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Google Public DNS and Location-Sensitive DNS Responses

Monday, December 15, 2014
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Labels: advanced

The four steps to appiness

Tuesday, December 09, 2014
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Labels: advanced , apps , crawling and indexing , feedback and communication , intermediate , verification , webmaster tools

Are you a robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA”

Wednesday, December 03, 2014
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Labels: advanced , beginner , general tips , intermediate , products and services

Helping users find mobile-friendly pages

Tuesday, November 18, 2014
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Tracking mobile usability in Webmaster Tools

Wednesday, October 29, 2014
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Labels: advanced , intermediate , mobile , webmaster tools

Updating our technical Webmaster Guidelines

Monday, October 27, 2014
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Labels: crawling and indexing , webmaster guidelines

Best practices for XML sitemaps & RSS/Atom feeds

Thursday, October 16, 2014
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Labels: advanced , crawling and indexing , intermediate , sitemaps

Bring your local business online -- no website required!

Monday, October 06, 2014
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Labels: beginner

An update to the Webmaster Tools API

Thursday, September 11, 2014
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Labels: advanced , apps , sitemaps , webmaster tools

Webmaster Academy now available in 22 languages

Monday, September 08, 2014
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Labels: beginner , general tips

An improved search box within the search results

Friday, September 05, 2014
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Labels: crawling and indexing , search results , structured data

Optimizing for Bandwidth on Apache and Nginx

Thursday, September 04, 2014
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Labels: advanced , performance

#NoHacked: a global campaign to spread hacking awareness

Monday, August 25, 2014
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Labels: beginner , hacked sites , intermediate , security

HTTPS as a ranking signal

Wednesday, August 06, 2014
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Labels: advanced , beginner , https , intermediate , search results , security

Introducing the Google News Publisher Center

Monday, August 04, 2014
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Labels: advanced , beginner , intermediate , webmaster tools

Testing robots.txt files made easier

Wednesday, July 16, 2014
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Labels: advanced , crawling and indexing , intermediate , webmaster tools

Promoting modern websites for modern devices in Google search results

Monday, July 14, 2014
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Labels: accessibility , search results

Troubleshooting hreflang annotations in Webmaster Tools

Monday, July 14, 2014
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Labels: hreflang , localization , webmaster tools

Android app indexing is now open for everyone!

Wednesday, June 25, 2014
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Labels: apps , crawling and indexing , mobile , search results , webmaster tools

Making site moves easier

Friday, June 06, 2014
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Directing smartphone users to the page they actually wanted

Wednesday, June 04, 2014
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Labels: accessibility , crawling and indexing , mobile , webmaster tools

App Indexing in more languages

Friday, May 30, 2014
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Labels: apps , mobile , products and services

Rendering pages with Fetch as Google

Tuesday, May 27, 2014
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Labels: advanced , beginner , crawling and indexing , intermediate , webmaster tools

Understanding web pages better

Friday, May 23, 2014
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Labels: crawling and indexing
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