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Google Instant: Impact on Search queries September 8, 2010
Webmaster Level: AllWebmasters, you may notice some changes in you Search queries data due to the launch of Google Instant. With Google Instant, the page updates dynamically to show results for the top completion of what the user has typed, so this means people could be seeing and visiting your website much faster than before, and often without clicking the […]
New ways to view Webmaster Tools messages September 3, 2010
Webmaster Level: AllNow there’s a new way to see just the messages for a specific site. A new Messages feature will appear on all site pages. The feature is just like the Message Center on the home page, except it‘ll show only messages for the currently selected site. This gives you more freedom to choose how you want to view your messages: either for all yo […]
Rich snippets: testing tool improvements, breadcrumbs, and events September 3, 2010
Webmaster Level: AllSince the initial roll-out of rich snippets in 2009, webmasters have shown a great deal of interest in adding markup to their web pages to improve their listings in search results. When webmasters add markup using microdata, microformats, or RDFa, Google is able to understand the content on web pages and show search result snippets that b […]
Google now indexes SVG September 1, 2010
Webmaster Level: AllYou can now use Google search to find SVG documents. SVG is an open, XML-based format for vector graphics with support for interactive elements. We’re big fans of open standards, and our mission is to organize the world’s information, so indexing SVG is a natural step.We index SVG content whether it is in a standalone file or embedded dir […]
Showing more results from a domain August 20, 2010
Webmaster Level: AllToday we’ve launched a change to our ranking algorithm that will make it much easier for users to find a large number of results from a single site. For queries that indicate a strong user interest in a particular domain, like [exhibitions at amnh], we’ll now show more results from the relevant site:Prior to today’s change, only two resu […]