-make-web-faster.html">Official Google Blog</a> and the <a href="http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/06/lets-make-web-faster.html">Google Code Blog</a>)</span><br /> <br /> From building data centers in different parts of the world to designing highly efficient user interfaces, we at Google always strive to make our services faster. We focus on speed as a key requirement in product and infrastructure development, because our <a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/speed-matters.html">research</a> indicates that people prefer faster, more responsive apps. Over the years, through continuous experimentation, we've identified some performance best practices that we'd like to share with the web community on <a href="http://code.google.com/speed">code.google.com/speed</a>, a new site for web developers, with tutorials, tips and performance tools.<br /> <br /> We are excited to <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/make-the-web-faster">discuss</a> what we've learned about web performance with the Internet community. However, to optimize the speed of web applications and make browsing the web as fast as turning the pages of a magazine, we need to work together as a community, to tackle some larger challenges that keep the web slow and prevent it from delivering its full potential:<br /> <ul> <li>Many protocols that power the Internet and the web were developed when broadband and rich interactive web apps were in their infancy. Networks have become much faster in the past 20 years, and by collaborating to update protocols such as HTML and TCP/IP we can create a better web experience for everyone. A great example of the community working together is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_5">HTML5</a>. With HTML5 features such as AppCache, developers are now able to write JavaScript-heavy web apps that run instantly and work and feel like desktop applications.<br /></li> <li>In the last decade, we have seen close to a <a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/print/blog/Google_Throws_Its_Weight_Behind_HTML_5">100x improvement</a> in JavaScript speed. Browser developers and the communities around them need to maintain this recent focus on performance improvement in order for the browser to become the platform of choice for more feature-rich and computationally-complex applications.<br /></li> <li> Many websites can become faster with little effort, and collective attention to performance can speed up the entire web. Tools such as Yahoo!'s <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/">YSlow</a> and our own recently launched <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/">Page Speed</a> help web developers create faster, more responsive web apps. As a community, we need to invest further in developing a new generation of tools for performance measurement, diagnostics, and optimization that work at the click of a button.<br /></li> <li> While there are now more than 400 million broadband subscribers worldwide, broadband penetration is still relatively low in many areas of the world. Steps have been taken to bring the benefits of broadband to more people, such as the <a href="http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/11/vote-for-broadband-in-white-spaces.html">FCC's decision</a> to open up the white spaces spectrum, for which the Internet community, including Google, was a strong champion. Bringing the benefits of cheap reliable broadband access around the world should be one of the primary goals of our industry. </li> </ul> To find out what Googlers think about making the web faster, see the video below. If you have ideas on how to speed up the web, please <a href="http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=79951&t=79d39">share</a> them with the rest of the community. Let's all work together to make the web faster!<br /> <br /> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/IWWBnJEsUtU&hl=en&fs=1&"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/IWWBnJEsUtU&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="295" width="480"></embed></object><br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Urs Hoelzle, SVP, Operations and Bill Coughran, SVP, Engineering</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Let's make the web faster&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/lets-make-web-faster.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/lets-make-web-faster.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/lets-make-web-faster.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/general%20tips?hl=en' rel='tag'> general tips </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2735813427602225587' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for_22.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 15th - 19th'> Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 15th - 19th </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, June 22, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Want to know what's new on the <a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp">Webmaster Central YouTube channel</a>? Here's what we've uploaded in the past week:<br /> <br /> Maile Ohye gave a <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/best-practices-for-product-search.html">webmaster-focused presentation</a> about Product Search.<br /> <br /> Matt Cutts answered a new question each day from the Grab Bag:<br /> <ul> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIfCERXLlDM">Do dates in URLs determine freshness?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8RQHgV0IAU">What impact does "page bloat" have on Google rankings?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pu1YWcIh04">What types of directories are seen as sources of paid links?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBLvn_WkDJ4">Should I include my logo text using the 'alt' attribute or CSS?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF435s4xRU4">What's the preferred way to check for links to my site?</a></li> </ul> To get you started on watching this latest batch of videos, here's Matt's answer about directories and paid links:<br /> <br /> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/1Pu1YWcIh04&hl=en&fs=1&"> </param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> </param> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/1Pu1YWcIh04&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object><br /> <br /> Feel free to leave comments letting us know how you liked the videos, and if you have any specific questions, ask the experts in the Webmaster Help Forum.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality Team</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Want to know what's new on the <a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp">Webmaster Central YouTube channel</a>? Here's what we've uploaded in the past week:<br /> <br /> Maile Ohye gave a <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/best-practices-for-product-search.html">webmaster-focused presentation</a> about Product Search.<br /> <br /> Matt Cutts answered a new question each day from the Grab Bag:<br /> <ul> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIfCERXLlDM">Do dates in URLs determine freshness?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8RQHgV0IAU">What impact does "page bloat" have on Google rankings?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pu1YWcIh04">What types of directories are seen as sources of paid links?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBLvn_WkDJ4">Should I include my logo text using the 'alt' attribute or CSS?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF435s4xRU4">What's the preferred way to check for links to my site?</a></li> </ul> To get you started on watching this latest batch of videos, here's Matt's answer about directories and paid links:<br /> <br /> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/1Pu1YWcIh04&hl=en&fs=1&"> </param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> </param> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/1Pu1YWcIh04&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object><br /> <br /> Feel free to leave comments letting us know how you liked the videos, and if you have any specific questions, ask the experts in the Webmaster Help Forum.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality Team</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 15th - 19th&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for_22.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for_22.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for_22.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/feedback%20and%20communication?hl=en' rel='tag'> feedback and communication </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6546007306393468479' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/flash-indexing-with-external-resource.