How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs

Resilience is intrinsic to the web and therefore us, web developers. This article explores how graceful degradation, def…  Read more

How do you plan for in-person consumer behavior and COVID at the same time?; Tuesday’s daily brief

Plus, Google’s math solver guidelines emphasize technical SEO and content accuracy. Please visit Search Engine Land for…  Read more

Target impression share bidding, other August changes now available in Microsoft Ads

Other August announcements include new automated extensions, labels for account organization and changes to unified acco…  Read more

Web Accessibility Myths: Debunking 7 Common Misconceptions

All individuals of every ability deserve the right to access the internet barrier-free. But thanks to some commonly held…  Read more

SMX Convert kicks off in two weeks… don’t miss out!

Join us online, August 17, to learn actionable tactics that drive more organic and paid conversions… no matter your KPIs…  Read more

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2)

In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the refactoring process itself, and cover incremental refactoring strategy,…  Read more

Google Ads Editor v1.7 brings support for Hotel ads and lead form extensions

The update also enables advertisers to download specific parts of their campaigns to work on offline. Please visit Searc…  Read more

Google’s back-to-school shopping tips for local merchants; Monday’s daily brief

And, should advertisers or platforms bear the burden of digital service taxes? Please visit Search Engine Land for the f…  Read more

Google math solver guidelines require accuracy

Google has added a number of technical and content quality guidelines to math solver markup. Please visit Search Engine…  Read more

How to Find & Support Entry-Level SEO Talent

In this post, Abby shares unique places for hiring managers to source talented, entry-level candidates for SEO positions…  Read more

Good Vibes In August (2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition)

New month, new wallpapers! In this post, you’ll find unique and inspiring wallpapers for August 2021. Created with love…  Read more

Google’s local ads tips for the back-to-school shopping season

More than 50% of North American back-to-school shoppers say they’ll check for in-store inventory online before heading t…  Read more

How To Build An E-Commerce Site With Angular 11, Commerce Layer And Paypal

Having an e-commerce store is crucial for any store owner as more and more customers are turning to online shopping. In…  Read more

Did Google admit it uses click data for search? Not really.; Friday’s daily brief

And, you’re no longer allowed more than one ClaimReview element per page. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full a…  Read more

Display & Video 360 gets new frequency and reach metrics

The real-time view of reach gains may help advertisers better evaluate campaign performance. Please visit Search Engine…  Read more

There Is No Such Thing As A CSS Absolute Unit

What are absolute units? What are the differences between relative and absolute units, and how do we create accurate siz…  Read more

Twitter pilots a new product carousel that can appear in profiles; Thursday’s daily brief

And, ways to prioritize your mental health as we step away from the pandemic. Please visit Search Engine Land for the fu…  Read more

Google now limits one ClaimReview element per page

Previously, Google’s guidelines allowed for multiple Fact Checks per page but that has changed. Please visit Search Engi…  Read more

Google’s universal search results bid for placement and may be influenced by clicks

In the Search Off The Record podcast, Gary Illyes of Google described how Google ranks news, images, videos and other in…  Read more

Twitter’s Shop Module pilot adds a product carousel to profiles

Shop Modules are rolling out with a handful of brands in the U.S., and only domestic English-language users on iOS can c…  Read more

Creating An Accessible Dialog From Scratch

Dialogs are everywhere in modern interface design (for good or for bad), and yet many of them are not accessible to assi…  Read more

The Google link spam update is rolling out; Wednesday’s daily brief

And, the review stars are back in Google Search results. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.   Read more

Daily SEO Fix: Auditing for Technical SEO Problems with Moz Pro

SEO pros know that a comprehensive search marketing strategy should include periodic audits of a website’s technical hea…  Read more

Instagram is disabling interest and activity-based targeting of underage users

Advertisers’ targeting options for users under 18 will be limited to age, gender and location. Please visit Search Engin…  Read more

Global vs. Local Styling In Next.js

Next.js has strong opinions about how to organize JavaScript but not CSS. How can we develop patterns that encourage bes…  Read more

Google passes on 2% “Regulatory Operating Cost” for ads served in India and Italy

Google will start applying the surcharge beginning on October 1. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.   Read more

The Americans with Disabilities Act turned 31, are your sites compliant?; Tuesday’s daily brief

And, new business openings remain strong in Q2, but the pandemic is far from over. Please visit Search Engine Land for t…  Read more

Google review snippets bug seems resolved

Google seems to have fixed the bug where review snippets were not displaying in Google Search. Please visit Search Engin…  Read more

3 Powerful On-Page Optimizations to Power Up Your Content

It’s not easy to write content that ranks in Google and drives conversions, but if you follow a few simple steps, you’ll…  Read more

Lowest SMX Convert rates expire Saturday

Book by this Saturday, July 31 to get your All Access pass for just $99! Please visit Search Engine Land for the full ar…  Read more

Google Search link spam update rolling out now

A new spam algorithm is rolling out over the next two weeks aimed at fighting link spam more broadly. Please visit Searc…  Read more

Gatsby Serverless Functions And The International Space Station

Gatsby recently announced the launch of “functions”. In this article, Paul Scanlon explains how to get the current locat…  Read more

How to Use SERP Features to Inform Your Content Strategy

With a little digging, you can now mimic the keyword topics, style, and format of the SERP features for your target keyw…  Read more

A Guide To Attracting Clients To Your Agency

Many web design agencies consider it a badge of honor that they win work exclusively through word-of-mouth recommendatio…  Read more

Adding Time To Your Schedule As A Professional

Are you running a business and have too many things going on at once? Meetings, bugs, customer feedback, new clients in…  Read more

Using Keywords in YouTube Videos: How to Get More Views

The key to getting more views on YouTube isn’t to be special enough or loud enough to get noticed, but to tag your conte…  Read more

Color Tools And Resources

Do you need a little inspiration boost? We’ve collected some useful color tools and resources that we’ve discovered late…  Read more

One Secret to Improve SEO in 2021: Guestographics

Link building remains an important tool in the content marketing world, but we’ve exhausted the typical strategies by ov…  Read more

How To Migrate From WordPress To A Headless CMS

In this article, we will look at when it makes sense to migrate from a monolithic project to a headless setup and the be…  Read more

How to Create Cornerstone Content That Google and Your Audience Will Love

Read on for tips on creating, optimizing, and promoting the necessary, foundational content that drives traffic to your…  Read more

Maintaining End-To-End Quality With Visual Testing

By adding visual elements to your tests, you can gain more options to add meaningful ways in maintaining a high level of…  Read more

How to Create Your Local Business USP with QUAAAC + UGC

In this article, Miriam helps you practice writing unique selling propositions (USPs) for real-world local businesses ba…  Read more

Three Insights I Gained While Researching Vue.js Accessibility

Web app accessibility appears difficult because it seems that there is little information on the subject available onlin…  Read more

ISR vs DPR: Big Words, Quick Explanation

There are two strategies for incrementally building websites that are growing in popularity: Incremental Static Regenera…  Read more

You Can Do That With A JavaScript Data Grid?

