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text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOvkatMgrClA98zzGHPrESp7B_BeKGD9VFnjGZM3df4EKhTlBDHYNVUMkTrsrERpZ71Gm28NukBx3PjPpy5Nj839jv58cCKdRLnFJjZsUKKUJGygPeQtGZELiYha2Iu-9xHdqz/s1600/WebspamReport2018_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="1400" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOvkatMgrClA98zzGHPrESp7B_BeKGD9VFnjGZM3df4EKhTlBDHYNVUMkTrsrERpZ71Gm28NukBx3PjPpy5Nj839jv58cCKdRLnFJjZsUKKUJGygPeQtGZELiYha2Iu-9xHdqz/s640/WebspamReport2018_1.png" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Google aims to provide the highest quality results for any search. As part of this, we take action to prevent what we call “webspam” from degrading the search experience, content and behaviors that violate our <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769">webmaster guidelines</a>. Our efforts help ensure that well under 1 percent of results visited by users are for spammy pages. Here’s more about how we fought webspam in 2018.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> Google webspam trends and how we fought webspam in 2018</h3> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Of the types of spam we fought in 2018, three continue to stand out:</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><u>Spam on hacked websites:</u></b> We <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/06/how-we-fought-webspam-webspam-report.html">reported in 2017</a> that we had seen a substantial reduction of spam from hacked websites in search results. This trend continued in 2018, with faster discovery of hacked web pages before they affect search results or put someone in harm’s way.   While we reduced how spam on hacked sites affects search, hacked websites remain a major security problem affecting the safety of the web. Even though we can’t prevent a website hack from happening, we’re committed to helping webmasters whose websites have been compromised by offering resources to<a href="https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/security/hacked/"> help them recover from a hacked website. </a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><u>User-generated spam:</u></b> A particular type of spam known as User-generated spam has been a continued focus for us. User-generated spam includes spammy posts on forums, as well as spammy accounts on free blogs and platforms, none of which are meant to be consumed by human beings, and all of which disrupt conversations while adding no value to users. In 2018, we were able to reduce the impact on search users from this type of spam by more than 80%. While we can’t prevent websites from being exploited, we do want to make it easier for website owners to learn how to protect themselves, which is why we provide resources on <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/81749">how to prevent abuse of your site’s public areas.</a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><u>Link spam:</u> </b>We continued to protect the value of authoritative and relevant links as an important ranking signal for Search. We continued to deal swiftly with egregious link spam, and made a number of bad linking practices less effective for manipulating ranking. Above all, we continued to engage with webmasters and SEOs to chip away at the many myths that have emerged over the years relating to linking practices. We continued to remind website owners that if you simply stay away from <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en">building links</a> mainly as an attempt to rank better and focus on creating great content, you should not have to worry about any of the myths or realities. We think that one of the best ways of fighting spam of all types is by encouraging website owners to just create great quality content. Resources such as the <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451184">SEO starter-guide</a> highlight best practices and bust some common myths and misconceptions related to what it takes to appear well in Google Search results. <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713?hl=en">Reporting link spam</a> is also a great way to assist us in fighting against this type of abuse and to help preserve fairness in Search ranking.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> Working with users, webmasters and developers for a better web</h3> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Everyday users continue to help us find spam, malware and other issues in Search that escape our filters and processes by <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713">reporting spam on search</a>, <a href="https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/">reporting phishing</a> or  <a href="//www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/">reporting malware</a>. We received over 180,000 search spam user reports and we were able to take action on 64% of the reports we processed. These reports truly make a difference and we’d like to thank all of you who submitted them. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> We think it’s important to let website owners known when we detect something wrong with their website. In 2018, we generated over 186 million messages to website owners calling out potential improvements, issues and problems that could affect their site’s appearance on Search results. We can only deliver these notifications to site owners that verified their sites in <a href="https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome">Search Console</a>, and we successfully delivered 96 million of those messages. The rest of the messages will be kept linked with the website for as long as they are relevant, so they can be seen when a webmaster successfully registers their site in Search Console. The majority of these messages were welcoming new users to Search Console, and the second largest group was informing registered Search Console users when Mobile-First Indexing became available. Of all messages, slightly over 2%—about 4 million—were related to <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9044175">manual actions</a> resulting from violations of our Webmaster Guidelines. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> High quality content keeps spam off of search results, and we continued to improve the tools and reports we offer for webmasters that create that content. The <a href="https://search.google.com/search-console/about">Google Search Console </a>was completely rebuilt from the ground up to provide both new and improved reports (<a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7576553">Performance</a>, <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203">Index Coverage</a>, <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9049606">Links</a>, <a href="https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/">Mobile Usability report</a>), as well as brand new features (<a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/06/new-url-inspection-tool-more-in-search.html">URL Inspection Tool</a> and <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/08/collaboration-and-user-management-in.html">Site and User management)</a>. This improved Search Console graduated out of beta in 2018 and is now available generally to all registered website owners.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> We didn’t forget the front-end developers who make the modern web work, and focused on helping them make their sites great for users and also search-friendly regardless of whether they are on a CMS, roll their own CSS and JS, or build on top of a web framework. With the new <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/02/seo-audit-category-in-lighthouse.html">SEO audit capability</a> in <a href="https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/">Lighthouse</a>, the open-source and automated auditing tool for improving the quality of web pages, developers and webmasters can now run actionable <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lighthouse/blipmdconlkpinefehnmjammfjpmpbjk">SEO health-checks</a> on their pages and quickly identify areas for improvement.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> We also engage directly with website owners to provide help with thorny issues. Our dedicated team members meet with webmasters around the world regularly, both online and in-person. We delivered more than 190 <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/connect/#attend-events">online office hours, online events and offline events</a> in more than 76 cities, to audiences totaling over 170,000 including SEOs, developers and online marketers. We hosted four search events in Tokyo, Singapore, Zurich and Osaka as well as an 11-city Search Conference in India. In 2018, we started live office hours in Spanish on top of English, French, German, Hindi and Japanese, where Webmasters can find help, tips and useful discussion on our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/googlewebmasters">Google Webmaster YouTube channel</a>. Product experts continued to help webmasters find solutions through our <a href="//g.co/webmasterforum">official support forums </a>in over a dozen languages. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> We look forward to continuing our work to deliver a spam-free Search experience to all in 2019!</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF2Cb72qZBBFVoRF8PRKqsc7xXV3-29vwrqKcjL8jXrGwg1K239czpvbIe_P-N0hz2t7IOaibts6wl8pSgyKVhkujLV5UGCCAOV130sZ3vDD4Yq_FIPoJYdZTLg12arorI3vB2/s1600/WebspamReport2018_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="1400" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF2Cb72qZBBFVoRF8PRKqsc7xXV3-29vwrqKcjL8jXrGwg1K239czpvbIe_P-N0hz2t7IOaibts6wl8pSgyKVhkujLV5UGCCAOV130sZ3vDD4Yq_FIPoJYdZTLg12arorI3vB2/s640/WebspamReport2018_2.png" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Posted by Juan Felipe Rincón, Webmaster Outreach, Dublin</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 class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOvkatMgrClA98zzGHPrESp7B_BeKGD9VFnjGZM3df4EKhTlBDHYNVUMkTrsrERpZ71Gm28NukBx3PjPpy5Nj839jv58cCKdRLnFJjZsUKKUJGygPeQtGZELiYha2Iu-9xHdqz/s1600/WebspamReport2018_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="1400" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOvkatMgrClA98zzGHPrESp7B_BeKGD9VFnjGZM3df4EKhTlBDHYNVUMkTrsrERpZ71Gm28NukBx3PjPpy5Nj839jv58cCKdRLnFJjZsUKKUJGygPeQtGZELiYha2Iu-9xHdqz/s640/WebspamReport2018_1.png" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Google aims to provide the highest quality results for any search. As part of this, we take action to prevent what we call “webspam” from degrading the search experience, content and behaviors that violate our <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769">webmaster guidelines</a>. Our efforts help ensure that well under 1 percent of results visited by users are for spammy pages. Here’s more about how we fought webspam in 2018.