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Flash indexing with external resource loading'> Flash indexing with external resource loading </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, June 18, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: left;"> Webmaster Level: All</div> <br /> We just added external resource loading to our <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html">Flash indexing</a> capabilities. This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file—whether it's text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc.—we can index this external content too, and associate it with the parent SWF file and any documents that embed it.<br /> This new capability improves search quality by allowing relevant content contained in external resources to appear in response to users' queries. For example, this result currently comes up in response to the query [<a href="//www.google.com/search?q=2002+VW+Transporter+888&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t">2002 VW Transporter 888</a>]:<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350212067983907890" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7lWP7ASJBRtteO79_HR0lQLBKeavm_jdAs8GDTjszrCFsYsra6DxLXhA5kf4V46m5PuvRMPKPUWXG8TlqW3ruB5BPuTFhWmj78b7ajqGhMo95TxvSocAAelR6IT0EiGDl76Mr/s320/t4-tranformations-search-result.png" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 67px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></div> <br /> Prior to this launch, this result did not appear, because all of the relevant content is contained in an XML file loaded by a SWF file.<br /> <br /> To date, when Google encounters SWF files on the web, we can:<br /> <ul> <li>Index textual content displayed as a user interacts with the file. We click buttons and enter input, just like a user would.</li> <li>Discover links within Flash files.</li> <li>Load external resources and associate the content with the parent file.</li> <li>Support common JavaScript techniques for embedding Flash, such as SWFObject and SWFObject2.</li> <li>Index sites scripted with AS1 and AS2, even if the ActionScript is obfuscated. <b>Update on June 19, 2009</b>: We index sites with AS3 as well. The ActionScript version isn't particularly relevant in our Indexing process, so we support older versions of AS in addition to the latest.</li> </ul> If you don't want your SWF file or any of its external resources crawled by search engines, please use an appropriate <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40360">robots.txt directive</a>.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Written by Janis Stipins, Software Engineer</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: left;"> Webmaster Level: All</div> <br /> We just added external resource loading to our <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html">Flash indexing</a> capabilities. This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file—whether it's text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc.—we can index this external content too, and associate it with the parent SWF file and any documents that embed it.<br /> This new capability improves search quality by allowing relevant content contained in external resources to appear in response to users' queries. For example, this result currently comes up in response to the query [<a href="//www.google.com/search?q=2002+VW+Transporter+888&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t">2002 VW Transporter 888</a>]:<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350212067983907890" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7lWP7ASJBRtteO79_HR0lQLBKeavm_jdAs8GDTjszrCFsYsra6DxLXhA5kf4V46m5PuvRMPKPUWXG8TlqW3ruB5BPuTFhWmj78b7ajqGhMo95TxvSocAAelR6IT0EiGDl76Mr/s320/t4-tranformations-search-result.png" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 67px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></div> <br /> Prior to this launch, this result did not appear, because all of the relevant content is contained in an XML file loaded by a SWF file.<br /> <br /> To date, when Google encounters SWF files on the web, we can:<br /> <ul> <li>Index textual content displayed as a user interacts with the file. We click buttons and enter input, just like a user would.</li> <li>Discover links within Flash files.</li> <li>Load external resources and associate the content with the parent file.</li> <li>Support common JavaScript techniques for embedding Flash, such as SWFObject and SWFObject2.</li> <li>Index sites scripted with AS1 and AS2, even if the ActionScript is obfuscated. <b>Update on June 19, 2009</b>: We index sites with AS3 as well. The ActionScript version isn't particularly relevant in our Indexing process, so we support older versions of AS in addition to the latest.</li> </ul> If you don't want your SWF file or any of its external resources crawled by search engines, please use an appropriate <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40360">robots.txt directive</a>.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Written by Janis Stipins, Software Engineer</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Flash indexing with external resource loading&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/flash-indexing-with-external-resource.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/flash-indexing-with-external-resource.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/flash-indexing-with-external-resource.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/crawling%20and%20indexing?hl=en' rel='tag'> crawling and indexing </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7094176005639128653' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/reconsideration-requests-now-with.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Reconsideration requests: Now with notifications'> Reconsideration requests: Now with notifications </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, June 17, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div> If you've submitted a reconsideration request via Webmaster Tools, you've probably wondered what happens once Google receives it. We've always done our best to act upon these requests as quickly as possible, but until now we haven't notified webmasters once we've processed their requests.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <div> As of last week, after your request has been processed, we'll confirm this by sending a message to your Message Center in Webmaster Tools. (Prefer to be notified by email? <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/to-make-webmaster-tools-message-center.html">You can do that too.</a>) Sometime after you receive a reconsideration request confirmation message, check your site's performance in search results. If it's doing well, it means that Google has reviewed your site and believes that it adheres to our <a href="//google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769">Webmaster Guidelines</a>. If your site still isn't performing well in search, we recommend reviewing our Webmaster Guidelines and also checking out <a href="//google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34444">these possible reasons why your site might not be doing as well as you expect</a>.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Ben D'Angelo, Software Engineer, Search Quality</span></div> </div> </div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div> If you've submitted a reconsideration request via Webmaster Tools, you've probably wondered what happens once Google receives it. We've always done our best to act upon these requests as quickly as possible, but until now we haven't notified webmasters once we've processed their requests.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <div> As of last week, after your request has been processed, we'll confirm this by sending a message to your Message Center in Webmaster Tools. (Prefer to be notified by email? <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/to-make-webmaster-tools-message-center.html">You can do that too.</a>) Sometime after you receive a reconsideration request confirmation message, check your site's performance in search results. If it's doing well, it means that Google has reviewed your site and believes that it adheres to our <a href="//google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769">Webmaster Guidelines</a>. If your site still isn't performing well in search, we recommend reviewing our Webmaster Guidelines and also checking out <a href="//google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34444">these possible reasons why your site might not be doing as well as you expect</a>.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Ben D'Angelo, Software Engineer, Search Quality</span></div> </div> </div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Reconsideration requests: Now with notifications&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/reconsideration-requests-now-with.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/reconsideration-requests-now-with.