In this article, you’ll get to see some pretty groundbreaking things you can achieve with modern JavaScript grids and di…  Read more

Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters

Too often dealing with filters can be frustrating. Let’s get them right. That means never freeze the UI on a single inpu…  Read more

Building A Dynamic Header With Intersection Observer

In JavaScript, attaching an event listener to constantly fire a callback on scroll can be performance-intensive. But the…  Read more

How To Migrate From jQuery To Next.js

In this article, we’re taking a closer look at different approaches and strategies on how we can migrate a web applicati…  Read more

Refactoring CSS: Introduction (Part 1)

CSS refactoring is not an easy task — it needs to be done in a way that doesn't create problems. First we need to analyz…  Read more

Making A Strong Case For Accessibility

Accessibility is often overlooked or bolted on to the end of a project. Let’s figure out how to implement and advocate f…  Read more

Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Development Process

Even though Vue.js claims to have an approachable minimalist framework that can be incrementally adaptable, it can be a…  Read more

An Introduction To Figma Interactive Components

Interactive Components in Figma allows designers to create a component with states (hover, active, clicked, focus) and m…  Read more

How To Choose A Headless CMS

There is an array of Headless CMSes out there. In this article, we delve into headless CMS features to satisfy your cont…  Read more

Using HSL Colors In CSS

In this article, Ahmad Shadeed explains what HSL is, how to use it, and shares some of the useful use-cases and examples…  Read more

Email Testing Flow As It Should Be

With so many tools and approaches, email still has quite a few pain points, both for developers and email marketers. Ema…  Read more

It’s A (Front-End Testing) Trap! Six Common Testing Pitfalls And How To Solve Them

When writing front-end tests, you’ll find a lot of pitfalls along the way. Let’s explore common mistakes developers make…  Read more

The State Of Web Workers In 2021

The web is single-threaded. This makes it increasingly hard to write smooth and responsive apps. Workers have a bad rep,…  Read more

The Many Shades Of July (2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition)

Let’s welcome July with some fresh desktop wallpapers. Designed by artists and designers from around the world, they are…  Read more

Breaking Down Bulky Builds With Netlify And Next.js

Static Generation is great for performance — until the app gets too big and build-times go through the roof. Today, we’l…  Read more

Smashing Podcast Episode 40 With Mike Cavaliere: What Is Chakra UI For React?

In this episode, we’re talking about Chakra UI. What is it and how can it help with your React projects? Drew McLellan t…  Read more

Creating Custom Emmet Snippets In VS Code

In this article, Manuel explains why Emmet is one of his favorite productivity tools for writing HTML and CSS, and how y…  Read more

Creating A Multi-Author Blog With Next.js

This article explains how we can connect different types of content in a Next.js application. With this technique, we ca…  Read more

How To Run A UX Audit For A Major EdTech Platform (Case Study)

This article is a case study of how a UX audit affects a UI. It explains how a famous educational platform can be analyz…  Read more

The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy

In the dynamic and unpredictable environments in which we work, even the most carefully crafted solutions can have a sho…  Read more

Smashing Online Workshops (July-October 2021)

Frontend and design are remarkably complex these days. That’s why we invite kind, smart folks from the community to run…  Read more

Automating Screen Reader Testing On macOS Using Auto VO

Automated testing is an important part of any software project, including testing for accessibility. There are already t…  Read more

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design (Development Challenges)

After years of innovation in both tools and processes, the struggle between design and development is still real. This a…  Read more

Image To Text Conversion With React And Tesseract.js (OCR)

Do you have to process data manually because it is served through images or scanned documents? An image-to-text conversi…  Read more

An Alternative Voice UI To Voice Assistants

Voice assistants are currently the most popular use case for voice user interfaces. However, due to the bad feedback loo…  Read more

Creative or Developer? One or More of these 15 Awesome Pre-built Websites Could be Just Right for You

As a creative, you need a digital space to showcase your work to potential employers or clients, and for that matter to…  Read more

Weatherstack Review: Is This the Best Weather API?

Looking for a way to share location-based weather reports and forecasts with your website visitors? You’re going to need…  Read more

Conversion.ai Review

Background / Intro One of my longtime friends who was Internet marketing long before I was hit me up on Skype about a we…  Read more

5+ Useful Multipurpose WordPress Themes To Check Out

Great flexibility, powerful website building tools, and excellent customer support. It exemplify the top-of-the line mul…  Read more

SEMrush IPO (SEMR)

On Wednesday SEMrush priced their IPO at $14 a share & listed Thursday. There have been many marketing and online advert…  Read more

The best 15 Tools & Resources for Designers? They’re in this article

There can be various reasons for failing to deliver a product on time. Take for example a situation in which progress gr…  Read more

6 Best WordPress Landing Page Plugins Compared (2021)

Are you struggling to grow your email list and generate more leads? Are you having trouble signing up people for your we…  Read more

9 Best WordPress Plugins for 2021

There are few if any good reasons not to choose the best of the bunch when you’re looking for useful WordPress plugins t…  Read more

The Top Blogging Platforms of the Year (2021)

Deciding to start a blog, whether it be for personal or professional use, is a great idea. With the rise in internet act…  Read more

Right Message, Right Time: P&G’s “Lead with Love” Delivers.

This past week marked something of a milestone for The Recount – we launched a pilot marketing partnership with P&G, a c…  Read more

The Wrong People Won

Chasing New Markets My initial attraction toward SEO and the web was largely that it was like a new and parallel world t…  Read more

Influencer Review – A look at What Influencer has to offer?

Nowadays, if you have a product, service, or brand that you want to “get out there” one of the best ways to do that is t…  Read more

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After creating a website and registering your domain name, there are about… The post SEMrush vs. Moz appeared first on W…  Read more

Stop Talking About Section 230. Start Talking About The Business Model.

