Beginner’s Guide to Link Prospecting Using Google Search

Google is a free, simple, and powerful tool that can quickly teach you about your market – and the art of link prospecting. This beginner’s guide will walk you, your interns, your contractors, or your staff through the basics of link prospecting. . . . → Read More: Beginner’s Guide to Link Prospecting Using Google Search

What’s new with Sitemaps

Webmaster level: All Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your site. . . . → Read More: What’s new with Sitemaps

Update to Top Search Queries data

Webmaster level: All Starting today, we’re updating our Top Search Queries feature to make it better match expectations about search engine rankings. Previously we reported the average position of all URLs from your site for a given query. . . . → Read More: Update to Top Search Queries data

Clicks and impressions for authors

Webmaster Level: All (Cross-posted on the Inside Search Blog ) With the latest improvements to the way authorship annotations look in search and the addition of authorship to Google News , authors have been really excited about getting more visibility, and users benefit from seeing the name, photo, and way to connect with the person who created the content. Authors have also been giving us a lot of feedback on what else they’d like to see, so today we’re introducing “Author Stats” in Webmaster Tools that shows you how often your content is showing up on the Google search results page . . . → Read More: Clicks and impressions for authors

PDFs in Google search results

Webmaster level: All Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. During this ambitious quest, we sometimes encounter non-HTML files such as PDFs, spreadsheets, and presentations . . . → Read More: PDFs in Google search results

Reorganizing internal vs. external backlinks

Webmaster level: All Today we’re making a change to the way we categorize link data in Webmaster Tools . . . . → Read More: Reorganizing internal vs. external backlinks

Reorganizing internal vs. external backlinks

Webmaster level: All Today we’re making a change to the way we categorize link data in Webmaster Tools . As you know, Webmaster Tools lists links pointing to your site in two separate categories: links coming from other sites , and links from within your site . . . → Read More: Reorganizing internal vs. external backlinks

A new, improved form for reporting webspam

Webmaster level: All Everyone on the web knows how frustrating it is to perform a search and find websites gaming the search results. . . . → Read More: A new, improved form for reporting webspam

Submit URLs to Google with Fetch as Googlebot

Webmaster Level: All The Fetch as Googlebot feature in Webmaster Tools now provides a way to submit new and updated URLs to Google for indexing. After you fetch a URL as Googlebot, if the fetch is successful, you’ll now see the option to submit that URL to our index. When you submit a URL in this way Googlebot will crawl the URL, usually within a day . . . → Read More: Submit URLs to Google with Fetch as Googlebot

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