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/reconsideration-requests-now-with.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4981999521194160340' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/best-practices-for-product-search.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Best practices for Product Search'> Best practices for Product Search </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, June 17, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Webmaster Level: Beginner to Intermediate<br /> <br /> If you run an e-commerce site and you'd like your products to be eligible to be shown in Google search results, then check out our "Product Search for Webmasters" video. In addition to the basics on <a href="//www.google.com/products">Product Search</a>, I cover:<br /> <ul> <li>Attributes to include in your feed</li> <li>FAQs</li> <ul> <li>Will my products' rankings improve if I include custom attributes in my feed?</li> <li>Do product listings expire after 30 days?</li> <li>How often should I submit my feed?</li> </ul> </ul> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/sDDvpDNbEXo&hl=en&fs=1&"> </param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> </param> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/sDDvpDNbEXo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object></div> <br /> <br /> More information can be found in the <a href="//www.google.com/base/help/sellongoogle.html" id="napx" title="Product Search Help Center">Product Search Help Center</a>.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Written by Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Webmaster Level: Beginner to Intermediate<br /> <br /> If you run an e-commerce site and you'd like your products to be eligible to be shown in Google search results, then check out our "Product Search for Webmasters" video. In addition to the basics on <a href="//www.google.com/products">Product Search</a>, I cover:<br /> <ul> <li>Attributes to include in your feed</li> <li>FAQs</li> <ul> <li>Will my products' rankings improve if I include custom attributes in my feed?</li> <li>Do product listings expire after 30 days?</li> <li>How often should I submit my feed?</li> </ul> </ul> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/sDDvpDNbEXo&hl=en&fs=1&"> </param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> </param> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/sDDvpDNbEXo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object></div> <br /> <br /> More information can be found in the <a href="//www.google.com/base/help/sellongoogle.html" id="napx" title="Product Search Help Center">Product Search Help Center</a>.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Written by Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Best practices for Product Search&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/best-practices-for-product-search.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/best-practices-for-product-search.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/best-practices-for-product-search.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/products%20and%20services?hl=en' rel='tag'> products and services </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/search%20results?hl=en' rel='tag'> search results </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5289821405548322427' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for_15.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 8th - 12th'> Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 8th - 12th </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, June 15, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Want to know what's new on the <a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp">Webmaster Central YouTube channel</a>? Here's what we've uploaded in the past week:<br /> <br /> Matt Cutts answered a few new questions from the Grab Bag:<br /> <ul> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=9erSvwVHiQM">What if a search for my business triggers "Did you mean?"</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpk6eI6CKFs">Why do big brands rank so well?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL_GZwoC2uQ">Are CSS-based layouts better than tables for SEO?</a></li> </ul> Matt also went over a great example of <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QIxTI59r5o">whitehat linkbait</a>:<br /> <br /> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/2QIxTI59r5o&hl=en&fs=1&"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/2QIxTI59r5o&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="295" width="480"></embed></object><br /> <br /> And if you've ever thought about <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66353">hiding text</a>, here's one technique that <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzu9mUJj9GU">didn't fool Google</a>:<br /> <br /> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/Wzu9mUJj9GU&hl=en&fs=1&"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/Wzu9mUJj9GU&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="295" width="480"></embed></object><br /> <br /> Feel free to leave comments letting us know how you liked the videos, and if you have any specific questions, ask the experts in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum</a>.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality Team</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Want to know what's new on the <a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp">Webmaster Central YouTube channel</a>? Here's what we've uploaded in the past week:<br /> <br /> Matt Cutts answered a few new questions from the Grab Bag:<br /> <ul> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=9erSvwVHiQM">What if a search for my business triggers "Did you mean?"</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpk6eI6CKFs">Why do big brands rank so well?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL_GZwoC2uQ">Are CSS-based layouts better than tables for SEO?</a></li> </ul> Matt also went over a great example of <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QIxTI59r5o">whitehat linkbait</a>:<br /> <br /> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/2QIxTI59r5o&hl=en&fs=1&"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/2QIxTI59r5o&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="295" width="480"></embed></object><br /> <br /> And if you've ever thought about <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66353">hiding text</a>, here's one technique that <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzu9mUJj9GU">didn't fool Google</a>:<br /> <br /> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/Wzu9mUJj9GU&hl=en&fs=1&"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/Wzu9mUJj9GU&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="295" width="480"></embed></object><br /> <br /> Feel free to leave comments letting us know how you liked the videos, and if you have any specific questions, ask the experts in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum</a>.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality Team</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 8th - 12th&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for_15.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for_15.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for_15.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/feedback%20and%20communication?hl=en' rel='tag'> feedback and communication </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='8207320004847720673' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/update-on-sitemaps-at-google.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='An Update on Sitemaps at Google'> An Update on Sitemaps at Google </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, June 11, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Did you know that the number of website hosts that have been submitting Sitemap files has almost tripled over the last year? It's no wonder: the secret is out - as a <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/04/research-study-of-sitemaps.html" id="vb5l" title="recent research study">recent research study</a> showed, Sitemaps helps search engines to find new and changed content faster. Using Sitemaps doesn't guarantee that your site will be crawled and indexed completely, but it certainly helps us understand your website better.