For the past several years, I’ve led a graduate-level class studying the early history of Internet policy in the United…  Read more

Looking for the best 12 WordPress Themes in 2021? They’re in this article

The WordPress platform is a joy to work with. It offers one of the simplest ways to create colorful, well laid-out, and…  Read more

8 Best WordPress Mailing List Plugins For Getting More Subscribers – 2021

With over 1 Billion users on Gmail alone, marketers now claim email to be one of the best marketing strategies that brin…  Read more

Predictions 2021: Disinformation, SPACs, Africa, Facebook, and a Return to Tech Optimism

Never in my five-plus decades has a year been so eagerly anticipated, which makes this business of  prediction particula…  Read more

Well That Was A Year: A Review of My 2020 Predictions

From the Department of Didn’t See THAT Coming… Yes, it’s true: Last year, I did not predict a global pandemic in 2020. C…  Read more

Media and Marketing Leaders: It’s Time to Stand Up For Truth

Why “information equity” matters.   An idea has been tugging at me for months now, one I’ve spent countless hours discus…  Read more

Ahrefs vs. Majestic

Building your website traffic requires a particular set of skills, including a… The post Ahrefs vs. Majestic appeared fi…  Read more

SpyFu vs. SEMRush

When it comes to digital marketing, few things are more important than… The post SpyFu vs. SEMRush appeared first on Web…  Read more

Ahrefs vs. Moz

Determining which Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tool is best for your business… The post Ahrefs vs. Moz appeared firs…  Read more

AHREFS vs. SEMrush

When you are looking to build an impactful website, using SEO tools… The post AHREFS vs. SEMrush appeared first on WebMo…  Read more

Web Designers: Check Out these 8 Black Friday 2020 Deals

Many shoppers, including web designers and web design teams, look forward to Black Friday as the year’s top shopping eve…  Read more

Best Lightweight WordPress Themes for Performance

Whether you run a personal site, a business portfolio, a storefront, or… The post Best Lightweight WordPress Themes for…  Read more

Best Email Marketing Services for Small Business

Email marketing is unusual in the advertising sphere. Unlike some forms of… The post Best Email Marketing Services for S…  Read more

Constant Contact vs. ConvertKit

No matter what type of website or blog you run, you likely… The post Constant Contact vs. ConvertKit appeared first on W…  Read more

ActiveCampaign vs. MailChimp

ActiveCampaign and MailChimp are both popular marketing automation tools. MailChimp delivers an… The post ActiveCampaign…  Read more

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Email is a powerful marketing tool for gaining new customers and increasing… The post AWeber vs. Mailchimp appeared firs…  Read more

The Recount Turns One

One year ago this week, a small group of journalists launched a completely reimagined approach to covering the news. We…  Read more

15+ Best Angular Admin Dashboard Templates of 2020 – Users Choice

We have compiled a list of best Angular templates for you. These offer you to start your web application and help you bu…  Read more

Facebook Is Finally Admitting It’s A Publisher

The video above is from a conversation at The Recount’s SHIFT event last month, between Nick Clegg, Facebook VP, Global…  Read more

How To Create & Sell Online Courses with WordPress For Free

One of the most profitable ways of turning your blog into a business is creating and selling an online course. In this g…  Read more

How to Start a Blog: a Step-by-step Guide

These days it seems like nearly everyone has a blog. Blogs can be a great way to document your hobbies or interests, kee…  Read more

15 Best Brackets Extensions For A Smooth Coding Experience

Different coders prefer different code editors. But, when it comes to front-end design, there’s only one code editor tha…  Read more

Apple Search

Google, Google, Google For well over a decade Google has dominated search to where most stories in the search sphere wer…  Read more

Overcoming Webmaster Depression

This year is a rather easy year to be depressed. ;) COVID-19, fearmongering media, polarized hyper-charged social media,…  Read more

Declining Visitor Values

Late Funnel SEO Profits Before the Panda update SEOs could easily focus almost all their energies on late funnel high-in…  Read more

30 Beautiful Google Fonts for Your Website

Finding attractive, user-friendly, legible fonts for your website isn’t always easy, but Google Fonts, launched in 2010,…  Read more

Marketers: Your Role In Social Discourse Is Critical

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Marketers Have Given Up on Context, And Our National Discourse Is Suffering

(First in a series. Post two, on Twitter’s solution, is here). Marketers – especially brand marketers: Too many of you h…  Read more

How to Read Google Algorithm Updates

Links = Rank Old Google (pre-Panda) was to some degree largely the following: links = rank. Once you had enough links to…  Read more

Easy for You

To Teach, One Must Learn One of the benefits of writing is it forces you to structure your thoughts. If you are doing so…  Read more

New Age Cloaking

Historically cloaking was considered bad because a consumer would click expecting a particular piece of content or user…  Read more

Managing Algorithmic Volatility

Upon the recently announced Google update I've seen some people Tweet things like if you are afraid of algorithm updates…  Read more

New Version of SEO Toolbar

Our programmer recently updated our SEO toolbar to work with the most recent version of Firefox. You can install it from…  Read more

Top 8 WP Multipurpose Themes that you should check out

There are situations when using a specialty theme will enable a web designed to proceed more easily and efficiently. But…  Read more

Zoom Is YouTube, Instagram, and WhatsApp – All in Two Months.

If you’ve read Shoshana Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism, you likely agree that the most important asset for a data-driv…  Read more

China Still Censoring Google, Now Globally

Google Gets Out of China In March of 2010 Google announced they would no longer censor their search results for China: e…  Read more

Increasing Time on Site

Changing User Intents Google's search quality rater document highlights how the intent of searches can change over time…  Read more

15 Effective Tools and Services You Should Pay Attention To

One of life’s pleasures is discovering when some small action taken yields a highly positive, or even a game-changing ou…  Read more

Revenue Quality & Leverage

The coronavirus issue is likely to linger for some time. GERMANY PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY PRESIDENT SAYS OUR ASSUMPTION IS T…  Read more

Need Help Choosing the Right Plugin for Your Website? Check These Options

WordPress is an ideal platform for building your own portfolio, blog, or eCommerce site. It’s packed with all the basic…  Read more

Subscription Fatigue

Subscription Management I have active subscriptions with about a half-dozen different news & finance sites along with ab…  Read more

Favicon SEO

Google recently copied their mobile result layout over to desktop search results. The three big pieces which changed as…  Read more

“Needle in a haystack” search problem? Check 15 of the very best WordPress themes for 2020

Having too many WordPress themes to choose among is of course better than having too few. But there are times when searc…  Read more

Brands vs Ads

Brand, Brand, Brand About 7 years ago I wrote about how the search relevancy algorithms were placing heavy weighting on…  Read more

Internet Wayback Machine Adds Historical TextDiff

The Wayback Machine has a cool new feature for looking at the historical changes of a web page. The color scale shows ho…  Read more

Dofollow, Nofollow, Sponsored, UGC

A Change to Nofollow Last month Google announced they were going to change how they treated nofollow, moving it from a d…  Read more

New Keyword Tool

Our keyword tool is updated periodically. We recently updated it once more. For comparison sake, the old keyword tool lo…  Read more

AMP'd Up for Recaptcha

Beyond search Google controls the leading distributed ad network, the leading mobile OS, the leading web browser, the le…  Read more

The Fractured Web

Anyone can argue about the intent of a particular action & the outcome that is derived by it. But when the outcome is kn…  Read more

Keyword Not Provided, But it Just Clicks

When SEO Was Easy When I got started on the web over 15 years ago I created an overly broad & shallow website that had l…  Read more

How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone

Brian McCullough, who runs Internet History Podcast, also wrote a book named How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to…  Read more

