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.

A Year Later, Google To Host New Webmaster Chat

Nov 4, 2009 at 9:38am ET by Barry Schwartz

A year or two ago, Google hosted a webmaster chat even every few months. They were designed to allow webmasters to see presentations from Googlers on web search and SEO topics and then ask questions to Googlers, who would answer those questions in real time. The Google Webmaster Central blog announced the first new live chat event in over a year. This event is named the "Holiday Webmaster Webinar" and takes place a week from Friday, November 13th at 10:00 am, Pacific Standard Time (GMT -08:00, San Francisco). Again, this is the first one since October 2008. This meeting is hosted [...]

Filed in: Google: AdWords, Google: SEO, Google: Webmaster Central

Google Quietly Drops PageRank From Webmaster Tools

Oct 15, 2009 at 10:22am ET by Barry Schwartz

My piece this morning, Google Removes PageRank Data From Webmaster Tools from the Search Engine Roundtable has sparked a lot of discussion on Twitter. Google had indeed removed the PageRank statistics from Google Webmaster Tools. I believe it was removed when Google released the Webmaster Tools Labs features earlier this week. PageRank being pulled from the crawl stats, has gone mostly unnoticed until I wrote about it this morning. Susan Moskwa from the Google Webmaster Central team explained it was removed because Google keeps telling webmasters "that they shouldn't focus on PageRank s [...]

Filed in: Google: SEO, Google: Toolbar, Google: Webmaster Central, Top News

See What Googlebot Sees On Your Site

Oct 13, 2009 at 4:01pm ET by Vanessa Fox

Google Webmaster Tools has just launched a "labs" section, where you'll find new features that may be early in the development cycle and not quite as robust as the rest of the tools. The features available so far are Fetch as Googlebot, which lets you see exactly what Googlebot is served when it requests a URL from your server and Malware Details, which shows you malicious code snippets from your site if it's been flagged as containing malware. Fetch as Googlebot Of most interest to webmasters, SEOs, and web developers is likely the Fetch as Googlebot feature. You can specify any URL on [...]

Filed in: Google: Webmaster Central, SEO: Cloaking & Doorway Pages, SEO: Redirects & Moving Sites

How To Ask A Google Engineer For SEO Help

Oct 5, 2009 at 12:34am ET by Danny Sullivan

Search conferences are an excellent opportunity to connect personally with representatives from Google, as well as Yahoo and Bing, for advice and assistance with SEO issues. With our SMX East search engine marketing conference starting tomorrow in New York, I thought it was a good time to list my personal thoughts on the right and wrong way to approach them. I'm not a search engine representative, but I know a number of them and have talked with many about the interactions they have with people at conferences in the 10 years I've been programming such shows. I think my tips will help, [...]

Filed in: Features: General, Google: SEO, Google: Webmaster Central, How To: SEO, Microsoft: Bing SEO, SEM Industry: Conferences, Top News

Google Updates Webmaster Tools Verification Feature

Oct 2, 2009 at 9:09am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced they have updated the verification tool to make it easier for webmasters to verify their sites. There are three main changes: (1) New look for HTML file verification process: (2) If you use the META Tag verification option and you change your email address tied to that Google account, the sites will now still remain verified. (3) If you use the HTML file verification option, you no longer need to make sure your 404 pages actually return a 404 server status code. With this update, some publishing tools no longer have the ability to ve [...]

Filed in: Google: SEO, Google: Webmaster Central

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