September 27th, 2007 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Raj Krishnan, Snippets TeamThe quality of your snippet — the short text preview we display for each web result — can have a direct impact on the chances of your site being clicked (i.e. the amount of traffic Google sends your way). We u…
September 18th, 2007 | by Nathan Johns | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Nathan Johns, Search Quality TeamIn recent months, there’s been a noticeable increase in the number of compromised websites around the web. One explanation is that people are resorting to hacking sites in order to distribute malware or attem…
September 14th, 2007 | by Liza Ma | published in Google Webmaster Central
Posted by Liza Ma, Webmaster Tools Team We’re unrolling some exciting new features in Webmaster Tools.First of all, subscriber stats are now available. Webmaster Tools now show feed publishers the number of aggregated subscribers you have from Google s…
September 12th, 2007 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Maile OhyeHow can URL parameters, like session IDs or tracking IDs, cause duplicate content?When user and/or tracking information is stored through URL parameters, duplicate content can arise because the same page is accessible through numer…
September 6th, 2007 | by David Sha, Webmaster Tools Team | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by David Sha, Webmaster Tools TeamWe launched Webmaster Central back in August 2006, with a goal of creating a place for you to learn more about Google’s crawling and indexing of websites, and to offer tools for submitting sitemaps and other co…
August 29th, 2007 | by Ben | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Ben D’Angelo, Search Quality TeamFirst, a brief recap: In late 2005, we started emailing webmasters to let them know that their site is violating our Webmaster Guidelines and that we have temporarily removed some of their pages from our inde…
August 27th, 2007 | by Foucher | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Trevor Foucher, Webmaster Tools TeamI’m happy to announce that Webmaster Tools is expanding support for webmasters outside of the English-speaking world, by supporting Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA). IDNA provides a w…
August 17th, 2007 | by Jonathan Simon | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Jonathan SimonAs summer inches towards fall and in many places the temperature is still rising, you’re probably thinking the best place to be right now is on the beach, by a pool or inside somewhere that’s air-conditioned. These are all good…
August 15th, 2007 | by John Blackburn | published in Google Webmaster Central
Posted by John Blackburn, Webmaster Tools and Matt Dougherty, Search Quality We’ve improved Webmaster Central’s robots.txt analysis tool to recognize Sitemap declarations and relative URLs. Earlier versions weren’t aware of Sitemaps at all, and unders…
August 13th, 2007 | by Panayiotis Mavrommatis | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Anti-Malware TeamIn the past year, the number of sites affected by malware/badware grew from a handful a week to thousands per week. We noted your suggestions to improve communication for webmasters of affected sites …
August 2nd, 2007 | by Adam Lasnik | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Greg Grothaus and Shashi Thakur, Search Quality TeamHeld on June 27th, Searchnomics 2007 gave us (Greg Grothaus and Shashi Thakur) a chance to meet webmasters and answer some of their questions. As we’re both engineers focused on improving s…
July 31st, 2007 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Prashanth Koppula, Product Manager, and Matt Cutts, Software EngineerWhen Google originally introduced Supplemental Results in 2003, our main web index had billions of web pages. The supplemental index made it possible to index even more web…
July 18th, 2007 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Maile OhyeToday we’re launching our Message Center, a new way for webmasters to receive personalized information from Google in our webmaster console. Should we need to contact you, you’ll see a notification in your Webmaster Tools dashboard…
July 13th, 2007 | by Dennis Geels | published in Google Webmaster Central
Given helpful suggestions from our discussion group, we’ve improved feedback for sitemaps in Webmaster Tools. Now, minor problems in a sitemap will be reported as “warnings,” and will appear instead of, or in addition to, more serious “errors.” (Prev…
July 5th, 2007 | by Adam Lasnik | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Mark Berghausen, Search Quality TeamWe occasionally get questions on the Webmaster Help Group about how webmasters should work with Adobe Flash. I thought it would be worthwhile to write a few words about the search considerations designers …