Google Webmaster Central Latest search engine news blog articles from Google Webmaster Central. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/Google+Webmaster+Central.html Google Webmaster Central News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13115 A lot has been said about how to start a multi-lingual site and how to better target content through meta tags . Our users have raised a number of interesting questions about creating websites in different languages, like the one below. ' ganex ': > How does one do for INDIA. > As there are many languages spoken here. > My Site is primarily in English, but my site targets different cities in INDIA. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:17:30 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12150 Recently we've seen more websites get hacked because of various security holes. In order to help webmasters with this issue, we plan to run a test that will alert some webmasters if their content management system (CMS) or publishing platform looks like it might have a security hole or be hackable. This is a test, so we're starting out by alerting five to six thousand webmasters. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:54:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12030 Ever since we released the crawl errors feature in Webmaster Tools , webmasters have asked for the sources of the URLs causing the errors. Well, we're listening! We know it was difficult for those of you who wanted to identify the cause of a particular "Not found" error, in order to prevent it in the future or even to request a correction, without knowing the source URL. Now, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:26:18 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11846 Creating outbound links on your site, or "linking out", is our topic for Day 3 of Links Week . Linking out happens naturally, and for most webmasters, it's not something you have to worry about. Nonetheless, in case you're interested about an otherwise simple topic that's fundamental to the web, here's the good, the bad, and answers to more advanced questions asked by our fellow webmasters. First, let's start with the good... Relevant outbound links can help your visitors. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:45:45 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11568 Running a website can be complicatedâ€"so we've provided Google Webmaster Tools to help webmasters to recognize potential issues before they become real problems. Some of the issues that you can spot there are relatively small (such as having duplicate titles and descriptions ), other issues can be bigger (such as your website not being reachable). While Google Webmaster Tools can't tell you exactly what you need to change, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:30:52 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10836 In a recent blog post highlighting our Webmaster Help Group , I asked for your webmaster-related questions. In our second installment of Popular Picks , we hoped to discover which issues webmasters wanted to learn more about, and then respond with some better documentation on those topics. It looks like it was a success, so please get clicking: Image Search ranking: Starting things off, JimAtArtsnovaDotCom asked about how Google indexes images. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:20:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10183 Since both tennis and table tennis are in the Olympics, perhaps you're wondering: if there's soccer, why not "table soccer?" Of course, we know table soccer by another name; and while foosball may not be an Olympic sport, we still cheered Nathan Johns and Jan Backes â€"two members of our Search Quality teamâ€"as they brought home the foosball silver medal at the search engine foosball smackdown at SES San Jose. "Smackdown" doesn't quite equate to "Olympics, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:39:44 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9894 Now that we've bid farewell to soft 404s , in this post for 404 week we'll answer your burning 404 questions. How do you treat the response code 410 "Gone"? Just like a 404. Do you index content or follow links from a page with a 404 response code? We aim to understand as much as possible about your site and its content. So while we wouldn't want to show a hard 404 to users in search results, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:34:55 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8845 During a recent visit to the Mountain View Googleplex, I had the chance to interview Matt Cutts for our German Webmaster Blog . While enjoying the California sunshine we chatted about how to rank in Google, resources for webmasters and Matt's first encounter with spam. As these topics are not only interesting for a German audience, I want to share them with you as well. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:02:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8635 Written by: Peeyush Ranjan and Liza Ma, Webmaster Tools team Since not every webmaster can come to us, we are coming to you. Last November, we announced a pilot program whereby all Go Daddy users got free and easy access to all Webmaster Tools has to offer, right from their account management panels in Go Daddy. Now we're taking that program worldwide. We are happy to announce the Google Webmaster Tools Access Provider Program . Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:24:06 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8216 Posted by Mariya Moeva, Search Quality Team If your site does not appear in Google Search results , you might be understandably worried. Here, we've put together some information to help you determine when and how to submit a reconsideration request for your site.  You can follow along as Bergy (the webmaster of example.com in our video) tries to find out whether he needs to submit a reconsideration request for his Ancient Roman Politics blog. Of course, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:07:20 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7912 By John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google Zürich Last Thursday, many of you just couldn't get enough of us and joined our second live Webmaster Central chat, "JuneTune." It was an action-packed session with live presentations, questions and answers and chatting about cats and other important topics. Over the course of an hour and a half, we made four presentations, received over 600 questions and passed around close to 500 chat messages. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:44:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7864 Written by Kaspar Szymanski and the European Guides Team, Dublin A year ago Google Guides from the Search Quality Team started monitoring Google Webmaster Help Groups in European languages. It has been an interesting time and a great, rewarding experience for all those involved :o). We have enjoyed building and growing our communities with webmasters across Europe and we hope you have as well. The feedback we have been receiving since the beginning has been encouraging, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:39:22 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7766 Written by Jonathan Simon, Webmaster Tools Team As the days grow longer and summer takes full stage, many of us are flocking to patios and parks to engage in the time-honored tradition of grilling food. When it comes to cooking outdoors, the type of grills used span a spectrum from primitive to high tech. For some people a small campfire is all that's required for the perfect outdoor dining experience. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:42:43 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7547 Written by Adam Lasnik, Search Evangelist When it comes to talking with webmasters, we  just can't get enough . This past March we had the pleasure of connecting with hundreds of you online in our  first-ever Webmaster Help Group online live chat , which included a presentation on Images in Google Search by  Maile , lots of feedback from you on webmaster issues, a site clinic, and dozens of questions answered by folks from our Google Webmaster Central team. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:11:09 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6647 Written by Maile Ohye All of us with Webmaster Central share one passion: a serious love for improving the Internet. If you're organizing an event with an audience that would benefit from our discussing building search-engine friendly sites and maximizing the resources of Webmaster Central - such as our Webmaster Tools , Help Center and Discussion Group - please submit a speaker request . Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Sat, 24 May 2008 18:38:52 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6012 Written by T.V. Raman , Research Scientist As a follow-up to my previous posts on accessibility, here are some design recommendations for creating web content that remains usable by the widest possible audience while helping ensure that the content gets indexed and crawled. Avoid spurious XMLHttpRequests Pages that enable users to look up information often use XMLHttpRequests to populate the page with additional information after the page has loaded. When using this pattern, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Fri, 09 May 2008 22:04:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=5835 Written by Sean Harding, Webmaster Tools Team We all know how friendly Googlebot is . And like all benevolent robots, he listens to us and respects our wishes about parts of our site that we don't want crawled. We can just give him a robots.txt file explaining what we want, and he'll happily comply. But what if you're intimidated by the idea of communicating directly with Googlebot? After all, not all of us are fluent in the language of robots.txt . Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Tue, 06 May 2008 19:47:05 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=5289 Written by Reid Yokoyama, Search Quality Team Occasionally in the discussion group , webmasters ask, "Should I be using Google Webmaster Tools or Google Analytics?" Our answer is: use both! Here are three scenarios that really highlight the power of both tools. 1. Make the most of your impressions One of my favorite features of Webmaster Tools is that it will show you the Top 20 search queries your site appeared for along with the Top 20 clicked queries. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:33:08 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4945 Written by Michael Wyszomierski, Search Quality Team Today's the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, so now is a perfect time to start your spring cleaning. But as a webmaster, your chores don't end after you've cleaned the garage - you'll probably also want to do some cleaning on your server as well. Exterior Before we get to the interior, step outside, and see how your site looks from the street - or in Google search results. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:30:38 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4717 Posted by Susan Moskwa, Webmaster Trends Analyst Our search quality and Webmaster Central teams love helping webmasters solve problems. But since we can't be in all places at all times answering all questions, we also try hard to show you how to help yourself. We put a lot of work into providing documentation and blog posts to answer your questions and guide you through the data and tools we provide, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:26:29 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3999 By John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google Zurich Setting up and running a website is getting easier and easier, and it's wonderful to see so many new webmasters sharing their voices with the world! For you as a webmaster it's pretty easy going... until you run into an issue that you just can't seem to solve on your own. Maybe some technical issues were flagged in your Webmaster Tools account; maybe you're just trying to get your robots. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:12:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3433 Written by T.V. Raman , Research Scientist Many people talk about the effect the Internet has on democratizing access to information, but as someone who has been visually impaired since my teenage years, I can certainly speak to the profound impact it has had on my life. In everyday life, things like a sheet of paper"and anything written on it"are completely inaccessible to a blind or visually impaired user. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:54:43 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1699 Written by Kas, Search Quality Team One of the ways in which we continuously work to improve our service for users everywhere is to localize and adjust our tools for different regions. In November, we had a chance to introduce our international Webmaster Help Group Team and its guides from Dublin. Today I'm very happy to announce that we've launched three more Google monitored groups in Hebrew , Turkish and Hungarian . Keeping with tradition, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:39:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1132 Written by Maile Ohye If it's good enough for the Costanzas, it's good enough for Webmaster Central: it's time for a Festivus for the rest of us (webmasterus)! Our special celebration begins not with carols and eggnog, but by remembering some of the popular Webmaster Tools features - make that Feats of Strength - for 2007. This year, you gained the ability to chickity-check out your backlinks ( URL Removal . And let's not forget Message Center and IDNA support , Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:15:43 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=959 Posted by Yonatan Zunger, Search Quantity Team In 2003, Google introduced a "supplemental index" as a way of showing more documents to users. Most webmasters will probably snicker about that statement, since supplemental docs were famous for refreshing less often and showing up in search results less often. But the supplemental index served an important purpose: it stored unusual documents that we would search in more depth for harder or more esoteric queries. For a long time, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:10:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=993 Written by Bogdan Stnescu, Software Engineer As a webmaster, you may have been concerned about your RSS/Atom feeds crowding out their associated HTML pages in Google's search results. By serving feeds, we could cause a poor user experience: Feeds increase the likelihood that users see duplicate search results. Users clicking on a feed may miss valuable content available only in the HTML page. To address these concerns, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:40:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=994 Written by John Fisher-Ogden, Software Engineer, and Amy Wu, Associate Product Manager In our effort to help users search all the world's public videos, the Google Video team joined the Sitemaps folks to introduce Video Sitemaps"an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more searchable via Google Video Search . By submitting this video-specific Sitemap in addition to your standard Sitemap, you can specify all the video files on your site, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:36:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=545 By John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google Zürich The latest version of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer (beta) just added a neat feature to help users arrive at your website, or at least see your content, even when things go awry. It's frustrating for your users to mistype your URL and receive a generic "404 - Not Found" or try to access a part of your site that might be down. Regardless of your site being useful and information-rich , when these issues arise, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:05:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=536 Written by Jonathan Simon, Webmaster Trends Analyst We're always striving to help webmasters build outstanding websites, and in our latest release we have two new features: Content analysis and Sitemap details. We hope these features help you to build a site you could compare to a fine wine - getting better and better over time. Content analysis To help you improve the quality of your site, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:48:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=542 Written by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools Team Here'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, accurate information in your ALT attributes can make your photos and pictures more discoverable on the web. Ms Emmy Cutts also makes an appearance. Like videos? Hate them? Have a great idea we should cover? Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:03:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=546 Written by John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Zürich In writing and maintaining accurate meta tags (e.g., descriptive titles and robots information), you help Google to more accurately crawl, index and return your site in search results. Meta tags provide information to all sorts of clients, such as browsers and search engines. Just keep in mind that each client will likely only interpret the meta tags that it uses, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:53:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=556 Written by Matt Cutts and Maile Ohye Our goal is to provide users the best search experience by presenting equitable and accurate results. We enjoy working with webmasters, and an added benefit of our working together is that when you make better and more accessible content, the internet, as well as our index, improves. This in turn allows us to deliver more relevant search results to users. If, however, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:02:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=543 Written by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools team When 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 few videos we hope you'll find useful. In our first video, Matt talks about the anatomy of a search result, and gives some useful tips on how you can help improve how your site appears in our results pages. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:14:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=547 Written by Patrick Chapman, Search Quality Team Our goal for the Webmaster Help Group is to be an authoritative source for accurate, friendly information and discussion. There are many terrific members of the Webmaster Groups community, and we're glad to know them all. In our English discussion group, a big Webmaster Central (WMC) thank-you to our comrades and fellow webmasters for their helpful knowledge and insight: webado , Phil Payne , JLH , cass-hacks , cristina , Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:11:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=535 Written by Susan Moskwa, Webmaster Trends Analyst We're fortunate to meet many of you at conferences , where we can chat about web search and Webmaster Tools . We receive a lot of good feedback at these events: insight into the questions you're asking and issues you're facing. However, as several of our Webmaster Help Group friends have pointed out, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:14:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=540 Written by David Sha, Webmaster Tools Team Welcome Go Daddy webmasters to the Google Webmaster Tools family! Today, we're announcing that Go Daddy, the world's largest hostname provider in the web hosting space, is working with us as a pilot partner so that their customers can more easily access Google Webmaster Tools . Go Daddy is a great partner, and we hope to educate more webmasters on how to make their site more search engine-friendly . Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:32:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=558 Written by Michael Wyszomierski and Greg Grothaus, Search Quality Many webmasters have discovered the advantages of using Ajax to improve the user experience on their sites, creating dynamic pages that act as powerful web applications. But, like Flash, Ajax can make a site difficult for search engines to index if the technology is not implemented carefully. As promised in our post answering questions about Server location, cross-linking, and Web 2.0 technology , Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:52:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=549 Written by Maile Ohye With apologizes to Vic Mizzy, we've written short verse to the tune of the " Addams Family " theme (please use your imagination): We may be hobbyists or just geeky, Building websites and acting cheeky, Javascript redirects we won't make sneaky, Our webmaster fam-i-ly! Happy Halloween everyone! Feel free to join the discussion and share your Halloween stories and costumes. Magnum P.I., Punk Rocker, Rubik's Cube, Mr. T., and Rainbow Brite a.k.a. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:40:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=550 Written by Amanda Camp, Webmaster Tools and Trystan Upstill, International Search Quality Team Starting today Google Webmaster Tools helps you better control the country association of your content on a per-domain, per-subdomain, or per-directory level. The information you give us will help us determine how your site appears in our country-specific search results, and also improves our search results for geographic queries. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:09:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=538 Posted by Mickey Kataria, Google Zürich Since the launch of Sitemaps , webmasters have been asking if they could submit their Sitemaps for multiple hosts on a single dedicated host. A fair question - and now you can! Why would someone want to do this? Let's say that you own www.example.com and mysite.google.com and you have Sitemaps for both hosts, e.g. sitemap-example.xml and sitemap-mysite.xml. Until today, you would have to store each Sitemap on its respective host. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:57:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=551 Written by Sahala Swenson, Webmaster Tools Team As you know, the queries used to find your website in search results can change over time. Your website content changes, as do the needs of all the busy searchers out there. Whether the queries associated with your site change subtly or dramatically, it's pretty useful to see how they transform over time. Recognizing this, Top Search Queries in Webmaster Tools now presents historical data and other enhancements. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:47:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=554 Written by Mickey Kataria, Google Zürich The Sitemaps team is continuing its trend of extending the Sitemap Protocol for specific products and content types. Our latest work with the Google Code Search team now enables you to create Sitemaps that contain information about public source code you host and would like to include in Code Search. There's more information about this new functionality on the Google Code blog . If you're eager to get going, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:59:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=534 Written by Stacey Kuznetsov, Search Quality Sitelinks are extra links that appear below some search results in Google. They serve as shortcuts to help users quickly navigate to the important pages on your site. Selecting pages to appear as sitelinks is a completely automated process. Our algorithms parse the structure and content of websites and identify pages that provide fast navigation and relevant information for the user's query. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:48:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=553 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, such as crawl , index , and search query stats. Much of this data depends on the content of your site. If your content doesn't change very often, or if you're not getting new links to your site, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:35:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=537 Written by Raj Krishnan, Snippets Team The 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 use a number of strategies for selecting snippets , and you can control one of them by writing an informative meta description for each URL. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:46:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=544 Written by Nathan Johns, Search Quality Team In 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 attempt to spam search results. Regardless of the reason, it's a great time for all of us to review helpful webmaster security tips. Obligatory disclaimer : While we've collected tips and pointers below, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:34:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=539 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 services such as Google Reader , iGoogle , and Orkut . We hope this will make it easier to track subscriber statistics across multiple feeds, as well as offer an improvement over parsing through server logs for feed information. Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:49:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=548 Written by Maile Ohye How 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 numerous URLs. It's what Adam Lasnik referred to in " Deftly Dealing with Duplicate Content " as "store items shown (and - worse yet - linked) via multiple distinct URLs." In the example below, Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:13:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=557 Written by David Sha, Webmaster Tools Team We 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 content. Given all of your requests and recommendations, we've also been busy working behind the scenes to roll out exciting new features for Webmaster Tools, like internal/external links data and the Message Center , Search Engines News SEO News Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:28:00 GMT