Written by Juliane Stiller, Search Quality
Our German Webmaster Central Blog celebrates its first birthday and we’d like to raise our glasses to 57 published posts in the last year! We enjoy looking back at an exciting first year of blogging and communicating with webmasters. It’s the growing webmaster community that made this blog a success. [...]
Written by Jessica and Uli, Search Quality Team
We’re happy to announce that the Message Center supports a new “messages waiting” feature. Previously, it could only store penalty notifications for existing verified site owners (webmasters who had already verified their sites). However, the Message Center now has the ability to keep these waiting for future [...]
Written by Maile Ohye as the website, Jeremy Lilley as the Googlebot
Name/User-Agent: Googlebot
IP Address: Verify it here
Looking For: Websites with unique and compelling content
Major Turn Off: Violations of the Webmaster Guidelines
Googlebot — what a dreamboat. It’s like he knows us <head>, <body>, and soul. He’s probably not looking for anything exclusive; he sees [...]
By Jonathan Simon, Webmaster Tools Team
When you plan to do something, are you a minimalist, or are you prepared for every potential scenario? For example, would you hike out into the Alaskan wilderness during inclement weather with only a wool overcoat and a sandwich in your pocket - like the naturalist John Muir (and you [...]
Posted by Prashanth Koppula, Product Manager
to let us and other search engines supporting the protocol know about your Sitemaps. We subsequently also announced support for Last spring, the Sitemaps protocol was expanded to include the autodiscovery of Sitemaps using robots.txtSitemap cross-submissions using Google Webmaster Tools, making it possible to submit Sitemaps for multiple hosts on [...]
Written by Ben Lisbakken, Google Developer Programs
If you’ve got JavaScript skills and you’d like to implement such things as Google Gadgets or Maps on your site, bring your laptops and come hang out with us in Mountain View.
This Friday, my team (Google Developer Programs) is hosting a hackathon to get you started with our JavaScript [...]
Posted by Susan Moskwa, Webmaster Trends Analyst
Our search quality and Webmaster Central teams love helping webmasters solve problems. But since we can’t be in all places at all times answering all questions, we also try hard to show you how to help yourself. We put a lot of work into providing documentation and blog posts [...]
Posted by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality
Last month, several of us with Webmaster Central hit the “good times” jackpot at PubCon Vegas 2007. We realize not all of you could join us, so instead of returning home with fuzzy dice for everyone, we’ve got souvenir conference notes.
Listening to the Q&A, I was pleased to hear the [...]
Written 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 Group, we’ve pulled together a [...]
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