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YAY!" - Getting webmaster help in our forum'> "It's on Google! YAY!" - Getting webmaster help in our forum </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, December 28, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Webmaster level: all<br /> <br /> It's been a bit more than five years now that our <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum</a> has been up and running, helping webmasters around the world. Over the years, over tens of thousands of users have discussed various topics in well over 100,000 threads, helping each other to improve their websites and to solve a variety of issues that web publishers are confronted with. Among those users is a group that we call the "<a href="http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/bionic-posters">Bionic Posters</a>," users who have proven to be consistently helpful and knowledgeable, selflessly helping others to tackle seemingly insurmountable problems. <br /> <br /> It's great to have such an awesome community -- but thanks is best said by those who are helped. Here is some of the feedback that we collected this year:<br /> <ul><li><i>"Thank you for the time you have spent helping me. It is genuinely appreciated."</i></li> <li><i>"Thank you to everyone who helped with my problem! My creaky old 1996 era website is all cleaned up and doing just fine now! Good Guys Rule!"</i></li> <li><i>"WOW!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for your help! I was reluctant to post because I thought you guys might think my site is too small, too insignificant, etc. Thanks so much! To me, it's a BIG deal!"</i></li> <li><i>"My traffic has doubled and I am now either top or close to the top in search terms"</i></li> <li><i>"Thanks. Hopefully my late night paid off then, all the help and information has been great!!!!!!!"</i></li> <li><i>"Wow Webado Thank You Again.. You Really Know Your stuff! (…) You Are a True professional and Seriously The Only Person That Could Even Figure This out. I even Spoke to Other Top Specialists and YOU were the Only one who told me what to do and what was wrong."</i></li> <li><i>"You are AMAZING! Thank you so much!"</i></li> <li><i>"Finally, thanks so much for your concern and prompt reply, Squibble. Can't imagine a person would deligated his efforts to someones you don't even know and met. (…) Thanks for your help!! It means everything to me!"</i></li> <li><i>"Wow thanks so much! I have just been to the hot springs in Banos Ecuador, the volcano is rumbling and the town has evacuated but I am still here talking Apache, now that is dedication, I will test your helpfulness out 2moro! Thanks so much!!!"</i></li> <li><i>"THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU! YOU ARE SOOOO AMAZING! MY BLOG IS GONE FROM GOOGLE AND ALL THE OLD POSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT TOO! THANK YOU! I LOVE YOU!"</i></li> <li><i>"It worked! Thank you very much for your help Cristina :)"</i></li> <li><i>"I could NEVER have seen what's possible without this forum. I am so grateful."</i></li> <li><i>"Thank you so much for your detailed response to my questions. In 10 years of me having a website, no one has explained these concepts better to me than you did."</i></li> <li><i>"IT WORKED!!! Thank you so much for saving me the grief and embarrassment of this problem. I truly appreciate both your knowledge and guidance."</i></li> <li><i>"Thank you so much for such a detailed answer and putting into terms I can easily understand. (…) Where shall I send the batch of brownies?"</i></li> <li><i>"Thank you so much Squibble you are a hero. I have done what it says and i will check to see if i appear in google! Thanks again!"</i></li> <li><i>"you guys are amazing! thank you so much redleg! (…) and if you happen to ever be in san carlos give me a shout - you deserve at least a beer and a lunch! "</i></li> <li><i>"Thank you Squibble, Vanessa, Cristina, and Ishigaki for weighing in on this and helping me. I hope I can pay it forward one day."</i></li> <li><i>"Great info Guys. I really appreciate it. It was awesome of y'all to help me out. I really appreciate it. Thank you."</i></li> <li><i>"Your amazing :-) i love you lol xx im sorted now thanks and never in a million years would i have found that out!"</i></li> <li><i>"THANK YOU! I love Google and appreciate that they have these safety precautions in place for those nasty hackets - especially when we can fix the problem! Thanks so much for your help. Whew."</i></li> <li><i>"Thank you very much, Robbo! With a little tweaking it worked perfectly!"</i></li> <li><i>"yay!!! I think it finally went through - THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!"</i></li> </ul><br /> If you have a question that you would like to ask, a problem that you need help with, we'd love to see you in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">forums</a>! We just ask that you please take the time to read through our <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en">frequently asked questions</a>, and <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/search.py?hl=en&forum=1&query=search+more:forum">search the forum</a> before posting. Chances are high that a question like yours has already been answered. Tell us a little bit <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=172ac24d0ab9e08e&hl=en">about yourself</a> and then join us to learn more and help others!<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by <a href='https://plus.google.com/113006028898915385825/about' rel='author'>John Mueller</a>, Webmaster Trends Analyst</span> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> Webmaster level: all<br /> <br /> It's been a bit more than five years now that our <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum</a> has been up and running, helping webmasters around the world. Over the years, over tens of thousands of users have discussed various topics in well over 100,000 threads, helping each other to improve their websites and to solve a variety of issues that web publishers are confronted with. Among those users is a group that we call the "<a href="http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/bionic-posters">Bionic Posters</a>," users who have proven to be consistently helpful and knowledgeable, selflessly helping others to tackle seemingly insurmountable problems. <br /> <br /> It's great to have such an awesome community -- but thanks is best said by those who are helped. Here is some of the feedback that we collected this year:<br /> <ul><li><i>"Thank you for the time you have spent helping me. It is genuinely appreciated."</i></li> <li><i>"Thank you to everyone who helped with my problem! My creaky old 1996 era website is all cleaned up and doing just fine now! Good Guys Rule!"</i></li> <li><i>"WOW!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for your help! I was reluctant to post because I thought you guys might think my site is too small, too insignificant, etc. Thanks so much! To me, it's a BIG deal!"</i></li> <li><i>"My traffic has doubled and I am now either top or close to the top in search terms"</i></li> <li><i>"Thanks. Hopefully my late night paid off then, all the help and information has been great!!!!!!!"</i></li> <li><i>"Wow Webado Thank You Again.. You Really Know Your stuff! (…) You Are a True professional and Seriously The Only Person That Could Even Figure This out. I even Spoke to Other Top Specialists and YOU were the Only one who told me what to do and what was wrong."</i></li> <li><i>"You are AMAZING! Thank you so much!"</i></li> <li><i>"Finally, thanks so much for your concern and prompt reply, Squibble. Can't imagine a person would deligated his efforts to someones you don't even know and met. (…) Thanks for your help!! It means everything to me!"</i></li> <li><i>"Wow thanks so much! I have just been to the hot springs in Banos Ecuador, the volcano is rumbling and the town has evacuated but I am still here talking Apache, now that is dedication, I will test your helpfulness out 2moro! Thanks so much!!!"</i></li> <li><i>"THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU! YOU ARE SOOOO AMAZING! MY BLOG IS GONE FROM GOOGLE AND ALL THE OLD POSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT TOO! THANK YOU! I LOVE YOU!"</i></li> <li><i>"It worked! Thank you very much for your help Cristina :)"</i></li> <li><i>"I could NEVER have seen what's possible without this forum. I am so grateful."</i></li> <li><i>"Thank you so much for your detailed response to my questions. In 10 years of me having a website, no one has explained these concepts better to me than you did."</i></li> <li><i>"IT WORKED!!! Thank you so much for saving me the grief and embarrassment of this problem. I truly appreciate both your knowledge and guidance."</i></li> <li><i>"Thank you so much for such a detailed answer and putting into terms I can easily understand. (…) Where shall I send the batch of brownies?"</i></li> <li><i>"Thank you so much Squibble you are a hero. I have done what it says and i will check to see if i appear in google! Thanks again!"</i></li> <li><i>"you guys are amazing! thank you so much redleg! (…) and if you happen to ever be in san carlos give me a shout - you deserve at least a beer and a lunch! "</i></li> <li><i>"Thank you Squibble, Vanessa, Cristina, and Ishigaki for weighing in on this and helping me. I hope I can pay it forward one day."</i></li> <li><i>"Great info Guys. I really appreciate it. It was awesome of y'all to help me out. I really appreciate it. Thank you."</i></li> <li><i>"Your amazing :-) i love you lol xx im sorted now thanks and never in a million years would i have found that out!"</i></li> <li><i>"THANK YOU! I love Google and appreciate that they have these safety precautions in place for those nasty hackets - especially when we can fix the problem! Thanks so much for your help. Whew."</i></li> <li><i>"Thank you very much, Robbo! With a little tweaking it worked perfectly!"</i></li> <li><i>"yay!!! I think it finally went through - THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!"</i></li> </ul><br /> If you have a question that you would like to ask, a problem that you need help with, we'd love to see you in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">forums</a>! We just ask that you please take the time to read through our <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en">frequently asked questions</a>, and <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/search.py?hl=en&forum=1&query=search+more:forum">search the forum</a> before posting. Chances are high that a question like yours has already been answered. Tell us a little bit <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=172ac24d0ab9e08e&hl=en">about yourself</a> and then join us to learn more and help others!<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by <a href='https://plus.google.com/113006028898915385825/about' rel='author'>John Mueller</a>, Webmaster Trends Analyst</span> <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:"It's on Google! 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For example, can I host my videos on YouTube and still be eligible for Video Search traffic?</i><br /><br />Yes, you can use a third party to host videos. Only the play page--the URL within the <loc> tag--needs to be on your site. <video:content_loc> and <video:player_loc> can list URLs on a different site or subdomain.<br /><br />For example, here’s a snippet from a valid Video Sitemap that shows content hosted on a different subdomain from the play page:<br /><br /><code><div style="border 1px;overflow-y:hidden;overflow-x:scroll;"><p style="width:200%"><url> <br />  <loc>http://<b>www.example.com</b>/videos/some_video_landing_page.html</loc> <br />    <video:video> <br />      <video:thumbnail_loc>http://www.example.com/thumbs/123.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc> <br />      <video:title>Grilling steaks for summer</video:title> <br />      <video:description>Alkis shows you how to get perfectly done steaks every time</video:description> <br />      <video:content_loc>http://<b>video-hoster.example.com</b>/video123.flv</video:content_loc> <br />      <video:player_loc allow_embed="yes" autoplay="ap=1">http://www.example.com/videoplayer.swf?video=123</video:player_loc><br />    </video:video> <br /></url> </p></div></code></li><br /><li>I<i>f I’m using YouTube to host my videos, can Google verify that I’m the legitimate owner?</i><br /><br />Currently, there doesn’t exist functionality that allows you, as the uploader, to verify that you’re the owner of a video. The issue of authorship is a hard problem on the web, not just for videos, but nearly all types of content.</li><br /><li><i>Because Google owns YouTube, should users who embed YouTube videos still submit Video Sitemaps or is it unnecessary?</i><br /><br />Google treats YouTube as just another source for video content -- though you don’t need to submit a Video Sitemap if you only want your YouTube-hosted videos indexed. If, however, you’re using YouTube as a online video platform (i.e., with play pages on your own site), then we do recommend Sitemap submission.</li><br /><li><i>How long does it take for Google to accept and verify a Video Sitemap?</i><br /><br />Video Sitemap submission is a two-part process:<br /><ol><br /><li>We fetch the Sitemap and parse it for syntax errors. This happens within minutes.</li><br /><li>We fetch the assets referenced in the Sitemap, perform checks, validate metadata, do more cool stuff, and last, index the video. This step can require varied amounts of time depending on your site and our system load.</li></ol><br /><li><i>What tags and <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80472#2">categories</a> are most important in Video Sitemaps or mRSS? Should I create my own categories or is there a list that I should conform to?</i><br /><br />Currently, the most important metadata to include is title and description -- both are required. The category tag is optional, and there isn’t a list from which to select.</li><br /><li><i>Do I have to use <a href="http://www.html5rocks.com/">HTML5</a> to use Video Sitemaps? <br />Does HTML5 help with discovery? <br />Or, if my site is HTML5 compliant, do I still need to submit a Video Sitemap?</i><br /><br />None of the Video Search principles change with HTML5. We still recommend using a Video Sitemap regardless of the markup on your site. HTML5 can be helpful, though, because tags like <video> make it easier for our systems to verify that video exists on the page. </li><br /><li><i>If I use an <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34445">iframe</a> rather than embedding my videos, can Google still find it?</i><br /><br />We do not recommend using iframes to embed video content on your pages.