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Leap day hackathon for Google Gadgets, Maps, and more
Date : 2008 02 26
Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Ben Lisbakken, Google Developer ProgramsIf you've got JavaScript skills and you'd like to implement such things as Google Gadgets or Maps on your site, bring your laptops and come hang out with us in Mountain View.This Friday, my team (Google Developer Programs) is hosting a hackathon to get you st read more »
7 must-read Webmaster Central blog posts
Date : 2008 02 12 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogPosted by Susan Moskwa, Webmaster Trends AnalystOur search quality and Webmaster Central teams love helping webmasters solve problems. But since we can't be in all places at all times answering all questions, we also try hard to show you how to help yourself. We put a lot of work into providing documentation read more »
Feeling lucky at PubCon
Date : 2008 01 22 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogPosted by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality Last month, several of us with Webmaster Central hit the "good times" jackpot at PubCon Vegas 2007. We realize not all of you could join us, so instead of returning home with fuzzy dice for everyone, we've got souvenir conference notes.Listening to the Q&A, I read more »
Sitemaps FAQs
Date : 2008 01 15 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogPosted by Susan Moskwa & Trevor Foucher, Webmaster Tools TeamLast month, Trevor spoke on the Sitemaps: Oversold, Misused or On The Money? panel at Search Engine Strategies in Chicago. After receiving a lot of great questions at the conference in addition to all the feedback we receive in our Help Group, w read more »
Remove your content from Google
Date : 2008 01 09 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogPosted by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools TeamConfused about the best uses of robots.txt, nofollow, URL removal tool? Wondering how to keep some of your pages off the web? Our webspam lead, Matt Cutts, talks about the best ways to stop Google from crawling your content, and how to remove content from the Go read more »
Growing the Webmaster Help Groups Team
Date : 2008 01 07 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Kas, Search Quality TeamOne of the ways in which we continuously work to improve our service for users everywhere is to localize and adjust our tools for different regions. In November, we had a chance to introduce our international Webmaster Help Group Team and its guides from Dublin. Today I'm ve read more »
Looking back on 2007
Date : 2008 01 03 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Liza Ma, Webmaster Tools Team2007 has been a great year of change and growth for the Webmaster Central team. Without the webmaster community helping us drive our vision to create better tools we wouldn't have accomplished much. All of us with the Webmaster Central team would like to say a big thank read more »
A Festivus for our webmasterus
Date : 2007 12 21 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Maile OhyeIf it's good enough for the Costanzas, it's good enough for Webmaster Central: it's time for a Festivus for the rest of us (webmasterus)!Our special celebration begins not with carols and eggnog, but by remembering some of the popular Webmaster Tools features -- make that Feats of Strengt read more »
The Ultimate Fate of Supplemental Results
Date : 2007 12 18 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogPosted by Yonatan Zunger, Search Quantity TeamIn 2003, Google introduced a "supplemental index" as a way of showing more documents to users. Most webmasters will probably snicker about that statement, since supplemental docs were famous for refreshing less often and showing up in search results less often. Bu read more »
Taking feeds out of our web search results
Date : 2007 12 18 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Bogdan Stănescu, Software EngineerAs a webmaster, you may have been concerned about your RSS/Atom feeds crowding out their associated HTML pages in Google's search results. By serving feeds, we could cause a poor user experience: Feeds increase the likelihood that users see duplicate search resul read more »
Introducing Video Sitemaps
Date : 2007 12 17 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by John Fisher-Ogden, Software Engineer, and Amy Wu, Associate Product ManagerIn our effort to help users search all the world's public videos, the Google Video team joined the Sitemaps folks to introduce Video Sitemaps—an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more searchable read more »
FYI on Google Toolbar's latest features
Date : 2007 12 14 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogBy John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google ZürichThe latest version of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer (beta) just added a neat feature to help users arrive at your website, or at least see your content, even when things go awry.It's frustrating for your users to mistype your URL and receive read more »
New: Content analysis and Sitemap details, plus more languages
Date : 2007 12 13 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Jonathan Simon, Webmaster Trends AnalystWe're always striving to help webmasters build outstanding websites, and in our latest release we have two new features: Content analysis and Sitemap details. We hope these features help you to build a site you could compare to a fine wine -- getting better a read more »
Using ALT attributes smartly
Date : 2007 12 06 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools TeamHere's the second of our video blog posts. Matt Cutts, the head of Google's webspam team, provides some useful tips on how to optimize the images you include on your site, and how simply providing useful, accurate information in your ALT attributes can make you read more »
Answering more popular picks: meta tags and web search
Date : 2007 12 04 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, ZürichIn writing and maintaining accurate meta tags (e.g., descriptive titles and robots information), you help Google to more accurately crawl, index and return your site in search results. Meta tags provide information to all sorts of clients, such as brow read more »
Information about buying and selling links that pass PageRank
Date : 2007 12 01 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Matt Cutts and Maile OhyeOur goal is to provide users the best search experience by presenting equitable and accurate results. We enjoy working with webmasters, and an added benefit of our working together is that when you make better and more accessible content, the internet, as well as our index, read more »
The anatomy of a search result
Date : 2007 11 26 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools team When Matt Cutts, who heads up Google's webspam team, dropped by our Kirkland offices a little while ago we found ourselves with a video camera and an hour to spare. The result? We quickly put together a few videos we hope you'll find useful. In our first vide read more »