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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...
Requesting reconsideration using Google Webmaster Tools
Posted by Mariya Moeva, Search Quality Team If your site does not appear in Google Search results , you might be understandably worried. Here, we've put together some information to help you determine when and how to submit a reconsideration request...
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...
How Google defines IP delivery, geolocation, and cloaking
Written by Maile Ohye Many of you have asked for more information regarding webserving techniques (especially related to Googlebot ), so we made a short glossary of some of the more unusual methods. Geolocation : Serving targeted/different content to...
Information about buying and selling links that pass PageRank
Written by Matt Cutts and Maile Ohye Our goal is to provide users the best search experience by presenting equitable and accurate results. We enjoy working with webmasters, and an added benefit of our working together is that when you make better and...
Message Center: Let us communicate with you about your site
Written by Maile Ohye Today we're launching our Message Center, a new way for webmasters to receive personalized information from Google in our webmaster console . Should we need to contact you, you'll see a notification in your Webmaster Tools...
Siamo tornati dall' SES di Milano!
Posted by Luisella & Stefano, Search Quality Team, Dublin Un paio di chiarimenti... Ciao! Siamo appena rientrati da un breve soggiorno in Italia. Tempo fantastico! Abbiamo partecipato come spettatori al Search Engine Strategies conference a Milano...
More details about our webmaster guidelines
Posted by Vanessa Fox At SMX Advanced on Monday, Matt Cutts talked about our webmaster guidelines . Later, during Q&A, someone asked about adding more detail to the guidelines: more explanation about violations and more actionable help on how to improve...
Indexar o seu site
Após o registo de um domínio e criação de um site, a maioria dos webmasters quer ver o seu site indexado e aparecer nas primeiras posições no Google. Desde que iniciámos o suporte a webmasters de língua Portuguesa em 2006, vimos grande especulação acerca...
More insight into anchor text
Last month, we replaced the individual anchor text words that we showed for your site in webmaster tools with a list of full anchor phrases . This report shows you the top phrases that other sites use to link to the pages of your site. Now, we've...
Requesting removal of content from our index
As a site owner, you control what content of your site is indexed in search engines. The easiest way to let search engines know what content you don't want indexed is to use a robots.txt file or robots meta tag . But sometimes, you want to remove...