</li><br /><li><i>Can I have multiple videos on one URL?</i><br /><br />You can. We’ve found, however, that users may not consider it the best experience. When users click on a video search result, they most often don’t like being forced to locate the correct video among multiple videos on the resulting page.</li><br /><li><i>Do I need to specifically create a <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=156449">robots.txt</a> file that allows Googlebot, or do I just need to make sure Googlebot isn’t blocked?</i><br /><br />Just make sure that Googlebot isn’t blocked.</li><br /><li><i>I provided a thumbnail, but it’s not being used. Does Google create their own thumbnails from my videos?</i><br /><br />We try to use the <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=156442#4">thumbnail you provide</a> if it’s valid. If not, we’ll try to generate a thumbnail ourselves. We recommend that you provide thumbnails that are at least 120x90 pixels. We also accept many thumbnail formats, such as PNG and JPEG.</li><br /><li><i>Any video filesize limitations?</i><br /><br />At this time, there aren’t video filesize limitations on content submitted through VIdeo Sitemaps.</li><br /><li><i>Is there any way to indicate a transcript or closed captioning for a video?</i><br /><br />Currently there isn’t, but perhaps down the road.</li><br /><li><i>What if I’m using Lightbox or a popup to display a video; can it still be indexed?</i><br /><br />Depends on the use case and how it’s rendered, but if indexing by search engines is important to you, it’s not the safest method. In the <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156442#7">Webmaster Help Center</a>, we explain that “When designing your site, it's important to configure your video pages without any overly complex JavaScript or Flash setup.” Most often, for bots, simpler is safer.</li></ol>Have a safe and happy holiday!<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Written by <a href="https://plus.google.com/111983349552187459374/about" rel="author">Maile Ohye</a>, Developer Programs Tech Lead</span> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> Webmaster Level: Intermediate to Advanced<br /><br />To the fabulous, savvy audience that attended our <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=kks0wPkX12I">Video Sitemap webinar</a> several months ago, please accept our re-gift: a summary of your questions from the <a href="//www.google.com/webmasters/videositemaps/">Video Sitemaps</a> Q&A!<br /><br />To those who were unable to attend the webinar, please enjoy our gift of the summarized Q&A -- it’s like new!<br /><br />Either way, happy holidays from all of us on the Webmaster Central Team. :)<br /><br /><div style="text-align:center"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/kks0wPkX12I?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/kks0wPkX12I?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><i>Our entire webinar covers the basics of Video Sitemaps and best practices -- nearly everything you’d need to know when submitting a video feed.</i></div><br /><ol><li><i> Can the source/content of the video (perhaps a third-party vendor) be hosted on another site? For example, can I host my videos on YouTube and still be eligible for Video Search traffic?</i><br /><br />Yes, you can use a third party to host videos. Only the play page--the URL within the <loc> tag--needs to be on your site. <video:content_loc> and <video:player_loc> can list URLs on a different site or subdomain.<br /><br />For example, here’s a snippet from a valid Video Sitemap that shows content hosted on a different subdomain from the play page:<br /><br /><code><div style="border 1px;overflow-y:hidden;overflow-x:scroll;"><p style="width:200%"><url> <br />  <loc>http://<b>www.example.com</b>/videos/some_video_landing_page.html</loc> <br />    <video:video> <br />      <video:thumbnail_loc>http://www.example.com/thumbs/123.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc> <br />      <video:title>Grilling steaks for summer</video:title> <br />      <video:description>Alkis shows you how to get perfectly done steaks every time</video:description> <br />      <video:content_loc>http://<b>video-hoster.example.com</b>/video123.flv</video:content_loc> <br />      <video:player_loc allow_embed="yes" autoplay="ap=1">http://www.example.com/videoplayer.swf?video=123</video:player_loc><br />    </video:video> <br /></url> </p></div></code></li><br /><li>I<i>f I’m using YouTube to host my videos, can Google verify that I’m the legitimate owner?</i><br /><br />Currently, there doesn’t exist functionality that allows you, as the uploader, to verify that you’re the owner of a video. The issue of authorship is a hard problem on the web, not just for videos, but nearly all types of content.</li><br /><li><i>Because Google owns YouTube, should users who embed YouTube videos still submit Video Sitemaps or is it unnecessary?</i><br /><br />Google treats YouTube as just another source for video content -- though you don’t need to submit a Video Sitemap if you only want your YouTube-hosted videos indexed. If, however, you’re using YouTube as a online video platform (i.e., with play pages on your own site), then we do recommend Sitemap submission.</li><br /><li><i>How long does it take for Google to accept and verify a Video Sitemap?</i><br /><br />Video Sitemap submission is a two-part process:<br /><ol><br /><li>We fetch the Sitemap and parse it for syntax errors. This happens within minutes.</li><br /><li>We fetch the assets referenced in the Sitemap, perform checks, validate metadata, do more cool stuff, and last, index the video. This step can require varied amounts of time depending on your site and our system load.</li></ol><br /><li><i>What tags and <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80472#2">categories</a> are most important in Video Sitemaps or mRSS? Should I create my own categories or is there a list that I should conform to?</i><br /><br />Currently, the most important metadata to include is title and description -- both are required. The category tag is optional, and there isn’t a list from which to select.</li><br /><li><i>Do I have to use <a href="http://www.html5rocks.com/">HTML5</a> to use Video Sitemaps? <br />Does HTML5 help with discovery? <br />Or, if my site is HTML5 compliant, do I still need to submit a Video Sitemap?</i><br /><br />None of the Video Search principles change with HTML5. We still recommend using a Video Sitemap regardless of the markup on your site. HTML5 can be helpful, though, because tags like <video> make it easier for our systems to verify that video exists on the page. </li><br /><li><i>If I use an <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34445">iframe</a> rather than embedding my videos, can Google still find it?</i><br /><br />We do not recommend using iframes to embed video content on your pages.</li><br /><li><i>Can I have multiple videos on one URL?</i><br /><br />You can. We’ve found, however, that users may not consider it the best experience. When users click on a video search result, they most often don’t like being forced to locate the correct video among multiple videos on the resulting page.</li><br /><li><i>Do I need to specifically create a <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=156449">robots.txt</a> file that allows Googlebot, or do I just need to make sure Googlebot isn’t blocked?</i><br /><br />Just make sure that Googlebot isn’t blocked.</li><br /><li><i>I provided a thumbnail, but it’s not being used. Does Google create their own thumbnails from my videos?</i><br /><br />We try to use the <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=156442#4">thumbnail you provide</a> if it’s valid. If not, we’ll try to generate a thumbnail ourselves. We recommend that you provide thumbnails that are at least 120x90 pixels. We also accept many thumbnail formats, such as PNG and JPEG.</li><br /><li><i>Any video filesize limitations?</i><br /><br />At this time, there aren’t video filesize limitations on content submitted through VIdeo Sitemaps.</li><br /><li><i>Is there any way to indicate a transcript or closed captioning for a video?</i><br /><br />Currently there isn’t, but perhaps down the road.</li><br /><li><i>What if I’m using Lightbox or a popup to display a video; can it still be indexed?</i><br /><br />Depends on the use case and how it’s rendered, but if indexing by search engines is important to you, it’s not the safest method. In the <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156442#7">Webmaster Help Center</a>, we explain that “When designing your site, it's important to configure your video pages without any overly complex JavaScript or Flash setup.” Most often, for bots, simpler is safer.</li></ol>Have a safe and happy holiday!<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Written by <a href="https://plus.google.com/111983349552187459374/about" rel="author">Maile Ohye</a>, Developer Programs Tech Lead</span> <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:Sending Video Sitemaps Q&A holiday cheer&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/12/sending-video-sitemaps-q-holiday-cheer.html?hl=en_US&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/2010/12/sending-video-sitemaps-q-holiday-cheer.html?hl=en_US'> <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/2010/12/sending-video-sitemaps-q-holiday-cheer.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/sitemaps?hl=en_US' rel='tag'> sitemaps </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='8832993759428881257' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/12/improving-our-help-content-stocking.html?hl=en_US' itemprop='url' title='Improving our help content: stocking stuffers in our Help Center'> Improving our help content: stocking stuffers in our Help Center </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, December 23, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div>Webmaster Level: All</div><div><br /></div><div>We provide lots of information for webmasters across many different channels — you can stay up to date with the latest features here on our blog, browse articles in our <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/">Help Center</a>, have discussions in our <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=113808">forums</a> (in 17 languages!), watch videos on our <a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp">YouTube channel</a>, or even read in-depth interviews (in <a href="http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts-012510.shtml">English</a>, <a href="http://www.mestreseo.com.br/entrevistas/entrevista-com-o-ariel-lambrecht-do-google">Portuguese</a>, and other languages). </div><div><br /></div><div>There’s no shortage of useful information, but sometimes the relevant bits may be a bit difficult to locate, especially for novice webmasters. We see the same questions popping up over and over again, so we’ve tried to make our most frequently searched information as accessible and visible as possible: </div><div>We analysed the questions asked over the past year and a half and identified the issues you are most interested in. We then picked out the relevant bits from across our different resources and collected the answers to those questions in one new convenient <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1050724">FAQ page</a> in our Help Center (available in 20 languages).</div><div><br /></div><div>We also frequently get questions on how to get in touch with us, so we’ve put together all the different ways you can: </div><div>...tell us about a page you want to remove from our search results; </div><div>...tell us about spam you found; </div><div>...let us know when you’ve fixed issues on your website;</div><div>...and many more! All of these contact channels are now listed conveniently in one article with direct links to the relevant forms: <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=70896">Webmaster help and contacts</a> (available from the homepage of our Help Center, also in 20 languages). </div><div><br /></div><div>Now isn’t that a nice stocking stuffer (-:? </div><div>Happy webmastering in 2011, and keep the feedback coming!<br/><br/></div><div><span class="byline-author">Posted by <a href="https://profiles.google.com/112108446606137271396/about" rel="author">Mariya Moeva</a>, Search Quality Team, Dublin</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div>Webmaster Level: All</div><div><br /></div><div>We provide lots of information for webmasters across many different channels — you can stay up to date with the latest features here on our blog, browse articles in our <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/">Help Center</a>, have discussions in our <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=113808">forums</a> (in 17 languages!), watch videos on our <a href="//www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp">YouTube channel</a>, or even read in-depth interviews (in <a href="http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts-012510.shtml">English</a>, <a href="http://www.mestreseo.com.br/entrevistas/entrevista-com-o-ariel-lambrecht-do-google">Portuguese</a>, and other languages). </div><div><br /></div><div>There’s no shortage of useful information, but sometimes the relevant bits may be a bit difficult to locate, especially for novice webmasters. We see the same questions popping up over and over again, so we’ve tried to make our most frequently searched information as accessible and visible as possible: </div><div>We analysed the questions asked over the past year and a half and identified the issues you are most interested in. We then picked out the relevant bits from across our different resources and collected the answers to those questions in one new convenient <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1050724">FAQ page</a> in our Help Center (available in 20 languages).</div><div><br /></div><div>We also frequently get questions on how to get in touch with us, so we’ve put together all the different ways you can: </div><div>...tell us about a page you want to remove from our search results; </div><div>...tell us about spam you found; </div><div>...let us know when you’ve fixed issues on your website;</div><div>...and many more! All of these contact channels are now listed conveniently in one article with direct links to the relevant forms: <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=70896">Webmaster help and contacts</a> (available from the homepage of our Help Center, also in 20 languages). </div><div><br /></div><div>Now isn’t that a nice stocking stuffer (-:? </div><div>Happy webmastering in 2011, and keep the feedback coming!