Google Florida 2.0 Algorithm Update: Early Observations

It has been a while since Google has had a major algorithm update. They recently announced one which began on the 12th o…  Read more

A Darker Shade of Gray

Google's original breakthrough in search was placing weight on links & using them to approximate the behavior of web use…  Read more

Left is Right & Up is Down

Probably the single best video to watch to understand the power of Google & Facebook (or even most of the major problems…  Read more

Grist for the Machine

Grist Much like publishers, employees at the big tech monopolies can end up little more than grist. Products & product c…  Read more

Virtual Real Estate

Wrastlin With The News The current presidential cabinet includes a WWE co-founder & this passes for modern political dis…  Read more

Rank Checker Update

Recently rank checker started hanging on some search queries & the button on the SEO Toolbar which launched rank checker…  Read more

Sunset of the Ad Manager API v202008

On Tuesday, August 31, 2021, in accordance with the deprecation schedule, v202008 of the Ad Manager API will sunset. At…  Read more

Transit trends: the road ahead for commuters

I’ve lived in major cities around the world, from Johannesburg to Shanghai to the San Francisco Bay Area. That means pub…  Read more

From widgets to dark mode: 3 updates to Google Maps on iOS

Chocolate or vanilla. 🍦 Crunchy peanut butter or smooth. Androids or iPhones. No matter what your (device) preferences a…  Read more

New investment in Aotearoa New Zealand

New Zealand is often described as an ‘island of innovation’, and when it comes to technology, it’s true that we Kiwis re…  Read more

Express yourself and connect with others on Chromebooks

Many people this past year used Chromebooks to keep in touch with family and friends, stay entertained and work or learn…  Read more

Google at ACL 2021

Posted by Catherine Armato, Program ManagerThis week, the 59th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Lingu…  Read more

Cheer on the finalists of our Indie Games Festival

On September 4, we’re celebrating some of the best indie talent on Google Play during the Indie Games Festival finals fo…  Read more

Google Tensor debuts on the new Pixel 6 this fall

In 2016, we launched the first Pixel. Our goal was to give people a more helpful, smarter phone. Over the years, we intr…  Read more

Meet some of the best indie game devs

Posted by Patricia Correa, Director, Global Developer Marketing During the month of June we received thousands of submi…  Read more

Meet some of the best indie game devs

Posted by Patricia Correa, Director, Global Developer Marketing During the month of June we received thousands of submi…  Read more

New program helps regional journalists develop digital skills

Today, we’re pleased to announce an initiative that helps support regional news publishers by providing vital digital sk…  Read more

#IamaGDE: Evgeny Kot

Welcome to #IamaGDE - a series of spotlights presenting Google Developer Experts (GDEs) from across the globe. Discover…  Read more

Quicksave: The latest from Google Play Pass

Google Play Pass helps you connect with awesome digital content: It’s your pass to hundreds of apps and games without ad…  Read more

Google Apps Script & Google Ads scripts now support Content API v2.1 by default

Going forward, if you use Content API for Shopping through Google Apps Script or Google Ads scripts, new scripts will us…  Read more

We’re here, we’re loud, we’re disabled and proud

I discovered Disability pride only after going to a youth Disability conference where I learned —  for the first time —…  Read more

Partnering with the NSF on a research institute for AI to improve care for older adults

From the early days of the internet to the development of the Human Genome Project, U.S. government-funded R&D has yield…  Read more

Helping site owners manage consent in AdSense

Privacy regulations like the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act…  Read more

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Privacy regulations like the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act…  Read more

Google interns take on 2021

When I applied to be an intern at Google, I didn’t know what I wanted to do. But I knew what I was hoping for: a collabo…  Read more

New reach and frequency metrics in Display & Video 360

Earlier this week, we announced new ways to help you easily capture connected TV and audio streamers' attention and unde…  Read more

Audience Explorer unlocks first-party data insights

If you’re hoping to attract new advertisers and earn the most value from your first-party data, it’s critical to explain…  Read more

More support for Southeast Asia’s COVID-19 response

In many parts of Southeast Asia and beyond, the impact of COVID-19 remains severe. More than 18 months after the virus f…  Read more

Expanding our cloud infrastructure to support Australia’s digital future

Even pre-pandemic, the adoption of cloud services was on the rise as organisations looked to drive digital transformatio…  Read more

Pharaoh's Conclave levels up opportunity in gaming

It’s far from just fun and (video) games:  esports is a rapidly-growing $1.5 billion industry.In 2020 alone, there was a…  Read more

A shared responsibility for quality journalism

Today we are publishing a paper that draws from our decades-long experience working with news publishers and journalists…  Read more

Google Ads API v6 sunset reminder

Google Ads API v6 will sunset on September 8, 2021. After this date, all v6 API requests will begin to fail. Please migr…  Read more

Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) Stable

Posted by Amanda Alexander, Product Manager, Android We are excited to announce that Android Studio Arctic Fox is now a…  Read more

Try the new Google Ads scripts experience

Today we’re launching the beta version of the new Google Ads scripts experience. Existing scripts won’t be affected, but…  Read more

Phone Verification in Content API for Shopping

We are pleased to announce a new Content API interface developers can use to verify phone numbers for Merchant Center ac…  Read more

Vaccines and our return-to-office plans

Sundar sent the following email to Google employees earlier this morning. The email has been edited to remove internal l…  Read more

Jetpack Compose is now 1.0: announcing Android’s modern toolkit for building native UI

Posted by Anna-Chiara Bellini, Product Manager, Nick Butcher, Developer Relations Today, we're launching version 1.0 of…  Read more

Using AI to map Africa’s buildings

Between 2020 and 2050, Africa’s population is expected to double, adding 950 million more people to its urban areas alon…  Read more

Mapping Africa’s Buildings with Satellite Imagery

Posted by John Quinn, Software Engineer, Google Research, Ghana An accurate record of building footprints is important f…  Read more

Preparing for Google Play’s new safety section

Posted by Suzanne Frey, VP, Product, Android Security and Privacy Today, we’re announcing additional details for the up…  Read more

Announcing Policy Updates To Bolster Privacy and Security

Posted by Krish Vitaldevara, Director, Product Management We are always looking to make Google Play a safer and more tr…  Read more

Accessing car hardware APIs in your app for cars

Posted by Madan Ankapura, Product Manager Building on our effort to enable developers to create app experiences across…  Read more

Solution Challenge Winner Update: Samuel’s mission to get children vaccinated in Uganda

Posted by Aniedi Udo-Obong, Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Lead, Google Developer Communities Samuel Mugisha has been very…  Read more

Advances in TF-Ranking

Posted by Michael Bendersky and Xuanhui Wang, Software Engineers, Google Research In December 2018, we introduced TF-Ran…  Read more

Incarcerated people learn to code: How one community organizer is changing lives

Posted by Kubra Zengin, North America Regional Lead, Google Developer Groups When asked to speak to a room full of inca…  Read more

