Archive for the ‘Google Webmaster Central’ Category
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Looking back on 2007
Written by Liza Ma, Webmaster Tools Team2007 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 us with the Webmaster Central team ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
A Festivus for our webmasterus
Written by Maile OhyeIf it's good enough for the Costanzas, it's good enough for Webmaster Central: it's time for a Festivus for the rest of us (webmasterus)!Our special celebration begins not with carols and eggnog, but by remembering some of the popular Webmaster Tools features -- ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
The Ultimate Fate of Supplemental Results
Posted by Yonatan Zunger, Search Quantity TeamIn 2003, Google introduced a "supplemental index" as a way of showing more documents to users. Most webmasters will probably snicker about that statement, since supplemental docs were famous for refreshing less often and showing up in search results ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Taking feeds out of our web search results
Written by Bogdan Stănescu, Software EngineerAs a webmaster, you may have been concerned about your RSS/Atom feeds crowding out their associated HTML pages in Google's search results. By serving feeds, we could cause a poor user experience: Feeds increase the likelihood that ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Introducing Video Sitemaps
Written by John Fisher-Ogden, Software Engineer, and Amy Wu, Associate Product ManagerIn 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 searchable via ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
FYI on Google Toolbar's latest features
By John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google ZürichThe latest version of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer (beta) just added a neat feature to help users arrive at your website, or at least see your content, even when things go awry.It's frustrating for your users to ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
New: Content analysis and Sitemap details, plus more languages
Written by Jonathan Simon, Webmaster Trends AnalystWe're always striving to help webmasters build outstanding websites, and in our latest release we have two new features: Content analysis and Sitemap details. We hope these features help you to build a site you could ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Using ALT attributes smartly
Written by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools TeamHere's the second of our video blog posts. Matt Cutts, the head of Google's webspam team, provides some useful tips on how to optimize the images you include on your site, and how simply providing useful, accurate information in your ALT ...
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