With the importance Google is placing on sites being mobile friendly, their latest feature added to Google Webmaster Tools will be a big help for those webmasters who might not understand all the nuances of mobile-friendly design. Webmasters can now see mobile usability errors in Google Webmaster Tools and the number of pages affected by […]
Google Wants to Visit Online Marketing Teams in Their Offices
Google wants to learn more about how companies use Google Webmaster Tools as well as how they manage content and infrastructure, and they are willing to come to you to do it. Gary Illyes, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, has posted on Google+ looking for companies willing to have Google visit them as they go […]
3 Google Webmaster Tools For Implementing Structured Data
For some time now, the SEO community has been abuzz about semantic search and incorporating structured data markup to sites in an effort to help search engines understand the context of content on a given page and render rich snippets within search results. And for good reason! In a (relatively) recent case study conducted by […]
Google Starts Warning Websites That Redirect Mobile to Homepage
A couple of months ago, Google warned webmasters that they would be showing an alert in the Google search results to mobile users who were attempting to go to an internal page of a website but the website itself redirects all mobile users to the homepage instead. Now, Google has started sending letters to websites […]
New Robots.txt Checker & Editor in Google Webmaster Tools
Even seasoned SEOs can sometimes stop and wonder “Did I do that robots.txt right?”, especially when dealing with more complicated robots.txt files that might disallow certain directories or certain bots. There are a few robots.txt checkers out there,but sometimes even the responses can be confusing for new webmasters. Fortunately Google has just released a new […]
Google Webmaster Tools Adds Hreflang Troubleshooting
For SEOs who are dealing with international issues for a website, there is some great news from Google. Google Webmaster Tools has announced that International Targeting is now available to all users. International Targeting, which was previously in beta, enables advertisers to debug errors with hreflang implementation. The markup hreflang, sometimes referred to as href-lang, […]