Webmaster Level: All At Google, we continually strive to improve our algorithms to keep search results relevant and clean. You have been supporting us on this mission by sending spam reports for websites that violate our Webmaster Guidelines, using the spam report form in Google Webmaster Tools. While you might not see changes right away,...Read More

Webmaster level: All Today, we’re happy to introduce Recipe View, a new way of finding recipes when searching on Google. Recipe View enables you to filter your regular web search results to show only recipes and to restrict results based on ingredients, cook time, or calorie preferences: Read more about Recipe View on the Official...Read More

Webmaster level: Intermediate We’ve noticed a rise in the number of questions from webmasters about how best to structure a website for mobile phones and how websites can best interact with Googlebot-Mobile. In this post we’ll explain the current situation and give you specific recommendations you can implement now. Some Background Let’s start with a...Read More

If you want to post some JPEG pictures but you’re worried that they might have metadata like location embedded in them, here’s how to strip that data out. First, install exiftool using this command: sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl Then, go into the directory with the JPEG files. If you want to remove metadata from every...Read More

Webmaster level: Beginner Cross-posted on the Google Grants Blog In our previous post, we did some source code housekeeping — just in time for the holidays. But once users have landed on your site, how can you make sure they’ll know how to get around? As it turns out, easily accessible content on your site...Read More