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> Google webspam trends and how we fought webspam in 2018</h3> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Of the types of spam we fought in 2018, three continue to stand out:</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><u>Spam on hacked websites:</u></b> We <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/06/how-we-fought-webspam-webspam-report.html">reported in 2017</a> that we had seen a substantial reduction of spam from hacked websites in search results. This trend continued in 2018, with faster discovery of hacked web pages before they affect search results or put someone in harm’s way.   While we reduced how spam on hacked sites affects search, hacked websites remain a major security problem affecting the safety of the web. Even though we can’t prevent a website hack from happening, we’re committed to helping webmasters whose websites have been compromised by offering resources to<a href="https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/security/hacked/"> help them recover from a hacked website. </a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><u>User-generated spam:</u></b> A particular type of spam known as User-generated spam has been a continued focus for us. User-generated spam includes spammy posts on forums, as well as spammy accounts on free blogs and platforms, none of which are meant to be consumed by human beings, and all of which disrupt conversations while adding no value to users. In 2018, we were able to reduce the impact on search users from this type of spam by more than 80%. While we can’t prevent websites from being exploited, we do want to make it easier for website owners to learn how to protect themselves, which is why we provide resources on <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/81749">how to prevent abuse of your site’s public areas.</a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><u>Link spam:</u> </b>We continued to protect the value of authoritative and relevant links as an important ranking signal for Search. We continued to deal swiftly with egregious link spam, and made a number of bad linking practices less effective for manipulating ranking. Above all, we continued to engage with webmasters and SEOs to chip away at the many myths that have emerged over the years relating to linking practices. We continued to remind website owners that if you simply stay away from <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en">building links</a> mainly as an attempt to rank better and focus on creating great content, you should not have to worry about any of the myths or realities. We think that one of the best ways of fighting spam of all types is by encouraging website owners to just create great quality content. Resources such as the <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451184">SEO starter-guide</a> highlight best practices and bust some common myths and misconceptions related to what it takes to appear well in Google Search results. <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713?hl=en">Reporting link spam</a> is also a great way to assist us in fighting against this type of abuse and to help preserve fairness in Search ranking.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> Working with users, webmasters and developers for a better web</h3> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Everyday users continue to help us find spam, malware and other issues in Search that escape our filters and processes by <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713">reporting spam on search</a>, <a href="https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/">reporting phishing</a> or  <a href="//www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/">reporting malware</a>. We received over 180,000 search spam user reports and we were able to take action on 64% of the reports we processed. These reports truly make a difference and we’d like to thank all of you who submitted them. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> We think it’s important to let website owners known when we detect something wrong with their website. In 2018, we generated over 186 million messages to website owners calling out potential improvements, issues and problems that could affect their site’s appearance on Search results. We can only deliver these notifications to site owners that verified their sites in <a href="https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome">Search Console</a>, and we successfully delivered 96 million of those messages. The rest of the messages will be kept linked with the website for as long as they are relevant, so they can be seen when a webmaster successfully registers their site in Search Console. The majority of these messages were welcoming new users to Search Console, and the second largest group was informing registered Search Console users when Mobile-First Indexing became available. Of all messages, slightly over 2%—about 4 million—were related to <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9044175">manual actions</a> resulting from violations of our Webmaster Guidelines. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> High quality content keeps spam off of search results, and we continued to improve the tools and reports we offer for webmasters that create that content. The <a href="https://search.google.com/search-console/about">Google Search Console </a>was completely rebuilt from the ground up to provide both new and improved reports (<a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7576553">Performance</a>, <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203">Index Coverage</a>, <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9049606">Links</a>, <a href="https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/">Mobile Usability report</a>), as well as brand new features (<a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/06/new-url-inspection-tool-more-in-search.html">URL Inspection Tool</a> and <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/08/collaboration-and-user-management-in.html">Site and User management)</a>. This improved Search Console graduated out of beta in 2018 and is now available generally to all registered website owners.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> We didn’t forget the front-end developers who make the modern web work, and focused on helping them make their sites great for users and also search-friendly regardless of whether they are on a CMS, roll their own CSS and JS, or build on top of a web framework. With the new <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/02/seo-audit-category-in-lighthouse.html">SEO audit capability</a> in <a href="https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/">Lighthouse</a>, the open-source and automated auditing tool for improving the quality of web pages, developers and webmasters can now run actionable <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lighthouse/blipmdconlkpinefehnmjammfjpmpbjk">SEO health-checks</a> on their pages and quickly identify areas for improvement.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> We also engage directly with website owners to provide help with thorny issues. Our dedicated team members meet with webmasters around the world regularly, both online and in-person. We delivered more than 190 <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/connect/#attend-events">online office hours, online events and offline events</a> in more than 76 cities, to audiences totaling over 170,000 including SEOs, developers and online marketers. We hosted four search events in Tokyo, Singapore, Zurich and Osaka as well as an 11-city Search Conference in India. In 2018, we started live office hours in Spanish on top of English, French, German, Hindi and Japanese, where Webmasters can find help, tips and useful discussion on our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/googlewebmasters">Google Webmaster YouTube channel</a>. Product experts continued to help webmasters find solutions through our <a href="//g.co/webmasterforum">official support forums </a>in over a dozen languages. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> We look forward to continuing our work to deliver a spam-free Search experience to all in 2019!</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF2Cb72qZBBFVoRF8PRKqsc7xXV3-29vwrqKcjL8jXrGwg1K239czpvbIe_P-N0hz2t7IOaibts6wl8pSgyKVhkujLV5UGCCAOV130sZ3vDD4Yq_FIPoJYdZTLg12arorI3vB2/s1600/WebspamReport2018_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="1400" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF2Cb72qZBBFVoRF8PRKqsc7xXV3-29vwrqKcjL8jXrGwg1K239czpvbIe_P-N0hz2t7IOaibts6wl8pSgyKVhkujLV5UGCCAOV130sZ3vDD4Yq_FIPoJYdZTLg12arorI3vB2/s640/WebspamReport2018_2.png" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Posted by Juan Felipe Rincón, Webmaster Outreach, Dublin</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:This year in Search Spam - Webspam report 2018&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/03/this-year-in-search-spam-webspam-report.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/2019/03/this-year-in-search-spam-webspam-report.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/2019/03/this-year-in-search-spam-webspam-report.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/events?hl=en' rel='tag'> events </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/feedback%20and%20communication?hl=en' rel='tag'> feedback and communication </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/forums?hl=en' rel='tag'> forums </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/webmaster%20community?hl=en' rel='tag'> webmaster community </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/webmaster%20guidelines?hl=en' rel='tag'> webmaster guidelines </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7981173302097874822' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/12/2018-global-webmaster-community.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='2018, celebrating our global Webmaster community'> 2018, celebrating our global Webmaster community </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, December 26, 2018 </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 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2018 has been a very important year for our webmaster support community. What has happened? There’s been a program rebranding, a global summit, and loads of community hangouts.