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.

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,

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.

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,

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,