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GWC – Revival of the Penalty Notifications

pittfall — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:41:38 +0000

Google Webmaster Central is a very valuable resource and looks to continue to give us important information regarding our websites in the Google index and actually gives us insight into how the Googlebot interacts with our websites and their contents. In 2005 Google began sending notifications to webmasters to notify them that their websites were outside [...]

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GWC – Revival of the Penalty Notifications

Vanessa Fox Leaves Webmaster Central

pittfall — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:01:02 +0000

Vanessa Fox has been, for many, the voice of Google’s Webmaster Central. She has decided to make a change and leave Google: Now I have an all-new opportunity to work on the unique challenges of the vertical and local search space at Zillow. I’m moving on from webmaster central knowing that there’s a great team who [...]

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Vanessa Fox Leaves Webmaster Central

Google Gives Webmasters a Better View of Inbound Links

pittfall — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:35:29 +0000

In a few posts today Google announced that they are giving webmasters more information to monitor your inbound links: We want to provide as much information as we can to help webmasters understand how their sites perform and how to improve their results. And we want to get input from the site owners, who after know [...]

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Google Gives Webmasters a Better View of Inbound Links

The Death of the Googlebomb

pittfall — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:34:44 +0000

First, what is a Googlebomb? Technically, a “Googlebomb” refers to a prank where people attempt to cause someone else’s site to rank for an obscure or meaningless query. Googlebombs very rarely happen for common queries, because the lack of any relevant results for that phrase is part of why a Googlebomb can work. (from Webmaster Central) Would [...]

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The Death of the Googlebomb

Google’s Webmaster Central Reflects on 2006

pittfall — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:47:10 +0000

We got much of our non-Google traffic from other webmaster community blogs and forums, such as the Search Engine Watch blog, Google Blogoscoped, and WebmasterWorld. In December, seomoz.org and the new Searchengineland.com were our biggest non-Google referrers. And social networking sites such as digg.com, reddit,com, del.icio.us, and slashdot.org sent webmaster tools many of our visitors, [...]

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Google’s Webmaster Central Reflects on 2006

The Marketing in SEO

pittfall — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:08:59 +0000

I have covered the three most important aspect of organic search results: Link Popularity Content Age I have also said that Search Engine Optimization is a function of Marketing (not IT). The other important aspect that I follow and live by, focus on the user and the search engines will follow! Google’s Webmaster Central has even posted about this topic. So, [...]

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The Marketing in SEO

Google Speaks – Three Things SEOs Should Listen To

pittfall — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:13:00 +0000

Believe it or not, everything that Google speaks about is related to SEO, but here are three posts from Webmaster Central that are very relevant to what SEOs should be looking at: 1. Target visitors or search engines? - Make good use of page titles This is true of the main heading on the page itself, but is [...]

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Google Speaks – Three Things SEOs Should Listen To

More SEO Tips from the AdWords Camp

pittfall — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:46:00 +0000

More SEO Tips from the AdWords Camp Last week, the AdWords blog gave some cross promotional information about other Google Services and even related them to SEO. So, today they offer their second of two postings about other Google products. Once again, one of them relates to SEO. Webmaster Tools Google’s free webmaster tools offer you, or [...]

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More SEO Tips from the AdWords Camp

Users or Engines? 4 Tips from Google for Webmasters

pittfall — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:22:00 +0000

Users or Engines? 4 Tips from Google for Webmasters “…as a writer, he doesn’t want to have to think about all of this search engine optimization stuff.” John Battelle “Visitor-friendly design makes for search engine friendly design as well.” Vanessa Fox Here are four wonderfully laid out tips straight from Google Webmaster Central: Make good use of page titles Whenever possible, ensure [...]

Webmaster Guidelines Update

pittfall — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:25:00 +0000

Webmaster Guidelines Update Google keeps getting better with their ability to crawl and index information on the web, without having to expect developers to adjust to their standards. Similarly, the way Google wants us (the website developers) to build for the user and not to try to adjust their habits around what we can provide. This is [...]

Googlebot Activity Reports at your Fingertips

pittfall — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:58:00 +0000

Googlebot Activity Reports at your Fingertips A few days ago Google announced new versatility available in Sitemaps, see previous post. Google is providing three different graphs to help you analyze your sites: Number of pages Googlebot has crawled on your domain or blog Average number of kilobytes downloaded from your domain, or blog, each day Average document download time Each of [...]

Google Gives you More Information and Control

pittfall — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:26:00 +0000

Google Gives you More Information and Control Google Webmaster Tools, specifically Sitemaps, has added a new feature to your account: Googlebot Crawl Rate What’s included? + Googlebot activity reports Check out these cool charts! We show you the number of pages Googlebot’s crawled from your site per day, the number of kilobytes of data Googlebot’s downloaded per day, and [...]