If you have a lot of urls that you don’t want in Google anymore, you can make the pages return a 404 and wait for Googlebot to recrawl/reindex the pages. This is often the best way. You can also block out an entire directory or a whole site in robots.txt and then use our url...Read More

Webmaster Level: Intermediate to Advanced Here’s a trending User-Agent detection misstep we hope to help you prevent: While it seems completely reasonable to key off the string “android” in the User-Agent and then redirect users to your mobile version, there’s a small catch… Android tablets were just released! Similar to mobile, the User-Agent on Android...Read More

It’s been a while since I reported on any 30 day challenges, so it’s time for an update. 30 days of Being Thankful I knew that January, February, and March would be crazy, including a bunch of stuff at work, traveling, plus several conferences. So I told myself it was okay to do only one...Read More

Webmaster Level: Beginner We’re very glad to announce that our recently updated SEO guide is now available in ten more languages: Spanish, French, German, Russian, Turkish, Finnish, Swedish, Hungarian, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. For this new version, we’ve thoroughly reviewed and updated the content; we’ve also added a brand new section on best practices...Read More

Webmaster Level: Intermediate to Advanced The Chrome team is exploring a few changes to Chrome’s UA string. These changes are designed to provide additional details in the user-agent, remove redundancy, and increase compatibility with Internet Explorer. They’re also happening in conjunction with similar changes in Firefox 4. We intend to ship Chrome 11 with these...Read More