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In October, the former Top Contributors became Gold Product Experts, and the Rising Stars, Silver Product Experts. This rebranding happened throughout all of the <a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!home" target="_blank">product forums</a> and these are some of the <a href="https://support.google.com/groups/answer/1649693?hl=en" target="_blank">new badges and names</a>:</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <img height="24" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/xTbZc5pk6ROI_L4kU2gWUXLeL5LDhyZAG-bMX50nz9Hb0LzceLPIvc-pCiJC4V_V7s4TCkEakomFhw7PDJUlPm4xH1ga2MPL05Yy0E3LYPt-VQ6B3vOGAp8oZFRgNuWqjzuZzLFq" style="border: none; font-family: "Google Sans"; font-size: 11pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="24" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silver Product Expert: Newer members who are developing their product knowledge</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <img height="24" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/EWjIKkKoj5x_6Vx2AC8AiBifQI74yW9Gs4aUBjmtNwVuSZz5hH_T0jSilEQRUrkD6Xd7Tp6VqKr1crMKZcbRz91PVzPTDjItrVN2G9o0_NQ1XEJefIdHJb3hOypNsnHVb8T_zd3g" style="border: none; font-family: "Google Sans"; font-size: 11pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="24" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gold Product Expert: Trusted members who are knowledgeable and active contributors</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In November, we invited all of our Gold Product Experts from <a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!home" target="_blank">every Google help forum</a> (such as Blogger or Google My Business) to a global summit. This meetup happened in the Google campus in Sunnyvale, California. Out of the almost 550 attendees from all over the world, around 70 were Webmaster Gold Product Experts. Coming from 25 different countries, this was the second biggest community that attended the event. Later that month, another very successful meetup took place in Moscow, gathering 23 Russian speaking Product Experts (of which 10 were Webmasters).</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidgeLz_CQBcYIt-XVEksb042NkK54NDreZVXW7PkB-9kU2FxefFRKu2DVnEyBzK6kWJEXdwDRQeT5RYmu8xrzHiTeluUAyqbumqVkI8JujJGUxRvuVVR8puvnSe9WJkOUah8ae/s1600/10770072176_IMG_8736.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidgeLz_CQBcYIt-XVEksb042NkK54NDreZVXW7PkB-9kU2FxefFRKu2DVnEyBzK6kWJEXdwDRQeT5RYmu8xrzHiTeluUAyqbumqVkI8JujJGUxRvuVVR8puvnSe9WJkOUah8ae/s640/10770072176_IMG_8736.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gold Webmaster Product Experts at this year’s global summit in Sunnyvale.</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many of the attendees acknowledged that this “was a really valuable time”, that the “sessions were very insightful and interesting” and that “the entire event was fantastic!”.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This knowledgeable group of super users provides invaluable help in 16 languages to more than 2 million users a year, about everything related to Search, Structured Data or Search Console in the forums.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And what is the profile of our community? Many of our Product Experts (Silver and Gold) are site owners who started out on the Webmaster forums (some more than a decade ago) by asking questions about their own sites. After their issues were fixed, most of them stayed to give back to the community, as they realized that their expertise could be of use to others. We want to thank all of our experts for their dedication and constant knowledge sharing to help users who are having trouble with their websites.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Throughout the year, we’ve held 75 live office hours hangouts on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp/playlists" target="_blank">Webmaster YouTube channel</a>, in English, Japanese, German, Hindi, French, and we’ve also kick started the calls in Spanish. On those hangouts, anyone can raise their questions to the Google team directly and interact with one another.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you’re interested in joining the community, meeting everyone and helping other users on the <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/go/community" target="_blank">Webmaster forums</a>, you can learn more on the <a href="http://productexperts.withgoogle.com/" target="_blank">Product Experts program website</a>. We are always excited to meet users from diverse backgrounds and skill-sets!</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looking forward to what 2019 will bring to our community... And looking forward to meeting you!</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Written by Aurora Morales, Trust & Safety Outreach team</span></div> <div> <br /></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 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2018 has been a very important year for our webmaster support community. What has happened? There’s been a program rebranding, a global summit, and loads of community hangouts.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In October, the former Top Contributors became Gold Product Experts, and the Rising Stars, Silver Product Experts. This rebranding happened throughout all of the <a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!home" target="_blank">product forums</a> and these are some of the <a href="https://support.google.com/groups/answer/1649693?hl=en" target="_blank">new badges and names</a>:</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <img height="24" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/xTbZc5pk6ROI_L4kU2gWUXLeL5LDhyZAG-bMX50nz9Hb0LzceLPIvc-pCiJC4V_V7s4TCkEakomFhw7PDJUlPm4xH1ga2MPL05Yy0E3LYPt-VQ6B3vOGAp8oZFRgNuWqjzuZzLFq" style="border: none; font-family: "Google Sans"; font-size: 11pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="24" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silver Product Expert: Newer members who are developing their product knowledge</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <img height="24" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/EWjIKkKoj5x_6Vx2AC8AiBifQI74yW9Gs4aUBjmtNwVuSZz5hH_T0jSilEQRUrkD6Xd7Tp6VqKr1crMKZcbRz91PVzPTDjItrVN2G9o0_NQ1XEJefIdHJb3hOypNsnHVb8T_zd3g" style="border: none; font-family: "Google Sans"; font-size: 11pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="24" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gold Product Expert: Trusted members who are knowledgeable and active contributors</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In November, we invited all of our Gold Product Experts from <a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!home" target="_blank">every Google help forum</a> (such as Blogger or Google My Business) to a global summit. This meetup happened in the Google campus in Sunnyvale, California. Out of the almost 550 attendees from all over the world, around 70 were Webmaster Gold Product Experts. Coming from 25 different countries, this was the second biggest community that attended the event. Later that month, another very successful meetup took place in Moscow, gathering 23 Russian speaking Product Experts (of which 10 were Webmasters).</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidgeLz_CQBcYIt-XVEksb042NkK54NDreZVXW7PkB-9kU2FxefFRKu2DVnEyBzK6kWJEXdwDRQeT5RYmu8xrzHiTeluUAyqbumqVkI8JujJGUxRvuVVR8puvnSe9WJkOUah8ae/s1600/10770072176_IMG_8736.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidgeLz_CQBcYIt-XVEksb042NkK54NDreZVXW7PkB-9kU2FxefFRKu2DVnEyBzK6kWJEXdwDRQeT5RYmu8xrzHiTeluUAyqbumqVkI8JujJGUxRvuVVR8puvnSe9WJkOUah8ae/s640/10770072176_IMG_8736.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gold Webmaster Product Experts at this year’s global summit in Sunnyvale.</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many of the attendees acknowledged that this “was a really valuable time”, that the “sessions were very insightful and interesting” and that “the entire event was fantastic!”.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This knowledgeable group of super users provides invaluable help in 16 languages to more than 2 million users a year, about everything related to Search, Structured Data or Search Console in the forums.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And what is the profile of our community? Many of our Product Experts (Silver and Gold) are site owners who started out on the Webmaster forums (some more than a decade ago) by asking questions about their own sites. After their issues were fixed, most of them stayed to give back to the community, as they realized that their expertise could be of use to others. We want to thank all of our experts for their dedication and constant knowledge sharing to help users who are having trouble with their websites.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Throughout the year, we’ve held 75 live office hours hangouts on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp/playlists" target="_blank">Webmaster YouTube channel</a>, in English, Japanese, German, Hindi, French, and we’ve also kick started the calls in Spanish. On those hangouts, anyone can raise their questions to the Google team directly and interact with one another.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you’re interested in joining the community, meeting everyone and helping other users on the <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/go/community" target="_blank">Webmaster forums</a>, you can learn more on the <a href="http://productexperts.withgoogle.com/" target="_blank">Product Experts program website</a>. We are always excited to meet users from diverse backgrounds and skill-sets!</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looking forward to what 2019 will bring to our community... And looking forward to meeting you!</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Written by Aurora Morales, Trust & Safety Outreach team</span></div> <div> <br /></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:2018, celebrating our global Webmaster community&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/12/2018-global-webmaster-community.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/2018/12/2018-global-webmaster-community.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/2018/12/2018-global-webmaster-community.