<br/><br/></div><div><span class="byline-author">Posted by <a href="https://profiles.google.com/112108446606137271396/about" rel="author">Mariya Moeva</a>, Search Quality Team, Dublin</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Improving our help content: stocking stuffers in our Help Center&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/12/improving-our-help-content-stocking.html?hl=en_US&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/2010/12/improving-our-help-content-stocking.html?hl=en_US'> <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/2010/12/improving-our-help-content-stocking.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/feedback%20and%20communication?hl=en_US' rel='tag'> feedback and communication </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3254499426651762541' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/12/video-sitemaps-mrss-vs-facebook-share.html?hl=en_US' itemprop='url' title='Video Sitemaps & mRSS vs. Facebook Share & RDFa'> Video Sitemaps & mRSS vs. Facebook Share & RDFa </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, December 22, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Webmaster Level: Intermediate to Advanced<br /><br />What are the benefits of submitting feeds like <a href="//www.google.com/webmasters/videositemaps/">Video Sitemaps</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?&answer=183265">mRSS</a> vs. the benefits of <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/supporting-facebook-share-and-rdfa-for.html">Facebook Share and RDFa</a>? Is one better than the other? Let’s start the discussion.<br /><br /><b>Functionality of feeds vs. on-page markup</b><br /><br />Google accepts information from both video feeds, such as Video Sitemaps and mRSS, as well as on-page markup, such as Facebook Share and RDFa. We recommend that you use both!<br /><br />If you have limited resources, however, here’s a chart explaining the pros and cons of each method. The key differentiators include:<ul><li>While both feeds and on-page markup give search engines metadata, Video Sitemaps/mRSS also help with crawl discovery. We may find a new URL through your feed that we wouldn’t have easily discovered otherwise.</li><br /><li>Using Video Sitemaps/mRSS requires that the search engine support these formats and not all engines do. Because on-page markup is just that -- on the page -- crawlers can gather the metadata through organic means as they index the URL. No feed support is required.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align:center"><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="99%" border="1"><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><tbody><tr><td width="%33"> </td><td width="33%"><b>Feeds<br />(Video Sitemaps & mRSS)</b></td><td width="33%"><b>On-page markup<br />(Facebook Share & RDFa)</b></td></tr><tr><td>Accepted by Google</td><td><b>⎷</b></td><td><b>⎷</b></td></tr><tr><td>Helps search engines discover new URLs with videos (improves discovery and coverage)</td><td><b>⎷</b></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Provides structured metadata (e.g. video title and description)</td><td><b>⎷</b></td><td><b>⎷</b></td></tr><tr><td>Allows search engines without sitemap/mRSS support to still obtain metadata information (allows organic gathering of metadata)</td><td></td><td><b>⎷</b></td></tr><tr><td>Incorporates additional metadata like “duration”</td><td><b>⎷</b></td><td></td></tr></table></div><br /><br />If you’re further wondering about the benefits of specific feeds (Video Sitemaps vs. mRSS), we can help with clarification there, too. First of all, you can use either. We’re agnostic. :) One benefit of Video Sitemaps is that, because it’s a format we’re actively enhancing, we can quickly extend it to allow for more specifications.<br /><br /><i>All this said, if you’re going to start from scratch, Video Sitemaps is our recommended start.</i><br /><br /><div style="text-align:center"><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="99%" border="1"><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><tbody><tr><td width="%33"> </td><td width="33%"><b>Video Sitemaps</b></td><td width="33%"><b>mRSS</b></td></tr><tr><td>Accepted by Google<td><b>⎷</b></td><td><b>⎷</b></td></tr><tr><td>Been around for a long, long time and pretty widely accepted<td></td><td><b>⎷</b></td></tr><tr><td>Extremely quick for Google Video Search team to extend</td><td><b>⎷</b></td><td></td></tr></table></div><br /><br />“Starving” to start conversation about feeds or on-page markup? Join us in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/label?lid=401d0e67c19e20e9&hl=en">Sitemaps section</a> of the Webmaster discussion forum.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Written by <a href="https://plus.google.com/111983349552187459374/about" rel="author">Maile Ohye</a>, Developer Programs Tech Lead</span> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> Webmaster Level: Intermediate to Advanced<br /><br />What are the benefits of submitting feeds like <a href="//www.google.com/webmasters/videositemaps/">Video Sitemaps</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?&answer=183265">mRSS</a> vs. the benefits of <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/supporting-facebook-share-and-rdfa-for.html">Facebook Share and RDFa</a>? Is one better than the other? Let’s start the discussion.<br /><br /><b>Functionality of feeds vs. on-page markup</b><br /><br />Google accepts information from both video feeds, such as Video Sitemaps and mRSS, as well as on-page markup, such as Facebook Share and RDFa. We recommend that you use both!<br /><br />If you have limited resources, however, here’s a chart explaining the pros and cons of each method. The key differentiators include:<ul><li>While both feeds and on-page markup give search engines metadata, Video Sitemaps/mRSS also help with crawl discovery. We may find a new URL through your feed that we wouldn’t have easily discovered otherwise.</li><br /><li>Using Video Sitemaps/mRSS requires that the search engine support these formats and not all engines do. Because on-page markup is just that -- on the page -- crawlers can gather the metadata through organic means as they index the URL. No feed support is required.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align:center"><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="99%" border="1"><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><tbody><tr><td width="%33"> </td><td width="33%"><b>Feeds<br />(Video Sitemaps & mRSS)</b></td><td width="33%"><b>On-page markup<br />(Facebook Share & RDFa)</b></td></tr><tr><td>Accepted by Google</td><td><b>⎷</b></td><td><b>⎷</b></td></tr><tr><td>Helps search engines discover new URLs with videos (improves discovery and coverage)</td><td><b>⎷</b></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Provides structured metadata (e.g. video title and description)</td><td><b>⎷</b></td><td><b>⎷</b></td></tr><tr><td>Allows search engines without sitemap/mRSS support to still obtain metadata information (allows organic gathering of metadata)</td><td></td><td><b>⎷</b></td></tr><tr><td>Incorporates additional metadata like “duration”</td><td><b>⎷</b></td><td></td></tr></table></div><br /><br />If you’re further wondering about the benefits of specific feeds (Video Sitemaps vs. mRSS), we can help with clarification there, too. First of all, you can use either. We’re agnostic. :) One benefit of Video Sitemaps is that, because it’s a format we’re actively enhancing, we can quickly extend it to allow for more specifications.<br /><br /><i>All this said, if you’re going to start from scratch, Video Sitemaps is our recommended start.</i><br /><br /><div style="text-align:center"><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="99%" border="1"><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><tbody><tr><td width="%33"> </td><td width="33%"><b>Video Sitemaps</b></td><td width="33%"><b>mRSS</b></td></tr><tr><td>Accepted by Google<td><b>⎷</b></td><td><b>⎷</b></td></tr><tr><td>Been around for a long, long time and pretty widely accepted<td></td><td><b>⎷</b></td></tr><tr><td>Extremely quick for Google Video Search team to extend</td><td><b>⎷</b></td><td></td></tr></table></div><br /><br />“Starving” to start conversation about feeds or on-page markup? Join us in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/label?lid=401d0e67c19e20e9&hl=en">Sitemaps section</a> of the Webmaster discussion forum.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Written by <a href="https://plus.google.com/111983349552187459374/about" rel="author">Maile Ohye</a>, Developer Programs Tech Lead</span> <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:Video Sitemaps & mRSS vs. Facebook Share & RDFa&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/12/video-sitemaps-mrss-vs-facebook-share.html?hl=en_US&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/2010/12/video-sitemaps-mrss-vs-facebook-share.html?hl=en_US'> <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/2010/12/video-sitemaps-mrss-vs-facebook-share.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/sitemaps?hl=en_US' rel='tag'> sitemaps </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='8169749195665774319' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/12/ring-in-new-year-with-accessible.html?hl=en_US' itemprop='url' title='Ring in the new year with accessible content: Website clinic for non-profits'> Ring in the new year with accessible content: Website clinic for non-profits </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, December 22, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Webmaster level: Beginner<br /><div><br /></div><div><i>Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googlegrants.blogspot.com/2010/12/ring-in-new-year-with-accessible.html">Google Grants Blog</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div>In our previous post, we did some <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/12/holiday-source-code-housekeeping.html">source code housekeeping</a> -- just in time for the holidays. But once users have landed on your site, how can you make sure they’ll know how to get around?</div><div><br /></div><div>As it turns out, easily accessible content on your site can make a big difference. Users tend to have a better experience when a site helps them find and understand its content. Having an accessible site not only empowers users, it also helps search engines understand what your site is really about.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>So if you’ve resolved to boost your site’s user experience and online presence for the new year, improving your content accessibility is a great way to start. Thankfully, there are tons of features you can add to make your site more accessible. In this post, we’ll highlight three of them:</div><div><ul><li>Intuitive navigation</li><li>Concise, descriptive anchor text for links</li><li>Unique, accurate page titles throughout the site</li></ul></div></div><div><div><b>Intuitive navigation</b></div><div>Help users avoid confusion by providing them with intuitive navigation, so that when they arrive at your site, they’ll know where to click to find the information they’re looking for.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Here are three features you can implement in order to lead your users down the right path:</div><div><ul><li><i>Navigational menu:</i> Having a menu with links to the site’s most important pages is the fastest, easiest way to show users where to click next. </li><li><i>Text-based links:</i> While drop-down menus, image-based links, and animation-based links can be appealing, keep in mind that users on text-only devices and some search engines may not be able to see or understand these links. Thus, many users prefer text-based links, which are also easier for search engines to crawl and interpret. </li><li><i>User-viewable site map:</i> 59% of our submissions did not have a user-viewable site map. By providing one, you display the structure of your site and give the user easy one-click navigation. If users are having trouble finding specific pages on your site, a site map can help them find their way. Don’t send your users into the wild without a map!</li></ul></div></div><div>Let’s explore how these features can make a site’s navigation more intuitive by looking at one of our submitted sites, <a href="http://www.myphilanthropedia.org/">Philanthropedia</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553502442449546658" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMulJ6npW6ueoRWfViPekMdsBKgnSAhAU97K-qO1RIfwF9tFL0Co1s_T5niEb53KLjHJDgm_Ecxw1IsyKpG2wLV_dK9GNJw8E3YqzQh7OT2dVjRlVIxnQh1tkariOhaocnWtz8/s400/1yeuWqSp_Tpyn_wMhvmM-CIlY0W4-bA.png" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 284px;" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks to this site’s clean navigational menu, users can find all of the site’s important pages within a few clicks. Wherever users end up on the site, they can always click on the “Home” button to return to the main page, or on any of the links in the menu to return to the site’s important subpages. Like all of the links on this site, the links in the navigational menu are text-based links, which make it easier for both search engines and users to access the site’s content. Finally, Philanthropedia has included a user-viewable site map, shown below, in case visitors are looking for a specific page not listed in the main menu.</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553502450066386978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOA1Z74lrpbCzDoQG1HKx_W9FDEFR9q5NbONhr7KPA0E0if6X4ZRO8r47bPHoG1dXDGqQhN5vtYNWz39tT-MQCgSQ-mrZmr3Sgq-QZctDHEh2q7lcI_Zh1TL19frxu62qSkPgM/s400/1DcVcyJtYgQZjABMYN1jG9GRVvF_lGQ.png" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 275px;" /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Concise, descriptive anchor text for links</b></div><div>Anchor text -- the clickable text of a link -- can help users quickly decide which links they want to click on and find out more about. Meaningful anchor text makes it easier for users to navigate around your site and also helps search engines understand what the link’s destination page is about.</div><div><br /></div><div>20% of our submissions could improve their sites by improving the anchor text used in some of their internal links. When writing anchor text, keep two things in mind:</div><div><ul><li><i>Be descriptive:</i> Use words that are relevant to the destination page, avoiding generic phrases like “click here” or “article.” Make sure the user can get a snapshot of the destination page’s overall content and functionality by reading the anchor text.