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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.
May. 7, 2008 at 10:17am by Danny Sullivan
From My Inbox: Some Search Tools To Checkout
After Yahoo-Microsoft madness, 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 automatic search...
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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...
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Dec. 18, 2007 at 9:09am by Barry Schwartz
Google Webmaster Tools Adds Video Sitemaps
The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced Google has added a Sitemaps protocol for videos. If you have videos and want to give Google more metadata on those videos to make them more searchable via Google Video Search, you now can....
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Dec. 13, 2007 at 6:48pm by Vanessa Fox
Google's Webmaster Tools Adds More Diagnostic Features & Video Sitemaps
Today, Google's Webmaster Tools have been updated with new diagnostic features that alert site owners to problems Google may have extracting content from pages. In addition, they've added Video Sitemaps. They've also added Hungarian and Czech to the 20 languages already supported. Below more about these features and how best...
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Nov. 28, 2007 at 3:31pm by Vanessa Fox
The Anatomy Of A Google Search Result
As Barry noted earlier, Matt Cutts, keeper of all things webspam and webmaster for Google, is reviving his video series. This new set is on the official Google Webmaster Central blog, rather than his personal site, and so far, don't seem to feature either of his cats. But even cat-free,...
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Nov. 28, 2007 at 8:57am by Barry Schwartz
Malware Hits Search Results -- Google's Malware Warnings Not Working?
Subverted search sites lead to massive malware attack in progress from ComputerWorld reports that Google, along with Yahoo, Live Search have been targeted in a massive attack that puts links leading to malware sites into top search results. Alex Eckelberry, Sunbelt Software's CEO said "So far we've found 27 different...
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Nov. 13, 2007 at 11:25am by Vanessa Fox
Go Daddy Customers Now Get Bonus Google Webmaster Tools
A new partnership between Go Daddy web hosting and Google Webmaster Tools gives Go Daddy customers easy access to the features available within Google Webmaster Tools. According to the release, Go Daddy customers can opt-in to the integration for their hosted sites directly from their control centers. This jump starts...
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Oct. 30, 2007 at 11:25pm by Vanessa Fox
Let Google Know The Geographic Location of Your Site
For years, webmasters have wished for a way to tell search engines the country that should be associated with their sites. Starting today, Google Webmaster Central is offering a solution for those geographic woes....
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Oct. 26, 2007 at 4:06am by Vanessa Fox
Consolidating Sitemap Files With Google
Mickey Kataria has posted on the Google Webmaster Central blog that if you can verify ownership of multiple sites, you can consolidate the Sitemap files for those sites and either combine the URLs from those sites into one Sitemap or create separate files for each site, but store the files...
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Oct. 18, 2007 at 7:03am by Barry Schwartz
Google Adds Sitelinks Control To Webmaster Tools & Much More
Google has informed us that today they are releasing a new update to Google Webmaster Central's tools. The new features include a way to manage your Google Sitelinks, more historical query statistics, an extension of sitemaps to support code search, an improved message center and a warning that may help...
