The site: command enables you to search through a particular site. For instance, a searcher could look for references to [Buffy] in this blog by doing the following search:site:googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com buffyWebmasters sometimes use this comm…
Here at webmaster central, we love the webmaster community — and today, Valentine’s Day, we want to show you that our commitment to you is stronger than ever. We’re taking webmaster tools out of beta and enabling comments on this blog.Bye, bye betaWe…
If you’re planning to be at Search Engine Strategies London February 13-15, stop by and say hi to one of the many Googlers who will be there. I’ll be speaking on Wednesday at the Successful Site Architecture panel and thought I’d offer up some tips for…
Welcome to 2007! The webmaster central team is very excited about our plans for this year, but we thought we’d take a moment to reflect on 2006. We had a great year building communication with you, the webmaster community, and creating tools based on y…
We all had a great time at SES Chicago last week, answering questions and getting feedback.One of the sessions I participated in was Images and Search Engines, and the panelists had great information about using images on your site, as well as on opt…
If you’re planning to be at SES Chicago this week, be sure to stop by and say hi to the many Googlers who are coming out to brave the cold and snow. Many of us will be on hand at the booth, speaking at sessions, and wandering the halls. Check out Searc…
The Googlebot activity reports in webmaster tools show you the number of pages of your site Googlebot has crawled over the last 90 days. We’ve seen some of you asking why this number might be higher than the total number of pages on your sites.Googlebo…
Last Friday afternoon, I was able to catch the end of the Blog Business Summit in Seattle. At the session called “Blogging and SEO Strategies,” John Battelle brought up a good point. He said that as a writer, he doesn’t want to have to think about al…
As the web continues to change and evolve, our algorithms change right along with it. Recently, as a result of one of those algorithmic changes, we’ve modified our webmaster guidelines. Previously, these stated:Don’t use “&id=” as a parameter in yo…
We’ve added a few new features to webmaster tools and invite you to check them out.Googlebot activity reportsCheck out these cool charts! We show you the number of pages Googlebot’s crawled from your site per day, the number of kilobytes of data Google…
When we launched this blog in early August, we said goodbye to the Inside Google Sitemaps blog and started redirecting it here. The redirect makes the posts we did there a little difficult to get to. For those of you who started reading with this ne…
Query stats in webmaster tools provide information about the search queries that most often return your site in the results. You can view this information by a variety of search types (such as web search, mobile search, or image search) and countries. …
Based on your input, we’ve recently made a few changes to the preferred domain feature of webmaster tools. And since you’ve had some questions about this feature, we’d like to answer them.The preferred domain feature enables you to tell us if you’d lik…
You may have noticed that some search results include a set of links below them to pages within the site. We’ve just updated our help center with information on how we generate these links, called Sitelinks, and why we show them.Our process for generat…
Most people know that Googlebot downloads pages from web servers to crawl the web. Not as many people know that if Googlebot accesses a page and gets a 304 (Not-Modified) response to a If-Modified-Since qualified request, Googlebot doesn’t download the…