Google Webmaster Central Blog
Official news on crawling and indexing sites for the Google index.
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Now there’s a new way to see just the messages for a specific site. A new Messages feature will appear on all site pages. The feature is just like the Message Center on the home...
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Since the initial roll-out of rich snippets in 2009, webmasters have shown a great deal of interest in adding markup to their web pages to improve their listings in search resul...
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You can now use Google search to find SVG documents. SVG is an open, XML-based format for vector graphics with support for interactive elements. We’re big fans of open standards...
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Today we’ve launched a change to our ranking algorithm that will make it much easier for users to find a large number of results from a single site. For queries that indicate a...
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Nobody likes to duplicate effort. Unfortunately, sometimes it's a fact of life. If you want to use Google Analytics, you need to add a JavaScript tracking code to your pages. Wh...
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You can now check your Video Sitemap for even more errors right in Webmaster Tools! It’s a new Labs feature to signal issues in your Video Sitemap such as:
URLs disallowed by rob...
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If you want to add video information to a Sitemap or mRSS feed you must specify the location of the video. This means you must include one of two tags, either the video:player_l...
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When 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 un...
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Search Engine Land's feed keeps you updated throughout the day on the latest news with Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing and the world of search engine marketing, optimization and search engines in general.
In the first five days of its search alliance, Bing and Yahoo combined to hold just under 25% of the search engine market share. That’s according to an Experian Hitwise release just out this aftern...
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Google’s Schmidt: ‘Next Great Stage’ Of Search Is Autonomou...
Speaking today at the IFA consumer electronics event in Berlin, Google CEO Eric Schmidt painted a vision of the future in which search is fast, personal, and all-knowing — even to the degree of pro...
Next Thursday, Search Marketing Now will present a free webcast, Links, Link-Building and Public Relations at 1 PM EDT. Registration is still open at Search Marketing Now.
With most folks eager to ...
A three-part series about linking — and more specifically, how search marketers may view links differently from other Internet users — all went hot on Sphinn last week. Along with that, articles mo...
When studying backlinks to competitor sites, most people do so in order to identify potential link targets for their own site. While this is a very useful thing to do, there are many other strategi...
Time is running out on early bird rates for Search Marketing Expo – SMX East!
Register by September 10 and you’ll pay only $1295 for three days of exceptional content and invaluable industry conne...
In what is becoming an annual ritual Google announces a dramatic acquisition, pundits speculate about the potentially market-changing impact and anti-trust investigators give it a long, hard look —...
Search Engine Roundtable
::: THE PULSE OF THE SEARCH MARKETING COMMUNITY :::
A well-rounded view on search engines and search engine marketing by senior members of the major SEO/SEM forums on the Internet.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
We know Google is having a big search event tomorrow and we suspect that is why Google is showing the Google Balls logo today. Google told me "today's doodle is not related to a birthday but is fas...
This is our ongoing monthly summary of the changes that took place at Google from a webmaster/SEO perspective. You can read the August 2010 report from last month. The comments from SEOs and Webmas...
There are many rumors about today's Google Balls logo, but we know it is not birthday related. Google in the past have celebrated their birthday on September 7th but not anymore. Danny has good his...
A very revealing leaked Google document was published, in part, at adAge yesterday. The report uncovers Google AdWords customer spending for the first half of 2010. Google seemed to collect or bill...
Today if you visit Google you will see a Google logo made up of crazy balls. The logo moves around based on your mouse cursor, similar to the buckyballs doodle from a few days ago. But this one is ...
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
About 25 days ago I announced the next Israel SEO/SEM conference. SphinnCon Israel is coming back in 2011, it will be taking place on Sunday, January 9, 2011. I wanted to let you know that we are n...
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog
SEOmoz, a Seattle-based search engine optimization company, serves as a hub for search marketers worldwide, providing education, tools, resources and paid services.
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Last week at our annual mozinar, Ben Hendrickson gave a talk on a unique methodology for improving SEO. The reception was overwhelming - I've never previously been part of a profe...
Posted by RobOusbey
Today, I want to share two pieces of advice that are particularly useful to certain types of business - and will be exceptionally quick to implement. I've also created a free dow...
Posted by Dana Lookadoo
This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or he...
Posted by Aaron Wheeler
In this week's Whiteboard Friday Rand Fishkin clues you in on four link building tactics that you likely haven't heard about. Given the importance of link building to SEO, t...
Posted by randfish
It's been a wild few weeks at the mozplex. Today wrapped up the amazing mozinar with our half-day tools training just in time to launch the new version of SEOmoz. Should we slow d...
Posted by Dana Lookadoo
This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or he...
Posted by Dana Lookadoo
This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or he...
Posted by Suzzicks
So here is the deal: Traditional websites frequently rank in mobile search results – especially if you are searching from a SmartPhone. What you may not realize is that the conver...
Search Engine Watch
Keep updated with major stories about search engine marketing and search engines as published by Search Engine Watch.
With this simple process, and two free tools, you can find the best pages on a website to get great links. ...
The potential for viral activity using social media is much greater than ever before, and it makes it easier to interact well with customers. Companies that do these things well will gain a signifi...
Digg users "bury" the new site and have founder Kevin Rose seeing Reddit. A look inside the numbers. ...
To do better in search this holiday season, marketers need to spend less on search. Here's why. ...
Facebook Places will bring location check-ins to the mainstream, but will it be met with open arms or a collective "meh"? ...
SMBs generally have relatively tight marketing budgets. Here's how you can quickly figure out when you'll see a return on your SEO or PPC investments. ...
These seven common types of prospect keywords will expand how you think about link prospecting and help you become a smarter, more strategically agile link builder. ...
Catch up on the latest: Google Reports, Google Campaign Experiments, and Facebook's "Broad Match Targeting." ...
Original Signal - Transmitting Marketing
Orginal Signal aggregates the 15 most popular Marketing sites. The main purpose of the site is to provide
a quick glance on what's happening without using your desktop/web RSS reader. New headlines (since your
last cookied visit) come in pretty orange, visited ones are grey. All credits go to the authors of these weblogs.
Without their hard work Original Signal would not exist. Original Signal was inspired by Popurls and the Web 2.0 Workgroup.
On September 9, Lawson Clark, aka MaleCopywriter, aka Burt Reynolds look-a-like, will embark upon a 3,200 journey from Vancouver to Portland Maine...on a 150cc scooter...for ten days to raise money...
Chiat's Girls of Chiat HighWe've been contacted by the representative of a production company which is seeking an agency around which to build a reality series.
Cross-platform deals include Honda, Verizon FiOS, Best Western and Sara Lee.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Eric Silver is trading in big-agency life to run a small, indie shop. The former top creative at Omnicom Group's DDB is taking a majority ownership stake in 34-person Amalga...
Why is it that every year, right before 9/11, we get a tasteless new 9/11-themed advertisement?
Philips has released a romantic comedy called Nigel & Victoria. The first three episodes are on YouTube.
The Happiness Machine is back and it's crossed the pond to dispense happiness to college students in the UK.
Over the past decade or so marketing surveys have greatly expanded their reach by tapping online consumers. Now, though, the ever-growing number of these requests has caused a backlash. Simply put:...
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