Google Webmaster Tools Now Supports Non-English Domains

By Barry Schwartz

Published: August 28, 2007 at 9:32 am

The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced that they now officially support adding non-English domain names to Google Webmaster Central.

So if you have a domain that looks like https://北京大学.cn, you will be able to add it and very the site in Google Webmaster Tools. Now Google supports Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) within the tool. If you used a workaround in the past, you do not have to update anything. Google will do that for you.

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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