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New Message Center notifications for detecting an increase in Crawl Errors
Posted on 26. Jul, 2010 by Jonathan Simon.
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Webmaster Level: AllWhen Googlebot crawls your site, it’s expected that most URLs will return a 200 response code, some a 404 response, some will be disallowed by robots.txt, etc. Whenever we’re unable to reach your content, we show this informatio...
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Sitemaps: One file, many content types
Posted on 29. Jun, 2010 by Jonathan Simon.
Webmaster Level: AllHave you ever wanted to submit your various content types (video, images, etc.) in one Sitemap? Now you can! If your site contains videos, images, mobile URLs, code or geo information, you can now create—and submit—a Sitemap wit...Continue Reading
Crawl Errors now reports soft 404s
Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by Jonathan Simon.
Webmaster Level: AllToday we’re releasing a feature to help you discover if your site serves undesirable "soft” or “crypto” 404s. A "soft 404" occurs when a webserver responds with a 200 OK HTTP response code for a page that doesn't exist rathe...Continue Reading
Top Search Queries is now Search Queries with Average Position and Stars
Posted on 06. May, 2010 by Jonathan Simon.
Webmaster Level: AllSince we released the latest version of Top Search Queries in Webmaster Tools we've gotten a bunch of feedback, most of which was overwhelmingly positive. Today, we're happy to bring even more improvements to Top Search Queries that...Continue Reading
URL removal explained, Part III: Removing content that you don’t own
Posted on 20. Apr, 2010 by Jonathan Simon.
Webmaster Level: AllWelcome to the third episode of our URL removals series! In episodes one and two, we talked about expediting the removal of content that's under your control and requesting expedited cache removals. Today, we're covering how to use ...Continue Reading
More data and charts in Top Search Queries
Posted on 14. Apr, 2010 by Jonathan Simon.
Webmaster Level: AllWe've got good news for site owners who are frequent users of the Top search queries feature in Webmaster Tools: we’re now providing more detailed data for each individual search query. We previously just reported the average posi...Continue Reading
When and why was my site flagged for malware? Learn in near real-time!
Posted on 09. Apr, 2010 by Jonathan Simon.
Webmaster Level: AllWe’ve been hearing this question for many years from webmasters. That’s why we built features such as the Safe Browsing API, the malware review form, and our Malware details Labs feature. As of today, once we notice your site i...Continue Reading
Will the Real Please Stand Up?
Posted on 30. Mar, 2010 by Jonathan Simon.
Webmaster Level: IntermediateIn our recent post on the Google Online Security Blog, we described our system for identifying phishing pages. Of the millions of webpages that our scanners analyze for phishing, we successfully identify 9 out of 10 phishin...Continue Reading
Fetch as Googlebot Mobile and Claim your Sidewiki comment – added to Webmaster Tools Labs!
Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by Jonathan Simon.
Webmaster Level: AllLast October, we launched Webmaster Tools Labs and it has been a huge success. Malware Details have helped thousands of users identify pages on their site that may be infected with malicious code, and Fetch as Googlebot has given us...Continue Reading
Request visitors’ permission before installing software
Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Jonathan Simon.
(Cross-posted on the Google Korea Blog)Webmaster Level: AllLegitimate websites may require that their visitors install software. These sites often do so to provide their users with additional functionality beyond what's available in standard web browse...Continue Reading
New User Agent for News
Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by Jonathan Simon.
Webmaster Level: IntermediateToday we are announcing a new user agent for robots.txt called Googlebot-News that gives publishers even more control over their content. In case you haven't heard of robots.txt, it's a web-wide standard that has been in us...Continue Reading
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