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/forums?hl=en' rel='tag'> forums </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/hangout?hl=en' rel='tag'> hangout </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/product%20expert?hl=en' rel='tag'> product expert </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/product%20experts?hl=en' rel='tag'> product experts </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/summit?hl=en' rel='tag'> summit </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/webmaster%20community?hl=en' rel='tag'> webmaster community </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/webmaster%20forum?hl=en' rel='tag'> webmaster forum </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/youtube%20channel?hl=en' rel='tag'> youtube channel </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5730554638122465348' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-introducing-product-experts-program.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Google is introducing its Product Experts Program!'> Google is introducing its Product Experts Program! </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, October 11, 2018 </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"> Over 12 years ago, we started answering webmaster questions and listening to feedback on our <a href="http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters">webmaster forums</a> (although at the time, it was a Google Group for questions about sitemaps - <a href="https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/we-love-you-webmasters_24.html">original announcement</a>). From a small mailing list, these forums have evolved to cover 15 languages and over 50,000 threads per year. These days, we learn a lot from some of the cases surfaced on this platform, and constantly use it to gather feedback to pass on to our teams.<br /> <br /> Google’s Top Contributors (<img alt="tc" height="19" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/b_jENmsN5CPupELTpWL9WRcUMuGCcKlveGe0vrcRuaLxNtlEyVRxAe8YMokuwr4Iz9Zav7utZ_VTmYx14X4PJerc4r2_28LQSxl-LkLvu-MOpORSLdOOuzYj3QiWN7k4CixBwbwP" style="border: none; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 11pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="19" />) and Rising Stars (<img alt="tc" height="19" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ULHh4DMymg3lXyaj8xE3znfpeWZgcTyfYA_182Co2m1gKrmLhI1SvR9_8FZvUJ2xTcSPHfLf5beG2eQtwas47hW6tJaZ_ZeALxTm5_gkbckOwvapfZLzdp71xxnBAYQHem9AIDkd" style="border: none; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 11pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="19" />) are some of our most active and helpful members on these forums. With over 100 members globally just for the Webmaster Forums (1000 members if you count <a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!home">all product forums</a>), this community of experts helps thousands of people every year by sharing their knowledge and helping others get the most out of Google products.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_OdOllEMwtJqgNGHif8L_iM4YOnMjVVGH3uMFRNkhNhjhzDA_XphltLIjzyB-y0fwSh-iSejbjlNFR51dHI1uPDemPx_wwI2LAUvRLDhB5yryU5YfIgWldxuUgoYGksKeaqOO/s1600/TCs-PEs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="958" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_OdOllEMwtJqgNGHif8L_iM4YOnMjVVGH3uMFRNkhNhjhzDA_XphltLIjzyB-y0fwSh-iSejbjlNFR51dHI1uPDemPx_wwI2LAUvRLDhB5yryU5YfIgWldxuUgoYGksKeaqOO/s400/TCs-PEs.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #666666;"><i>Some of the Webmaster forum participants</i></span></div> <br /> <br /> Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re rebranding and relaunching the Top Contributor program as <a href="http://productexperts.withgoogle.com/"><b>Google’s Product Experts program</b></a>! <i>Same community of experts, shiny new brand.</i><br /> <br /> Over the following days, we’ll be updating our badges in the forums so you can recognize who our most passionate and dedicated Product Experts are:<br /> <br /> <img height="18" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/8J84eKBX-ItEjUrBnQrVrcRNg92ooiTicEFuKM1-GzvODNMAmaIpCLGiyi40dLlctTc-vLiScRpYmoxqYwPQNxsL4AY6CLUPTQI9kHJK63Iy2PMwIwWbH84jM_ay6szRDwzfM0FH" style="border: none; color: #3c4043; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="18" />   Silver Product Expert: Newer members who are developing their product knowledge<br /> <br /> <img height="18" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BgB3w-rsXVx8R2fOyBWbwGQgytl_QoaHaetyB63Q0yF2tD02wf3DtklYkragO7GKlKKdDDW1JWZ0GwZk9ig4xRn46qlqscmiON3rLX5Vz9CegyZ9sdOpwU6oFzz1im-RLqxSu1KW" style="border: none; color: #3c4043; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="18" />   Gold Product Expert: Trusted members who are knowledgeable and active contributors<br /> <br /> <img height="18" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/iiA-Ihs-Q9b91mzV48b0JbuO9-bHYRJJaK-Ip62yxkzB5Mi56Jd239GVVUJJfb7BfDMDMGU_0Pgj_7bIPJI7mJnClTvvSG4DlYue4LdN71tRK5Wt7Tf9JAoIzRAErR8Oawy4SKC-" style="border: none; color: #3c4043; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="18" />   Platinum Product Expert: Seasoned members who contribute beyond providing help through mentoring, creating content, and more<br /> <br /> <img height="18" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-yC349q9GdRRG6NxEEahciVbIT9reGnQDH8nZPio-Vv74gDHyIARi-IuK_UdSAua4BT0hkKPlqqF9DJQcoGRBgs3ZWbTns-6EJwTlaza63ZclxNRwCHn1eJrXfAQTpuVoFmLWF8r" style="border: none; color: #3c4043; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="18" />   Product Expert Alumni: Past members who are no longer active, but were previously recognized for their helpfulness<br /> <br /> <a href="https://support.google.com/groups/answer/1649693?hl=en">More information</a> about the new badges and names.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Those Product Experts are users who are passionate about Google products and enjoy helping other users. They also help us by giving feedback on the tools we all use, like the Search Console, by surfacing questions they think Google should answer better, etc… Obtaining feedback from our users is one of Google’s core values, and Product Experts often have a great understanding of what affects a lot of our users. For example, here is a blog post detailing <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/02/how-listening-to-our-users-helped-us.html">how Product Expert feedback about the Search Console</a> was used to build the <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/09/the-new-search-console-is-graduating.html">new version of the tool</a>.<br /> <br /> Visit the new <a href="http://productexperts.withgoogle.com/">Product Experts program website</a> to get information on how to become a Product Expert yourself, and come and join us on our <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/go/community">Webmaster forums</a>, we’d love to hear from you!<br /> <br /> Written by Vincent Courson, Search Outreach team<br /> <div> <br /></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"> Over 12 years ago, we started answering webmaster questions and listening to feedback on our <a href="http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters">webmaster forums</a> (although at the time, it was a Google Group for questions about sitemaps - <a href="https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/we-love-you-webmasters_24.html">original announcement</a>). From a small mailing list, these forums have evolved to cover 15 languages and over 50,000 threads per year. These days, we learn a lot from some of the cases surfaced on this platform, and constantly use it to gather feedback to pass on to our teams.<br /> <br /> Google’s Top Contributors (<img alt="tc" height="19" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/b_jENmsN5CPupELTpWL9WRcUMuGCcKlveGe0vrcRuaLxNtlEyVRxAe8YMokuwr4Iz9Zav7utZ_VTmYx14X4PJerc4r2_28LQSxl-LkLvu-MOpORSLdOOuzYj3QiWN7k4CixBwbwP" style="border: none; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 11pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="19" />) and Rising Stars (<img alt="tc" height="19" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ULHh4DMymg3lXyaj8xE3znfpeWZgcTyfYA_182Co2m1gKrmLhI1SvR9_8FZvUJ2xTcSPHfLf5beG2eQtwas47hW6tJaZ_ZeALxTm5_gkbckOwvapfZLzdp71xxnBAYQHem9AIDkd" style="border: none; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 11pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="19" />) are some of our most active and helpful members on these forums. With over 100 members globally just for the Webmaster Forums (1000 members if you count <a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!home">all product forums</a>), this community of experts helps thousands of people every year by sharing their knowledge and helping others get the most out of Google products.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_OdOllEMwtJqgNGHif8L_iM4YOnMjVVGH3uMFRNkhNhjhzDA_XphltLIjzyB-y0fwSh-iSejbjlNFR51dHI1uPDemPx_wwI2LAUvRLDhB5yryU5YfIgWldxuUgoYGksKeaqOO/s1600/TCs-PEs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="958" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_OdOllEMwtJqgNGHif8L_iM4YOnMjVVGH3uMFRNkhNhjhzDA_XphltLIjzyB-y0fwSh-iSejbjlNFR51dHI1uPDemPx_wwI2LAUvRLDhB5yryU5YfIgWldxuUgoYGksKeaqOO/s400/TCs-PEs.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #666666;"><i>Some of the Webmaster forum participants</i></span></div> <br /> <br /> Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re rebranding and relaunching the Top Contributor program as <a href="http://productexperts.withgoogle.com/"><b>Google’s Product Experts program</b></a>! <i>Same community of experts, shiny new brand.</i><br /> <br /> Over the following days, we’ll be updating our badges in the forums so you can recognize who our most passionate and dedicated Product Experts are:<br /> <br /> <img height="18" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/8J84eKBX-ItEjUrBnQrVrcRNg92ooiTicEFuKM1-GzvODNMAmaIpCLGiyi40dLlctTc-vLiScRpYmoxqYwPQNxsL4AY6CLUPTQI9kHJK63Iy2PMwIwWbH84jM_ay6szRDwzfM0FH" style="border: none; color: #3c4043; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="18" />   Silver Product Expert: Newer members who are developing their product knowledge<br /> <br /> <img height="18" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BgB3w-rsXVx8R2fOyBWbwGQgytl_QoaHaetyB63Q0yF2tD02wf3DtklYkragO7GKlKKdDDW1JWZ0GwZk9ig4xRn46qlqscmiON3rLX5Vz9CegyZ9sdOpwU6oFzz1im-RLqxSu1KW" style="border: none; color: #3c4043; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="18" />   Gold Product Expert: Trusted members who are knowledgeable and active contributors<br /> <br /> <img height="18" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/iiA-Ihs-Q9b91mzV48b0JbuO9-bHYRJJaK-Ip62yxkzB5Mi56Jd239GVVUJJfb7BfDMDMGU_0Pgj_7bIPJI7mJnClTvvSG4DlYue4LdN71tRK5Wt7Tf9JAoIzRAErR8Oawy4SKC-" style="border: none; color: #3c4043; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="18" />   Platinum Product Expert: Seasoned members who contribute beyond providing help through mentoring, creating content, and more<br /> <br /> <img height="18" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-yC349q9GdRRG6NxEEahciVbIT9reGnQDH8nZPio-Vv74gDHyIARi-IuK_UdSAua4BT0hkKPlqqF9DJQcoGRBgs3ZWbTns-6EJwTlaza63ZclxNRwCHn1eJrXfAQTpuVoFmLWF8r" style="border: none; color: #3c4043; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="18" />   Product Expert Alumni: Past members who are no longer active, but were previously recognized for their helpfulness<br /> <br /> <a href="https://support.google.com/groups/answer/1649693?hl=en">More information</a> about the new badges and names.