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Message Center warnings for hackable sites

Recently we've seen more websites get hacked because of various security holes. In order to help webmasters with this issue, we plan to run a test that will alert some webmasters if their content management system (CMS) or publishing platform looks like it might have a security hole or be hackable...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-16-2008
Your burning questions - Answered!

In a recent blog post highlighting our Webmaster Help Group , I asked for your webmaster-related questions. In our second installment of Popular Picks , we hoped to discover which issues webmasters wanted to learn more about, and then respond with some better documentation on those topics. It looks like...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-10-2008
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 . With over 37,000 members in our English group...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-26-2008
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 are produced by our automated scanning systems...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-21-2008
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 use unnecessary bandwidth, and could result in Googlebot...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-05-2008
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, minutes, and action items. In this meeting, we...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-30-2008
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 out for, but didn't mention many of the valuable...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-30-2008
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 for all those involved :o). We have enjoyed building...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-24-2008
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 , which included a presentation on Images in Google...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-16-2008
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 , has been invaluable in ensuring that the quality...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-03-2008

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