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On-Demand Sitemaps for Custom Search

Since we launched enhanced indexing with the Custom Search platform earlier this year, webmasters who submit Sitemaps to Webmaster Tools get special treatment: Custom Search recognizes the submitted Sitemaps and indexes URLs from these Sitemaps into a separate index for higher quality custom search results...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-13-2008
Video Tutorial: Google for Webmasters

We're always looking for new ways to help educate our fellow webmasters. While you may already be familiar with Webmaster Tools , Webmaster Help Discussion Groups , this blog, and our Help Center , we've added another tutorial to help you understand how Google works. Hence we've made this...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-15-2008
Sitemaps offer better coverage for your Custom Search Engine

Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager, Search If you're a webmaster or site owner, you realize the importance of providing high quality search on your site so that users easily find the right information. We just announced today that AdSense for Search is now powered by Custom Search. Custom Search...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-06-2008
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 in the search engine world. It was a three-day...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-18-2008
Sitemaps FAQs

Posted by Susan Moskwa & Trevor Foucher, Webmaster Tools Team Last month, Trevor spoke on the Sitemaps: Oversold, Misused or On The Money? panel at Search Engine Strategies in Chicago. After receiving a lot of great questions at the conference in addition to all the feedback we receive in our Help...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-15-2008
Introducing Video Sitemaps

Written by John Fisher-Ogden, Software Engineer, and Amy Wu, Associate Product Manager In our effort to help users search all the world's public videos, the Google Video team joined the Sitemaps folks to introduce Video Sitemaps—an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-17-2007
Google, duplicate content caused by URL parameters, and you

Written by Maile Ohye How can URL parameters, like session IDs or tracking IDs, cause duplicate content? When user and/or tracking information is stored through URL parameters, duplicate content can arise because the same page is accessible through numerous URLs. It's what AdamLasnik referred to...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2007
New warnings feedback

Given helpful suggestions from our discussion group , we've improved feedback for sitemaps in Webmaster Tools . Now, minor problems in a sitemap will be reported as "warnings," and will appear instead of, or in addition to, more serious "errors." (Previously all problems were...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-13-2007
Revamping the Webmaster Tools Help Center

Posted by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools Team A while ago, I posted in the Webmaster user group , looking for feedback on our Help Center and how we can improve the assistance we provide to our webmasters. And wow, did we get a a lot of feedback - both in the group and in the blogosphere. I'm amazed...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-18-2007
What's new with Sitemaps.org?

What has the Sitemaps team been up to since we announced sitemaps.org ? We've been busy trying to get Sitemaps adopted by everyone and to make the submission process as easy and automated as possible. To that end, we have three new announcements to share with you. First, we're making the sitemaps...

Posted to Google Stuff (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-11-2007

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