Advanced Website Diagnostics with Google Webmaster Tools Running a website can be complicated—so we've provided Google Webmaster Tools to help webmasters to recognize potential issues before they become real problems. Some of the issues that you can spot

274 views read more 2008-09-30 06:07:00

Make your 404 pages more useful Your visitors may stumble into a 404 "Not found" page on your website for a variety of reasons: A mistyped URL, or a copy-and-paste mistake Broken or truncated links on web pages or in a

271 views read more 2008-08-19 05:13:00

More on 404 Now that we've bid farewell to soft 404s, in this post for 404 week we'll answer your burning 404 questions.How do you treat the response code 410 "Gone"?Just like a 404.Do you index content or follow

270 views read more 2008-08-15 09:52:00

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

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Sitemaps offer better coverage for your Custom Search Engine Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager, SearchIf 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 informat

269 views read more 2008-05-06 07:04:00

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

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

The Impact of User Feedback, Part 1 Written by Reid Yokoyama, Search QualityAbout a year ago, in response to user feedback, we created a paid links reporting form within Webmaster Tools. User feedback, through reporting paid links, webs

263 views read more 2008-06-03 06:55:00

How to start a multilingual site Have you ever thought of creating one or several sites in different languages? Let's say you want to start a travel site about backpacking in Europe, and you want to offer your content to English, Ger

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Update on Public Service Search Public Service Search is a service that enables non-profit, university, and government web sites to provide search functionality to their visitors without serving ads. While we've stopped accepting n

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Get Cooking with the Webmaster Tools API Written by Jonathan Simon, Webmaster Tools TeamAs the days grow longer and summer takes full stage, many of us are flocking to patios and parks to engage in the time-honored tradition of grilling food

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