Blog posts I’ve written as a Googler

This page should have all the blog posts I wrote as a Googler on the Google Webmaster Central Blog. This page is here so that I can find these quickly when I’m asked about a question a post helps answer.

Smartphone-optimized sites/mobile SEO

• Making websites mobile-friendly (Feb 2011).

• Recommendations for building smartphone-optimized websites (June 2012). Be sure to also read the recommendations themselves.

• Giving tablets the full-sized web (Nov 2012).

• Changes in rankings of smartphone search results (June 2013).

• Making smartphone sites load fast (Aug 2013).

• Smartphone crawl errors in Webmaster Tools (December 2013).

Multilingual and multinational sites

• Multilingual and multinational site annotations in Sitemaps (May 2012).

• Introducing “x-default hreflang” for international landing pages (Apr 2013).

• Crawling and indexing of locale-adaptive pages (Jan 2015).

Misc

• Update to Webmaster Tools search queries (Feb 2011).

• Sharing advice from our London site clinic (Apr 2011).

• Supporting rel=”canonical” in HTTP headers (June 2011).

• Raising awareness of cross-domain URL selection (Oct 2011).

• Tips for hosting providers and webmasters (Dec 2011).

• Better titles in search results (Jan 2012).

• Rich snippets guidelines (Oct 2012).

• Easier management of website verifications (Mar 2013).

• Surfacing your business’s contact and local info in Google (Apr 2014).

• Making site moves easier (Jun 2014).

• Updating our technical Webmaster Guidelines (Oct 2014).

• New Structured Data Testing Tool, documentation, and more (Jan 2015).