While we recommend that you use the schema.org markup and the video sitemaps specification to provide video metadata to Google, we do support Facebook share, opengraph, and Yahoo searchmonkey RDFa markups, in addition to media RSS feeds, including … [Read more...]
Schema.org for Videos
The schema.org markup is our recommended method for providing Google with the metadata needed to index your videos. Using it requires only a few non-visible changes to your video web page. You can find the full schema.org spec here: www.schema.org … [Read more...]
Introduction to Video Markup
In order for your videos to be properly indexed and displayed on Google, you'll need to properly markup your videos using the markup described in this site: www.google.com … [Read more...]
Submit to index via Google Webmaster Tools
Matt Cutts explains how to submit URLs to Google's index. Learn more about this feature in the Webmaster Tools Help Center: www.google.com Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a … [Read more...]
Will Google implement the ability to search with regular expressions?
Will Google offer the feature to search with reg exp? When, or why not? I feel that sometimes you really want to be able to write very specific search queries where the normal operators and operands aren't enough. Jimmy @Feldon Wirsborg, Stockholm, … [Read more...]
How does Google search work?
Hi Matt, could you please explain how Google's ranking and website evaluation process works starting with the crawling and analysis of a site, crawling timelines, frequencies, priorities, indexing and filtering processes within the databases etc. … [Read more...]
Why do Amazon.com pages tend to rank well for product queries?
Search for a physical product usually ranks Amazon #1, even though it may not provide the best user experience. What is being done to prevent large corporations from dominating search engine results? Steve K, Pennsylvania Have a question? Ask it in … [Read more...]
What do you think about Blekko?
What do you think of the new search engine Blekko? Do you think "slashing the web" will catch on?" DisgruntledGoat, UK 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 … [Read more...]
12 Days of Googlemas
Season's greetings! Lyrics: On the 12th day of Googlemas my Googlebot gave to me... 12 optimized titles, 11 local listings, 10 Sitemaps submitted, 9 bloggers linking, 8 sitelinks showing, 7 Google trends, 6 social signals, 5 followed links, 4 404s … [Read more...]
What are some search trends on your radar?
What are some of the things on your radar, or some of the trends in search you'd like to talk about? -Danny Sullivan 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...]