</li><li><i>Keep it concise:</i> Anchor text that contains a few words or a short phrase is more attractive and convenient for users to read than a sentence or paragraph-long link.</li></ul></div><div>Let’s take a look at how anchor text played out in two user-submitted examples:</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background- font-family:Tinos;font-size:medium;color:transparent;"><table id="internal-source-marker_0.45363054680638015" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border- border-collapse: collapse; color:initial;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0px; "><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Organization</span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Anchor Text Examples</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"></span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">User Friendliness</span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Anchor Text Behavior</span></span></span></td></tr><tr style="height: 0px; "><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><a href="http://www.mosaicproject.org/index.php"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Mosaic Project</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"></span></span></span></a></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"></span></span></span><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><a href="http://www.mosaicproject.org/workforMP"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Work for Mosaic</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><a href="http://www.mosaicproject.org/curriculumguide"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Order Our Curriculum Guide</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.mosaicproject.org/outdoor"><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Outdoor School</span></span></span></span></a></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">High: Users can get an accurate idea of the content on the links’ destination pages just by reading the anchor text.</span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Active verb phrases and rich nouns accurately describe the pages that the links are pointing to.</span></span></td></tr><tr style="height: 0px; "><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><a href="http://liver.stanford.edu/"><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Asian Liver Center</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"></span></span></span></span></a></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"></span></span></span><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><a href="http://liver.stanford.edu/Outreach/upcomingevents.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Learn more</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a href="http://liver.stanford.edu/Outreach/JRC.html"><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">here</span></span></span></span></a></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Low: The anchor text is too generic and does not give users an idea of what the linked-to content is. </span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Generic phrases give little insight into the pages that the links are pointing to.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>You can learn more about anchor text and internal linking strategies by checking out this blog post on the importance of <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/importance-of-link-architecture.html">link architecture</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Unique, accurate page titles throughout the site</b></div><div>Each page on your site is different, so flaunt your site’s diversity by giving a unique title to each page. Giving each page a unique title lets search engines know how that page is distinct from others within your site. In our analysis, over 28% of sites could have improved their site quality by adding unique page titles. </div><div><br /></div><div>Let’s check out a few more examples to see what a difference unique, accurate page titles can make:</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background- font-family:Tinos;font-size:medium;color:transparent;"><table id="internal-source-marker_0.45363054680638015" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border- border-collapse: collapse; color:initial;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0px; "><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 9px; padding-right: 9px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Organization</span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Page Title Examples</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">User Friendliness</span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Page Title Behavior</span></span></span></td></tr><tr style="height: 0px; "><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><a href="http://www.vamsinternational.org/"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">VAMS International</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"></span></span></a></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span style=" background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"></span></span><span style=" background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><a href="http://www.vamsinternational.org/upcoming_events"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Upcoming Events | VAMS International</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><span style=" background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><a href="http://www.vamsinternational.org/request_service"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Request Service | VAMS International</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://www.vamsinternational.org/faq"><span style=" background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">FAQ’s | VAMS International</span></span></span></a></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.vamsinternational.org/faq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"></span></span></a></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">High: Each page’s content is relevant to its title, and the user can get a good idea of each page’s unique offerings and functionality.</span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Concise, rich language joined with the organization’s name accurately describes the corresponding pages. The titles show how each page is unique while also acknowledging that they are all associated with one organization.</span></span></td></tr><tr style="height: 0px; "><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><a href="http://outcomesmhcd.com/"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">MHCD Evaluation and Research</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><a href="http://outcomesmhcd.com/About.htm"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">MHCD Evaluation and Research</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Low: This site contains a lot of diverse content and rich functionality; however, the uniform page titles do not convey these strengths.</span></span></span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; "><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This page title is too general and does not accurately describe the content on each page. The same title is used across all the pages on this site.</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Wrapping things up</b></div><div>We hope that this blog post has given you some ideas on how to ring in the new year with improved content accessibility, which can boost the user experience and online presence for your site.</div><div><br /></div><div>To learn more about the features discussed here and in our previous two site clinic posts, check out our <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/googles-seo-report-card.html">SEO Report Card</a> and <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/09/seo-starter-guide-updated.html">SEO Starter Guide</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>This blog post wraps up our website clinic for non-profits. We send our warmest regards to all the great non-profit causes you are working on, and thanks to everyone who took the time to submit their sites and read our posts!</div></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="byline-author">Posted by Jen Lee and Alexi Douvas, Search Quality Evaluation Team</span></div><div>Contributors: Aditya Goradia, Brandon Falls, Charlene Perez, Diara Dankert, Michael Wyszomierski, and Nelson Bradley</div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> Webmaster level: Beginner<br /><div><br /></div><div><i>Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googlegrants.blogspot.com/2010/12/ring-in-new-year-with-accessible.html">Google Grants Blog</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div>In our previous post, we did some <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/12/holiday-source-code-housekeeping.html">source code housekeeping</a> -- just in time for the holidays. But once users have landed on your site, how can you make sure they’ll know how to get around?</div><div><br /></div><div>As it turns out, easily accessible content on your site can make a big difference. Users tend to have a better experience when a site helps them find and understand its content. Having an accessible site not only empowers users, it also helps search engines understand what your site is really about.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>So if you’ve resolved to boost your site’s user experience and online presence for the new year, improving your content accessibility is a great way to start. Thankfully, there are tons of features you can add to make your site more accessible. In this post, we’ll highlight three of them:</div><div><ul><li>Intuitive navigation</li><li>Concise, descriptive anchor text for links</li><li>Unique, accurate page titles throughout the site</li></ul></div></div><div><div><b>Intuitive navigation</b></div><div>Help users avoid confusion by providing them with intuitive navigation, so that when they arrive at your site, they’ll know where to click to find the information they’re looking for.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Here are three features you can implement in order to lead your users down the right path:</div><div><ul><li><i>Navigational menu:</i> Having a menu with links to the site’s most important pages is the fastest, easiest way to show users where to click next. </li><li><i>Text-based links:</i> While drop-down menus, image-based links, and animation-based links can be appealing, keep in mind that users on text-only devices and some search engines may not be able to see or understand these links. Thus, many users prefer text-based links, which are also easier for search engines to crawl and interpret. </li><li><i>User-viewable site map:</i> 59% of our submissions did not have a user-viewable site map. By providing one, you display the structure of your site and give the user easy one-click navigation. If users are having trouble finding specific pages on your site, a site map can help them find their way. Don’t send your users into the wild without a map!</li></ul></div></div><div>Let’s explore how these features can make a site’s navigation more intuitive by looking at one of our submitted sites, <a href="http://www.myphilanthropedia.org/">Philanthropedia</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553502442449546658" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMulJ6npW6ueoRWfViPekMdsBKgnSAhAU97K-qO1RIfwF9tFL0Co1s_T5niEb53KLjHJDgm_Ecxw1IsyKpG2wLV_dK9GNJw8E3YqzQh7OT2dVjRlVIxnQh1tkariOhaocnWtz8/s400/1yeuWqSp_Tpyn_wMhvmM-CIlY0W4-bA.png" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 284px;" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks to this site’s clean navigational menu, users can find all of the site’s important pages within a few clicks. Wherever users end up on the site, they can always click on the “Home” button to return to the main page, or on any of the links in the menu to return to the site’s important subpages. Like all of the links on this site, the links in the navigational menu are text-based links, which make it easier for both search engines and users to access the site’s content. Finally, Philanthropedia has included a user-viewable site map, shown below, in case visitors are looking for a specific page not listed in the main menu.</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553502450066386978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOA1Z74lrpbCzDoQG1HKx_W9FDEFR9q5NbONhr7KPA0E0if6X4ZRO8r47bPHoG1dXDGqQhN5vtYNWz39tT-MQCgSQ-mrZmr3Sgq-QZctDHEh2q7lcI_Zh1TL19frxu62qSkPgM/s400/1DcVcyJtYgQZjABMYN1jG9GRVvF_lGQ.png" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 275px;" /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Concise, descriptive anchor text for links</b></div><div>Anchor text -- the clickable text of a link -- can help users quickly decide which links they want to click on and find out more about. Meaningful anchor text makes it easier for users to navigate around your site and also helps search engines understand what the link’s destination page is about.</div><div><br /></div><div>20% of our submissions could improve their sites by improving the anchor text used in some of their internal links. When writing anchor text, keep two things in mind:</div><div><ul><li><i>Be descriptive:</i> Use words that are relevant to the destination page, avoiding generic phrases like “click here” or “article.” Make sure the user can get a snapshot of the destination page’s overall content and functionality by reading the anchor text.</li><li><i>Keep it concise:</i> Anchor text that contains a few words or a short phrase is more attractive and convenient for users to read than a sentence or paragraph-long link.