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Bionic Posters help webmasters worldwide
Date : 2008 03 26
Official Google Webmaster Central BlogBy John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google ZurichSetting up and running a website is getting easier and easier, and it's wonderful to see so many new webmasters sharing their voices with the world! For you as a webmaster it's pretty easy going... until you run into an issue that you just can't seem to read more »
Taking advantage of universal search, part 2
Date : 2008 03 25 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogPosted by Susan Moskwa, Webmaster Trends Analyst Universal search and personalized search were two of the hot topics at SMX West last month. Many webmasters wanted to know how these evolutions in search influence the way their co read more »
Join us for an online live chat this Friday!
Date : 2008 03 24 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Adam Lasnik, Search EvangelistMany of us Webmaster Help Group guides have happily gotten to meet Group members at various functions around the world. Over sandwiches in San Jose. Salads in Stockholm. Sweets in Sydney. And it's been super!But some of you are hard to find and so we haven't had the pl read more »
Good housekeeping
Date : 2008 03 20 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality TeamToday's the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, so now is a perfect time to start your spring cleaning. But as a webmaster, your chores don't end after you've cleaned the garage -- you'll probably also want to do some cleaning on your server as w read more »
SES London Calling!
Date : 2008 03 18 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Luisella Mazza, Search Quality Team. February is that time of the year: the Search Engine Strategies conference hits London! A few of us were there to meet webmasters and search engine representatives to talk about the latest trends and issues in the search engine world. It was a three-day marathon read more »
Tips for making information universally accessible
Date : 2008 03 15 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by T.V. Raman, Research ScientistMany people talk about the effect the Internet has on democratizing access to information, but as someone who has been visually impaired since my teenage years, I can certainly speak to the profound impact it has had on my life. In everyday life, things like a sheet of read more »
German Webmaster Blog turns one
Date : 2008 03 14 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Juliane Stiller, Search QualityOur German Webmaster Central Blog celebrates its first birthday and we'd like to raise our glasses to 57 published posts in the last year! We enjoy looking back at an exciting first year of blogging and communicating with webmasters. It's the growing webmaster communi read more »
Webmaster Tools keeps your "messages waiting"
Date : 2008 03 11 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Jessica and Uli, Search Quality TeamWe’re happy to announce that the Message Center supports a new “messages waiting” feature. Previously, it could only store penalty notifications for existing verified site owners (webmasters who had already verified their sites). However, the Message Cente read more »
First date with the Googlebot: Headers and compression
Date : 2008 03 05 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Maile Ohye as the website, Jeremy Lilley as the Googlebot Name/User-Agent: GooglebotIP Address: Verify it hereLooking For: Websites with unique and compelling contentMajor Turn Off: Violations of the Webmaster GuidelinesGooglebot -- what a dreamboat. It's like he knows us <head>, <body> read more »
iGoogle Gadgets for Webmaster Tools
Date : 2008 02 28 Official Google Webmaster Central Blogby Jonathan Simon, Webmaster Tools TeamWhen you plan to do something, are you a minimalist, or are you prepared for every potential scenario? For example, would you hike out into the Alaskan wilderness during inclement weather with only a wool overcoat and a sandwich in your pocket - like the naturalist John read more »
Cross-submissions via robots.txt on Sitemaps.org
Date : 2008 02 27 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogPosted by Prashanth Koppula, Product ManagerLast spring, the Sitemaps protocol was expanded to include the autodiscovery of Sitemaps using robots.txt to let us and other search engines supporting the protocol know about your Sitemaps. We subsequently also announced support for Sitemap cross-submissions using read more »
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 »