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Those Product Experts are users who are passionate about Google products and enjoy helping other users. They also help us by giving feedback on the tools we all use, like the Search Console, by surfacing questions they think Google should answer better, etc… Obtaining feedback from our users is one of Google’s core values, and Product Experts often have a great understanding of what affects a lot of our users. For example, here is a blog post detailing <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/02/how-listening-to-our-users-helped-us.html">how Product Expert feedback about the Search Console</a> was used to build the <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/09/the-new-search-console-is-graduating.html">new version of the tool</a>.<br /> <br /> Visit the new <a href="http://productexperts.withgoogle.com/">Product Experts program website</a> to get information on how to become a Product Expert yourself, and come and join us on our <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/go/community">Webmaster forums</a>, we’d love to hear from you!<br /> <br /> Written by Vincent Courson, Search Outreach team<br /> <div> <br /></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:Google is introducing its Product Experts Program!&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-introducing-product-experts-program.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/2018/10/google-introducing-product-experts-program.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/2018/10/google-introducing-product-experts-program.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/forums?hl=en' rel='tag'> forums </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/questions?hl=en' rel='tag'> questions </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='580074058977886676' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/06/how-we-fought-webspam-webspam-report.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='How we fought webspam - Webspam Report 2017'> How we fought webspam - Webspam Report 2017 </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, June 28, 2018 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <p style="padding:0.8em; border-left: 6px solid #A03; background-color:#FEE; color:#000; line-height:1.5em; font-weight:bold">Note: The information in this post may be outdated. See our latest post about <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/07/how-spam-reports-are-used-at-google.html">reporting spam</a>.</p> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img height="215" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/lpMw5N0pkNSPf6i-5HUZSbr_w_I6sCSB1iBqz_ehibY6l_yDl4MNeyaJ4_6rkcVEmxpjzMH44_9W4FbOJzXPXNzr_L2QDzlI8rmm1ccHHLEkN8s0q0g7eD-dFMMtt6Of0p9CtUjR" style="border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="602" /><br /> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />We always want to make sure that when you use Google Search to find information, you get the highest quality results. But, we are aware of many bad actors who are trying to manipulate search ranking and profit from it, which is at odds with our core mission: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Over the years, we've devoted a huge effort toward combating abuse and spam on Search. Here's a look at how we fought abuse in 2017.<br /> <br /><br />We call these various types of abuse that violate the <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769">webmaster guidelines</a> “spam.” Our evaluation indicated that for many years, less than 1 percent of search results users visited are spammy. In the last couple of years, we’ve managed to further reduce this by half. </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div> <h3 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google webspam trends and how we fought webspam in 2017</span></h3> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we continued to improve, spammers also evolved. One of the trends in 2017 was an increase in website hacking—both for spamming search ranking and for spreading malware. Hacked websites are serious threats to users because hackers can take complete control of a site, deface homepages, erase relevant content, or insert malware and harmful code. They may also record keystrokes, stealing login credentials for online banking or financial transactions. In 2017 we focused on reducing this threat, and were able to detect and remove from search results more than 80 percent of these sites. But hacking is not just a spam problem for search users—it affects the owners of websites as well. To help website owners keep their websites safe, we created a <a href="https://learnwebtech.withgoogle.com/">hands-on resource to help webmasters strengthen their websites’ security</a> and revamped our <a href="https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/security/hacked/">help resources to help webmasters recover from a hacked website</a>. The guides are available in 19 languages.<br /><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’re also recognizing the importance of robust content management systems (CMSs). A large percentage of websites are run on one of several popular CMSs, and subsequently spammers exploited them by finding ways to abuse their provisions for user-generated content, such as posting spam content in comment sections or forums. We’re working closely with many of the providers of popular content management systems like WordPress and Joomla to help them also fight spammers that abuse their forums, comment sections and websites.<br /><br /><br />Another abuse vector is the manipulation of links, which is one of the foundation ranking signals for Search. In 2017 we doubled down our effort in removing <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604774?hl=en">unnatural links</a> via ranking improvements and scalable manual actions. We have observed a year-over-year reduction of spam links by almost half.<br /> </span></div> <div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <h3 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">W</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">orking with users and webmasters for a better web</span></h3> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’re here to listen: Our automated systems are constantly working to detect and block spam. Still, we always welcome hearing from you when something seems … phishy. Last year, we were able to take action on nearly 90,000 <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?pli=1">user reports</a> of search spam.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reporting spam, malware and other issues you find helps us protect the site owner and other searchers from this abuse. You can file a <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713">spam report</a>, a <a href="https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/">phishing report</a> or a <a href="//www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/">malware report.</a> We very much appreciate these reports—a big THANK YOU to all of you who submitted them.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also actively work with webmasters to maintain the health of the web ecosystem. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year, we sent 45 million messages to registered website owners via <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/">Search Console</a> letting them know about issues we identified with their websites. More than 6 million of these messages are related to <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604824">manual actions,</a> providing transparency to webmasters so they understand why their sites got manual actions and how to resolve the issue.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year, we <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2017/08/a-sneak-peek-at-two-experimental.html">released a beta version</a> of a new Search Console to a limited number of users and afterwards, to all users of Search Console. We listened to what matters most to the users, and started with popular functionalities such as <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7576553">Search performance</a>, <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203">Index Coverage</a> and others. These can help webmasters optimize their websites' Google Search presence more easily.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through enhanced <a href="https://safebrowsing.google.com/">Safe Browsing</a> protections, we continue to protect more users from bad actors online. In the last year, we have made significant improvements to our safe browsing protection, such as broadening our <a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2017/03/expanding-protection-for-chrome-users.html">protection of macOS devices</a>, enabling <a href="https://www.blog.google/topics/safety-security/new-security-protections-tailored-you/">predictive phishing protection</a> in Chrome, cracked down on <a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2017/12/additional-protections-by-safe-browsing.html">mobile unwanted software</a>, and launched significant improvements to our ability to protect users from <a href="https://blog.chromium.org/2018/01/further-protecting-users-from-deceptive.html">deceptive Chrome extension installation</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have a multitude of channels to engage directly with webmasters. We have dedicated team members who meet with webmasters regularly both online and in-person. We conducted more than 250 <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/connect/#attend-events">online office hours, online events and offline events</a> around the world in more than 60 cities to audiences totaling over 220,000 website owners, webmasters and digital marketers. In addition, our <a href="//g.co/webmasterforum">official support forum</a> has answered a high volume of questions in many languages. Last year, the forum had 63,000 threads generating over 280,000 contributing posts by 100+ <a href="https://topcontributor.withgoogle.com/profiles">Top Contributors</a> globally. For more details, see this <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/05/helping-webmasters-and-content.html">post</a>. Apart from the <a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters">forums</a>, <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/">blogs</a> and <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451184">the SEO starter guide</a>, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/googlewebmasters">Google Webmaster YouTube channel</a> is another channel to find more tips and insights. We launched a new <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2017/12/the-seo-snippets-video-series.html">SEO snippets</a> video series to help with short and to-the-point answers to specific questions. Be sure to subscribe to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/googlewebmasters">channel</a>!