</li></ul></div><div>Let’s take a look at how anchor text played out in two user-submitted examples:</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background- font-family:Tinos;font-size:medium;color:transparent;"><table id="internal-source-marker_0.45363054680638015" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border- border-collapse: collapse; color:initial;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0px; "><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Organization</span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Anchor Text Examples</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"></span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">User Friendliness</span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Anchor Text Behavior</span></span></span></td></tr><tr style="height: 0px; "><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><a href="http://www.mosaicproject.org/index.php"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Mosaic Project</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"></span></span></span></a></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"></span></span></span><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><a href="http://www.mosaicproject.org/workforMP"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Work for Mosaic</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><a href="http://www.mosaicproject.org/curriculumguide"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Order Our Curriculum Guide</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.mosaicproject.org/outdoor"><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Outdoor School</span></span></span></span></a></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">High: Users can get an accurate idea of the content on the links’ destination pages just by reading the anchor text.</span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Active verb phrases and rich nouns accurately describe the pages that the links are pointing to.</span></span></td></tr><tr style="height: 0px; "><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><a href="http://liver.stanford.edu/"><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Asian Liver Center</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"></span></span></span></span></a></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"></span></span></span><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><a href="http://liver.stanford.edu/Outreach/upcomingevents.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Learn more</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a href="http://liver.stanford.edu/Outreach/JRC.html"><span style="background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">here</span></span></span></span></a></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Low: The anchor text is too generic and does not give users an idea of what the linked-to content is. </span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Generic phrases give little insight into the pages that the links are pointing to.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>You can learn more about anchor text and internal linking strategies by checking out this blog post on the importance of <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/importance-of-link-architecture.html">link architecture</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Unique, accurate page titles throughout the site</b></div><div>Each page on your site is different, so flaunt your site’s diversity by giving a unique title to each page. Giving each page a unique title lets search engines know how that page is distinct from others within your site. In our analysis, over 28% of sites could have improved their site quality by adding unique page titles. </div><div><br /></div><div>Let’s check out a few more examples to see what a difference unique, accurate page titles can make:</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background- font-family:Tinos;font-size:medium;color:transparent;"><table id="internal-source-marker_0.45363054680638015" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border- border-collapse: collapse; color:initial;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0px; "><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 9px; padding-right: 9px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Organization</span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Page Title Examples</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">User Friendliness</span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Page Title Behavior</span></span></span></td></tr><tr style="height: 0px; "><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><a href="http://www.vamsinternational.org/"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">VAMS International</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"></span></span></a></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span style=" background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"></span></span><span style=" background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><a href="http://www.vamsinternational.org/upcoming_events"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Upcoming Events | VAMS International</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><span style=" background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><a href="http://www.vamsinternational.org/request_service"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Request Service | VAMS International</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://www.vamsinternational.org/faq"><span style=" background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">FAQ’s | VAMS International</span></span></span></a></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.vamsinternational.org/faq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"></span></span></a></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">High: Each page’s content is relevant to its title, and the user can get a good idea of each page’s unique offerings and functionality.</span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Concise, rich language joined with the organization’s name accurately describes the corresponding pages. The titles show how each page is unique while also acknowledging that they are all associated with one organization.</span></span></td></tr><tr style="height: 0px; "><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><a href="http://outcomesmhcd.com/"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">MHCD Evaluation and Research</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><a href="http://outcomesmhcd.com/About.htm"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">MHCD Evaluation and Research</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background- font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;color:transparent;"></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Low: This site contains a lot of diverse content and rich functionality; however, the uniform page titles do not convey these strengths.</span></span></span></span></span></td><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); vertical-align: top; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; "><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This page title is too general and does not accurately describe the content on each page. The same title is used across all the pages on this site.</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Wrapping things up</b></div><div>We hope that this blog post has given you some ideas on how to ring in the new year with improved content accessibility, which can boost the user experience and online presence for your site.</div><div><br /></div><div>To learn more about the features discussed here and in our previous two site clinic posts, check out our <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/googles-seo-report-card.html">SEO Report Card</a> and <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/09/seo-starter-guide-updated.html">SEO Starter Guide</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>This blog post wraps up our website clinic for non-profits. We send our warmest regards to all the great non-profit causes you are working on, and thanks to everyone who took the time to submit their sites and read our posts!</div></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="byline-author">Posted by Jen Lee and Alexi Douvas, Search Quality Evaluation Team</span></div><div>Contributors: Aditya Goradia, Brandon Falls, Charlene Perez, Diara Dankert, Michael Wyszomierski, and Nelson Bradley</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:Ring in the new year with accessible content: Website clinic for non-profits&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/12/ring-in-new-year-with-accessible.html?hl=en_US&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/2010/12/ring-in-new-year-with-accessible.html?hl=en_US'> <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/2010/12/ring-in-new-year-with-accessible.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/beginner?hl=en_US' rel='tag'> beginner </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/general%20tips?hl=en_US' rel='tag'> general tips </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5000625199564538800' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/12/holiday-source-code-housekeeping.html?hl=en_US' itemprop='url' title='Holiday source code housekeeping: Website clinic for non-profits'> Holiday source code housekeeping: Website clinic for non-profits </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, December 21, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div><span class="Apple-style-span">Webmaster Level: Beginner</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><i>Cross-posted on the </i><a href="http://googlegrants.blogspot.com/2010/12/holiday-source-code-housekeeping.html"><i>Google Grants Blog</i></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">As the holiday season comes around, we all have a bit of housekeeping to do. This is precisely why we wanted to focus the second post in our </span><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/12/helping-holiday-hand-website-clinic-for.html">site clinic series</a><span class="Apple-style-span"> on cleaning up your source code. Throughout our analysis of submitted non-profit websites, we noticed some confusion about what HTML markup, or tags, to use where, and what content to place within them, both of which could have significant impact on users and how your website looks on the search results page.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Before you deck the halls, deck out your <title> elements</span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">Out of all the submitted non-profit websites, 27% were misusing their <title> elements, which are critical in letting both Google and users know what’s important to your website. Typically, a search engine will display ~60 characters from your title element; this is valuable real estate, so you should use it! Before getting into the actual code, let’s first take a look at how a great title element from one of our submitted sites, <a href="http://www.sharp.com/index.cfm">Sharp</a>, will appear in the search results page:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552993507417025986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKCPc_w5BJEb9Ko3TWH_BfwEcDON6jo2oBsjd600NQqEFo6efZcJ39dvVCle1rEK7etxbwag5jSd8ABqbv0WUKkbNQmDKqVGmF58a9B5um0JIV8ptWkCqT5ns6RdhP_7geWBj/s400/title.png" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 39px;" /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">Ideally, a great <title> element will include the name of the organization, along with a descriptive tag line. Let’s take a look at some submitted examples:</span></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background- color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-size:15px;"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td1"> <p class="p1">Organization</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td2"> <p class="p1"><title> source code</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td3"> <p class="p1">User Friendliness</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td4"> <p class="p1">Tag Behavior</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td5"> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.sharp.com/index.cfm">Sharp</a></span></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td6"> <p class="p1"><title>Top San Diego Doctors and Hospitals - Sharp HealthCare</title></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td7"> <p class="p1">Best</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td8"> <p class="p1">Includes organization’s name and a descriptive tag line</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td5"> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.interieur.be/">Interieur</a></span><span class="s2"> </span></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td6"> <p class="p1"><title>Interieur 2010 - 15-24 October Kortrijk, Belgium</title></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td7"> <p class="p1">Good</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td8"> <p class="p1">Includes the organization’s name and a non-descriptive tag line</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td5"> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.vamsinternational.org/">VAMS International </a></span></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td6"> <p class="p1"><title>Visual Arts and Music for Society | VAMS International</title> </p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td7"> <p class="p1">Okay</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td8"> <p class="p1">Includes only the organization’s name</p></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div></div><div><div><div><br /></div><div>If you don’t specify a <title> tag, then Google will try to create a title for you. You can probably do better than our best guess, so go for it: take control of your <title> tag! It’s a simple fix that can make a huge difference. Using specific <title> tags for your deeper URLs is also important, and we’ll address that in our next site clinic post.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Keep an eye on your description meta tags</b></div><div><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/improve-snippets-with-meta-description.html">Description meta tags</a> weren’t being utilized to their full potential in 54% of submitted sites. These tags are often used to populate the two-line snippet provided to users in the search results page. With a solid snippet, you can get your potential readers excited and ready to learn more about your organization. Let’s take another look at a good example from among the submitted sites, <a href="http://www.aussierescueil.com/">Tales of Aussie Rescue</a>:</div></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553005506596808386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2yl8kRQ-tnZZD-GNhKR7ipKchyphenhyphenq5t394h88VvUqBS8bQDtsvYFLOCGYh8jz_JNg8NBsJHf18x4J2HUdc-J6Gd8PajCkxT08_pm8sgKURlgdrVl9z8xqPV9bfdi3yhSj0bIEs/s400/aussie.png" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 41px;" /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>If description meta tags are absent or not relevant, a snippet will be chosen from the page’s content automatically. If you’re lucky and have a good snippet auto-selected, keep in mind that search engines vary in the way that they select snippets, so it’s better to keep things consistent and relevant by writing a solid description meta tag. