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Introducing Google’s Webmaster Academy
Continuing education is very important for webmasters, especially given the constant addition of all the new features to websites, as well as the analysis required. Webmasters are flooded with an enormous amount of data when starting up a website.
Gain Widespread Recognition in the Global Market with Facebook Marketing!
You simply cannot ignore the fact that Facebook is the most powerful and influential social networking site on the planet. With around 500 million users logging in every day to this social networking site and the number rapidly increasing, it has become a large playing field for many businesses and the marketing industry.
Google+ Badges
In November, 2011, when Google launched Google+ pages, they also released Google+ badges to promote Google+ on websites. These Google+ badges are now out of preview, and available on all websites and for all users.
Google Snippets
Almost every time we search on Google we have a pretty good idea about what we are looking for, but as the results are displayed, we need more details so we can see which sites suit our requirements the best.
Googlebot for Smartphone
Accompanying the trend of increasing smartphone sales, a number of websites have recently started providing content specifically designed to be accessed on smartphones. Googlebot-Mobile has now initiated a crawling smartphone user-agent, in addition to its previous feature phone user-agent.
Google Search: GET or POST
Google continues to update its crawling and indexing capabilities. Most recently, Google has improved its indexing of Flash, and came out with a very robust infrastructure called Caffeine. With increased usage of JavaScript and AJAX, it has been noticed that more and more pages require POST requests.
Google Analytics Update
Based on feedback from recent search query data regarding Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics has added the following reports in the traffic source section.
Site Health
Webmasters are typically very busy people. With dozens of websites to manage, they have no time to waste. So to help out busy webmasters, Google Webmaster has come up with a new idea to represent “site health”.