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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 »
A dozen ways to discuss "webmaster help"
Date : 2007 11 21 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Patrick Chapman, Search Quality TeamOur goal for the Webmaster Help Group is to be an authoritative source for accurate, friendly information and discussion. There are many terrific members of the Webmaster Groups community, and we're glad to know them all. In our English discussion group, a big We read more »
Bringing the conference to you
Date : 2007 11 19 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Susan Moskwa, Webmaster Trends AnalystWe're fortunate to meet many of you at conferences, where we can chat about web search and Webmaster Tools. We receive a lot of good feedback at these events: insight into the questions you're asking and issues you're facing. However, as several of our Webmaste read more »
Go Daddy and Google offer easy access to Webmaster Tools
Date : 2007 11 12 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by David Sha, Webmaster Tools TeamWelcome Go Daddy webmasters to the Google Webmaster Tools family! Today, we're announcing that Go Daddy, the world's largest hostname provider in the web hosting space, is working with us as a pilot partner so that their customers can more easily access Google Webmast read more »
A spider's view of Web 2.0
Date : 2007 11 06 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Michael Wyszomierski and Greg Grothaus, Search QualityMany webmasters have discovered the advantages of using Ajax to improve the user experience on their sites, creating dynamic pages that act as powerful web applications. But, like Flash, Ajax can make a site difficult for search engines to index read more »
Happy Halloween to our spooktacular webmasters!
Date : 2007 10 31 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Maile OhyeWith apologizes to Vic Mizzy, we've written short verse to the tune of the "Addams Family" theme (please use your imagination):We may be hobbyists or just geeky,Building websites and acting cheeky, Javascript redirects we won't make sneaky,Our webmaster fam-i-ly!Happy Halloween everyone! read more »
Better geographic choices for webmasters
Date : 2007 10 31 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Amanda Camp, Webmaster Tools and Trystan Upstill, International Search Quality TeamStarting today Google Webmaster Tools helps you better control the country association of your content on a per-domain, per-subdomain, or per-directory level. The information you give us will help us determine how yo read more »
Dealing with Sitemap cross-submissions
Date : 2007 10 25 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogPosted by Mickey Kataria, Google ZürichSince the launch of Sitemaps, webmasters have been asking if they could submit their Sitemaps for multiple hosts on a single dedicated host. A fair question -- and now you can!Why would someone want to do this? Let's say that you own www.example.com and mysite.google.co read more »
Blast from the past
Date : 2007 10 18 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Sahala Swenson, Webmaster Tools TeamAs you know, the queries used to find your website in search results can change over time. Your website content changes, as do the needs of all the busy searchers out there. Whether the queries associated with your site change subtly or dramatically, it's pretty read more »
Introducing Code Search Sitemaps
Date : 2007 10 18 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Mickey Kataria, Google ZürichThe Sitemaps team is continuing its trend of extending the Sitemap Protocol for specific products and content types. Our latest work with the Google Code Search team now enables you to create Sitemaps that contain information about public source code you host and woul read more »
Webmasters can now provide feedback on Sitelinks
Date : 2007 10 18 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Stacey Kuznetsov, Search QualitySitelinks are extra links that appear below some search results in Google. They serve as shortcuts to help users quickly navigate to the important pages on your site.Selecting pages to appear as sitelinks is a completely automated process. Our algorithms parse the st read more »
Data freshness
Date : 2007 10 08 Official Google Webmaster Central BlogWritten by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools Team Common feedback we hear from webmasters is that you want us to improve the freshness of the data in Webmaster Tools. Understood. :) We've increased the update frequency for your verified sites' data, such as crawl, index, and search query stats. Much of this d read more »