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Keep your <h> <h> elements in their place</h></b></div><div>Another quick fix in your housekeeping is assuring your website makes proper use of heading tags. In our non-profit study, nearly 19% of submitted sites had room for improvement with heading elements. The most common problem in heading tags was the tendency to initiate headers with an <h2> or <h3> tag while not including an <h1> tag, presumably for aesthetic reasons.</div><div><br /></div><div>Headings give you the opportunity to tell both Google and users what’s important to you and your website. The lower the number on your heading tag, the more important the text, in the eyes of Google and your users. Take advantage of that <h1> tag! If you don’t like how an <h1> tag is rendered visually, you can always alter its appearance in your CSS.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Use alt text for images</b></div><div>Everyone is always proud to display their family photos come holiday season, but don’t forget to tell us what they’re all about. Over 37% of analyzed sites were not making appropriate use of the image alt attribute. If used properly, this attribute can: </div><div><ul><li>Help Google understand what your image is</li><li>Allow users on text-only browsers, with accessibility problems, or on limited devices to understand your images</li></ul></div><div>Keep in mind, rich and descriptive alt text is the key here. Let’s take another look at some of our submitted sites and their alt attribute usage:</div></div><div><br /></div><div> <style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px Arial; color: #0000a1} span.s1 {text-decoration: underline} table.t1 {border-collapse: collapse} td.td1 {width: 100.0px; background-color: #c0c0c0; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} td.td2 {width: 95.0px; background-color: #c0c0c0; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} td.td3 {width: 285.0px; background-color: #c0c0c0; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} td.td4 {width: 243.0px; background-color: #c0c0c0; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} td.td5 {width: 100.0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} td.td6 {width: 95.0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} td.td7 {width: 285.0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} td.td8 {width: 243.0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} </style> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td1"> <p class="p1">Organization</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td2"> <p class="p1">Source Code</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td3"> <p class="p1">User Friendliness</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td4"> <p class="p1">Tag Behavior</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td5"> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.guidedogsgiving.org.uk/sponsorapuppy/">Sponsor A Puppy</a></span></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td6"> <p class="p1"><img alt="Sponsor a Puppy logo" src=...</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td7"> <p class="p1">Best: the alt text specifies the image is the organization’s main logo</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td8"> <p class="p1">Uses rich, descriptive alt text to describe images, buttons, and logos</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td5"> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.myphilanthropedia.org/">Philanthropedia</a></span></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td6"> <p class="p1"><img alt="Logo" height=...</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td7"> <p class="p1">Good: the alt text specifies the image is a logo, but does not further describe it by the organization or its behavior</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td8"> <p class="p1">Uses non-descriptive alt text for images, buttons, and logos, or uses alt text only sporadically</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td5"> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.coastalcommunityfoundation.org/">Coastal Community Foundation</a></span></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td6"> <p class="p1"><img src="...”></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td7"> <p class="p1">Not ideal: alt text not present</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td8"> <p class="p1">No use of alt text, or use of text that does not add meaning (often seen in numbering the images)</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div></div><div></div><div><div><br /><b>A little window shopping for your New Year’s resolution</b></div><div>Google has some great resources to further address best practices in your source code. For starters, you can use our <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80407">HTML Suggestion Tool</a> in Webmaster Tools. Also, it’s always a good practice to make your site <a href="//www.google.com/accessibility/">accessible</a> to all viewers.</div></div><div></div><div><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Alexi Douvas and Jen Lee, Search Quality Team</span></div><div><span class="byline-author">Contributors: Aditya Goradia, Brandon Falls, Charlene Perez, Diara Dankert, Michael Wyszomierski, and Nelson Bradley</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div><span class="Apple-style-span">Webmaster Level: Beginner</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><i>Cross-posted on the </i><a href="http://googlegrants.blogspot.com/2010/12/holiday-source-code-housekeeping.html"><i>Google Grants Blog</i></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">As the holiday season comes around, we all have a bit of housekeeping to do. This is precisely why we wanted to focus the second post in our </span><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/12/helping-holiday-hand-website-clinic-for.html">site clinic series</a><span class="Apple-style-span"> on cleaning up your source code. Throughout our analysis of submitted non-profit websites, we noticed some confusion about what HTML markup, or tags, to use where, and what content to place within them, both of which could have significant impact on users and how your website looks on the search results page.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Before you deck the halls, deck out your <title> elements</span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">Out of all the submitted non-profit websites, 27% were misusing their <title> elements, which are critical in letting both Google and users know what’s important to your website. Typically, a search engine will display ~60 characters from your title element; this is valuable real estate, so you should use it! Before getting into the actual code, let’s first take a look at how a great title element from one of our submitted sites, <a href="http://www.sharp.com/index.cfm">Sharp</a>, will appear in the search results page:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552993507417025986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKCPc_w5BJEb9Ko3TWH_BfwEcDON6jo2oBsjd600NQqEFo6efZcJ39dvVCle1rEK7etxbwag5jSd8ABqbv0WUKkbNQmDKqVGmF58a9B5um0JIV8ptWkCqT5ns6RdhP_7geWBj/s400/title.png" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 39px;" /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">Ideally, a great <title> element will include the name of the organization, along with a descriptive tag line. Let’s take a look at some submitted examples:</span></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background- color:transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-size:15px;"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td1"> <p class="p1">Organization</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td2"> <p class="p1"><title> source code</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td3"> <p class="p1">User Friendliness</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td4"> <p class="p1">Tag Behavior</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td5"> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.sharp.com/index.cfm">Sharp</a></span></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td6"> <p class="p1"><title>Top San Diego Doctors and Hospitals - Sharp HealthCare</title></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td7"> <p class="p1">Best</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td8"> <p class="p1">Includes organization’s name and a descriptive tag line</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td5"> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.interieur.be/">Interieur</a></span><span class="s2"> </span></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td6"> <p class="p1"><title>Interieur 2010 - 15-24 October Kortrijk, Belgium</title></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td7"> <p class="p1">Good</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td8"> <p class="p1">Includes the organization’s name and a non-descriptive tag line</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td5"> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.vamsinternational.org/">VAMS International </a></span></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td6"> <p class="p1"><title>Visual Arts and Music for Society | VAMS International</title> </p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td7"> <p class="p1">Okay</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td8"> <p class="p1">Includes only the organization’s name</p></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div></div><div><div><div><br /></div><div>If you don’t specify a <title> tag, then Google will try to create a title for you. You can probably do better than our best guess, so go for it: take control of your <title> tag! It’s a simple fix that can make a huge difference. Using specific <title> tags for your deeper URLs is also important, and we’ll address that in our next site clinic post.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Keep an eye on your description meta tags</b></div><div><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/improve-snippets-with-meta-description.html">Description meta tags</a> weren’t being utilized to their full potential in 54% of submitted sites. These tags are often used to populate the two-line snippet provided to users in the search results page. With a solid snippet, you can get your potential readers excited and ready to learn more about your organization. Let’s take another look at a good example from among the submitted sites, <a href="http://www.aussierescueil.com/">Tales of Aussie Rescue</a>:</div></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553005506596808386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2yl8kRQ-tnZZD-GNhKR7ipKchyphenhyphenq5t394h88VvUqBS8bQDtsvYFLOCGYh8jz_JNg8NBsJHf18x4J2HUdc-J6Gd8PajCkxT08_pm8sgKURlgdrVl9z8xqPV9bfdi3yhSj0bIEs/s400/aussie.png" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 41px;" /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>If description meta tags are absent or not relevant, a snippet will be chosen from the page’s content automatically. If you’re lucky and have a good snippet auto-selected, keep in mind that search engines vary in the way that they select snippets, so it’s better to keep things consistent and relevant by writing a solid description meta tag. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Keep your <h> <h> elements in their place</h></b></div><div>Another quick fix in your housekeeping is assuring your website makes proper use of heading tags. In our non-profit study, nearly 19% of submitted sites had room for improvement with heading elements. The most common problem in heading tags was the tendency to initiate headers with an <h2> or <h3> tag while not including an <h1> tag, presumably for aesthetic reasons.</div><div><br /></div><div>Headings give you the opportunity to tell both Google and users what’s important to you and your website. The lower the number on your heading tag, the more important the text, in the eyes of Google and your users. Take advantage of that <h1> tag! If you don’t like how an <h1> tag is rendered visually, you can always alter its appearance in your CSS.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Use alt text for images</b></div><div>Everyone is always proud to display their family photos come holiday season, but don’t forget to tell us what they’re all about. Over 37% of analyzed sites were not making appropriate use of the image alt attribute. If used properly, this attribute can: </div><div><ul><li>Help Google understand what your image is</li><li>Allow users on text-only browsers, with accessibility problems, or on limited devices to understand your images</li></ul></div><div>Keep in mind, rich and descriptive alt text is the key here. Let’s take another look at some of our submitted sites and their alt attribute usage:</div></div><div><br /></div><div> <style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px Arial; color: #0000a1} span.s1 {text-decoration: underline} table.t1 {border-collapse: collapse} td.td1 {width: 100.0px; background-color: #c0c0c0; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} td.td2 {width: 95.0px; background-color: #c0c0c0; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} td.td3 {width: 285.0px; background-color: #c0c0c0; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} td.td4 {width: 243.0px; background-color: #c0c0c0; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} td.td5 {width: 100.0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} td.td6 {width: 95.0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} td.td7 {width: 285.0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} td.td8 {width: 243.0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; border-color: #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa #aaaaaa; padding: 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px 8.0px} </style> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td1"> <p class="p1">Organization</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td2"> <p class="p1">Source Code</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td3"> <p class="p1">User Friendliness</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td4"> <p class="p1">Tag Behavior</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td5"> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.guidedogsgiving.org.uk/sponsorapuppy/">Sponsor A Puppy</a></span></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td6"> <p class="p1"><img alt="Sponsor a Puppy logo" src=...