A reminder on qualifying links and our link spam update

If you monetize your websites and blogs with affiliate links or sponsored and guest posts, it's very important to qualif…  Read more

Applying Advanced Speech Enhancement in Cochlear Implants

Posted by Samuel J. Yang, Research Scientist and Dick Lyon, Principal Scientist, Google Research For the ~466 million pe…  Read more

Updates to how Google Ads API Smart Bidding strategies are organized

We previously announced changes to how Smart Bidding strategies are organized to help advertisers choose the right one.…  Read more

Announcing our second Google for Startups Accelerator: Black Founders cohort

Posted by Jason Scott, Head of Startup Developer Ecosystem, USA Last year, 12 inspiring entrepreneurs kicked off the in…  Read more

Multi-task Prediction of Organ Dysfunction in ICUs

Posted by Subhrajit Roy, Research Scientist and Diana Mincu, Research Software Engineer, Google Research The intensive c…  Read more

Migrating from App Engine ndb to Cloud NDB

Posted by Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Migrating to standalone services Today we're introduc…  Read more

Google Ads API 2022 release and sunset schedule

We’re announcing our tentative 2022 release and sunset schedule for upcoming versions of the Google Ads API to bring gre…  Read more

Engage shoppers with deal pages in Google Search

Get the most out of the Google Search deals carousel by creating deals pages for more sales events and following these b…  Read more

Analyzing Google Search traffic drops

Learn about some of the reasons your Google Search traffic may have decreased and how to use the Search Console Performa…  Read more

Google at ICML 2021

Posted by Cat Armato and Jaqui Herman, Program Managers Groups across Google are actively pursuing research across the f…  Read more

A new way to enable video key moments in Search

Since video key moments first launched in 2019, we’ve continued to expand and improve the feature. Today, we’re launchin…  Read more

Allowing developers to apply for more time to comply with Play Payments Policy

Posted by Purnima Kochikar, VP Play Partnerships Every day we work with developers to help make Google Play a safe, sec…  Read more

High Fidelity Image Generation Using Diffusion Models

Posted by Jonathan Ho, Research Scientist and Chitwan Saharia, Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Natural im…  Read more

Answers to some common questions about appearing in Google News

Today, we’re answering some common questions we've heard from publishers to help them better understand how news appears…  Read more

Speeding Up Reinforcement Learning with a New Physics Simulation Engine

Posted by C. Daniel Freeman, Senior Software Engineer and Erik Frey, Staff Software Engineer, Google ResearchReinforceme…  Read more

#IamaGDE: Homing Tam

#IamaGDE series presents: Google MapsWelcome to #IamaGDE - a series of spotlights presenting Google Developer Experts (…  Read more

Android 12 Beta 3 for TV is now available

Posted by Wolfram Klein, Product Manager, Android TV OS Alongside today’s Android 12 Beta 3 release for mobile, we’re a…  Read more

From Vision to Language: Semi-supervised Learning in Action…at Scale

Posted by Thang Luong, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research and Jingcao Hu, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google…  Read more

How students built a web app with the potential to help frontline workers

Posted by Erica Hanson, Global Program Manager, Google Developer Student Clubs Image of Olly and Daniel from Google Dev…  Read more

Android 12 Beta 3 and final APIs

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Each month we’re bringing Android 12 closer to its final form, with innovative…  Read more

Reducing the Computational Cost of Deep Reinforcement Learning Research

Posted by Pablo Samuel Castro, Staff Software Engineer, Google Research It is widely accepted that the enormous growth o…  Read more

Android Game Development Extension is now available to all Android game developers

Posted by Lily Rapaport, Product Manager After more than a year in closed beta, we are happy to announce that Android G…  Read more

Plan for success on Google Play with Reach and devices

Posted by Lauren Mytton, Product Manager, Google Play Google Play has over 2.5B monthly active users, distributed acros…  Read more

Updating our job posting guidelines to improve quality of results for job seekers

Searching for a job can be a time consuming process and the outcome of the application may be life changing. That's why…  Read more

Performance reporting now available in the Content API for Shopping

We're excited to announce that performance reporting is now available in v2.1 of the Content API for Shopping. With the…  Read more

Introducing the Android Game Development Kit

Posted by Scott Carbon-Ogden, Product Manager Android Games Today we’re launching the Android Game Development Kit (AGD…  Read more

Updates from the Google for Games Developer Summit

Posted by Posted by Greg Hartrell, Product Management Director, Google Play & Android Last year we saw Android and Play…  Read more

Introducing Publisher Ads Audits for Lighthouse v1.5.0

Today, we're announcing the general release of Publisher Ads Audits for Lighthouse v1.5.0. The major highlights of this…  Read more

The Google Calendar API has changed how we manage API usage

Posted by Charles Maxson, Developer Advocate The Google Calendar API has changed how it manages API usage. Previously,…  Read more

Announcing Android’s updateable, fully integrated ML inference stack

Posted by Oli Gaymond, Product Manager, Android ML On-Device Machine Learning provides lower latency, more efficient ba…  Read more

Migrating from App Engine webapp2 to Flask

Posted by Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Migrating web framework The Google Cloud team recentl…  Read more

Google Play services discontinuing updates for Jelly Bean (API levels 16, 17 & 18)

Posted by Vikas Kansal, Product Manager, Google Play services The Android Jelly Bean (JB) platform was first released 9…  Read more

Highlight your customer support methods in Google Search

Customers are often looking for ways to contact businesses, and Google works to show the best available information to h…  Read more

Assistant Recap Google I/O 2021

Written by: Jessica Dene Earley-Cha, Mike Bifulco and Toni Klopfenstein, Developer Relations Engineers for Google Assis…  Read more

MAD Skills Navigation Series 2 Wrap Up!

Posted by Murat Yener It’s a wrap!! We’ve just finished the second series of Navigation on MAD Skills. In this series,…  Read more

Bringing artworks to life with AR

Posted by Richard Adem, UX Engineer at Google Arts & Culture What is Art Filter? One of the best ways to learn about gl…  Read more

Updating Bulk Upload in Google Ads Scripts

We have just launched a new backend for bulk uploads in Google Ads Scripts. Starting today, you can opt into the new exp…  Read more

Google updates Passes API to store COVID vaccination and testing information on Android devices

Posted by Irfan Faizullabhoy Google has updated its Passes API to enable a simple and secure way to store and access CO…  Read more

Upcoming security changes to Google's OAuth 2.0 authorization endpoint in embedded webviews

Posted by Badi Azad, Group Product Manager (@badiazad) The Google Identity team is continually working to improve Googl…  Read more

Quickly Training Game-Playing Agents with Machine Learning

Posted by Leopold Haller and Hernan Moraldo, Software Engineers, Google Research In the last two decades, dramatic advan…  Read more