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite all these improvements, we know we’re not yet done. We’re relentless in our pursue of an abuse-free user experience, and will keep improving our collaboration with the ecosystem to make it happen.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div> <img height="227" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Pfgdv2iIS4iWz96Qdnj5pONl1vHFYEdMWdRR2I2tfrwk-MjZm6YmnFf3lOvAiBDi5Fa4vIaDFdJoDe0lbGWfy-WoCTBDNdGFk3dOnZOTjBP1URZzM0yNJII3KJbRDjeYBWRROwni" width="640" /><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Posted by Cody Kwok, Principal Engineer</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> <p style="padding:0.8em; border-left: 6px solid #A03; background-color:#FEE; color:#000; line-height:1.5em; font-weight:bold">Note: The information in this post may be outdated. See our latest post about <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/07/how-spam-reports-are-used-at-google.html">reporting spam</a>.</p> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img height="215" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/lpMw5N0pkNSPf6i-5HUZSbr_w_I6sCSB1iBqz_ehibY6l_yDl4MNeyaJ4_6rkcVEmxpjzMH44_9W4FbOJzXPXNzr_L2QDzlI8rmm1ccHHLEkN8s0q0g7eD-dFMMtt6Of0p9CtUjR" style="border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;" width="602" /><br /> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />We always want to make sure that when you use Google Search to find information, you get the highest quality results. But, we are aware of many bad actors who are trying to manipulate search ranking and profit from it, which is at odds with our core mission: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Over the years, we've devoted a huge effort toward combating abuse and spam on Search. Here's a look at how we fought abuse in 2017.<br /> <br /><br />We call these various types of abuse that violate the <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769">webmaster guidelines</a> “spam.” Our evaluation indicated that for many years, less than 1 percent of search results users visited are spammy. In the last couple of years, we’ve managed to further reduce this by half. </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div> <h3 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google webspam trends and how we fought webspam in 2017</span></h3> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we continued to improve, spammers also evolved. One of the trends in 2017 was an increase in website hacking—both for spamming search ranking and for spreading malware. Hacked websites are serious threats to users because hackers can take complete control of a site, deface homepages, erase relevant content, or insert malware and harmful code. They may also record keystrokes, stealing login credentials for online banking or financial transactions. In 2017 we focused on reducing this threat, and were able to detect and remove from search results more than 80 percent of these sites. But hacking is not just a spam problem for search users—it affects the owners of websites as well. To help website owners keep their websites safe, we created a <a href="https://learnwebtech.withgoogle.com/">hands-on resource to help webmasters strengthen their websites’ security</a> and revamped our <a href="https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/security/hacked/">help resources to help webmasters recover from a hacked website</a>. The guides are available in 19 languages.<br /><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’re also recognizing the importance of robust content management systems (CMSs). A large percentage of websites are run on one of several popular CMSs, and subsequently spammers exploited them by finding ways to abuse their provisions for user-generated content, such as posting spam content in comment sections or forums. We’re working closely with many of the providers of popular content management systems like WordPress and Joomla to help them also fight spammers that abuse their forums, comment sections and websites.<br /><br /><br />Another abuse vector is the manipulation of links, which is one of the foundation ranking signals for Search. In 2017 we doubled down our effort in removing <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604774?hl=en">unnatural links</a> via ranking improvements and scalable manual actions. We have observed a year-over-year reduction of spam links by almost half.<br /> </span></div> <div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <h3 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">W</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">orking with users and webmasters for a better web</span></h3> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’re here to listen: Our automated systems are constantly working to detect and block spam. Still, we always welcome hearing from you when something seems … phishy. Last year, we were able to take action on nearly 90,000 <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?pli=1">user reports</a> of search spam.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reporting spam, malware and other issues you find helps us protect the site owner and other searchers from this abuse. You can file a <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713">spam report</a>, a <a href="https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/">phishing report</a> or a <a href="//www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/">malware report.</a> We very much appreciate these reports—a big THANK YOU to all of you who submitted them.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also actively work with webmasters to maintain the health of the web ecosystem. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year, we sent 45 million messages to registered website owners via <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/">Search Console</a> letting them know about issues we identified with their websites. More than 6 million of these messages are related to <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604824">manual actions,</a> providing transparency to webmasters so they understand why their sites got manual actions and how to resolve the issue.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year, we <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2017/08/a-sneak-peek-at-two-experimental.html">released a beta version</a> of a new Search Console to a limited number of users and afterwards, to all users of Search Console. We listened to what matters most to the users, and started with popular functionalities such as <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7576553">Search performance</a>, <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203">Index Coverage</a> and others. These can help webmasters optimize their websites' Google Search presence more easily.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through enhanced <a href="https://safebrowsing.google.com/">Safe Browsing</a> protections, we continue to protect more users from bad actors online. In the last year, we have made significant improvements to our safe browsing protection, such as broadening our <a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2017/03/expanding-protection-for-chrome-users.html">protection of macOS devices</a>, enabling <a href="https://www.blog.google/topics/safety-security/new-security-protections-tailored-you/">predictive phishing protection</a> in Chrome, cracked down on <a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2017/12/additional-protections-by-safe-browsing.html">mobile unwanted software</a>, and launched significant improvements to our ability to protect users from <a href="https://blog.chromium.org/2018/01/further-protecting-users-from-deceptive.html">deceptive Chrome extension installation</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have a multitude of channels to engage directly with webmasters. We have dedicated team members who meet with webmasters regularly both online and in-person. We conducted more than 250 <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/connect/#attend-events">online office hours, online events and offline events</a> around the world in more than 60 cities to audiences totaling over 220,000 website owners, webmasters and digital marketers. In addition, our <a href="//g.co/webmasterforum">official support forum</a> has answered a high volume of questions in many languages. Last year, the forum had 63,000 threads generating over 280,000 contributing posts by 100+ <a href="https://topcontributor.withgoogle.com/profiles">Top Contributors</a> globally. For more details, see this <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/05/helping-webmasters-and-content.html">post</a>. Apart from the <a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters">forums</a>, <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/">blogs</a> and <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451184">the SEO starter guide</a>, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/googlewebmasters">Google Webmaster YouTube channel</a> is another channel to find more tips and insights. We launched a new <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2017/12/the-seo-snippets-video-series.html">SEO snippets</a> video series to help with short and to-the-point answers to specific questions. Be sure to subscribe to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/googlewebmasters">channel</a>!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite all these improvements, we know we’re not yet done. We’re relentless in our pursue of an abuse-free user experience, and will keep improving our collaboration with the ecosystem to make it happen.