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New markup for multilingual content

Many websites serve users from around the world. There are different approaches to serving content appropriate to your users' language and/or region. Last year, we launched support for explicit annota

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Tips for hosting providers and webmasters

Webmaster level: All Some webmasters on our forums ask about hosting-related issues affecting their sites. To help both hosting providers and webmasters recognize, diagnose, and fix such problems, we

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Grow your audience with Google+

Webmaster Level: All At Google, we help grow your audience by connecting you with new users. We introduced the +1 button so your site would stand out on search and your users could easily share your

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Reorganizing internal vs. external backlinks

Webmaster level: All Today we’re making a change to the way we categorize link data in Webmaster Tools. As you know, Webmaster Tools lists links pointing to your site in two separate categories: li

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PDFs in Google search results

Webmaster level: All Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. During this ambitious quest, we sometimes encounter non-HTML files such as PDF

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Recognizing Top Contributors in Google's Help Forums

The communities around Google products and services have been growing tremendously over the last couple of years. It is inspiring and motivating for us to see how many users like you contribute to Goo

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Webmaster level: IntermediateSo you’re going global, and you need your website to follow. Should be a simple case of getting the text translated and you’re good to go, right? Probably not. The Goo

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Introducing: Application Rich Snippets

Webmaster level: AllRich snippets help users determine more quickly if a particular web page has the information they're interested in. We've previously introduced rich snippets for shopping, recipes,

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Reconsideration requests get more transparent

Webmaster level: All If your site isn't appearing in Google search results, or it's performing more poorly than it once did (and you believe that it does not violate our Webmaster Guidelines), you can

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View-all in search results

Webmaster level: Intermediate to Advanced User testing has taught us that searchers much prefer the view-all, single-page version of content over a component page containing only a portion of the sam

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