The future of Android App Bundles is here

Posted by Dom Elliott, Product Manager at Google Play Since we launched the Android App Bundle in May 2018, we’ve seen…  Read more

Broad match modifier upcoming changes in Google Ads

On February 4, 2021, we announced changes to phrase match and broad match modifier (BMM). As advised in that post, as of…  Read more

With 1,600 students by his side, Jack Lee grew the largest Google Developer Student Club in the world

Posted by Noa Havazelet, Program Manager, Google Developer Student Clubs, UK & Ireland With 1,600 students by his side,…  Read more

Pride Week with Google Developer Groups from Floripa and Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Posted by Rodrigo Akira Hirooka, Program Manager, Google Developer Groups Latin America Lorena Locks is on a mission to…  Read more

Take All Your Pictures to the Cleaners, with Google Photos Noise and Blur Reduction

Posted by Mauricio Delbracio, Research Scientist and Sungjoon Choi, Software Engineer, Google Research Despite recent le…  Read more

Play Dev ID requirements + 2-Step Verification

Posted by Luke Jefferson, Product Manager at Google Play & Raz Lev, Product Manager at Google Play Trust and Safety Ove…  Read more

Asset-based Extensions: Updated Availability and new ValueTrack Parameter

As previously announced, all ad extensions are migrating to the new Asset-based extension paradigm. You must update exte…  Read more

#AndroidDevJourney spotlight - June edition

Posted by Luli Perkins, Developer Relations Program Manager The final edition of #AndroidDevJourney spotlight features…  Read more

Developer updates from Coral

Posted by The Coral Team We're always excited to share updates to our Coral platform for building edge ML applications.…  Read more

Achieving Precision in Quantum Material Simulations

Posted by Charles Neill and Zhang Jiang, Senior Research Scientists, Google Quantum AI In fall of 2019, we demonstrated…  Read more

A Dataset for Studying Gender Bias in Translation

Posted by Romina Stella, Product Manager, Google Translate Advances on neural machine translation (NMT) have enabled mor…  Read more

Deprecation of Entity Read Files

Today we’re announcing the deprecation of Entity Read Files (ERFs). Users currently retrieving Display & Video 360 resou…  Read more

Apply now for Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders

Posted by Ashley Francisco The Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders program is now open for applications unt…  Read more

Continuing to boost developer success on Google Play

Posted by Purnima Kochikar, VP of Play Partnerships As we highlighted in March, our mission is to help all developers s…  Read more

Improving Genomic Discovery with Machine Learning

Posted by Andrew Carroll, Product Manager and Cory McLean, Software Engineer, Google Health Each person’s genome, which…  Read more

Filtering Non-video Resources from Video Reports in the Google Ads API

Beginning on August 4, 2021, all video-related performance reports will begin filtering out campaigns, ad groups, and ad…  Read more

Introducing "Serverless Migration Station" Learning Modules

Posted by Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Helping users modernize their serverless apps Earlier…  Read more

Quantum Machine Learning and the Power of Data

Posted by Jarrod McClean, Staff Research Scientist and Hsin-Yuan (Robert) Huang1, Intern, Google Quantum AI Quantum comp…  Read more

Google Pay plugin for Magento 2

Posted by Soc Sieng, Developer AdvocateGoogle Pay plugin for Magento 2Update June 15, 2021: The Google Pay extension v1…  Read more

Standalone Gmail campaigns becoming read only in Google Ads

Starting on July 8, 2021, all standalone Gmail campaigns will become read-only. This means that you will not be able to…  Read more

Google at CVPR 2021

Posted by Emily Knapp and Tim Herrmann, Program Managers This week marks the start of the 2021 Conference on Computer Vi…  Read more

Improve your app mileage with Android for Cars App library

Posted by Madan Ankapura, Product Manager In April, we announced our first version of the Android for Cars App Library…  Read more

Add dialogs and slash commands to your Google Workspace Chat bots

Posted by Charles Maxson, Developer Advocate Developing your own custom Google Chat bot is a great way for users and te…  Read more

Announcing the Google AdSense Site Approvals video series

The new AdSense Site Approvals video series is now fully available on the Google AdSense YouTube channel.If you want to…  Read more

Learning an Accurate Physics Simulator via Adversarial Reinforcement Learning

Yifeng Jiang, Research Intern and Jie Tan, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google Simulation empowers various engineerin…  Read more

A Step Toward More Inclusive People Annotations in the Open Images Extended Dataset

Posted by Candice Schumann and Susanna Ricco, Software Engineers, Google Research In 2016, we introduced Open Images, a…  Read more

Deprecating Url Performance Report and Automatic Placements Performance Report in the AdWords API

Update (Jun 21): Extended the deprecation date to Sep 13, 2021. Starting September 13, 2021, we will be deprecating Url…  Read more

Call Ads Replace Call Only Ads in the Google Ads API

In the Google Ads API v8, Call Only Ads are replaced by Call Ads. You can still create Call Only Ads in the AdWords API…  Read more

Learn how to improve your content with Search Console Insights

To help you better understand which content of yours resonates with your audiences, we are introducing a new experience…  Read more

Build sophisticated search features with AppSearch

Posted by Dan Saadati, Software Engineer, and Hanaa ElAzizi, Technical Program Manager Introducing AppSearch in Jetpack…  Read more

Our latest updates on Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Posted by Miguel Guevara, Product Manager, Privacy and Data Protection Office. As developers, it’s our responsibility t…  Read more

The Importance of A/B Testing in Robotics

Arnab Bose and Yuheng Kuang, Staff Software Engineers, Robotics at Google Disciplines in the natural sciences, social sc…  Read more

#IamaGDE: Josue Gutierrez

Posted by Alicja Heisig #IamaGDE series presents: Google Maps The Google Developers Experts program is a global network…  Read more

FRILL: On-Device Speech Representations using TensorFlow-Lite

Posted by Joel Shor, Software Engineer, Google Research, Tokyo and Sachin Joglekar, Software Engineer, TensorFlow Repres…  Read more

Announcing v8 of the Google Ads API

Today, we’re announcing the v8 release of the Google Ads API. To use v8 features, you will need to upgrade your client l…  Read more

Android 12 Beta 2 Update

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Just a few weeks ago at Google I/O we unwrapped the first beta of Android 12, f…  Read more

The Search Central Unconference is back

You asked, we listened: On June 21st we will host another virtual unconference. Applications are open now until June 14t…  Read more

Live Webinar: Migrating to the Google Ads API

The Google Ads API Developer Relations team will be hosting a live webinar on Migrating to the Google Ads API, on June 1…  Read more

Using Variational Transformer Networks to Automate Document Layout Design

Posted by Diego Martin Arroyo, Software Engineer and Federico Tombari, Research Scientist, Google Research Information i…  Read more

Sunsetting the KEYWORD_MATCH_TYPE recommendation type

On July 21, 2021, all existing recommendations of the type KEYWORD_MATCH_TYPE will be removed and no new recommendations…  Read more