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div> <img height="227" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Pfgdv2iIS4iWz96Qdnj5pONl1vHFYEdMWdRR2I2tfrwk-MjZm6YmnFf3lOvAiBDi5Fa4vIaDFdJoDe0lbGWfy-WoCTBDNdGFk3dOnZOTjBP1URZzM0yNJII3KJbRDjeYBWRROwni" width="640" /><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Posted by Cody Kwok, Principal Engineer</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:How we fought webspam - Webspam Report 2017&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/06/how-we-fought-webspam-webspam-report.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/2018/06/how-we-fought-webspam-webspam-report.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/2018/06/how-we-fought-webspam-webspam-report.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/events?hl=en' rel='tag'> events </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/feedback%20and%20communication?hl=en' rel='tag'> feedback and communication </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/forums?hl=en' rel='tag'> forums </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/webmaster%20community?hl=en' rel='tag'> webmaster community </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/webmaster%20guidelines?hl=en' rel='tag'> webmaster guidelines </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2804943324287873011' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/05/helping-webmasters-and-content.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Our goal: helping webmasters and content creators'> Our goal: helping webmasters and content creators </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, May 10, 2018 </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 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Great websites are the result of the hard work of website owners who make their content and services accessible to the world. Even though it’s simpler now to run a website than it was years ago, it can still feel like a complex undertaking. This is why we invest a lot of time and effort in improving Google Search so that website owners can spend more time focusing on building the most useful content for their users, while we take care of helping users find that content. </span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most website owners find they don’t have to worry much about what Google is doing—they post their content, and then Googlebot discovers, crawls, indexes and understands that content, to point users to relevant pages on those sites. However, sometimes the technical details still matter, and sometimes a great deal.</span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">For those times when site owners would like a bit of help from someone at Google, or an explanation for why something works a particular way, or why things appear in a particular way, or how to fix what looks like a technical glitch, we have a global team dedicated to making sure there are </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-2f9b6a4e-4c34-3c59-1342-7eb9dbf3a9b5"><a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/support/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">many places for a website owner to get help</span></a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> from Google and knowledgeable members of the community.</span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The first place to start for help is </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-b3141267-4c34-90ab-e9bb-8ce2099bc0e4"><a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Webmasters</span></a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">, a place where all of our support resources (many of which are available in 40 languages) are within easy reach:</span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e4cc8742-4c35-9296-fc93-cac05d590ca7"><a href="https://developers.google.com/web/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Web Fundamentals</span></a></span>: Provides technical guidance on building a modern website that takes advantage of open web standards.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5f0744fe-4c35-bad5-cd7d-81bfa51802cf"><a href="http://developers.google.com/search" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Search developer documentation</span></a></span>: Describes how Google crawls and indexes a website. Includes authoritative guidance on building a site that is optimized for Google Search. </span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a217c0d6-4c35-e2e7-7ce6-b6db1ec4e537"><a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters#topic=3309469" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Search Console Help Center</span></a></span>: Provides detailed information on how to use and take advantage of <span id="docs-internal-guid-671b0506-4c36-0822-66b8-dacf64ade168"><a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Search Console</span></a></span>, the best way for a website owner to understand how Google sees their site. </span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <span id="docs-internal-guid-b78fe94d-4c36-34f4-9f17-80d85e90033b"><a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451184?hl=en" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Starter Guide</span></a></span>: Provides a complete overview of the basics of SEO according to our recommended best practices.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9e7fd398-4c36-5e7a-9bbe-29b61e2fe825"><a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google webmaster guidelines</span></a></span>: Describes policies and practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise affected by an algorithmic or manual spam action that can negatively affect their Search appearance. </span></li> <li><span id="docs-internal-guid-eca34a5b-4c36-8787-13c3-a953ad02eff3"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWf2ZlNsCGDS89VBF_awNvA" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Webmasters YouTube Channel</span></a></span></li> </ul> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our second path to getting help is through our </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-84446268-4c36-b470-95bc-79c265c97803"><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Webmaster Central Help Forums</span></a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. We have forums in 16 languages—in </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-d0946682-4c36-e927-8ff1-d3fe0a060cfa"><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">English</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-es" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spanish</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-hi" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hindi</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-fr" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">French</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-it" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Italian</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-pt" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Portuguese</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-ja" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Japanese</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-de" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">German</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-ru" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Russian</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-tr" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Turkish</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-pl" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Polish</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-id" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bahasa Indonesia</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-th" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thai</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=vi#!topicsearchin/hotro-vi/category$3A%28webmaster-vi%29" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vietnamese</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-zh-cn" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chinese</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-ko" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Korean</span></a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. The forums are staffed with dedicated Googlers who are there to make sure your questions get answered. Aside from the Googlers who monitor the forums, there is an amazing group of <a href="https://topcontributor.withgoogle.com/profiles">Top Contributors</a> who generously offer their time to help other members of the community—many times providing greater detail and analysis for a particular website’s content than we could. The forums allow for both a public discussion and, if the case requires it, for private follow-up replies in the forum.</span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A third path for support to website owners is our series of </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-9bd4b4cf-4c3d-9e3f-eff1-ec2a09659099"><a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/connect/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Online Webmaster Office Hours</span></a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> — in English, German, Japanese, Turkish, Hindi and French. Anyone who joins these is welcome to ask us questions about website appearance in Google Search, which we will answer to the best of our abilities. All of our team members think that one of the best parts of speaking at conferences and events is the opportunity to answer questions from the audience,  and the online office hours format creates that opportunity for many more people who might not be able to travel to a specialized event. You can always check out the </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-e226dfaf-4c3d-d8c5-2c6a-2f2bb7ff84ee"><a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/connect/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Webmaster calendar</span></a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for upcoming webmaster officer hours and live events.</span></span><br /> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Beyond all these resources, we also work hard to ensure that everyone who wants to understand Google Search can find relevant info on our frequently updated site <a href="https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/">How Search Works</a>.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">While how a website behaves on the web is openly visible to all who can see it, we know that some website owners prefer not to make it known their website has a problem in a public forum. There’s no shame in asking for support, but if you have an issue for your website that seems sensitive—for which you don’t think you can share all the details publicly—you can call out that you would prefer to share necessary details only with someone experienced and who is willing to help, using the forum’s “Private Reply” feature.