Webmaster level: intermediate We love helping publishers make their content available to large groups of readers, and working on ways to make the world’s information useful and accessible through our search results. At the same time, we’re also aware of the fact that creating high-quality content is not easy and, in many cases, expensive. This is one of the reasons why we initially launched First Click Free for Google News and...

Webmaster Level: Beginner It has probably happened to you: you’re reading articles or watching videos on the web, and you come across some unrelated, gibberish comments. You may wonder what this is all about. Some webmasters abuse other sites by exploiting their comment fields, posting tons of links that point back to the poster’s site in an attempt to boost their site’s ranking Read the original post:  Hard facts about co

Webmaster Level: All In May this year we announced Rich Snippets which makes it possible to show structured data from your pages on Google’s search results. We’re convinced that structured data makes the web better, and we’ve worked hard to expand Rich Snippets to more search results and collect your feedback along the way. Read more from the original source: Help us make the web better: An update on Rich Snippets

(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog ) A few years ago I couldn’t wait to get married. Because I was in love, yeah, but more importantly, so that I could take my husband’s name and people would stop getting that ridiculous picture from college as a top result when they searched for me on Google. After a few years of working here, though, I’ve learned that you don’t have to change your name just because it...

Webmaster level: Advanced Today we’re excited to propose a new standard for making AJAX-based websites crawlable. Read the rest here:  A proposal for making AJAX crawlable