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Google & Bing increase the file size limit of Sitemaps files
While the 50,000 URL limit has not changed, your Sitemaps file size can now be up to 50MB.
Google reminds webmasters that widget links are against their webmaster guidelines
Don't be surprised if a new wave of unnatural link penalties are sent out via the Google Search Console for widget links.
Google Revamps Their Webmasters Portal With Clean New Slick Design & Resources
Check out the new Google Webmaster resource with a new design, better organization and three new features.
Google Clarifies: Asking For Links The Right Way Is OK
The line between what is a natural link versus an unnatural link according to Google seems to keep getting pushed more.
Official Google Advice On Internationalizing Your Home Page
Google has published their official advice on the Google Webmaster Central blog on how to handle your home page when your web site serves multiple languages and countries. Zineb Ait Bahajji and Gary Illyes, Google Webmaster Trends Analysts, wrote the post together trying to break out the possibilities into three categories: (1) Having one home […]
Google Adds, Then Pulls, Advice Not To Block Ad Landing Pages From Its Crawler
On Wednesday/Thursday of last week, Google added a new guideline to their Webmaster Guidelines to “not block a destination URL for a Google Ad product” via your robots.txt file. 24-hours later, Google reversed that guideline and put the webmaster guidelines back to exactly how they were Wednesday morning. Here was the addition and then what […]
Google To Double The Size Of Their Kirkland (Seattle) Campus
Google is set to launch major expansion efforts to their Kirkland, Seattle office — home of many of the Google Webmaster Central team. The reports claim this will double the size of the existing office, making this one of largest Google offices outside of Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The Kirkland office was first […]
Tracking Changes To Google’s 50 Webmaster Guidelines Pages
Shaun Anderson created a tool to keep track of changes made to 50 of the top Google webmaster guidelines. The tool shows you how recently a specific Google webmaster guidelines document was updated. SEOs and webmasters must stay on top of these changes and this tool helps them do just that. The tool is run […]
Google Releases Details On Controlling GoogleBot & Google’s Crawl
The Google Webmaster Central blog announced Google has published a new set of documents in the Google Code section on how to control Google from crawling and indexing your site. You can read the set of documents over here. The technical documents are broken down into five section: Getting Started Robots.txt specification Robots meta tag […]
Google Offers First US-Based Online Site Clinic
For the first time, Google will provide advice to webmasters via a US-based site clinic on Google’s Webmaster Central blog. The company’s announcement says that members of Google’s Search Quality team “will determine trends and share corresponding best practices to improve site quality and user experience.” Google may be very purposely avoiding any mention of […]
Rich Snippets Finds Its Way To Google Places/Maps
The Google LatLong Blog and the Google Webmaster Center blog announced support for rich snippets on the Google Maps and local results. Google said the “use of Rich Snippets can help people find the web pages you’ve created that may reference a specific place or location.” Google added using these structured HTML formats will help […]
Google Adds Breadcrumb Support To Rich Snippets & Improves Testing Tool
The Google Webmaster Central blog announced improvements to their rich snippets feature. The improvements include a way to tell Google how you want your breadcrumb URLs to appear and an improved rich snippet testing tool. The breadcrumbs you have seen before, we have pictures here. Sometimes you don’t like how Google shows breadcrumbs in the […]
Google Sitemaps Gains Image Support
The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced that you can use a Sitemaps extension to provide image data to Google. In the Sitemaps file you can specify the following properties of the images; image, location, caption, geographic location, title and license details. More technical specifications can be seen over here and here is a sample Google […]
Take The Google Webmaster Quiz
The Google Webmaster Central blog announced they posted a “fun and educational” quiz for all to take over here. The quiz must be taken by Wednesday, January 27 at 5PM PST. And there are no prizes for winning, it is just for fun. I took the quiz yesterday and it was pretty useful to see […]
Google Webmaster Central Wants Your Help Videos
Michael Wyszomierski announced at the Google Webmaster Central blog that they are looking for the SEO and Webmaster community to create videos that they can share in the Google Webmaster YouTube channel. You have seen many of the videos from Matt Cutts in this channel, and now they want to allow the community to share […]
Google Wants Your Feedback On Webmaster Central
The Google Webmaster Central blog is asking SEOs and Webmasters to submit and vote on feedback at the Product Ideas for Webmaster Central. When you go to the products idea page, you will be asked to sign in to submit or vote on submissions. The more votes a submission receives, the more likely Google will […]
