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Date with Googlebot, Part II: HTTP status codes and If-Modified-Since
Date : 2008 11 26
Official Google Webmaster Central BlogOur date with Googlebot was so wonderful, but it's hard to tell if we, the websites, said the right thing. We returned 301 permanent redirect, but should we have responded with 302 temporary redirect (so he knows we're playing hard to get)? If we sent a few new 404s, will he ever call our site again? Should read more »
Better targeting your indic language site
Date : 2008 11 13 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogA lot has been said about how to start a multi-lingual site and how to better target content through meta tags. Our users have raised a number of interesting questions about creating websites in different languages, like the one below. ‘ganex':> How does one do for INDIA.> As there are many languages read more »
On-Demand Sitemaps for Custom Search
Date : 2008 11 13 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogSince we launched enhanced indexing with the Custom Search platform earlier this year, webmasters who submit Sitemaps to Webmaster Tools get special treatment: Custom Search recognizes the submitted Sitemaps and indexes URLs from these Sitemaps into a separate index for higher quality Custom Search results. W read more »
Google's SEO Starter Guide
Date : 2008 11 12 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWebmasters often ask us at conferences or in the Webmaster Help Group, "What are some simple ways that I can improve my website's performance in Google?" There are lots of possible answers to this question, and a wealth of search engine optimization information on the web, so much that it can be intimidating read more »
Spookier than malware
Date : 2008 10 31 Official Google Webmaster Central Bloghotdoglion king...and infinitely more fun: webmasters and their pets incognito! Happy Halloween, everyone! If you see any costumes that would pass the SafeSearch filter :), feel like sharing a gripe or telling a good story, please join the chat!Take care, and don't forget to brush your teeth. Yours scari read more »
Reflections on the "Tricks and Treats" webmaster event
Date : 2008 10 29 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWhat featured over 750 webmasters and a large number of Googlers from around the world, hundreds of questions, and over one hundred answers over the course of nearly two hours? If you guessed "the Tricks and Treats webmaster event from this earlier this month!" well, you're either absolutely brilliant, you read more »
Malware? We don't need no stinking malware!
Date : 2008 10 24 Official Google Webmaster Central Blog(Cross-posted from the Google Online Security Blog.)"This site may harm your computer"You may have seen those words in Google search results — but what do they mean? If you click the search result link you get another warning page instead of the website you were expecting. But if the web page was your grand read more »
Webmaster chat event: Vote early and often!
Date : 2008 10 21 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogNo matter where in the world you are, you can vote right now on webmaster-oriented questions by registering for our free Webmaster chat ("Tricks and Treats") which is scheduled for tomorrow at 9am PDT (5pm GMT). Even better: you can suggest your own questions that you'd like Webmaster Central Googl read more »
Join us for our third live online webmaster chat!
Date : 2008 10 20 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogYou know how some myths just won't die? Well, do we have some great news for you! A not-so-scary bunch of Gooooooooooooglers will be on hand to drive a stake through the most ghoulish webmastering myths and misconceptions in our live online "Tricks and Treats" chat this coming Wednesday.That's right! Yo read more »
Where's my data?
Date : 2008 10 19 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogToday we're going back to basics. We'll be answering the question: What is a website?...Okay, not exactly. But we will be looking into what a "website" means in the context of Webmaster Tools, what kind of sites you can add to your Webmaster Tools account, and what data you can get from different types of sit read more »
First Click Free for Web Search
Date : 2008 10 17 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWhile working on our mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, we sometimes run into situations where important content is not publicly available. In order to help users find and access content that may require registration or a subscription, Google offers an o read more »
Message Center warnings for hackable sites
Date : 2008 10 16 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogRecently we've seen more websites get hacked because of various security holes. In order to help webmasters with this issue, we plan to run a test that will alert some webmasters if their content management system (CMS) or publishing platform looks like it might have a security hole or be hackable. This is a read more »
Video Tutorial: Google for Webmasters
Date : 2008 10 15 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWe're always looking for new ways to help educate our fellow webmasters. While you may already be familiar with Webmaster Tools, Webmaster Help Discussion Groups, this blog, and our Help Center, we've added another tutorial to help you understand how Google works. Hence we've made this video of a soon-to-c read more »
Helping you break the language barrier
Date : 2008 10 14 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWhen webmasters put content out on the web it's there for the world to see. Unfortunately, most content on the web is only published in a single language, understandable by only a fraction of the world's population. In a continued effort to make the world's information universally accessible, Google Translat read more »
Webmaster Tools API updated with Site Settings
Date : 2008 10 13 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogThe Webmaster Tools GData API has been updated to allow you to get even more out of Webmaster Tools, such as setting a geographic location or your preferred domain. For those of you that aren't familiar with GData, it's a protocol for reading and writing data on the web. GData makes it very easy to communicat read more »
Webmaster Tools shows Crawl error sources
Date : 2008 10 13 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogEver since we released the crawl errors feature in Webmaster Tools, webmasters have asked for the sources of the URLs causing the errors. Well, we're listening! We know it was difficult for those of you who wanted to identify the cause of a particular "Not found" error, in order to prevent it in the future or read more »
Good times with inbound links
Date : 2008 10 09 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogInbound links are links from pages on external sites linking back to your site. Inbound links can bring new users to your site, and when the links are merit-based and freely-volunteered as an editorial choice, they're also one of the positive signals to Google about your site's importance. Other signals inclu read more »