<br /> <br /> Together with the <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/out-with-old-in-with-new.html" id="ordv" title="Webmaster Tools design update">Webmaster Tools design update</a>, we've been working on Sitemaps as well:<br /> <ul> <li>Google and the other search engines which are a part of <a href="http://sitemaps.org/" id="o3e5" title="Sitemaps.org">Sitemaps.org</a> now support up to 50,000 child Sitemaps for <a href="http://sitemaps.org/protocol.php#index" id="evat" title="Sitemap index files">Sitemap index files</a> (instead of the previous 1,000). This allows large sites to submit a theoretical maximum of 2.5 billion URLs with a single Sitemap Index URL (oh, and if you need more, you can always submit multiple Sitemap index files). </li> <li>The <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/04/spring-time-design-refresh.html" id="jx-i" title="Webmaster Tools design update">Webmaster Tools design update</a> now shows you all Sitemap files that were submitted for your verified website. This is particularly useful if you have multiple owners verified in Webmaster Tools or if you are submitting some Sitemap files via <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34609" id="ep8n" title="HTTP ping">HTTP ping</a> or through your <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=64748" id="fkl9" title="robots.txt">robots.txt</a> file.</li> <li>The <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/03/using-stats-from-site-and-sitemap.html" id="g7v7" title="indexed URL count">indexed URL count</a> in Webmaster Tools for your Sitemap files is now even more precise.</li> <li>For the XML developers out there, we've updated the <a href="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/" id="p2h:" title="XSD schemas">XSD schemas</a> to allow Sitemap extensions. The new schema helps webmasters to create better Sitemaps by verifying more features. By validating Sitemap files with the new schema, you can be more confident that the Sitemap files are correct.</li> <li>Do I need to mention that Sitemap file processing is much faster than ever before? We've drastically reduced the average time from submitting a Sitemap file to processing it and showing some initial data in Webmaster Tools. </li> </ul> <br /> <br /> For more information about using Sitemaps, make sure to check out our blog post about <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/01/sitemaps-faqs.html" id="sg-." title="frequently asked questions on Sitemaps">frequently asked questions on Sitemaps</a> and our <a href="//google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40318" id="oiff" title="Help Center">Help Center</a>. If you have any questions that aren't covered here, don't forget to <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/search.py?hl=en&forum=1&query=+more:forum" id="bjov" title="search our Help Forum">search our Help Forum</a> and start a thread in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/label?lid=401d0e67c19e20e9&hl=en" id="x7dm" title="Sitemaps section">Sitemaps section</a> for more help.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Written by <a href="https://plus.google.com/113006028898915385825/about" rel="author">John Mueller</a>, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google Switzerland</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Did you know that the number of website hosts that have been submitting Sitemap files has almost tripled over the last year? It's no wonder: the secret is out - as a <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/04/research-study-of-sitemaps.html" id="vb5l" title="recent research study">recent research study</a> showed, Sitemaps helps search engines to find new and changed content faster. Using Sitemaps doesn't guarantee that your site will be crawled and indexed completely, but it certainly helps us understand your website better.<br /> <br /> Together with the <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/out-with-old-in-with-new.html" id="ordv" title="Webmaster Tools design update">Webmaster Tools design update</a>, we've been working on Sitemaps as well:<br /> <ul> <li>Google and the other search engines which are a part of <a href="http://sitemaps.org/" id="o3e5" title="Sitemaps.org">Sitemaps.org</a> now support up to 50,000 child Sitemaps for <a href="http://sitemaps.org/protocol.php#index" id="evat" title="Sitemap index files">Sitemap index files</a> (instead of the previous 1,000). This allows large sites to submit a theoretical maximum of 2.5 billion URLs with a single Sitemap Index URL (oh, and if you need more, you can always submit multiple Sitemap index files). </li> <li>The <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/04/spring-time-design-refresh.html" id="jx-i" title="Webmaster Tools design update">Webmaster Tools design update</a> now shows you all Sitemap files that were submitted for your verified website. This is particularly useful if you have multiple owners verified in Webmaster Tools or if you are submitting some Sitemap files via <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34609" id="ep8n" title="HTTP ping">HTTP ping</a> or through your <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=64748" id="fkl9" title="robots.txt">robots.txt</a> file.</li> <li>The <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/03/using-stats-from-site-and-sitemap.html" id="g7v7" title="indexed URL count">indexed URL count</a> in Webmaster Tools for your Sitemap files is now even more precise.</li> <li>For the XML developers out there, we've updated the <a href="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/" id="p2h:" title="XSD schemas">XSD schemas</a> to allow Sitemap extensions. The new schema helps webmasters to create better Sitemaps by verifying more features. By validating Sitemap files with the new schema, you can be more confident that the Sitemap files are correct.</li> <li>Do I need to mention that Sitemap file processing is much faster than ever before? We've drastically reduced the average time from submitting a Sitemap file to processing it and showing some initial data in Webmaster Tools. </li> </ul> <br /> <br /> For more information about using Sitemaps, make sure to check out our blog post about <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/01/sitemaps-faqs.html" id="sg-." title="frequently asked questions on Sitemaps">frequently asked questions on Sitemaps</a> and our <a href="//google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40318" id="oiff" title="Help Center">Help Center</a>. If you have any questions that aren't covered here, don't forget to <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/search.py?hl=en&forum=1&query=+more:forum" id="bjov" title="search our Help Forum">search our Help Forum</a> and start a thread in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/label?lid=401d0e67c19e20e9&hl=en" id="x7dm" title="Sitemaps section">Sitemaps section</a> for more help.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Written by <a href="https://plus.google.com/113006028898915385825/about" rel="author">John Mueller</a>, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google Switzerland</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:An Update on Sitemaps at Google&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/update-on-sitemaps-at-google.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/update-on-sitemaps-at-google.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/update-on-sitemaps-at-google.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/sitemaps?hl=en' rel='tag'> sitemaps </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5810076174691004364' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/out-with-old-in-with-new.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Out with the old, in with the new'> Out with the old, in with the new </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, June 10, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: left;"> Webmaster Level: All</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <div> We launched a <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/04/spring-time-design-refresh.html">preview of our new Webmaster Tools interface three weeks ago</a>, and received a lot of valuable feedback. Most of you liked the update, appreciating features such as the one-stop dashboard, more top search query data, and the improved menu and navigation.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div> <div> You offered some constructive feedback as well: </div> <div> <ul> <li>You missed the option to switch listing 25, 50, or 100 rows in features such as links to your site. We did not add the option back to select how many rows you would like to see but increased our default to 100!</li> <li>Top search query information differed between the old and new versions. We expected this since we went through a lot of re-engineering to improve the new top search queries backend. We reviewed many of the issues posted on our forums, and verified that the new backend is far more accurate and reliable.