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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...
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...
Get Cooking with the Webmaster Tools API
Written by Jonathan Simon, Webmaster Tools Team As the days grow longer and summer takes full stage, many of us are flocking to patios and parks to engage in the time-honored tradition of grilling food. When it comes to cooking outdoors, the type of grills...
Webmaster Tools now in 26 languages
Written by Liza Ma, Webmaster Tools Team Webmasters come from all corners of the world and we are working hard to reach each and everyone of you. A few months back we introduced you to Googlers who help monitor our Webmaster Help Groups in fifteen languages...
Where in the world is your site?
Posted by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools Team The Set Geographic Target tool in Webmaster Tools lets you associate your site with a specific region. We've heard a lot of questions from webmasters about how to use the tool, and here Webmaster Trends...
Improvements to iGoogle Gadgets for Webmaster Tools
by John Blackburn and Trevor Foucher, Webmaster Tools team We launched Webmaster Tools iGoogle Gadgets last month with excitement—and curiosity. Would you find them useful? We thought you might appreciate the ability to create better "dashboards"...
Making harmonious use of Webmaster Tools and Analytics
Written by Reid Yokoyama, Search Quality Team Occasionally in the discussion group , webmaster ask, "Should I be using Google Webmaster Tools or Google Analytics?" Our answer is: use both! Here are three scenarios that really highlight the power...
Speaking the language of robots
Written by Sean Harding, Webmaster Tools Team We all know how friendly Googlebot is . And like all benevolent robots, he listens to us and respects our wishes about parts of our site that we don't want crawled. We can just give him a robots.txt file...
SES London Calling!
Written by Luisella Mazza, Search Quality Team. February is that time of the year: the Search Engine Strategies conference hits London! A few of us were there to meet webmasters and search engine representatives to talk about the latest trends and issues...
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...
Better geographic choices for webmasters
Written by Amanda Camp, Webmaster Tools and Trystan Upstill, International Search Quality Team Starting today Google Webmaster Tools helps you better control the country association of your content on a per-domain, per-subdomain, or per-directory level...
Blast from the past
Written by Sahala Swenson, Webmaster Tools Team As you know, the queries used to find your website in search results can change over time. Your website content changes, as do the needs of all the busy searchers out there. Whether the queries associated...
Data freshness
Written by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools Team Common feedback we hear from webmasters is that you want us to improve the freshness of the data in Webmaster Tools. Understood. :) We've increased the update frequency for your verified sites'...
Webmaster Tools - RSS subscribers - Not all it could be.
The Webmaster Tools group has added subscriber counts to the set of tools. This will give you a count of how people are using Google Reader to subscribe to you sites RSS Feeds. Would seem pretty cool, but not super inclusive. Two big problems. Only shows...
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