</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td7"> <p class="p1">Best: the alt text specifies the image is the organization’s main logo</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td8"> <p class="p1">Uses rich, descriptive alt text to describe images, buttons, and logos</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td5"> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.myphilanthropedia.org/">Philanthropedia</a></span></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td6"> <p class="p1"><img alt="Logo" height=...</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td7"> <p class="p1">Good: the alt text specifies the image is a logo, but does not further describe it by the organization or its behavior</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td8"> <p class="p1">Uses non-descriptive alt text for images, buttons, and logos, or uses alt text only sporadically</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="td5"> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.coastalcommunityfoundation.org/">Coastal Community Foundation</a></span></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td6"> <p class="p1"><img src="...”></p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td7"> <p class="p1">Not ideal: alt text not present</p> </td> <td valign="top" class="td8"> <p class="p1">No use of alt text, or use of text that does not add meaning (often seen in numbering the images)</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div></div><div></div><div><div><br /><b>A little window shopping for your New Year’s resolution</b></div><div>Google has some great resources to further address best practices in your source code. For starters, you can use our <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80407">HTML Suggestion Tool</a> in Webmaster Tools. Also, it’s always a good practice to make your site <a href="//www.google.com/accessibility/">accessible</a> to all viewers.</div></div><div></div><div><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Alexi Douvas and Jen Lee, Search Quality Team</span></div><div><span class="byline-author">Contributors: Aditya Goradia, Brandon Falls, Charlene Perez, Diara Dankert, Michael Wyszomierski, and Nelson Bradley</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Holiday source code housekeeping: Website clinic for non-profits&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/12/holiday-source-code-housekeeping.html?hl=en_US&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/2010/12/holiday-source-code-housekeeping.html?hl=en_US'> <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/2010/12/holiday-source-code-housekeeping.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/beginner?hl=en_US' rel='tag'> beginner </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/general%20tips?hl=en_US' rel='tag'> general tips </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='8780752039245479425' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/12/helping-holiday-hand-website-clinic-for.html?hl=en_US' itemprop='url' title='A helping holiday hand: Website clinic for non-profits'> A helping holiday hand: Website clinic for non-profits </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, December 20, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div>Webmaster Level: Beginner</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googlegrants.blogspot.com/2010/12/helping-holiday-hand-website-clinic-for.html">Google Grants Blog</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>A New Year’s resolution</b></div><div>In the spirit of the holidays, here at Google we wanted to take the time to help out those who spend their days making our world a better place: non-profit organizations. A few weeks back, we asked webmasters of non-profits to <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/10/website-clinic-call-for-submissions.html">submit their organization’s site</a> to our Search Quality team for analysis. After some number crunching and trend analysis, we’re back to report on general areas for improvement and to guide you towards some useful resources! </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Making our list, checking it twice</b></div><div>First, we’d like thank all of the amazing organizations who participated by submitting their sites. We got some great results, and are excited about all the diverse non-profit causes out there. </div><div><br /></div><div>Our analysis will take place in the following two posts. The first post will focus on cleaning up HTML tags in your source code, while the second will examine improving user experience via better content accessibility. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Visions of... URLs... dancing in our heads</b></div><div>The great news is, every single site submitted had at least one or two areas to tweak to make it even better! So this information should be helpful to everyone out there, big or small. Just to whet your appetites, here’s a quick list of items that will not be addressed in our following posts, but that had some room for improvement in a large percentage of submitted sites: </div><div><ul><li>Keep an eye on proper <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139066">canonicalization</a>: 56% of analyzed non-profit sites could improve their canonicalization practices. You can read more about canonicalization in <a href="http://googleindia.blogspot.com/2010/02/india-site-clinic-part-i.html">this blog post</a> from a previous site clinic.</li><li>Make sure your volunteer/support sections are visible: 29% of our submissions could improve their sites by making their support, volunteer, or donation sections easier to find. A great way to accomplish this is to add a donations tab to your navigation bar so it’s just one click away at all times. </li><li>Protect your confidential information: Lots of non-profits, especially those in the medical industry, deal with some very important and confidential information. Read up on how to <a href="http://code.google.com/web/controlcrawlindex/">control your crawled and indexed content</a>, and remember to protect confidential content through proper authentication measures.</li><li>Make your Flash sites search engine friendly: We saw some beautiful sites running on Flash. Search engines have a hard time understanding Flash files, and we’re working to improve Flash comprehension on our end, but here are some discussion points on how you can <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html">help us understand your Flash content</a>.</li></ul></div><div><span class="byline-author">Posted by Alexi Douvas and Jen Lee, Search Quality Evaluation Team</span></div><div>Contributors: Aditya Goradia, Brandon Falls, Charlene Perez, Diara Dankert, Michael Wyszomierski, and Nelson Bradley</div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div>Webmaster Level: Beginner</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googlegrants.blogspot.com/2010/12/helping-holiday-hand-website-clinic-for.html">Google Grants Blog</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>A New Year’s resolution</b></div><div>In the spirit of the holidays, here at Google we wanted to take the time to help out those who spend their days making our world a better place: non-profit organizations. A few weeks back, we asked webmasters of non-profits to <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/10/website-clinic-call-for-submissions.html">submit their organization’s site</a> to our Search Quality team for analysis. After some number crunching and trend analysis, we’re back to report on general areas for improvement and to guide you towards some useful resources! </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Making our list, checking it twice</b></div><div>First, we’d like thank all of the amazing organizations who participated by submitting their sites. We got some great results, and are excited about all the diverse non-profit causes out there. </div><div><br /></div><div>Our analysis will take place in the following two posts. The first post will focus on cleaning up HTML tags in your source code, while the second will examine improving user experience via better content accessibility. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Visions of... URLs... dancing in our heads</b></div><div>The great news is, every single site submitted had at least one or two areas to tweak to make it even better! So this information should be helpful to everyone out there, big or small. Just to whet your appetites, here’s a quick list of items that will not be addressed in our following posts, but that had some room for improvement in a large percentage of submitted sites: </div><div><ul><li>Keep an eye on proper <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139066">canonicalization</a>: 56% of analyzed non-profit sites could improve their canonicalization practices. You can read more about canonicalization in <a href="http://googleindia.blogspot.com/2010/02/india-site-clinic-part-i.html">this blog post</a> from a previous site clinic.</li><li>Make sure your volunteer/support sections are visible: 29% of our submissions could improve their sites by making their support, volunteer, or donation sections easier to find. A great way to accomplish this is to add a donations tab to your navigation bar so it’s just one click away at all times. </li><li>Protect your confidential information: Lots of non-profits, especially those in the medical industry, deal with some very important and confidential information. Read up on how to <a href="http://code.google.com/web/controlcrawlindex/">control your crawled and indexed content</a>, and remember to protect confidential content through proper authentication measures.</li><li>Make your Flash sites search engine friendly: We saw some beautiful sites running on Flash. Search engines have a hard time understanding Flash files, and we’re working to improve Flash comprehension on our end, but here are some discussion points on how you can <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html">help us understand your Flash content</a>.</li></ul></div><div><span class="byline-author">Posted by Alexi Douvas and Jen Lee, Search Quality Evaluation Team</span></div><div>Contributors: Aditya Goradia, Brandon Falls, Charlene Perez, Diara Dankert, Michael Wyszomierski, and Nelson Bradley</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:A helping holiday hand: Website clinic for non-profits&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/12/helping-holiday-hand-website-clinic-for.html?hl=en_US&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/2010/12/helping-holiday-hand-website-clinic-for.html?hl=en_US'> <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/2010/12/helping-holiday-hand-website-clinic-for.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/beginner?hl=en_US' rel='tag'> beginner </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/general%20tips?hl=en_US' rel='tag'> general tips </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='87665304986392277' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/12/new-hacked-site-notifications-in-search.html?hl=en_US' itemprop='url' title='New hacked site notifications in search results'> New hacked site notifications in search results </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Friday, December 17, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Webmaster level: All<br /> <br /> Today we’ve added a new notification to our search results that helps people know when a site may have been hacked. We’ve provided <a href="//www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=45449">notices for malware</a> for years, which also involve a separate warning page. Now we’re expanding the search results notifications to help people avoid sites that may have been hacked and altered by a third party, typically for spam. When a user visits a site, we want her to be confident the information on that site comes from the original publisher. <br /> <br /> Here’s what the notification looks like:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwu-ttHI_aO-LQpLNkYWsFdb27klLHb6wekxmaDbABzkgtFGn2MFcYSqF0JmcaAvH8FGGqGNOPgI6HLUQF4djD-3pHozctwZyQRxTRCCD2sDo6c7KLYW8wvzP9U29XKMPdpgrU/s1600/this-site-may-be-hacked.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwu-ttHI_aO-LQpLNkYWsFdb27klLHb6wekxmaDbABzkgtFGn2MFcYSqF0JmcaAvH8FGGqGNOPgI6HLUQF4djD-3pHozctwZyQRxTRCCD2sDo6c7KLYW8wvzP9U29XKMPdpgrU/s500/this-site-may-be-hacked.png" /></a></div><br /> Clicking the “This site may be hacked” link brings you to an <a href="//www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=190597">article in our Help Center</a> which explains more about the notice. Meanwhile, clicking the result itself brings you to the target website, as expected.<br /> <br /> We use a variety of automated tools to detect common signs of a hacked site as quickly as possible. When we detect something suspicious, we’ll add the notification to our search results. We’ll also do our best to contact the site’s webmaster via their Webmaster Tools account and any contact email addresses we can find on the webpage. We hope webmasters will also appreciate these notices, because it will help you more quickly discover when someone may be abusing your site so you can correct the problem. <br /> <br /> Of course, we also understand that webmasters may be concerned that these notices are impacting their traffic from search. Rest assured, once the problem has been fixed, the warning label will be automatically removed from our search results, usually in a matter of days. You can also <a href="http://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2600725?hl=en">request a review</a> of your site to accelerate removal of the notice.<br /> <br /> If you see this notification appearing on your site’s listing, please take a look at the <a href="//www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=190597">instructions</a> in our Help Center to learn how you can begin to address the problem. Together, we can make the web a safer place.<br /> <br /> Update (2:50pm PT, September 19th 2013): We've updated this post to reflect the change in the notification wording.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Gideon Wald, Associate Product Manager</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Webmaster level: All<br /> <br /> Today we’ve added a new notification to our search results that helps people know when a site may have been hacked. We’ve provided <a href="//www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=45449">notices for malware</a> for years, which also involve a separate warning page. Now we’re expanding the search results notifications to help people avoid sites that may have been hacked and altered by a third party, typically for spam. When a user visits a site, we want her to be confident the information on that site comes from the original publisher. <br /> <br /> Here’s what the notification looks like:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwu-ttHI_aO-LQpLNkYWsFdb27klLHb6wekxmaDbABzkgtFGn2MFcYSqF0JmcaAvH8FGGqGNOPgI6HLUQF4djD-3pHozctwZyQRxTRCCD2sDo6c7KLYW8wvzP9U29XKMPdpgrU/s1600/this-site-may-be-hacked.