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The Impact of User Feedback, Part 2 (and more Popular Picks!)
As a follow-up to my recent post about how user reports of webspam and paid links help improve Google's search results for millions of users, I wanted to highlight one of the most essential parts of Google Webmaster Central: our Webmaster Help Group...
Hey Google, I no longer have badware
This post is for anyone who has been emailed or notified by Google about badware , received a badware warning when browsing their own site using Firefox, or has come across malware-labeled search results for their own site(s). As you know, these warnings...
To infinity and beyond? No!
When Googlebot crawls the web, it often finds what we call an "infinite space". These are very large numbers of links that usually provide little or no new content for Googlebot to index. If this happens on your site, crawling those URLs may...
A day in the life of webmaster support
It was an ordinary Wednesday morning when I decided to film my day at the Googleplex... A recap of the day's events 10AM Meeting with the webmaster support team Our team shares a doc containing our current agenda and the previous meetings' agenda...
What are your SEO recommendations?
Posted by the Webmaster Trends Analysts (John, Jonathan, Susan) You may have noticed that we recently rewrote our article on What is an SEO? Does Google recommend them? Previously, the article had focused on warning people about common SEO scams to look...
One year of monitored European Webmaster Help Groups
Written by Kaspar Szymanski and the European Guides Team, Dublin A year ago Google Guides from the Search Quality Team started monitoring Google Webmaster Help Groups in European languages. It has been an interesting time and a great, rewarding experience...
Join us for another live chat - June 19, 2008
Written by Adam Lasnik, Search Evangelist When it comes to talking with webmasters, we just can't get enough . This past March we had the pleasure of connecting with hundreds of you online in our first-ever Webmaster Help Group online live chat ,...
The Impact of User Feedback, Part 1
Written by Reid Yokoyama, Search Quality About a year ago, in response to user feedback, we created a paid links reporting form within Webmaster Tools. User feedback, through reporting paid links , webspam , or suggestions in our Webmaster Help Group...
Join us for an online live chat this Friday!
Written by Adam Lasnik, Search Evangelist Many of us Webmaster Help Group guides have happily gotten to meet Group members at various functions around the world. Over sandwiches in San Jose. Salads in Stockholm. Sweets in Sydney. And it's been super...
7 must-read Webmaster Central blog posts
Posted by Susan Moskwa, Webmaster Trends Analyst Our search quality and Webmaster Central teams love helping webmasters solve problems. But since we can't be in all places at all times answering all questions, we also try hard to show you how to help...
Growing the Webmaster Help Groups Team
Written by Kas, Search Quality Team One of the ways in which we continuously work to improve our service for users everywhere is to localize and adjust our tools for different regions. In November, we had a chance to introduce our international Webmaster...
Looking back on 2007
Written by Liza Ma, Webmaster Tools Team 2007 has been a great year of change and growth for the Webmaster Central team. Without the webmaster community helping us drive our vision to create better tools we wouldn't have accomplished much. All of...
A dozen ways to discuss "webmaster help"
Written by Patrick Chapman, Search Quality Team Our goal for the Webmaster Help Group is to be an authoritative source for accurate, friendly information and discussion. There are many terrific members of the Webmaster Groups community, and we're...
Bringing the conference to you
Written by Susan Moskwa, Webmaster Trends Analyst We're fortunate to meet many of you at conferences , where we can chat about web search and Webmaster Tools . We receive a lot of good feedback at these events: insight into the questions you're...