</li> <li>Initially, the Sitemaps downloaded and indexed URL counts differed between the two versions. We resolved this issue quickly. </li> <li>Backlinks numbers between the old and the new user interface (UI) may differ since our new UI shows the original anchor (not following redirects) as it's linked on the web. Let's say example.com links to http://google.com, then http://google.com 301s to http://www.google.com/:</li> <ul> <li>In the new UI -- only verified site owners of google.com will see examples.com's backlink (because we show the original link prior to any redirects)</li> <li>In the old UI -- verified site owners of www.google.com could see example.com's backlink</li> </ul> <li>The new site switcher lists only five sites, and some of you who manage a large number of sites found this limiting. We appreciate the feedback and will work on addressing this limitation in a future release.</li> </ul> <div> From today, only the new user interface will be available (<a href="//google.com/webmasters/tools">http://google.com/webmasters/tools</a>)! You'll see that in addition to fixing many of the issues users addressed, we took some time to launch a new feature: <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83106">Change of Address</a>. The Change of Address feature lets you notify Google when you are moving from one domain to another, enabling us to update our index faster and hopefully creating a smoother transition for your users. </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344720375832719906" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvIF7szq-jY/SixC3UFNMiI/AAAAAAAAAAk/ebW7SbP0mgI/s400/changeofaddress.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 229px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;"></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> Thanks to all the users that took time to give us feedback on the new user interface. To those users using it for the first time today, we hope you enjoy it. As always, <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">your feedback</a> is appreciated.</div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Sagar Kamdar, Product Manager, Webmaster Tools Team</span></div> </div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: left;"> Webmaster Level: All</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <div> We launched a <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/04/spring-time-design-refresh.html">preview of our new Webmaster Tools interface three weeks ago</a>, and received a lot of valuable feedback. Most of you liked the update, appreciating features such as the one-stop dashboard, more top search query data, and the improved menu and navigation.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div> <div> You offered some constructive feedback as well: </div> <div> <ul> <li>You missed the option to switch listing 25, 50, or 100 rows in features such as links to your site. We did not add the option back to select how many rows you would like to see but increased our default to 100!</li> <li>Top search query information differed between the old and new versions. We expected this since we went through a lot of re-engineering to improve the new top search queries backend. We reviewed many of the issues posted on our forums, and verified that the new backend is far more accurate and reliable.</li> <li>Initially, the Sitemaps downloaded and indexed URL counts differed between the two versions. We resolved this issue quickly. </li> <li>Backlinks numbers between the old and the new user interface (UI) may differ since our new UI shows the original anchor (not following redirects) as it's linked on the web. Let's say example.com links to http://google.com, then http://google.com 301s to http://www.google.com/:</li> <ul> <li>In the new UI -- only verified site owners of google.com will see examples.com's backlink (because we show the original link prior to any redirects)</li> <li>In the old UI -- verified site owners of www.google.com could see example.com's backlink</li> </ul> <li>The new site switcher lists only five sites, and some of you who manage a large number of sites found this limiting. We appreciate the feedback and will work on addressing this limitation in a future release.</li> </ul> <div> From today, only the new user interface will be available (<a href="//google.com/webmasters/tools">http://google.com/webmasters/tools</a>)! You'll see that in addition to fixing many of the issues users addressed, we took some time to launch a new feature: <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83106">Change of Address</a>. The Change of Address feature lets you notify Google when you are moving from one domain to another, enabling us to update our index faster and hopefully creating a smoother transition for your users. </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344720375832719906" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvIF7szq-jY/SixC3UFNMiI/AAAAAAAAAAk/ebW7SbP0mgI/s400/changeofaddress.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 229px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;"></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> Thanks to all the users that took time to give us feedback on the new user interface. To those users using it for the first time today, we hope you enjoy it. As always, <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">your feedback</a> is appreciated.</div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Sagar Kamdar, Product Manager, Webmaster Tools Team</span></div> </div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Out with the old, in with the new&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/out-with-old-in-with-new.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/out-with-old-in-with-new.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/out-with-old-in-with-new.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/webmaster%20tools?hl=en' rel='tag'> webmaster tools </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4290085026207126547' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/to-make-webmaster-tools-message-center.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Message Forwarding'> Message Forwarding </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, June 10, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> To make Webmaster Tools' Message Center more accessible, we've just made it possible to forward messages to your personal email. The Webmaster Tools Message Center is used to communicate confidential information about sites you've verified. This may be anything related to your site, from details about potential issues with Google's <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769" id="b7e4" title="Webmaster Guidelines">Web</a><a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769" id="b7e4" title="Webmaster Guidelines">master Guidelines</a> to confirmations of actions taken within Webmaster Tools like changes to site-wide settings. To enable the feature, simply update your settings on the Home page.<br /> <br /> Messages can be forwarded in any of our <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=113808" id="jxoz" title="40 supported languages">40 supported languages</a> to any email associated with your Google Account. To associate another email address with your Google Account, simply click on the "My Account" link at the top of the page and verify the new email address. All emails will be sent from <<span class="gI"><span class="go">wmt-noreply@google.com>, so update your spam filters to make sure you don't miss these emails.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted By Tanya Gupta, Software Engineer</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> To make Webmaster Tools' Message Center more accessible, we've just made it possible to forward messages to your personal email. The Webmaster Tools Message Center is used to communicate confidential information about sites you've verified. This may be anything related to your site, from details about potential issues with Google's <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769" id="b7e4" title="Webmaster Guidelines">Web</a><a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769" id="b7e4" title="Webmaster Guidelines">master Guidelines</a> to confirmations of actions taken within Webmaster Tools like changes to site-wide settings. To enable the feature, simply update your settings on the Home page.<br /> <br /> Messages can be forwarded in any of our <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=113808" id="jxoz" title="40 supported languages">40 supported languages</a> to any email associated with your Google Account. To associate another email address with your Google Account, simply click on the "My Account" link at the top of the page and verify the new email address. All emails will be sent from <<span class="gI"><span class="go">wmt-noreply@google.com>, so update your spam filters to make sure you don't miss these emails.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted By Tanya Gupta, Software Engineer</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Message Forwarding&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/to-make-webmaster-tools-message-center.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/to-make-webmaster-tools-message-center.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/to-make-webmaster-tools-message-center.