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Google Webmaster Central is a collection of tools and resources (including an official Google Webmaster Central Blog, a discussion area and help center) designed to help webmasters, marketers and others monitor their web sites on Google.
Jul. 3, 2008 at 8:19am by Barry Schwartz
How To Do A Google Reinclusion Reconsideration Request
Mariya Moeva and Bergy Berghausen of Google posted an excellent step by step instruction manual and video on when and how to submit a Google request for reinclusion in Google. In short, the steps are as follows: (1) Login to Webmaster Tools and check for any crawl errors, such as...
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Jul. 1, 2008 at 8:56am by Barry Schwartz
Google Adds Positive Attributes To Look For When Hiring An SEO
The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced that they have updated the content of the What's an SEO page to provide examples of how SEOs can help you site. Previously, the page mainly focused on what scams and things to watch out for from SEOs. Now, Google added some of the...
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Jun. 25, 2008 at 8:37am by Barry Schwartz
Google Posts Official Webmaster Help Group Chat Recordings, Transcript, & Presentations
Google has posted the official blog post summarizing last week's live chat event. Yes, we did post the unofficial version on Thursday night, but now we have the official version live for viewing. Q&A Transcript available via Google Groups John's Personalized Search Presentation via Google PresentationsMaile's Case Sensitivity in Web...
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Jun. 20, 2008 at 5:29pm by Barry Schwartz
Google Adds API To Webmaster Tools
The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced that they now have APIs for developers and webmasters to tap into. You can now access some of the data you see in Google Webmaster Tools through an API. API features currently include:...
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Jun. 20, 2008 at 9:16am by Barry Schwartz
Miss The Google Webmaster Help Group Chat Last Night?
Did you miss the Google Webmaster Help Group Chat that took place last night? If you did, no need to worry, I was able to record the audio and export the full Q&A transcript, with well over 300 questions answered by Googlers. You can find the audio recording and downloadable...
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Jun. 17, 2008 at 8:01am by Barry Schwartz
Google Hosting Live Chat Event & SEMPO's First SEM Debate
This Thursday, June 19th at 5pm (EST), Google will be hosting their second live chat session for webmasters. The first event, which took place in March, turned out to be a pretty big success. To register for the event, go here and click on the "register" link on the left...
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Jun. 4, 2008 at 10:27am by Barry Schwartz
Google Improves Webmaster Documentation
Google's Matt Cutts posted that Google has made major enhancements to their webmaster and SEO documentation. They have clarified and detailed much of the documentation that was in need of an update. The documents that were updated include the Robots.txt documentation, spam reporting tools and documentation, IP delivery/geolocation/cloaking documentation, Nofollow...
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May. 21, 2008 at 10:33am by Barry Schwartz
A Deeper Look At Google's Search Quality Efforts
Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Search Quality at Google, wrote a fairly long post at the Google Blog on introducing search quality to the public. In short, Udi explains the various teams within the search quality group and explains what each team does. I will highlight below the parts I personally...
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May. 7, 2008 at 10:17am by Danny Sullivan
From My Inbox: Some Search Tools To Check Out
After Yahoo-Microsoft madness, there's been a bit of a lull so I'm cleaning out my inbox and wanted to mention a few items that might be of interest. Below, a way to quickly search blogs & social media sites all at once, a new video search tool, a study into...
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Apr. 24, 2008 at 8:57am by Barry Schwartz
Video: Details On Setting Your Site's Geographic Target In Google Webmaster Tools
Google launched the set geographic target feature in October of last year. Since then, many webmasters began experimenting with it and I have personally not seen too many complaints about it, which is always a good thing. Google's Webmaster Central team said they have been receiving some questions on the...
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Mar. 31, 2008 at 8:45am by Barry Schwartz
Google Dance Is Back? Plus Google's First Live Chat Recap & Hyperactive Yahoo Slurp
Is the Google Dance back? Well, not really, but I am noticing Google Dance-like behavior from Google based on reading some of the feedback at a WebmasterWorld thread. The Google Dance refers to how years ago, a change to Google's ranking algorithm often began showing up slowly across data centers...