Important changes to Google Contact Policy for Merchant Center

Following feedback from our merchants, we are relaxing our contact policy website requirements for merchants. Currently…  Read more

Starting your Google Career in IT | Kate Grant

Posted by Max Saltonstall A little over 10 years ago, we launched the IT Residency Program (ITRP) at Google with a twofo…  Read more

Extending Contrastive Learning to the Supervised Setting

Posted by AJ Maschinot, Senior Software Engineer and Jenny Huang, Product Manager, Google Research In recent years, self…  Read more

Data Cascades in Machine Learning

Nithya Sambasivan, Research Scientist, Google Research Data is a foundational aspect of machine learning (ML) that can i…  Read more

Toward Generalized Sim-to-Real Transfer for Robot Learning

Daniel Ho, Software Engineer, The Everyday Robot Project and Kanishka Rao, Staff Software Engineer, Robotics at Google R…  Read more

Android @ Google I/O: Recapping building across devices

Posted by The Android Team At Google I/O this year, we talked about how your app can take advantage of Android's differ…  Read more

Search Console regex filters update and quick tips

Following feedback on the announcement of the new Search Console Performance report regular expression (regex) filters,…  Read more

Announcing the Google Ads Query Language Query Validator

Today, we are releasing a Google Ads Query Language (GAQL) Query Validator, so you can validate GAQL queries directly in…  Read more

Updating Default Reporting Versions in Google Ads Scripts

In the coming weeks, we'll be changing how we update the default reporting version for search and report requests that u…  Read more

Grow your indie game with help from Google Play

Posted by Patricia Correa, Director, Global Developer Marketing At Google Play we’re committed to helping all developer…  Read more

Understanding the sources behind Google News

This post provides more information about Google's transparency policy to help news sources understand the principles be…  Read more

Announcing v3.5 of the Campaign Manager 360 API

Today we're releasing v3.5 of the Campaign Manager 360 API (previously DCM/DFA Reporting and Trafficking API). Highlight…  Read more

Search at Google I/O 2021

Google I/O is our annual developers festival, and this year it was all virtual. But as with any events, virtual, or in-p…  Read more

Live Webinar: Error Handling, Retry, and Timeouts in Google Ads API

The Google Ads API Developer Relations team will be hosting a live webinar covering Error Handling, Retry, and Timeouts,…  Read more

Prevent portions of your site from being abused by spam

As a website owner, you might provide a few channels where your users can interact. Unfortunately, spammers often take a…  Read more

How we worked with you towards a safe and spam-free Search experience in 2020

Making sure your Search experience is safe and free of spam is important to us and we can’t achieve this mission without…  Read more

Sunsetting the generic rich results search appearance on Search Console

A few years ago we created a generic rich results search appearance group in Search Console that included multiple rich…  Read more

Video SEO best practices for ecommerce

Get the most out of your videos on your ecommerce site by making sure Google can find and index them, driving more traff…  Read more

How we fought Search spam on Google in 2020

Every day, we discover 40 billion spammy pages! This post explains how we used innovation, AI, and more in 2020 to keep…  Read more

More time, tools, and details on the page experience update

Last November we announced that the page experience ranking change will go live on Google Search this year, in what we’r…  Read more

Upcoming changes to FeedBurner

Feedburner is making several upcoming changes to support the product's next chapter. This post describes what you can ex…  Read more

Announcing the Sustainable Monetized Websites video series

The new series Sustainable Monetized Websites is now available on the Search Central and the Google AdSense YouTube chan…  Read more

Expanding support for APAC Search Central Help Communities

As we’ve been continuously working to improve support for website owners in more language markets, we’re very excited to…  Read more

What creators should know about Google’s product reviews update

Google Search is always working to show the most useful and helpful information possible, through testing, experimenting…  Read more

Improved data filtering and comparison on Performance reports

This post describes a new way to filter data on the Search Console Performance reports: regular expressions, or regex. T…  Read more

Find the right Certified Publishing Partner for your monetization needs

Building a sustainable business from a website or app can take time away from the work publishers love the most, creatin…  Read more

New for education sites: Practice problems and Math solver structured data

In this post, we provide details to help you implement structured data on your practice problems and math solver pages t…  Read more

Sustainable Monetized Websites: A new video series

The new series Sustainable Monetized Websites is now available on the Google AdSense YouTube channel. If you create, man…  Read more

SharedArrayBuffer messaging clarifications

Some of you might have received an email from Google Search Console with the subject New requirements for SharedArrayBuf…  Read more

Join the Women of AdSense summit

Google AdSense is proud to partner with so many inspiring and successful businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Afric…  Read more

New resources for video SEO

As global online video consumption continues to grow, Google aims to surface video content from diverse sources across t…  Read more

Hear how digital businesses grew in our new podcast, PubCast

PubCast is a new podcast by Google that explores the stories of website creators and app developers who turned their pas…  Read more

Providing better product information for shoppers

To best help users find your content and products in Search, we recommend that you clearly identify products mentioned.   Read more

New Association functionality added to Search Console

We're happy to announce that Search Console has a new and enhanced Association page. Any associations that were previous…  Read more

Join us at Search Central Live

On February 24, we will host our first installment of our new event series called Search Central Live.   Read more

Join the Women of Publishing webinar series

With our third annual 2021 Women of Publishing Leadership Series, we're eager to accelerate the growth of women-led smal…  Read more

Search Console Discover report now includes Chrome data

Starting today, all your Discover traffic (including from Chrome) will be shown in the Performance report for Discover.   Read more

Introducing Google News performance report

Today we are launching Google News performance reporting to help news publishers better understand user behavior on Goog…  Read more

Index Coverage Data Improvements

Based on the feedback we got from the community, today we are rolling out significant improvements to the Index Coverage…  Read more

A weird year in review

2020, what a year this was! We found new ways to work and collaborate, to learn and have fun, and also to stay safe.   Read more

An update on the Structured Data Testing Tool

In July, we announced that the Rich Results Test is out of beta. In that blog post, we said that the Structured Data Tes…  Read more

Updates to Search Console’s API

A few months ago we announced an API infrastructure upgrade to improve the performance of the Search Console API as dema…  Read more

New and improved crawl stats for your site

To help website owners better understand how crawls their sites, we’re launching a brand new version of the in Search Co…  Read more

We moved! Introducing the new home for the Google Webmasters blogs

Last week we changed our name to Google Search Central and published our new central site. As part of this site migratio…  Read more

Goodbye Google Webmasters, hello Google Search Central

Merriam-Webster claims the first known use of the word webmaster was in 1993, years before Google even existed. However,…  Read more

Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search

This past May, we announced that page experience signals would be included in Google Search ranking. These signals measu…  Read more