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/webmaster%20tools?hl=en' rel='tag'> webmaster tools </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6009474581732194357' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for_08.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 1st - 5th'> Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 1st - 5th </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, June 08, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Want to know what's new on the <a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp">Webmaster Central YouTube channel</a>? Here's what we've uploaded in the past week:<br /> <br /> Matt Cutts answered a new question each day from the Grab Bag:<br /> <ul> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd4QA21JMQo">Are shortened URLs treated differently than other redirects?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbcl22luCMk">How can I make sure Google reaches my deeper pages?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXt23AXlJJU">What impact does server location have on rankings?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9JvBLjLrUI">Will a "coming soon" page negatively impact my site?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW7AUnZvSAE">How many pages can Google index from a single site?</a></li> </ul> In response to questions we've been getting about the videos themselves, we created a <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7-pTlRgBSg">behind the scenes</a> look at our setup. And just to throw in some more variety, Matt took a break from SEO questions for a few minutes to show off a fun use of a barcode scanner with Google Book Search. You can read more about it on the <a href="http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/barcode-your-bookshelf-with-google.html">Inside Google Book Search</a> blog.<br /> <br /> For your instant viewing pleasure, here's the answer to the question about URL shortners:<br /> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/kd4QA21JMQo&hl=en&fs=1&"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/kd4QA21JMQo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="295" width="480"></embed></object><br /> <br /> And now a peek behind the scenes:<br /> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/J7-pTlRgBSg&hl=en&fs=1&"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/J7-pTlRgBSg&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="295" width="480"></embed></object><br /> <br /> Feel free to leave comments letting us know how you liked the videos, and if you have any specific questions, ask the experts in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum</a>.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality Team</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Want to know what's new on the <a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp">Webmaster Central YouTube channel</a>? Here's what we've uploaded in the past week:<br /> <br /> Matt Cutts answered a new question each day from the Grab Bag:<br /> <ul> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd4QA21JMQo">Are shortened URLs treated differently than other redirects?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbcl22luCMk">How can I make sure Google reaches my deeper pages?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXt23AXlJJU">What impact does server location have on rankings?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9JvBLjLrUI">Will a "coming soon" page negatively impact my site?</a></li> <li><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW7AUnZvSAE">How many pages can Google index from a single site?</a></li> </ul> In response to questions we've been getting about the videos themselves, we created a <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7-pTlRgBSg">behind the scenes</a> look at our setup. And just to throw in some more variety, Matt took a break from SEO questions for a few minutes to show off a fun use of a barcode scanner with Google Book Search. You can read more about it on the <a href="http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/barcode-your-bookshelf-with-google.html">Inside Google Book Search</a> blog.<br /> <br /> For your instant viewing pleasure, here's the answer to the question about URL shortners:<br /> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/kd4QA21JMQo&hl=en&fs=1&"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/kd4QA21JMQo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="295" width="480"></embed></object><br /> <br /> And now a peek behind the scenes:<br /> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/J7-pTlRgBSg&hl=en&fs=1&"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/J7-pTlRgBSg&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="295" width="480"></embed></object><br /> <br /> Feel free to leave comments letting us know how you liked the videos, and if you have any specific questions, ask the experts in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum</a>.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality Team</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 1st - 5th&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for_08.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for_08.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for_08.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/feedback%20and%20communication?hl=en' rel='tag'> feedback and communication </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='601881155323166278' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/seo-starter-guide-now-available-in-40.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='SEO Starter Guide now available in 40 languages'> SEO Starter Guide now available in 40 languages </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Friday, June 05, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Webmaster Level: Beginner<br /> <br /> Since the release of our <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html">Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide</a> last November, we've steadily been adding localized versions for our international users. Today, we're happy to announce that the guide is now available in 40 languages, which covers 98% of the global Internet audience. We hope that webmasters around the world can use the guide to improve their sites' crawlability and indexing in search engines.<br /> <br /> We'd also like to thank everyone for their continued feedback on the guide. We're taking notes on what you liked and what you thought was missing for use in future updates and possibly a version for advanced users.<br /> <br /> Here's a list of the languages available:<br /> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.google.com.eg/intl/ar/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-ar.pdf">Arabic</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.bg/intl/bg/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-bg.pdf">Bulgarian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.ad/intl/ca/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-ca.pdf">Catalan</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.googlechinawebmaster.com/2008/12/blog-post_24.html">Chinese (Simplified)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.cn/intl/zh-TW/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-zh-tw.pdf">Chinese (Traditional)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.hr/intl/hr/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-hr.pdf">Croatian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.cz/intl/cs/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-cs.pdf">Czech</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.dk/intl/da/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-da.pdf" id="cnpr">Danish</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.nl/intl/nl/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-nl.pdf">Dutch</a></li> <li><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html">English</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-en-gb.pdf">English (GB)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com.ph/intl/tl/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-fil.pdf">Filipino</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.fi/intl/fi/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-fi.pdf">Finnish</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.fr/intl/fr/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-fr.pdf">French</a></li> <li><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral-de.