Our greatest resource is the webmaster community, and here at Webmaster Central we’re constantly impressed by the knowledge and expertise we see among webmasters: real-life SEOs, bloggers, online retailers, and all those other people creating great onl…
Posted by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools TeamThe Set Geographic Target tool in Webmaster Tools lets you associate your site with a specific region. We’ve heard a lot of questions from webmasters about how to use the tool, and here Webmaster Trends A…
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 in Google search results? Your aim is to make the tra…
Remove your content from Google
Posted by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools TeamConfused about the best uses of robots.txt, nofollow, URL removal tool? Wondering how to keep some of your pages off the web? Our webspam lead, Matt Cutts, talks about the best ways to stop Google from cr…
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 include on your site, and how simply providing useful…
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 hour to spare. The result? We quickly put together a …
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 the update frequency for your verified sites’ data, su…
Posted by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools TeamIn den letzten Tagen gab es nochmals Versuche, deutsche Webmaster durch falsche E-Mails von Google zu verunsichern. Diese E-Mails stammen nicht von Google. Seit einigen Wochen hat Google die Benachrichtig…
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 webmasters. And wow, did we get a a lot of feedback – bot…