This post is a quick note from the foreman down at the FeedBurner ironworks and custom tools depot. If you’re a new or longtime user of FeedBurner FeedSmith — our plugin for WordPress that helps ensure you count all of your blog’s feed traffic through FeedBurner — there is a recommended security-related update to this [...]

Written by Nathan Johns, Search Quality Team
All right, you got hacked. It happens to many webmasters, even despite the hard work you devote to prevent this type of thing from happening. Prevention tips include keeping your site updated with the latest software and patches, creating an account with Google Webmaster Tools to see what’s being [...]

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” for your sites, but there’s no better way to tell for sure other than to get it out so you [...]

Written by Reid Yokoyama, Search Quality Team
Occasionally in the discussion group, webmasters 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 of both tools.
1. Make the most of your impressions
One of my favorite features of Webmaster Tools [...]

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 explaining what we want, and he’ll happily comply. But what if [...]

By John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google Zurich
Setting up and running a website is getting easier and easier, and it’s wonderful to see so many new webmasters sharing their voices with the world! For you as a webmaster it’s pretty easy going… until you run into an issue that you just can’t seem to solve [...]

Posted by Susan Moskwa, Webmaster Trends Analyst
Universal search and personalized search were two of the hot topics at SMX West last month. Many webmasters wanted to know how these evolutions in search influence the way their content appears in search results, and how they can use these features to gain more relevant search traffic. We [...]

Written by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality Team
Today’s the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, so now is a perfect time to start your spring cleaning. But as a webmaster, your chores don’t end after you’ve cleaned the garage — you’ll probably also want to do some cleaning on your server as well.
Exterior
Before we [...]