Happy Halloween to our spooktacular webmasters! Written by Maile OhyeWith apologizes to Vic Mizzy, we've written short verse to the tune of the "Addams Family" theme (please use your imagination):We may be hobbyists or just geeky,Building websites

273 views read more 2007-10-31 08:40:00

Making more housecalls Written by Maile OhyeAll of us with Webmaster Central share one passion: a serious love for improving the Internet.If you're organizing an event with an audience that would benefit from our discu

273 views read more 2008-05-24 06:23:00

German Webmaster Blog turns one Written by Juliane Stiller, Search QualityOur 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 ba

265 views read more 2008-03-14 03:32:00

Revamping the Webmaster Tools Help Center Posted by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools TeamA while ago, I posted in the Webmaster user group, looking for feedback on our Help Center and how we can improve the assistance we provide to our webma

264 views read more 2007-06-18 08:16:00

Best practices when moving your site Posted by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools Team Planning on moving your site to a new domain? Lots of webmasters find this a scary process. How do you do it without hurting your site's performance i

263 views read more 2008-04-16 08:55:00

Blast from the past Written by Sahala Swenson, Webmaster Tools TeamAs you know, the queries used to find your website in search results can change over time. Your website content changes, as do the needs of all the busy

261 views read more 2007-10-18 09:47:00

Webmaster Tools keeps your "messages waiting" Written by Jessica and Uli, Search Quality TeamWe’re happy to announce that the Message Center supports a new “messages waiting” feature. Previously, it could only store penalty notifications f

260 views read more 2008-03-11 05:40:00

Plumbing the web Posted by Narayanan Shivakumar (Google Distinguished Entrepreneur, Director)Today is Google Developer Day! We're hosting events for developers in ten cities around the world, as you can read about fro

259 views read more 2007-05-31 13:38:00

Dealing with Sitemap cross-submissions Posted by Mickey Kataria, Google ZürichSince the launch of Sitemaps, webmasters have been asking if they could submit their Sitemaps for multiple hosts on a single dedicated host. A fair question --

255 views read more 2007-10-25 04:57:00

Improve snippets with a meta description makeover Written by Raj Krishnan, Snippets TeamThe quality of your snippet — the short text preview we display for each web result — can have a direct impact on the chances of your site being clicked (i.e.

254 views read more 2007-09-27 13:46:00