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are there other things you think we should be doing that would help your website get the most out of search? Please let us know -- in our forums, our office hours, or via Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%40googlewmc&src=typd&lang=en" target="_blank">@googlewmc</a>.</span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Posted by Juan Felipe Rincón from Google’s Webmaster Outreach & Support team</span></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 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Great websites are the result of the hard work of website owners who make their content and services accessible to the world. Even though it’s simpler now to run a website than it was years ago, it can still feel like a complex undertaking. This is why we invest a lot of time and effort in improving Google Search so that website owners can spend more time focusing on building the most useful content for their users, while we take care of helping users find that content. </span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most website owners find they don’t have to worry much about what Google is doing—they post their content, and then Googlebot discovers, crawls, indexes and understands that content, to point users to relevant pages on those sites. However, sometimes the technical details still matter, and sometimes a great deal.</span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">For those times when site owners would like a bit of help from someone at Google, or an explanation for why something works a particular way, or why things appear in a particular way, or how to fix what looks like a technical glitch, we have a global team dedicated to making sure there are </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-2f9b6a4e-4c34-3c59-1342-7eb9dbf3a9b5"><a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/support/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">many places for a website owner to get help</span></a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> from Google and knowledgeable members of the community.</span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The first place to start for help is </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-b3141267-4c34-90ab-e9bb-8ce2099bc0e4"><a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Webmasters</span></a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">, a place where all of our support resources (many of which are available in 40 languages) are within easy reach:</span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e4cc8742-4c35-9296-fc93-cac05d590ca7"><a href="https://developers.google.com/web/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Web Fundamentals</span></a></span>: Provides technical guidance on building a modern website that takes advantage of open web standards.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5f0744fe-4c35-bad5-cd7d-81bfa51802cf"><a href="http://developers.google.com/search" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Search developer documentation</span></a></span>: Describes how Google crawls and indexes a website. Includes authoritative guidance on building a site that is optimized for Google Search. </span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a217c0d6-4c35-e2e7-7ce6-b6db1ec4e537"><a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters#topic=3309469" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Search Console Help Center</span></a></span>: Provides detailed information on how to use and take advantage of <span id="docs-internal-guid-671b0506-4c36-0822-66b8-dacf64ade168"><a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Search Console</span></a></span>, the best way for a website owner to understand how Google sees their site. </span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <span id="docs-internal-guid-b78fe94d-4c36-34f4-9f17-80d85e90033b"><a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451184?hl=en" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Starter Guide</span></a></span>: Provides a complete overview of the basics of SEO according to our recommended best practices.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9e7fd398-4c36-5e7a-9bbe-29b61e2fe825"><a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google webmaster guidelines</span></a></span>: Describes policies and practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise affected by an algorithmic or manual spam action that can negatively affect their Search appearance. </span></li> <li><span id="docs-internal-guid-eca34a5b-4c36-8787-13c3-a953ad02eff3"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWf2ZlNsCGDS89VBF_awNvA" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Webmasters YouTube Channel</span></a></span></li> </ul> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our second path to getting help is through our </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-84446268-4c36-b470-95bc-79c265c97803"><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Webmaster Central Help Forums</span></a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. We have forums in 16 languages—in </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-d0946682-4c36-e927-8ff1-d3fe0a060cfa"><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">English</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-es" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spanish</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-hi" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hindi</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-fr" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">French</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-it" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Italian</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-pt" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Portuguese</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-ja" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Japanese</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-de" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">German</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-ru" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Russian</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-tr" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Turkish</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-pl" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Polish</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-id" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bahasa Indonesia</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-th" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thai</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=vi#!topicsearchin/hotro-vi/category$3A%28webmaster-vi%29" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vietnamese</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-zh-cn" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chinese</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmaster-ko" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Korean</span></a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. The forums are staffed with dedicated Googlers who are there to make sure your questions get answered. Aside from the Googlers who monitor the forums, there is an amazing group of <a href="https://topcontributor.withgoogle.com/profiles">Top Contributors</a> who generously offer their time to help other members of the community—many times providing greater detail and analysis for a particular website’s content than we could. The forums allow for both a public discussion and, if the case requires it, for private follow-up replies in the forum.</span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A third path for support to website owners is our series of </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-9bd4b4cf-4c3d-9e3f-eff1-ec2a09659099"><a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/connect/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Online Webmaster Office Hours</span></a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> — in English, German, Japanese, Turkish, Hindi and French. Anyone who joins these is welcome to ask us questions about website appearance in Google Search, which we will answer to the best of our abilities. All of our team members think that one of the best parts of speaking at conferences and events is the opportunity to answer questions from the audience,  and the online office hours format creates that opportunity for many more people who might not be able to travel to a specialized event. You can always check out the </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-e226dfaf-4c3d-d8c5-2c6a-2f2bb7ff84ee"><a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/connect/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Webmaster calendar</span></a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for upcoming webmaster officer hours and live events.</span></span><br /> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Beyond all these resources, we also work hard to ensure that everyone who wants to understand Google Search can find relevant info on our frequently updated site <a href="https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/">How Search Works</a>.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">While how a website behaves on the web is openly visible to all who can see it, we know that some website owners prefer not to make it known their website has a problem in a public forum. There’s no shame in asking for support, but if you have an issue for your website that seems sensitive—for which you don’t think you can share all the details publicly—you can call out that you would prefer to share necessary details only with someone experienced and who is willing to help, using the forum’s “Private Reply” feature.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are there other things you think we should be doing that would help your website get the most out of search? Please let us know -- in our forums, our office hours, or via Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%40googlewmc&src=typd&lang=en" target="_blank">@googlewmc</a>.</span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Posted by Juan Felipe Rincón from Google’s Webmaster Outreach & Support team</span></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' 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