WEBETTER · SMALL STEPS, BETTER WEBSITES
Practical ideas for Hong Kong businesses and organisations. Explain your services, help search tools understand your site, and make one useful improvement at a time.
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On 26 October 2026 Google updated its guide to preventing user-generated spam, adding advice on keeping link-shared or tool-generated pages out of the index and watching Search Console for abuse. This checklist helps Hong Kong SMEs review comments, reviews and shareable pages.
Read the guide ↗Google’s Page indexing help now says “Crawled - currently not indexed” is common and not always actionable. This guide shows Hong Kong SMEs when to inspect key pages and when to keep watching.
Read the guide ↗On 21 October 2026 Google consolidated its Search sharing controls docs—noindex, robots meta / data-nosnippet, and the Search Console generative AI control. This guide helps Hong Kong SMEs match the tool to the goal and keep Google-Extended training controls separate.
Read the guide ↗On 30 October 2026 Google announced plans to support a shared AI training preference in robots.txt (targeted around 2027). This guide separates Google-Extended from the Search Console generative AI control and lists practical checks for Hong Kong SMEs.
Read the guide ↗Google confirmed the September 2026 spam update finished rolling out globally on 8 October. This guide covers the date window, how it differs from a manual action, and practical Search Console and spam-policy checks for Hong Kong SME websites.
Read the guide ↗On 6 October 2026 Google updated Search Console Performance filters so you can select several countries or devices and see combined traffic. This guide covers Filter vs Compare, practical uses for Hong Kong SMEs, and limits to keep in mind when reading the numbers.
Read the guide ↗The PCPD and HKIRC offer a free Data Privacy and Web Security Scan Programme for Hong Kong schools, NGOs and SMEs until 16 November 2026. Here is what the programme covers, who it suits, and what to prepare before you apply.
Read the guide ↗On 24 September 2026 Google added a multimodal search type filter to Search Console Performance on Search results and Generative AI features. This guide shows Hong Kong SMEs how to open it, what the numbers mean for product and shop photos, and a short image-discoverability checklist.
Read the guide ↗On 1 October 2026 Google updated its guidance on using generative AI content on websites. This checklist covers the official points: AI is fine for research and structure, but review body text, titles, descriptions, structured data and alt text by hand before publishing, and avoid mass-producing pages that add no value.
Read the guide ↗The BUD Fund can support developing or enhancing a company website to grow sales in eligible target markets, with enhancement capped at HK$100,000 per application. SEO/SEM may be funded under Advertisement. We cover Easy BUD limits, processing times, exclusions and a pre-application checklist.
Read the guide ↗The PICS template now has a dedicated resource page. Visit it for review status and download availability.
Read the guide ↗A practical guide based on Google's official docs: what the Generative AI performance report measures, how to check inclusion settings, how to read page and country impressions, and what to do next when data is sparse or strong.
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