Webmaster level: All Security checks are nobody’s cup of tea. We’ve never seen people go through airport baggage checks for fun. But while security measures are often necessary, that doesn’t mean they have to be painful. In that spirit, we’ve implemented several major improvements to make the Google Site Verification process faster, more straightforward, and...Read More

[Cross-posted on the YouTube Blog] Last week we sent an email to Google Video users letting them know we would be ending playbacks of Google Videos on April 29 and providing instructions on how to download videos currently hosted on the platform. Since then we’ve received feedback from you about making the migration off of...Read More

The likelihood of small businesses creating jobs to drive economic growth is in jeopardy because fewer believe they will be able to employ new staff in the year ahead, a new survey suggests. fpb.org – Latest news articles from the FPBRead More

Webmaster Level: All For webmasters with self-hosted WordPress blogs, there’s now a Webmaster Tools site verifcation plugin for WordPress that completely automates our verification process! You can install it directly from the “Install Plugins” control panel built into your WordPress blog, or you can download the ZIP file from the WordPress plugin site. This plugin...Read More

Faced with the reality that viable businesses require revenue, more and more newspapers and magazines are erecting pay walls on their websites. But paid content isn’t a panacea, and it’s far easier — and more comfortable — to erect a pay fence. Case in point: the New York Times, whose new pay wall features enough...Read More