Posted by Vanessa FoxYou’ve probably already figured this out if you use webmaster tools, the webmaster help center, or our webmaster discussion forum, but the webmaster central team is a fantastic group of people. You have seen some of them helping ou…
Posted by Vanessa Fox Last week, I participated in the duplicate content summit at SMX Advanced. I couldn’t resist the opportunity to show how Buffy is applicable to the everday Search marketing world, but mostly I was there to get input from you on th…
At Google, we are always working hard to provide searchers with the best possible results. We’ve found that our spam reporting form is a great way to get your input as we continue to improve our results. Some of you have asked for a way to report paid …
Posted by Vanessa Fox At SMX Advanced on Monday, Matt Cutts talked about our webmaster guidelines. Later, during Q&A, someone asked about adding more detail to the guidelines: more explanation about violations and more actionable help on h…
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 from Matt Cutts and on our Google Blog. Jonathan Simon …
Posted by Vanessa FoxYesterday, at Searchology, we unveiled exciting changes in our search results. With universal search, we’ve begun blending results from more than just the web in order to provide the most relevant and useful results possible. In ad…
(This post was translated from our German webmaster blog, originally written by Stefanie.)We are aware that a number of German webmasters have received fake penalty notification emails that allegedly came from Google Search Quality. These spam emails h…
Our team at Webmaster Central is always looking for ways to communicate with you, the webmaster community. We do through providing tools that tell you more about your site and let you give us input about your site, talking to you in our discussion foru…
Last month, we replaced the individual anchor text words that we showed for your site in webmaster tools with a list of full anchor phrases. This report shows you the top phrases that other sites use to link to the pages of your site. Now, we’ve enhanc…
As a site owner, you control what content of your site is indexed in search engines. The easiest way to let search engines know what content you don’t want indexed is to use a robots.txt file or robots meta tag. But sometimes, you want to remove conten…
What has the Sitemaps team been up to since we announced sitemaps.org? We’ve been busy trying to get Sitemaps adopted by everyone and to make the submission process as easy and automated as possible. To that end, we have three new announcements to shar…
If you’re planning to attend the Search Engine Strategies conference next week in New York, be sure to come by and say hi! A whole bunch of us from the Webmaster Central team will be there, looking to talk to you, get your feedback, and answer your que…
Last week, I spoke at BlogHer Business about search engine optimization issues. I presented with Elise Bauer, who talked about the power of community in blogging. She made great points about the linking patterns of blogs. Link out to sites that would b…
For quite a while, you’ve been able to see a list of the most common words used in anchor text to your site. This information is useful, because it helps you know what others think your site is about. How sites link to you has an impact on your traffic…
Recently, Danny Sullivan brought up good questions about how search engines handle meta tags. Here are some answers about how we handle these tags at Google.Multiple content valuesWe recommend that you place all content values in one meta tag. This kee…