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Google's Maile Ohye examines the issues webmasters face with paginated content: paginated articles, product category listings, etc. She then explai...

Event markup allows you to provide Google with information about the events presented on your site. Information about location, time, ticket option...

Recipe markup allows you to provide Google with information about the recipes on your site. Information about prep time, cook time, reviews and mor...

Schema.org markup is the recommended method for providing Google with information about the types of content on your page. Using it requires only a...

Rich Snippets are markup tags that webmasters can put in their sites in order to tell Google what type of content they have on their site so that w...

Review markup allows you to provide Google with information about the reviews and ratings that exist for content on your page. This information may...

Product markup allows you to provide Google with specific information about the products on your site. Information about price, availability, revie...

Application markup allows you to provide Google with information about the software applications discussed on your site. Information about operatin...

Once you've implemented markup, we highly recommend that you test your site using the Rich Snippets Testing Tool (http://google.com/webmasters/­tool...

The most common factor preventing the appearance of Rich Snippets in search results is the use of hidden markup. For more information about avoidin...

Using video sitemaps is a recommended way to give us information about your videos. Submitting a sitemap pushes your video metadata to Google and r...

If you are using an on-page markup such as schema.org, Google will update video data when the page is crawled. If you are using a video sitemap or ...

If your video isn't being indexed and served properly, most likely it's because Google doesn't have enough data about it. Find out some best practi...

Country restrictions are a feature in schema.org, video sitemaps and mRSS that allow you specify where your videos are allowed to play. Read more a...

If you are using video sitemaps, you can limit what kind of devices your video result will appear on with platform restrictions. Find out more abou...

Testing and submitting videos is easy with both on page markups like schema.org and and video sitemaps or mRSS feeds. Use the rich snippets testing...

While we recommend that you use the schema.org markup and the video sitemaps specification to provide video metadata to Google, we do support Faceb...

The schema.org markup is our recommended method for providing Google with the metadata needed to index your videos. Using it requires only a few no...

In order for your videos to be properly indexed and displayed on Google, you'll need to properly markup your videos using the markup described in t...

Recorded from an earlier live broadcast.

Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google, answers user questions.

Is it better to have a blank robots.txt file, a robots.txt that contains User-agent: * Disallow:" or no robots.txt file at all?" Corey S, Pennsylva...

Matt Cutts explains how to submit URLs to Google's index. Learn more about this feature in the Webmaster Tools Help Center: http://www.google.com/s...

If I buy AdWords, will that cause my algorithmic search rankings to rise? Matt Cutts, Bay Area, California

Read more: http://www.google.com/honest...

Should I deny an access to a dynamically generated vBulletin calendar via robots.txt? Whenever I open my Who's Online?" page, I can always see more...

I use the Google Toolbar to monitor PageRank. I read on the Internet that it gives old and quite unreliable data. Can I have reliable realtime Page...

Can too many redirects/multiple hops for a given URL(301 as well as 302) can have negative impact in crawling/indexing/ranking? Arpit Srivastava, G...

How does SafeSearch (both for text and images) work? Gary Tamás, Zurich, CH

If you're a website owner and you think that your content is mistakenl...