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Development

Google Warns Against Sneaky Redirects in Updated Guidelines

Google has provided more examples of types of manipulative redirects they are cracking down on. This includes showing one page to desktop…

By Jennifer Slegg · 01 May 2014

SEO

Matt Cutts on How Google Handles 404 & 410 Status Codes

In a recent webmaster help video, Google's Matt Cutts talks about the nuances of 404 vs. 410 status codes. While Google's crawlers…

By Jennifer Slegg · 18 Apr 2014

Local

Google Supports New Schema for Multiple Business Phone Numbers

Google launched support for new schema.org markup that helps your organization define specific preferred phone numbers (for customer service, technical support, billing…

By Thom Craver · 13 Apr 2014

Development

Matt Cutts: If You Have Multiple Breadcrumbs, Google Picks the First One

How should you structure your breadcrumb navigation if a product or an article belongs in multiple categories of your website? “If you…

By Jennifer Slegg · 21 Mar 2014

SEO

Ecommerce SEO Tips for Unavailable Products From Google’s Matt Cutts

What should an ecommerce site do with product pages when a product is no longer in stock or has been discontinued? Well…

By Jennifer Slegg · 19 Mar 2014

Development

Google: Here’s How to Make Infinite Scrolling Websites Search-Friendly

Google has published some SEO best practices for scrolling websites that gives advice on what you should do to ensure all your…

By Jennifer Slegg · 14 Feb 2014

SEO

Index Your Content Faster With the Fetch as Google Tool

Have new content that you'd like to be discovered and found in Google's search results more quickly? Within Google Webmaster Tools is…

By Matt Morgan · 31 Jan 2014

Mobile

Google Changes Smartphone User-Agent

Google is changing the user-agent they use when crawling content for smartphones. Ensuring mobile searchers find relevant and usable pages is an…

By Ben Goodsell · 24 Jan 2014

SEO

Google Webmaster Tools Now Finds Smartphone Crawl Errors

Google Webmaster Tools has made some changes to their crawl errors page to include specific smartphone crawl errors that the Googlebot-Mobilebot discovers…

By Jennifer Slegg · 05 Dec 2013

SEO

Matt Cutts on Linking Guidelines: How Many Links on a Page?

A new Google Webmaster Help video features the head of webspam explaining how linking guidelines work and how many links webmasters should…

By Jennifer Slegg · 03 Dec 2013