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 documentation, doorway page documentation, and […]

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 documentation, doorway page documentation, and quality guidelines.

For a more comprehensive look at these changes, see Matt’s post.


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