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
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Making websites mobile-friendly (Feb 2011).
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Recommendations for building smartphone-optimized websites (June 2012). Be sure to also read the recommendations themselves.
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Giving tablets the full-sized web (Nov 2012).
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Changes in rankings of smartphone search results (June 2013).
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Making smartphone sites load fast (Aug 2013).
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Smartphone crawl errors in Webmaster Tools (December 2013).
Multilingual and multinational sites
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Multilingual and multinational site annotations in Sitemaps (May 2012).
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Introducing “x-default hreflang” for international landing pages (Apr 2013).
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Crawling and indexing of locale-adaptive pages (Jan 2015).
Misc
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Update to Webmaster Tools search queries (Feb 2011).
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Sharing advice from our London site clinic (Apr 2011).
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Supporting rel=”canonical” in HTTP headers (June 2011).
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Raising awareness of cross-domain URL selection (Oct 2011).
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Tips for hosting providers and webmasters (Dec 2011).
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Better titles in search results (Jan 2012).
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Rich snippets guidelines (Oct 2012).
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Easier management of website verifications (Mar 2013).
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Surfacing your business’s contact and local info in Google (Apr 2014).
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Making site moves easier (Jun 2014).
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Updating our technical Webmaster Guidelines (Oct 2014).
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New Structured Data Testing Tool, documentation, and more (Jan 2015).