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Mar. 27, 2008 at 5:39pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Offers Robots.txt Generator
Google's rolled out a new tool at Google Webmaster Central, a robots.txt generator. It's designed to allow site owners to easily create a robots.txt file, one of the two main ways (along with the meta robots tag) to prevent search engines from indexing content. Robots.txt generators aren't new. You can...
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Mar. 27, 2008 at 10:25am by Barry Schwartz
Details Posted On Google Webmaster Central's Live Chat Session
I have more details on the Google live chat session that is taking place this Friday. Adam Lasnik posted the agenda, which starts at 8:45am (PST) this Friday and ends at 10am (PST). In short, Google will give an introduction, then do site reviews, then a topic on image search,...
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Mar. 25, 2008 at 9:00am by Barry Schwartz
Google Webmaster Central To Host Live Chat Event On Friday
Adam Lasnik announced the Google Webmaster Central team will be hosting a free live chat event this Friday. The live chat session will enable webmasters to call in and ask questions to Google, while watching Google Webmaster Central members respond to their questions in real time. The live chat session...
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Mar. 12, 2008 at 9:07am by Barry Schwartz
Message In A Bottle: Google Now Stores Messages For Unverified Webmaster Central Users
Google Webmaster Central has announced that they now will have webmaster communication messages waiting for webmasters even if they have not yet verified their site in Google Webmaster Tools. Let me step back a bit and explain why this is incredibly important. In July 2007, Google released Message Center within...
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Mar. 5, 2008 at 10:28am by Barry Schwartz
Matt Cutts & The Search Community Interview
I finally got around to watching Whiteboard Friday - The Matt Cutts Interview and felt it was worth pointing out. Matt Cutts, Google Engineer, is a huge part of the SEM industry. Rand Fishkin's interview with Matt Cutts explores that relationship. Questions include how Matt got into being the face...
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Feb. 28, 2008 at 1:48pm by Vanessa Fox
Google Webmaster Tools: Now On Your iGoogle Homepage
Google's Webmaster Central is giving you a new way to access the diagnostics and stats for your sites. Rather than log into your Webmaster Tools account, you can add the Webmaster Tools gadget to your iGoogle page and access information from there. You can choose what components to display on...
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Feb. 20, 2008 at 9:33am by Barry Schwartz
Lee Odden Interviews Google's Adam Lasnik
Lee Odden posted a ten-minute interview with Google's Adam Lasnik. Adam is well-known for being one of the many Googlers who work on Webmaster communication. In this interview, Lee asked Adam questions on: Google compliant Flash and JavaScript capabilities Duplicate content issues and if there are penalties Using the nofollow...
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Jan. 21, 2008 at 3:00pm by Barry Schwartz
The Google Webmaster Tools Quick Start Guide
Google has created the Google Webmaster Tools Quick Start Guide to help webmasters learn the features and reasons to use the tool. The ten step guide displays details on the dashboard, the overview section, the diagnostics section, the top search queries screen, crawl stats page, the "What the Googlebot Sees"...
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Jan. 16, 2008 at 9:12am by Barry Schwartz
Google Writes Google Sitemaps FAQs
The Google Webmaster Central Blog has posted a Sitemaps FAQs blog post. In this blog post, Google responds to some of the most asked questions on the Sitemaps protocol and how Google supports it. Some of the questions include:...
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Dec. 25, 2007 at 8:24pm by Vanessa Fox
Webmaster Support Forum For Christmas (& All Year Round) From The Search Engines
Last year on Christmas Day, Barry reported over at Search Engine Roundtable how Adam Lasnik and I spent a bit of time answering questions on the Google Webmaster Central forums. This year, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller keeps up the tradition. In the spirit of the season, I thought...
