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 repr

262 views read more 2008-03-18 03:05:00

The anatomy of a search result Written by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools teamWhen Matt Cutts, who heads up Google's webspam team, dropped by our Kirkland offices a little while ago we found ourselves with a video camera and an h

259 views read more 2007-11-26 04:14:00

Demystifying the "duplicate content penalty" Duplicate content. There's just something about it. We keep writing about it, and people keep asking about it. In particular, I still hear a lot of webmasters worrying about whether they may have a "d

259 views read more 2008-09-12 03:30:00

Helping yourself to Webmaster Tools Written by: Peeyush Ranjan and Liza Ma, Webmaster Tools teamSince not every webmaster can come to us, we are coming to you. Last November, we announced a pilot program whereby all Go Daddy users go

258 views read more 2008-07-14 03:58:00

Register non-English domain names with Webmaster Tools Written by Trevor Foucher, Webmaster Tools TeamI'm happy to announce that Webmaster Tools is expanding support for webmasters outside of the English-speaking world, by supporting Internationalizing Do

257 views read more 2007-08-27 09:16:00

Data freshness Written by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools Team Common feedback we hear from webmasters is that you want us to improve the freshness of the data in Webmaster Tools. Understood. :) We've increased th

255 views read more 2007-10-08 05:35:00

Analytics - Another tool for webmasters Webmaster tools from Google are indispensable for people who optimize their site for indexing in Google. Eighteen months ago, Google launched another free tool for webmasters - Google Analytics - whic

254 views read more 2007-05-11 05:47:00

Malware reviews via Webmaster Tools Written by Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Anti-Malware TeamIn the past year, the number of sites affected by malware/badware grew from a handful a week to thousands per week. We noted your suggestions to imp

252 views read more 2007-08-13 07:27:00

New robots.txt feature and REP Meta Tags Posted by John Blackburn, Webmaster Tools and Matt Dougherty, Search Quality We've improved Webmaster Central's robots.txt analysis tool to recognize sitemap declarations and relative urls. Earlier v

246 views read more 2007-08-15 11:01:00

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

245 views read more 2007-12-17 05:36:00