Maile Ohye from Google covers the five most common errors she finds in SEO, and then concludes with six quick tips to make sure you're on the right track. … [Read more...]
2012 Korea Webmaster Conference
The 2012 Webmaster Conference was held in Korea on Jan 30, 2012. Matt Cutts was the main guest speaker and gave a presentation called "Search Inside" about how Google works and the importance of the open web. About 350 webmasters and developers … [Read more...]
Does the number of tracking pixels or cookies affect my ranking?
Does Google have any guidelines on tracking cookies or tracking pixels. Can a site drop too many cookies? Biz, USA Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video like this? Follow us … [Read more...]
Pagination and SEO
Google's Maile Ohye examines the issues webmasters face with paginated content: paginated articles, product category listings, etc. She then explains the options available to those webmasters concerned about SEO, including rel="next" and rel="prev" … [Read more...]
Video Sitemaps
Using video sitemaps is a recommended way to give us information about your videos. Submitting a sitemap pushes your video metadata to Google and reduces the time it takes for us to discover your video. Learn more about video sitemaps here: … [Read more...]
Notifying Google of Video Updates
If you are using an on-page markup such as schema.org, Google will update video data when the page is crawled. If you are using a video sitemap or mRSS feed, Google will periodically re-download the sitemap or feed from your site. … [Read more...]
Common Video Indexing Pitfalls
If your video isn't being indexed and served properly, most likely it's because Google doesn't have enough data about it. Find out some best practices for video indexing in this help article: www.google.com … [Read more...]
Video Country Restrictions
Country restrictions are a feature in schema.org, video sitemaps and mRSS that allow you specify where your videos are allowed to play. Read more about the schema.org VideoObject at www.schema.org and about video sitemaps at www.google.com … [Read more...]
Video Platform Restrictions
If you are using video sitemaps, you can limit what kind of devices your video result will appear on with platform restrictions. Find out more about the video sitemap specifications at www.google.com … [Read more...]
Testing Your Video Markup
Testing and submitting videos is easy with both on page markups like schema.org and and video sitemaps or mRSS feeds. Use the rich snippets testing tool (www.google.com for on page markups and Google Webmaster Tools (www.google.com for sitemaps and … [Read more...]