Google’s Matt Cutts On “Over Optimization”
Matt Cutts of Google has been producing daily videos answering questions from the SEO community. Many of these videos have useful information for all levels of SEO. I wanted to share Matt’s most recent video and then point you to his other videos. The latest video is on “over optimization” where Matt answers the question […]
Google Webmaster Central Launches YouTube Channel
The Google Webmaster Central team has officially announced the launch of a new YouTube channel at youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp. This channel will contain, you guessed it, videos from Googlers on how to help your web site success in Google. The first video is the presentation Matt Cutts gave at PubCon last year named “State of the Index […]
Think Like A Blackhat By Matt Cutts
Google’s Matt Cutts posted a twenty minute video summarizing two presentations he gave last year. The video goes over what he considers to be virtual “blight,” or when a site or community becomes stale with spam. In addition, Matt shows us how to put on a “blackhat” and think like a spammer. The video is […]
Google Webmaster Help Group: Version 2
Today, Google relaunched several of their help forums, moving them from Google Groups to a new help-specific platform. The English and Polish Google Webmaster Help group have made the move to this new format, with the other languages soon to follow. Below, more details about how this change will benefit site owners and a bit […]
Presentations & Q&A Sessions From Google’s Third Chat Session
Google hosted its third webmaster chat event last Wednesday. The event had three presentations from Googlers and plenty of question and answer time between webmasters and Google employees. The Google Webmaster Central blog has announced that they have posted a recap of the live chat session. Below you will find the presentations from John, Jonathan […]
Missing Data In Google Webmaster Tools? Check Your Domain Name
The Google Webmaster Central Blog has a post on common questions sent to them about data issues found in Google Webmaster Tools. The short answer that Google gives is that if the data is off, then it might be due to your site being listed in Google as both the www and non-www and also […]
Google Webmaster Central Hosting “Link Week”
This week at the Google Webmaster Central blog, Google has a series of blog posts all about links. The first two blog posts are live and are named: Links information straight from the source Importance of link architecture
Google Answers More SEO Questions
The Google Webmaster Central Blog has answered some more questions asked in the Google Groups area at their blog. Remember, Google recently answered questions on image search ranking, Sitelinks, reconsideration requests, redirects and communication. This new post talks about duplicate content, overall site design, meta tags, local results, and more communication topics. Here is a […]
Google Answers On Image Search, Sitelinks, Reinclusions, Redirects & Communication
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 […]
Do The Google Webmaster Support Reps Really Work?
Maile posted a Google blog post named A day in the life of webmaster support. The blog post basically takes you through a typical day at Google for a Google Webmaster Trends Analysts. Here is the video — it is about 7 minutes long and is fun to watch:
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 your site. Previously, the page mainly focused on scams and things to watch out for from SEOs. Now, Google added some of the benefits of search engine optimization and […]
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 […]
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, followed by a short Q&A […]
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 to “sculpt PageRank” Best way […]
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:
Google Webmaster Help & AdSense Help Support Staff
The Google Webmaster Central Blog has provided us with a listing of all those Googlers who help answer questions in the Google Webmaster Central Group. They are proud to announce they can support people in 12 different languages. Here is the rundown.
Google Offers SEO Advice On AJAX Coding
The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted advice on how to make your site crawlable if you make use of common Web 2.0 design features, such as AJAX.
Google Webmaster Central Blog Jetzt Auf Deutsch
Like the advice you get from the Google Webmaster Central blog? Heute kommt es auf Deutsch. Think I got that right. Two years of college German, and that’s the best I can do. German speakers can now keep up on the happenings with Google’s support for site owners in their native language. Some posts from […]
Wish List: Interactive Help From Google’s Matt Cutts & MattPasses
I’ve been making up a Google wish list to update from my earlier one this year. Pandia just came out their own wish list, as did David Wallace more generally. And for whatever reason, it came to me. I want an interactive Matt Cutts to provide Google webmaster assistance. Think Ms Dewey meets Matt Cutts. […]