Webmaster Level: AllJust in time for the holidays, the Webmaster Tools team has updated the “Search queries” and “Links to your site” features.Search queries with top pages:Throughout the past year we’ve made some significant changes to the search qu…
Webmaster level: AllDo you know how Google’s crawler, Googlebot, handles conflicting directives in your robots.txt file? Do you know how to prevent a PDF file from being indexed? Do you know Googlebot’s favorite song? The answers to these questions (…
Webmaster Level: AllThe “Links to your site” feature in Webmaster Tools is now updated to show you which domains link the most to your site, in addition to other improvements. On the overview page you’ll notice that there are three main sections: the d…
Webmaster level: AllWe’ve just released updates to several features in Webmaster Tools to provide you with more detail and more control of how your site appears in search results.Search queries: Time does not stand still and neither should your site. W…
Webmaster Level: AllNow there’s a new way to see just the messages for a specific site. A new Messages feature will appear on all site pages. The feature is just like the Message Center on the home page, except it‘ll show only messages for the curr…
Webmaster Level: AllToday we’ve launched a change to our ranking algorithm that will make it much easier for users to find a large number of results from a single site. For queries that indicate a strong user interest in a particular domain, like [e…
Webmaster Level: AllWhen Googlebot crawls your site, it’s expected that most URLs will return a 200 response code, some a 404 response, some will be disallowed by robots.txt, etc. Whenever we’re unable to reach your content, we show this informatio…
Webmaster Level: AllHave you ever wanted to submit your various content types (video, images, etc.) in one Sitemap? Now you can! If your site contains videos, images, mobile URLs, code or geo information, you can now create—and submit—a Sitemap wit…
Webmaster Level: AllToday we’re releasing a feature to help you discover if your site serves undesirable “soft” or “crypto” 404s. A “soft 404″ occurs when a webserver responds with a 200 OK HTTP response code for a page that doesn’t exist rathe…
Webmaster Level: AllSince we released the latest version of Top Search Queries in Webmaster Tools we’ve gotten a bunch of feedback, most of which was overwhelmingly positive. Today, we’re happy to bring even more improvements to Top Search Queries that…
Webmaster Level: AllWelcome to the third episode of our URL removals series! In episodes one and two, we talked about expediting the removal of content that’s under your control and requesting expedited cache removals. Today, we’re covering how to use …
Webmaster Level: AllWe’ve got good news for site owners who are frequent users of the Top search queries feature in Webmaster Tools: we’re now providing more detailed data for each individual search query. We previously just reported the average posi…
Webmaster Level: AllWe’ve been hearing this question for many years from webmasters. That’s why we built features such as the Safe Browsing API, the malware review form, and our Malware details Labs feature. As of today, once we notice your site i…
Webmaster Level: IntermediateIn our recent post on the Google Online Security Blog, we described our system for identifying phishing pages. Of the millions of webpages that our scanners analyze for phishing, we successfully identify 9 out of 10 phishin…
Webmaster Level: AllLast October, we launched Webmaster Tools Labs and it has been a huge success. Malware Details have helped thousands of users identify pages on their site that may be infected with malicious code, and Fetch as Googlebot has given us…