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How Google employs responsive design

Google has launched a new smartphone crawler, and this will likely push the differences between desktop search and mobile search more into the mind of the average SEO

(Cross-posted to the Enterprise blog ) As the dramatic growth of the mobile web changes the way people consume content, it’s becoming increasingly important for publishers to provide a good mobile experience. With this in mind, we just added automatic mobile rendering in Google Sites for iOS 3.0+ and Android 2.2+ devices, and a mobile version of the Google Sites lists.

This post focuses on how to generate mobile redirects that will help the smartphone bot find and index your mobile content correctly.

The Google Chart API returns a chart image in response to a URL GET or POST request. The API can generate many kinds of charts, from pie or line charts to QR codes and formulas. All the information about the chart that you want, such as chart data, size, colors, and labels, are part of the URL. (For POST requests, it's a little different, but don't worry about that now).

With Google Sites, you can build a professional mobile landing page in just minutes.

This document defines formatting and style rules for HTML and CSS. It aims at improving collaboration, code quality, and enabling supporting infrastructure. It applies to raw, working files that use HTML and CSS, including GSS files. Tools are free to obfuscate, minify, and compile as long as the general code quality is maintained.

Rich snippets (microdata, microformats, RDFa)

So there you are, minding your own business, using Webmaster Tools to check out how awesome your site is... but, wait! The Crawl errors page is full of 404 (Not found) errors! Is disaster imminent?? Fear not, my young padawan. Let's take a look at 404s and how they do (or do not) affect your site: