If you haven't already, subscribe to Google's Webmaster Central blog. The Crawl Errors report is is one of my favorites offered in Google Webmaster Tools. Webmaster Central Blog Put your website optimization skills to the test and see how you do at...
Annotation also supported by Yandex.common mistakes with rel=canonical – Google Webmaster Central BlogGoogle shares its best practices to avoid the following problems: rel=canonical to the first page of a paginated series; absolute URLs mistakenly...
After Interflora and several UK newspapers were punished, it became clear in a Google Webmaster Central blog post by Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts that at issue were “advertorial” pages. UK flower delivery site Interflora, banished...
A bitter consultant with a client dodging bills or a fired employee who has Google Webmaster Central access could cause some serious havoc by disavowing valuable links to websites as revenge against the company (if it is hidden well enough in the...
He also penned a post for the Webmaster Central Blog, entitled “Google does not use the keywords meta tag in ranking. Now, we anxiously await an updated Webmaster Help video to which we can point confused clients (who will inevitably hear the new...
Google Webmaster Central also shows you how your site is in terms of performance. Google Webmaster Tools also provides detailed list of broken links on your site and pinpoints the exact pages on your site from where the broken links originates from.
For future updates, Lee added they would be announced on Baidu’s Webmaster Tools. As part of Google’s goal to roll out localized YouTube sites internationally, the video sharing site has launched in Indonesia targeting 237 million citizens in the...
Set up and verify a Webmaster Central Account at Google. Update or create your XML sitemap and upload it to Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools. Set up a Bing Webmaster Tools account and verify it.
Check Google Webmaster Central: Chances are you may receive a message in your webmaster account from Google if your site was affected. Here are a few of the things websites should avoid as outlined in Google’s Webmaster guidelines:
This move is similar to last year after Panda launched, when Google created a Webmaster Central thread for those affected by the algorithm change. On the form, Google asks you to provide details about the page impacted by the algorithmic update...
Due to the limited supply of Bamboo, Google's Webmaster Central team are now concerned with link farmers creating their own Bamboo files. Unlike site verification files for Webmaster Tools and Analytics, however, there will only be a limited supply...
The search engines – Google in particular – are trying hard to eliminate the practice of purchasing inbound links, where one webmaster pays another to link to their site using certain keywords. As Google updates its search algorithms, so you need...
The Buffy update, was actually named in tribute to Vanessa Fox, the creator of Google Webmaster Central. The name was given by Webmaster World (WMW) members. Esmeralda and Fritz” marked the end of the monthly "Google Dance” and the beginning of...
With the canonical, you have to specify the settings on a per URL basis which involves considerably more effort and cost than just using Webmaster Central,” explains multilingual search expert and blogger Andy Atkins-Krüger of Webcertain.
In addition this post on Google Webmaster Central clearly explains that improving the click-through rate (CTR) engagement metric is the reason for their re-writing page titles in search results. Earlier this week Google rolled out Search Plus Your...
While it remains to be seen whether this secure data will make a comeback (perhaps in Google Webmaster Central or in the enterprise edition of Google Analytics), in the short run the brands that are able to wean themselves off this data will be...
Last week, the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog introduced “Author Stats” in Webmaster Tools. That’s why Google introduced “Author Stats” in Webmaster Tools to show authors – including journalists and bloggers – how often their content is...
Tools like Xenu and Webmaster Central accounts can be great starting steps. Remember, Google displays close to 155 characters in its page snippet. With the kids jingle belling And everyone telling you of “be of good cheer” It’s the most wonderful...
Google Webmaster Central didn't launch until about a year later, so this was a new and informative tool only found through paid analytics at the time. True, Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools will give you the information about your own site, but...
Some initial results will show, for example, 1,000 pages indexed until you click through…then you end up with a number that will be something close to what you’d see in Google Webmaster Tools. Most use or know about Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool...