PES@Home 2020: Google’s first virtual summit for Product Experts

More than ever, users are relying on Google products to do their jobs, educate their kids, and stay in touch with loved…  Read more

Best practices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday pages

The end of the year holiday season is a peak time for many merchants with special sales events such as Black Friday and…  Read more

The Search Console Training lives on

In November 2019 we announced the Search Console Training YouTube series and started publishing videos regularly. The go…  Read more

New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data

Quick summary: Starting today, we support shippingDetails schema.org markup as an alternative way for retailers to be el…  Read more

A guide to common AdSense policy questions

AdSense program policies help ensure we preserve a healthy digital ecosystem for the benefit of all users, advertisers a…  Read more

New open source robots.txt projects

Last year we released the robots.txt parser and matcher that we use in our production systems to the open source world.…  Read more

Helping global publishers accelerate business growth

Since launching the Google News Initiative in 2018, we’ve worked with news organizations of all sizes as they’ve adapted…  Read more

Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2

Quick summary: Starting November 2020, Googlebot will start crawling some sites over HTTP/2.   Read more

The new AdSense reporting is live

The mission of AdSense Reporting is to enable publishers to make decisions to grow their businesses by providing informa…  Read more

Resources to help optimize your business

Online content and media consumption behaviors are continuously evolving. If you'd like to optimize your online business…  Read more

Welcome to Google AdSense

Creating content your audience loves takes time, but making it profitable shouldn’t. That’s where Google AdSense comes i…  Read more

Join the Women of Publishing webinar series

The 2020 Women of Publishing Leadership Series is now open for registration. This annual program is designed to facilita…  Read more

Refining your website’s user experience in 3 steps

There are plenty of sites out there. Beyond producing great content, it’s vital to make yours stand out. How? One way is…  Read more

Creating outstanding website content in 3 steps

Great content marketing not only drives new visitors to your site, but also entices previous visitors to come back. A co…  Read more

Keep your audience engaged post holidays

Congrats on completing the marathon. What happens now? You might notice a drop in your RPMs and impressions. Don’t panic…  Read more

Build your content during the holiday season

Holiday season is driven by users purchasing for themselves and for family’s gifts.Don’t worry, even if your content is…  Read more

Start preparing for the holiday season now

Anticipation is key, start preparing now! The holiday shopping season starts in September with queries starting to incre…  Read more

Your Google AdSense seasonal guide

This guide is here to help you learn about the importance of seasonality as well as provide you with tips on how to get…  Read more

Introducing the new and improved Auto ads

This time last year, we committed to making AdSense more assistive and powerful. We're excited to announce a significant…  Read more

We’ve moved. Come visit us.

Over ten years ago, we wrote our first post on our Geo Developers blog, and today we’re sharing our new location for the…  Read more

Falling Fruit helps urbanites forage for food using Google Maps Platform

Posted by Ethan Welty, Co-founder, Falling FruitEditor’s note: Today’s post comes from Ethan Welty, Co-founder of Fallin…  Read more

How Google Maps helps amateur and professional archaeologists ponder the mysteries of Stonehenge’s burial mounds

Posted by Simon Banton, “Hengemaster,” Stonehenge Barrow MapEditor’s note: Today’s post comes from Simon Banton: softwar…  Read more

How WhyHunger uses Google Maps to connect people to grassroots community food sources

Posted by Alison Cohen, Senior Director of Programs, WhyHungerEditor's Note: Today’s blog is the first in a series of po…  Read more

Expanded support for Google public programs

Posted by Amit Litsur, Product Manager, Google Maps PlatformGoogle is committed to supporting organizations with public…  Read more

Reminder—set-up a Google Cloud Platform Console account

Posted by the Google Maps Platform teamOn May 2, we announced changes including our new simplified Maps, Routes, and Pla…  Read more

Introducing Google Maps Platform

Posted by the Google Maps Platform teamIt’s been thirteen years since we opened up Google Maps to your creativity and pa…  Read more

The real world as your playground: Build real-world games with Google Maps APIs

Posted by Clementine Jacoby, Product Manager, Google Maps APIsThe mobile gaming landscape is changing as more and more s…  Read more

Updated basemap style for Google Maps APIs

Posted by Rose Yao, Director Product, Google Maps APIsGoogle Maps APIs will soon be updated with a new look and feel to…  Read more

With Google Maps APIs, Toyota Europe keeps teen drivers safe and sound

Posted by Christophe Hardy, Manager of Social Business at Toyota Motor EuropeEditor’s note: Today’s post is from Christo…  Read more

Removing Place Add, Delete & Radar Search features

Back in 2012, we launched the Place Add / Delete feature in the Google Places API to enable applications to instantly up…  Read more

Get your users where they need to go on any platform with Google Maps URLs

Last week at Google I/O we announced Google Maps URLs, a new way for developers to link directly to Google Maps from any…  Read more

Google Maps and Particle partner to bring location-aware capabilities to IoT devices

Posted by Ken Nevarez, Solutions Architect for Google Maps APIsParticle and Google Maps make it easy for IoT devices to…  Read more

Introducing structured menus in the Google My Business API

Every day, millions of people search on Google for places to eat and drink and many click to see the menu before making…  Read more

A new issue tracker for Google Maps APIs

Posted by Kasia Derc-Fenske, Technical Solutions Engineer Manager, Google Cloud and Jesse Scherer, Technical Program Man…  Read more

Google Maps APIs sessions at Google Next ‘17

Next 2017 is just a few days away and we’re looking forward to three days of insightful conversations, amazing technolog…  Read more

Do you like the new look of the Maps APIs tutorials?

Until recently, our docs have focused on describing features rather than telling a story. We chatted to some developers…  Read more

Styling and custom data for polylines and polygons in the Google Maps Android API

Polygons, polylines and ground overlays are useful tools to make your maps work for your users. Today we are rolling out…  Read more

Open-Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise

Editors Note: Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) launched on GitHub on March 23, 2017. You can also get more information on t…  Read more

Introducing insights in the Google My Business API

Posted by Aditya Tendulkar, Product Manager, Google My BusinessToday we are introducing business location insights in th…  Read more

Geolocation and Firebase for the Internet of Things

Posted by Ken Nevarez, Industry Solutions Lead at GoogleGPS is the workhorse of location based services, but there are u…  Read more

Address Geocoding in the Google Maps APIs

Forward Geocoding is the process of converting addresses (like a street address) into geographic coordinates (latitude a…  Read more

Smart scrolling comes to mobile web maps

If you’re building a website today, your users are more likely to view it on a mobile device than on a desktop or laptop…  Read more

Key Improvements for Your Maps API Experience

Originally posted on the Google Developers blog.Posted by Israel Shalom, Product ManagerHere at Google, we’re serving mo…  Read more

A sizzling open source release for the Australian Election site

One of the best parts of my job at Google is 20 percent time. While I was hired to help developers use Google’s APIs, I…  Read more