Some of you may remember my debut Search Engine Land post which looked at the process for buying an iPhone 4 on various UK retailers. The article went down quite well so I’d like to repeat this process for another set of websites to see how they con…

Webmaster Level: AllYou can now use Google search to find SVG documents. SVG is an open, XML-based format for vector graphics with support for interactive elements. We’re big fans of open standards, and our mission is to organize the world’s inform…

In this tutorial, Jeffrey Way, co-author of SitePoint’s Build Your Own Wicked WordPress Themes, has a look at WordPress’ Settings API. Using it, you can add your own custom settings pages to your themes or plugins.

Webmaster Level: AllToday we’ve launched a change to our ranking algorithm that will make it much easier for users to find a large number of results from a single site. For queries that indicate a strong user interest in a particular domain, like [e…

In recent years, WordPress theme frameworks have arrived on the scene in a big way. From commercial frameworks like Thesis and Genesis to free alternatives such as Thematic and Hybrid, frameworks aim to make your life as a theme designer easier and mor…

A popular question on our Webmaster Help Forum is in regard to best practices for organic link building. There seems to be some confusion, especially among less experienced webmasters, on how to approach the topic. Different perspectives have been shar…

(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)Today, we’re announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web con…

Webmaster Level: AllAs part of our efforts to make search results more useful to our users around the world, we’re announcing the international availability of rich snippets. If you’ve been following our blog posts, you already know that rich snip…