In Time for Summer, Top Travel Sites

Date : 2009 06 30 Category : Alexa Alexa - Web Discovery Machine
Every Summer people flock to the online travel sites to make their travel plans. This year, despite the flagging economy, is no different. Here is a round-up of the top travel sites. When you book your tickets, give one of these sites a try. Amazon.com WidgetsTop Online Travel SitesThere are a lot of great t read more »

Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 22nd - 26th

Date : 2009 06 30 Category : Google Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
Want to know what's new on the Webmaster Central YouTube channel? Here's what we've uploaded in the past week:As part of Google's goal to make the web faster, we uploaded several video tips about optimizing the speed of your website. Check out the tutorials page to view the tutorials and associated videos.Mat read more »

Traffic drops and site architecture issues

Date : 2009 06 28 Category : Google Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
Webmaster Level: Intermediate.We hear lots of questions about site architecture issues and traffic drops, so it was a pleasure to talk about it in greater detail at SMX London and I'd like to highlight some key concepts from my presentation here. First off, let's gain a better understanding of drops in traffi read more »

Remembering Michael Jackson

Date : 2009 06 26 Category : Yahoo Yahoo! Search Blog
Yahoo! Search logs gave a revealing picture of what the King of Pop evokes for people as they mourned his passing today. Starting last night, searches for his legendary music surged. “Thriller,” “Man in the Mirror,” and “Billie Jean” were among the top lyrics, songs, and vi read more »

Bing cashback 101

Date : 2009 06 26 Category : Msn Live Search's WebLog
It’s been just over a year since we introduced cashback and a lot has happened in that time. We’ve added offers, merchants, and even changed our name to Bing cashback (although some suggested “Bing Bling”). With all the activity this year, we thought it was a good time to revisit how B read more »

Spam2.0: Fake user accounts and spam profiles

Date : 2009 06 26 Category : Google Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
You're a good webmaster or web developer, and you've done everything you can to keep your site from being hacked and keep your forums and comment sections free of spam. You're now the proud owner of a buzzing web2.0 social community, filling the web with user-generated content, and probably getting lots of vi read more »

VoCampers Converge at Yahoo! Headquarters in Sunnyvale

Date : 2009 06 25 Category : Yahoo Yahoo! Search Blog
An enthusiastic group of data geeks and Semantic Web enthusiasts met last week at our Sunnyvale headquarters where we hosted the latest edition of VoCamp. VoCamps are a series of informal events that provide a small setting where the Semantic Web community can discuss issues related to semantic interoperabili read more »

Tell us what you think!

Date : 2009 06 24 Category : Google Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
(Cross-posted on the Google Product Ideas Blog)The Webmaster Central team does our best to support the webmaster community via Webmaster Tools, the Webmaster Central Blog, the Webmaster YouTube Channel, Help Center, our forum, and a fellow named Matt Cutts.If you've got ideas and suggestions for Webmaster Cen read more »

Watch out for your .yu domain!

Date : 2009 06 23 Category : Google Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
Are you the owner of a .yu domain? Then you might have heard the news: as of September 30, all .yu domains will stop working, regardless of their renewal date. This means that any content you're hosting on a .yu domain will no longer be online. For those of you who would still like to have your site online, w read more »

Bringing the Ideal Result Front and Center with Best Match

Date : 2009 06 23 Category : Msn Live Search's WebLog
A key goal for Bing is to deliver the very best search results. One of the ways Bing does this is through a new feature called “Best match”, which sets up the best result in a distinct, easily accessible space at the top of the page. You may ask yourself: Why did we bother to do this? Do read more »

Let's make the web faster

Date : 2009 06 23 Category : Google Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and the Google Code Blog)From building data centers in different parts of the world to designing highly efficient user interfaces, we at Google always strive to make our services faster. We focus on speed as a key requirement in product and infrastructure development, read more »

Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 15th - 19th

Date : 2009 06 22 Category : Google Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
Want to know what's new on the Webmaster Central YouTube channel? Here's what we've uploaded in the past week:Maile Ohye gave a webmaster-focused presentation about Product Search.Matt Cutts answered a new question each day from the Grab Bag:Do dates in URLs determine freshness?What impact does "page bloat" h read more »

Bing and your browser help get the job done

Date : 2009 06 19 Category : Msn Live Search's WebLog
In our last post, we showed you a few ways to add Bing to your browser whether you are using the latest version of IE, Firefox or Chrome. Today, we want to demonstrate how Bing’s integration with both IE8 and Firefox provides quick access to information, to make your search easier.   Internet E read more »

Flash indexing with external resource loading

Date : 2009 06 18 Category : Google Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
Webmaster Level: AllWe just added external resource loading to our Flash indexing capabilities. This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file—whether it's text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc.—we can index this external content too, and associate it with the parent SWF file and any docum read more »

SearchMonkey Updates: New Enhanced Results and Support of Google Base Formatting

Date : 2009 06 18 Category : Yahoo Yahoo! Search Blog
Today, we are announcing two updates that make it easier for site owners and developers to share and use structured data within Yahoo! Search:  new enhanced results and the support of Google Base formatting for structured data feeds. Let’s take a look at these two updates. New Enhanced Results - Produc read more »

Explore Pane – A Ribbon for Search

Date : 2009 06 17 Category : Msn Live Search's WebLog
One of our goals for Bing was to improve the way search results pages are organized. We wanted to help people get away from the “search overload” they often feel– that sinking feeling when confronted by millions of non-descript results.   The Explore Pane is one of the ways we are brin read more »

Reconsideration requests: Now with notifications

Date : 2009 06 17 Category : Google Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
If you've submitted a reconsideration request via Webmaster Tools, you've probably wondered what happens once Google receives it. We've always done our best to act upon these requests as quickly as possible, but until now we haven't notified webmasters once we've processed their requests.As of last week, afte read more »