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 »
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
Webmaster level: All Today we’re making a change to the way we categorize link data in Webmaster Tools . Read more »
New webmaster tutorial videos
Webmaster level: All Over the past couple of years, we’ve released over 375 videos on our YouTube channel , with the majority of them answering direct questions from webmasters. Today, we’re starting to release a freshly baked batch of videos, and you might notice that some of these are a little different Read more »
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 »
+1 around the world
Webmaster Level: all A few months ago we released the +1 button on English search results on google.com. Read more »
URL removals explained, part II: Removing sensitive text from a page
Webmaster level: All Change can happen—sometimes, as we saw in our previous post on URL removals , you may completely block or remove a page from your site. Other times you might only change parts of a page, or remove certain pieces of text. Depending on how frequently a page is being crawled, it can take some time before these changes get reflected in our search results Read more »
Pilot Webmaster Tools’ Search Queries data in Google Analytics
Webmaster Level: All Webmasters have long been asking for better integration between Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics . Read more »