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-einfuehrung-in.html">German</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.gr/intl/el/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-el.pdf">Greek</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.co.il/intl/iw/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-iw.pdf" id="dwey">Hebrew</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.co.in/intl/hi/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-hi.pdf">Hindi</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.hu/intl/hu/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-hu.pdf">Hungarian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.co.id/intl/id/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-id.pdf">Indonesian</a></li> <li><a href="http://googleitalia.blogspot.com/2009/04/guida-introduttiva-di-google.html">Italian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.co.jp/intl/ja/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-ja.pdf">Japanese</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.co.kr/intl/ko/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-ko.pdf">Korean</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.lv/intl/lv/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-lv.pdf">Latvian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.lt/intl/lt/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-lt.pdf">Lithuanian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.no/intl/no/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-no.pdf">Norwegian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.pl/intl/pl/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-pl.pdf">Polish</a></li> <li><a href="//www.google.com/intl/pt-BR/webmasters/docs/guia-otimizacao-para-mecanismos-de-pesquisa-pt-br.pdf">Portuguese (BR)</a></li> <li><a href="//www.google.com/intl/pt-PT/webmasters/docs/guia-optimizacao-para-motores-de-busca-pt-pt.pdf">Portuguese (PT)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.ro/intl/ro/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-ro.pdf">Romanian</a></li> <li><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/ru/stati/rukovodstvo-po-poiskovoj-optimizacii-dla-nacinausih-ot-google">Russian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.rs/intl/sr/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-sr.pdf">Serbian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.sk/intl/sk/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-sk.pdf">Slovak</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.si/intl/sl/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-sl.pdf">Slovenian</a></li> <li><a href="http://googlewebmaster-es.blogspot.com/2008/11/gua-seo-de-google-para-principiantes.html">Spanish</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.se/intl/sv/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-sv.pdf">Swedish</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.co.th/intl/th/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-th.pdf">Thai</a></li> <li><a href="//www.google.com/intl/tr/webmasters/docs/arama-motoru-optimizasyon-baslangic-rehberi.pdf">Turkish</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com.ua/intl/uk/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-uk.pdf">Ukrainian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com.vn/intl/vi/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-vi.pdf">Vietnamese</a></li> </ul> <span class="byline-author">Written by Brandon Falls, Search Quality Team</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Webmaster Level: Beginner<br /> <br /> Since the release of our <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html">Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide</a> last November, we've steadily been adding localized versions for our international users. Today, we're happy to announce that the guide is now available in 40 languages, which covers 98% of the global Internet audience. We hope that webmasters around the world can use the guide to improve their sites' crawlability and indexing in search engines.<br /> <br /> We'd also like to thank everyone for their continued feedback on the guide. We're taking notes on what you liked and what you thought was missing for use in future updates and possibly a version for advanced users.<br /> <br /> Here's a list of the languages available:<br /> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.google.com.eg/intl/ar/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-ar.pdf">Arabic</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.bg/intl/bg/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-bg.pdf">Bulgarian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.ad/intl/ca/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-ca.pdf">Catalan</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.googlechinawebmaster.com/2008/12/blog-post_24.html">Chinese (Simplified)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.cn/intl/zh-TW/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-zh-tw.pdf">Chinese (Traditional)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.hr/intl/hr/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-hr.pdf">Croatian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.cz/intl/cs/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-cs.pdf">Czech</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.dk/intl/da/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-da.pdf" id="cnpr">Danish</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.nl/intl/nl/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-nl.pdf">Dutch</a></li> <li><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html">English</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-en-gb.pdf">English (GB)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com.ph/intl/tl/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-fil.pdf">Filipino</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.fi/intl/fi/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-fi.pdf">Finnish</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.fr/intl/fr/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-fr.pdf">French</a></li> <li><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral-de.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-einfuehrung-in.html">German</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.gr/intl/el/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-el.pdf">Greek</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.co.il/intl/iw/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-iw.pdf" id="dwey">Hebrew</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.co.in/intl/hi/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-hi.pdf">Hindi</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.hu/intl/hu/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-hu.pdf">Hungarian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.co.id/intl/id/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-id.pdf">Indonesian</a></li> <li><a href="http://googleitalia.blogspot.com/2009/04/guida-introduttiva-di-google.html">Italian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.co.jp/intl/ja/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-ja.pdf">Japanese</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.co.kr/intl/ko/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-ko.pdf">Korean</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.lv/intl/lv/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-lv.pdf">Latvian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.lt/intl/lt/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-lt.pdf">Lithuanian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.no/intl/no/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-no.pdf">Norwegian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.pl/intl/pl/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-pl.pdf">Polish</a></li> <li><a href="//www.google.com/intl/pt-BR/webmasters/docs/guia-otimizacao-para-mecanismos-de-pesquisa-pt-br.pdf">Portuguese (BR)</a></li> <li><a href="//www.google.com/intl/pt-PT/webmasters/docs/guia-optimizacao-para-motores-de-busca-pt-pt.pdf">Portuguese (PT)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.ro/intl/ro/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-ro.pdf">Romanian</a></li> <li><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/ru/stati/rukovodstvo-po-poiskovoj-optimizacii-dla-nacinausih-ot-google">Russian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.rs/intl/sr/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-sr.pdf">Serbian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.sk/intl/sk/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-sk.pdf">Slovak</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.si/intl/sl/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-sl.pdf">Slovenian</a></li> <li><a href="http://googlewebmaster-es.blogspot.com/2008/11/gua-seo-de-google-para-principiantes.html">Spanish</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.se/intl/sv/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-sv.pdf">Swedish</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.co.th/intl/th/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-th.pdf">Thai</a></li> <li><a href="//www.google.com/intl/tr/webmasters/docs/arama-motoru-optimizasyon-baslangic-rehberi.pdf">Turkish</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com.ua/intl/uk/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-uk.pdf">Ukrainian</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com.vn/intl/vi/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide-vi.pdf">Vietnamese</a></li> </ul> <span class="byline-author">Written by Brandon Falls, Search Quality Team</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:SEO Starter Guide now available in 40 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class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/crawling%20and%20indexing?hl=en' rel='tag'> crawling and indexing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/search%20results?hl=en' rel='tag'> search results </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7889023105281928430' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/introducing-page-speed.