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

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

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

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

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

285 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

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

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

278 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 --

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

Webmaster tips for creating accessible, crawlable sites Written by T.V. Raman, Research ScientistHubbell and I enjoying the day at our home in California. Please feel free to view my earlier post about accessibility for webmasters, as well as additional ar

277 views read more 2008-04-14 05:47:00

Crawling through HTML forms Written by Jayant Madhavan and Alon Halevy, Crawling and Indexing TeamGoogle is constantly trying new ideas to improve our coverage of the web. We already do some pretty smart things like scanning Jav

269 views read more 2008-04-11 05:50:00

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 i

267 views read more 2007-12-06 05:03:00

Design patterns for accessible, crawlable and indexable content Written by T.V. Raman, Research ScientistAs a follow-up to my previous posts on accessibility, here are some design recommendations for creating web content that remains usable by the widest possible

267 views read more 2008-05-09 09:02:00