Google Answers On Image Search, Sitelinks, Reinclusions, Redirects & Communication

By Barry Schwartz

Published: September 11, 2008 at 8:19 am

The Google Webmaster Central blog documented five new Google Group posts, based on the Popular Picks thread, asking webmasters for questions they want answered. So Google answered five of the most popular questions.

The answers are on image search ranking, Sitelinks, reconsideration requests, redirects and communication. I am not going to go through each with my analysis, because I already did that at the Search Engine Roundtable.

Here are my analysis posts at the Search Engine Roundtable on each thread:

Google Answers: Why Are My Images Missing From Google? related to image search ranking.
When Should I Submit a Reinclusion Request to Google? related to reconsideration requests.
2008 Guide to Google & Webmaster Communication related to how Google sends you messages.
Using Redirects to Move Your Site to a New Domain related to the redirects thread.
Why Don’t My Sitelinks on Google.com Match My Webmaster Tools Sitelinks? related to the Sitemaps thread, which I found to be the most interesting information.

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About the author

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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