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Introducing Page Speed'> Introducing Page Speed </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, June 04, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> At Google, we focus constantly on speed; we believe that making our websites load and display faster improves the user's experience and helps them become more productive. Today, we want to share with the web community some of the best practices we've used and developed over the years, by open-sourcing <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/">Page Speed</a>. <br /> <div> <br /></div> <div> Page Speed is a tool we've been using internally to improve the performance of our web pages -- it's a Firefox Add-on integrated with <a href="http://getfirebug.com/">Firebug</a>. When you run Page Speed, you get immediate suggestions on how you can change your web pages to improve their speed. For example, Page Speed automatically optimizes images for you, giving you a compressed image that you can use immediately on your web site. It also identifies issues such as JavaScript and CSS loaded by your page that wasn't actually used to display the page, which can help reduce time your users spend waiting for the page to download and display.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Page Speed's suggestions are based on a set of commonly accepted <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rules_intro.html">best practices</a> that we and other websites implement. To help you understand the suggestions and rules, we have created detailed <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/using.html">documentation</a> to describe the rationale behind each of the rules. We look forward to your feedback on the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum.</a><br /> <div> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Richard Rabbat and Bryan McQuade, Page Speed Team</span></div> </div> </div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> At Google, we focus constantly on speed; we believe that making our websites load and display faster improves the user's experience and helps them become more productive. Today, we want to share with the web community some of the best practices we've used and developed over the years, by open-sourcing <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/">Page Speed</a>. <br /> <div> <br /></div> <div> Page Speed is a tool we've been using internally to improve the performance of our web pages -- it's a Firefox Add-on integrated with <a href="http://getfirebug.com/">Firebug</a>. When you run Page Speed, you get immediate suggestions on how you can change your web pages to improve their speed. For example, Page Speed automatically optimizes images for you, giving you a compressed image that you can use immediately on your web site. It also identifies issues such as JavaScript and CSS loaded by your page that wasn't actually used to display the page, which can help reduce time your users spend waiting for the page to download and display.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Page Speed's suggestions are based on a set of commonly accepted <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rules_intro.html">best practices</a> that we and other websites implement. To help you understand the suggestions and rules, we have created detailed <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/using.html">documentation</a> to describe the rationale behind each of the rules. We look forward to your feedback on the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum.</a><br /> <div> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Richard Rabbat and Bryan McQuade, Page Speed Team</span></div> </div> </div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Introducing Page Speed&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/introducing-page-speed.html?hl=en&via=googlewmc'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/introducing-page-speed.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/introducing-page-speed.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2319748949631096608' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/06/webmaster-central-youtube-update-for.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Webmaster Central YouTube update for May 26-29'> Webmaster Central YouTube update for May 26-29 </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, June 01, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> In February, we launched the <a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp">Webmaster Central YouTube channel</a>, and since then we've been busy keeping it fresh with new content. We're not yet uploading <a href="//www.youtube.com/blog?entry=on4EmafA5MA">20 hours every minute</a>, but did you know that we've been releasing a new video almost every weekday? You can keep up with the latest updates by subscribing to our channel in YouTube, or by adding <a href="http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/GoogleWebmasterHelp/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile">our feed</a> to your RSS reader.<br /> <br /> If you're more of a weekly digest kind of person, we're here for you too. For every week that we have new videos available, we'll let you know here on the blog. In the videos uploaded in the past week, you'll find answers to these questions from <a href="//www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=841CB8F9F31BF5D5">Matt's Grab Bag</a>:<br /> <br /> <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=z07IfCtYbLw">Can product descriptions be considered duplicate content?</a><br /> <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcu3fp5G5EI">How can new pages get indexed quickly?</a><br /> <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4IE4WLPLZQ">What are your views on PageRank sculpting?</a><br /> <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPT4lh7ulBk">Will you ever switch to a Mac?</a><br /> <br /> Feel free to leave comments letting us know how you liked the videos, and if you have any specific questions, ask the experts in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum</a>.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality Team</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> In February, we launched the <a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp">Webmaster Central YouTube channel</a>, and since then we've been busy keeping it fresh with new content. We're not yet uploading <a href="//www.youtube.com/blog?entry=on4EmafA5MA">20 hours every minute</a>, but did you know that we've been releasing a new video almost every weekday? You can keep up with the latest updates by subscribing to our channel in YouTube, or by adding <a href="http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/GoogleWebmasterHelp/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile">our feed</a> to your RSS reader.<br /> <br /> If you're more of a weekly digest kind of person, we're here for you too. For every week that we have new videos available, we'll let you know here on the blog. In the videos uploaded in the past week, you'll find answers to these questions from <a href="//www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=841CB8F9F31BF5D5">Matt's Grab Bag</a>:<br /> <br /> <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=z07IfCtYbLw">Can product descriptions be considered duplicate content?</a><br /> <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcu3fp5G5EI">How can new pages get indexed quickly?</a><br /> <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4IE4WLPLZQ">What are your views on PageRank sculpting?</a><br /> <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPT4lh7ulBk">Will you ever switch to a Mac?</a><br /> <br /> Feel free to leave comments letting us know how you liked the videos, and if you have any specific questions, ask the experts in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum</a>.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality Team</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> 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