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Change can happen—sometimes, as we saw in our previous post on URL removals, you may completely block or remove a page from your site. Other times you might only change parts of a page, or remove certain pieces of text. Dependin…

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Gary Illyes on May 5th, 2011

Webmaster level: Intermediate to AdvancedUsers are taught to protect themselves from malicious programs by installing sophisticated antivirus software, but often they may also entrust their private information to websites like yours, in which case it

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John Mueller on March 31st, 2011

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 Explo…

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John Mueller on March 31st, 2011

Webmaster level: intermediateAt Google, we’re striving to make the whole web fast. As part of that effort, we’re launching a new web-based tool in Google Labs, Page Speed Online, which analyzes the performance of web pages and gives specific sugges…

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Maile Ohye on March 30th, 2011

Webmaster Level: Intermediate to AdvancedHere’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 ver…

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