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwu-ttHI_aO-LQpLNkYWsFdb27klLHb6wekxmaDbABzkgtFGn2MFcYSqF0JmcaAvH8FGGqGNOPgI6HLUQF4djD-3pHozctwZyQRxTRCCD2sDo6c7KLYW8wvzP9U29XKMPdpgrU/s500/this-site-may-be-hacked.png" /></a></div><br /> Clicking the “This site may be hacked” link brings you to an <a href="//www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=190597">article in our Help Center</a> which explains more about the notice. Meanwhile, clicking the result itself brings you to the target website, as expected.<br /> <br /> We use a variety of automated tools to detect common signs of a hacked site as quickly as possible. When we detect something suspicious, we’ll add the notification to our search results. We’ll also do our best to contact the site’s webmaster via their Webmaster Tools account and any contact email addresses we can find on the webpage. We hope webmasters will also appreciate these notices, because it will help you more quickly discover when someone may be abusing your site so you can correct the problem. <br /> <br /> Of course, we also understand that webmasters may be concerned that these notices are impacting their traffic from search. Rest assured, once the problem has been fixed, the warning label will be automatically removed from our search results, usually in a matter of days. You can also <a href="http://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2600725?hl=en">request a review</a> of your site to accelerate removal of the notice.<br /> <br /> If you see this notification appearing on your site’s listing, please take a look at the <a href="//www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=190597">instructions</a> in our Help Center to learn how you can begin to address the problem. Together, we can make the web a safer place.<br /> <br /> Update (2:50pm PT, September 19th 2013): We've updated this post to reflect the change in the notification wording.<br /> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Gideon Wald, Associate Product Manager</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:New hacked site notifications in search results&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/12/new-hacked-site-notifications-in-search.html?hl=en_US&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/2010/12/new-hacked-site-notifications-in-search.html?hl=en_US'> <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/2010/12/new-hacked-site-notifications-in-search.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/advanced?hl=en_US' rel='tag'> advanced </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/beginner?hl=en_US' rel='tag'> beginner </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/feedback%20and%20communication?hl=en_US' rel='tag'> feedback and communication </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/intermediate?hl=en_US' rel='tag'> intermediate </a> , <a class='label' href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/search/label/search%20results?hl=en_US' rel='tag'> search results </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='71390061798958344' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/12/webmaster-tools-holiday-update.html?hl=en_US' itemprop='url' title='Webmaster Tools’ Holiday Update'> Webmaster Tools’ Holiday Update </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Friday, December 10, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Webmaster Level: All<br /><br />Just in time for the holidays, the <a href="//www.google.com/webmasters/tools/">Webmaster Tools</a> team has updated the "Search queries" and "Links to your site" features.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Search queries with top pages:</span><br />Throughout the past year we’ve made some significant changes to the search queries feature in Webmaster Tools. We've received lots of feedback about this tremendously popular feature. One frequent request we heard was that people wanted to be able to see search queries data for their site’s individual pages. Well, we totally agreed that this would be useful and promptly set out to add this functionality to search queries. The fruits of our effort have finally ripened enough on the vine and are ready for you to enjoy. Now when you visit the search queries feature in Webmaster Tools you'll see a new tab titled "Top Pages." The "Top Pages" tab lists impression, click, and position data for the top pages on your site based on their performance in Google's search results.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEZ-63YybQEWMXY6dxoGE784903YrgttETPbibnejv4AiosQ5INMabQW_iXcEdsxZRbOylH0IGbbdyAzm9B5kCo9t7OTdZ5rHY5sN30-BafiYlncxEbWz_jJmVmg2DDPsJ6tMN/s1600/TopPages.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549117037056630450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEZ-63YybQEWMXY6dxoGE784903YrgttETPbibnejv4AiosQ5INMabQW_iXcEdsxZRbOylH0IGbbdyAzm9B5kCo9t7OTdZ5rHY5sN30-BafiYlncxEbWz_jJmVmg2DDPsJ6tMN/s400/TopPages.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 196px;" /></a><br />If you click on one of the individual pages listed you’ll see a list of the queries driving traffic to that page, along with impressions and number of clicks for each query.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsDutI9bRKMsWKpXrUJPztKyAgZ9WyOo4vY48cThvN_EDy_bGEOsyUOo3rC-aTm9pLMWpOxwqHFOZU7VGHe4E7t-GvWmrF20gun37B39zBbgpAK1wlCWwnSxXtf34NSxrLPYEK/s1600/UrlDetails.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549118570758200018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsDutI9bRKMsWKpXrUJPztKyAgZ9WyOo4vY48cThvN_EDy_bGEOsyUOo3rC-aTm9pLMWpOxwqHFOZU7VGHe4E7t-GvWmrF20gun37B39zBbgpAK1wlCWwnSxXtf34NSxrLPYEK/s400/UrlDetails.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 146px;" /></a><br />Just like in the "Top queries" view, you can click on a specific query to see more detailed data and evaluate how the query is performing across the whole site.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVAv1uSNoLmeholrDKdCvLyz_oS7HB07WHfpnlisKfmiglYcRF7Bs7k79ygMm7tIieeTYs6J78WhF7YWw-cRr6qScc2JZKHh9ltdk2-O9C9eRs2fBGCtKIh_WcIu5vSjDs5TDY/s1600/QueryDetails.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549118709527350546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVAv1uSNoLmeholrDKdCvLyz_oS7HB07WHfpnlisKfmiglYcRF7Bs7k79ygMm7tIieeTYs6J78WhF7YWw-cRr6qScc2JZKHh9ltdk2-O9C9eRs2fBGCtKIh_WcIu5vSjDs5TDY/s400/QueryDetails.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 167px;" /></a><br />To make filtering in search queries even easier, we've added pie charts to show visually the proportions of search type, location and traffic. Also in the "Top queries" view, you can now specify “containing” or “not containing” when filtering queries.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEPMfBeaWMlmwcOyU2PWi8QHUbj-3taOlp6G1Vmkrs2dI6BVxOfkC3yFYlaSJGO057i_Seir3RkUJh_v7SjYc7MkCq5XDlzdxeJEh4TgncY5y3NyEahPl9kUkLrqr4AzJL2SDq/s1600/Filters.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549119085146517826" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEPMfBeaWMlmwcOyU2PWi8QHUbj-3taOlp6G1Vmkrs2dI6BVxOfkC3yFYlaSJGO057i_Seir3RkUJh_v7SjYc7MkCq5XDlzdxeJEh4TgncY5y3NyEahPl9kUkLrqr4AzJL2SDq/s400/Filters.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 167px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Links to your site with intermediate links:</span><br />Links to your site now shows when a particular URL redirects. If there's a link to your site that links to URL1 which then redirects to URL2, we are now showing the link from URL1 to URL2 as an intermediate link. We also added a "Download all links" option to all the tables in the Links to your site feature.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3fDDHibTWlmkH6H9mr2nP-mBGE59ql1xp9GsSqzydu5OjM2kkyceFgngQXy-yI-hVY1yBbU9KkqSMqLgP5NM280x-3qftaPQFbPISt_bfSC3Z53NIj0I3Q3s_-rYOFiodI6L/s1600/IntermediateLink.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549134511079576978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3fDDHibTWlmkH6H9mr2nP-mBGE59ql1xp9GsSqzydu5OjM2kkyceFgngQXy-yI-hVY1yBbU9KkqSMqLgP5NM280x-3qftaPQFbPISt_bfSC3Z53NIj0I3Q3s_-rYOFiodI6L/s400/IntermediateLink.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 134px;" /></a><br />Now that you know about these updates, please take a few minutes to check them out for your site. We hope it will provide you with a little bit of extra joy this holiday season. Let us know what you think by submitting a comment here or posting in our <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum</a>. Happy Holidays from the Webmaster Tools team!<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by <a href='https://plus.google.com/100827970491354551456/about' rel='author'>Jonathan Simon</a>, Webmaster Trends Analyst</span> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> Webmaster Level: All<br /><br />Just in time for the holidays, the <a href="//www.google.com/webmasters/tools/">Webmaster Tools</a> team has updated the "Search queries" and "Links to your site" features.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Search queries with top pages:</span><br />Throughout the past year we’ve made some significant changes to the search queries feature in Webmaster Tools. We've received lots of feedback about this tremendously popular feature. One frequent request we heard was that people wanted to be able to see search queries data for their site’s individual pages. Well, we totally agreed that this would be useful and promptly set out to add this functionality to search queries. The fruits of our effort have finally ripened enough on the vine and are ready for you to enjoy. Now when you visit the search queries feature in Webmaster Tools you'll see a new tab titled "Top Pages." The "Top Pages" tab lists impression, click, and position data for the top pages on your site based on their performance in Google's search results.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEZ-63YybQEWMXY6dxoGE784903YrgttETPbibnejv4AiosQ5INMabQW_iXcEdsxZRbOylH0IGbbdyAzm9B5kCo9t7OTdZ5rHY5sN30-BafiYlncxEbWz_jJmVmg2DDPsJ6tMN/s1600/TopPages.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549117037056630450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEZ-63YybQEWMXY6dxoGE784903YrgttETPbibnejv4AiosQ5INMabQW_iXcEdsxZRbOylH0IGbbdyAzm9B5kCo9t7OTdZ5rHY5sN30-BafiYlncxEbWz_jJmVmg2DDPsJ6tMN/s400/TopPages.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 196px;" /></a><br />If you click on one of the individual pages listed you’ll see a list of the queries driving traffic to that page, along with impressions and number of clicks for each query.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsDutI9bRKMsWKpXrUJPztKyAgZ9WyOo4vY48cThvN_EDy_bGEOsyUOo3rC-aTm9pLMWpOxwqHFOZU7VGHe4E7t-GvWmrF20gun37B39zBbgpAK1wlCWwnSxXtf34NSxrLPYEK/s1600/UrlDetails.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549118570758200018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsDutI9bRKMsWKpXrUJPztKyAgZ9WyOo4vY48cThvN_EDy_bGEOsyUOo3rC-aTm9pLMWpOxwqHFOZU7VGHe4E7t-GvWmrF20gun37B39zBbgpAK1wlCWwnSxXtf34NSxrLPYEK/s400/UrlDetails.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 146px;" /></a><br />Just like in the "Top queries" view, you can click on a specific query to see more detailed data and evaluate how the query is performing across the whole site.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVAv1uSNoLmeholrDKdCvLyz_oS7HB07WHfpnlisKfmiglYcRF7Bs7k79ygMm7tIieeTYs6J78WhF7YWw-cRr6qScc2JZKHh9ltdk2-O9C9eRs2fBGCtKIh_WcIu5vSjDs5TDY/s1600/QueryDetails.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549118709527350546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVAv1uSNoLmeholrDKdCvLyz_oS7HB07WHfpnlisKfmiglYcRF7Bs7k79ygMm7tIieeTYs6J78WhF7YWw-cRr6qScc2JZKHh9ltdk2-O9C9eRs2fBGCtKIh_WcIu5vSjDs5TDY/s400/QueryDetails.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 167px;" /></a><br />To make filtering in search queries even easier, we've added pie charts to show visually the proportions of search type, location and traffic. Also in the "Top queries" view, you can now specify “containing” or “not containing” when filtering queries.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEPMfBeaWMlmwcOyU2PWi8QHUbj-3taOlp6G1Vmkrs2dI6BVxOfkC3yFYlaSJGO057i_Seir3RkUJh_v7SjYc7MkCq5XDlzdxeJEh4TgncY5y3NyEahPl9kUkLrqr4AzJL2SDq/s1600/Filters.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549119085146517826" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEPMfBeaWMlmwcOyU2PWi8QHUbj-3taOlp6G1Vmkrs2dI6BVxOfkC3yFYlaSJGO057i_Seir3RkUJh_v7SjYc7MkCq5XDlzdxeJEh4TgncY5y3NyEahPl9kUkLrqr4AzJL2SDq/s400/Filters.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 167px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Links to your site with intermediate links:</span><br />Links to your site now shows when a particular URL redirects. If there's a link to your site that links to URL1 which then redirects to URL2, we are now showing the link from URL1 to URL2 as an intermediate link. We also added a "Download all links" option to all the tables in the Links to your site feature.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3fDDHibTWlmkH6H9mr2nP-mBGE59ql1xp9GsSqzydu5OjM2kkyceFgngQXy-yI-hVY1yBbU9KkqSMqLgP5NM280x-3qftaPQFbPISt_bfSC3Z53NIj0I3Q3s_-rYOFiodI6L/s1600/IntermediateLink.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549134511079576978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3fDDHibTWlmkH6H9mr2nP-mBGE59ql1xp9GsSqzydu5OjM2kkyceFgngQXy-yI-hVY1yBbU9KkqSMqLgP5NM280x-3qftaPQFbPISt_bfSC3Z53NIj0I3Q3s_-rYOFiodI6L/s400/IntermediateLink.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 134px;" /></a><br />Now that you know about these updates, please take a few minutes to check them out for your site. We hope it will provide you with a little bit of extra joy this holiday season. Let us know what you think by submitting a comment here or posting in our <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum</a>. Happy Holidays from the Webmaster Tools team!<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by <a href='https://plus.google.com/100827970491354551456/about' rel='author'>Jonathan Simon</a>, Webmaster Trends Analyst</span> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Webmaster Tools’ Holiday Update&url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/12/webmaster-tools-holiday-update.html?hl=en_US&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' 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