Helping webmasters from user to user

You have to have some kind of super-powers to keep up with all of the issues posted in our Webmaster Help Forum —that's why we call our ...

So long, 2013, and thanks for all the fish

Now that 2013 is almost over, we'd love to take a quick look back, and venture a glimpse into the future. Some of the important topics o...

Switching to the new website verification API

Webmaster level: advanced Just over a year ago we introduced a new API for website verification for Google services. In the spirit of keepi...

Download search queries data using Python

Webmaster level: Advanced For all the developers who have expressed interest in getting programmatic access to the search queries data for t...

Website user research and testing on the cheap

Webmaster level: Intermediate As the team responsible for tens of thousands of Google’s informational web pages, the Webmaster Team is here...

Improving URL removals on third-party sites

Webmaster level: all Content on the Internet changes or disappears, and occasionally it's helpful to have search results for it updated ...

New hacked site notifications in search results

Webmaster level: All Today we’ve added a new notification to our search results that helps people know when a site may have been hacked. We’...

Webmaster Tools verification strategies

Webmaster level: all Verifying ownership of your website is the first step towards using Google Webmaster Tools . To help you keep verifica...