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Rich Snippets Explained by Google in Tutorial Video

Rich snippets, or microdata, are a great help for search engines and what helps search engines helps their users. All the major search engines got behind Schema.org, which details the microdata standard and the formats that are in use. Already, search engines use this data for a number of searches, from recipe sea...

17 December 2011
06:51 GMT

Bing Webmaster Tools Now Integrating adCenter Data

Not only did Microsoft push adCenter to the next level this week, but the company also upgraded the Bing Webmaster Tools. And in fact, with the fall 2011 update, the software giant bridged Bing Webmaster Tools and adCenter. According to Microsoft’s Duane Forrester, webmasters leveraging the Bing tools will ...

4 November 2011
07:51 GMT

Google's Matt Cutts Unleashes New Batch of Longer Videos for Webmasters

Matt Cutts' YouTube videos have been a great boon for webmasters, especially those with less experience. Videos made by the head of the webspam team, who also serves as Google's face in all under-the-hood matters related to search, have been short but helpful, but Google is announcing a new batch of them, s...

10 August 2011
10:21 GMT

Bing Points Webmasters to Schema.org for a Shared Markup Vocabulary

Bing is pointing webmasters to Schema.org where they can access a shared markup vocabulary designed to help them increase their site’s “searchability” factor not only in Microsoft’s decision engine, but in Google and Yahoo as well. In fact, Schema.org was made possible by a partnership betwee...

3 June 2011
04:25 GMT

Google Search Results Now Feature a 'Breadcrumb' Display

The general layout of a search results page seems to have stayed pretty much the same since Google cracked it about a decade ago. At the time, everyone realized that Google had the right idea and most search engines today have a very similar way of showing the results. But, despite looking very similar, the design h...

18 November 2009
04:46 GMT

Introducing the Bing Toolbox

What is a search engine without a collection of tools tailored to the needs of webmasters and web developers? With the Bing Toolbox Microsoft is looking to provide website owners with the resources necessary to adapt their websites and online applications to Bing. The Redmond company announced the Bing Toolbox at the...

29 June 2009
06:00 GMT

Bing Features for Webmasters Highlighted

Even though labeled a decision engine rather than a plain vanilla search engine, Bing, just as the now-deceased Live Search before it, and just as Google, Y, etc., is primarily designed to bridge users with websites across the Internet. And while it may appear to the vast majority of users that identifying the correc...

12 June 2009
05:31 GMT

Google Friend Connect Beta Officially Released

Google Friend Connect has become available in a beta version to any webmaster that is looking for additional “dash of social” to his or her site. According to a post that has been recently published on the official Google Blog, the service is meant to allow webmasters to add social features to their ...

6 December 2008
03:01 GMT

Google AdSense for Search Now Features Custom Search

One of Google's products, Custom Search Engine (or short CSE), has recently received an important upgrade. According to a Tuesday post on Google's Custom Search Blog, web developers can create CSEs using their own AdSense accounts. The new upgrade comes to increase the quality of Google services, as more us...

7 May 2008
08:19 GMT

Googlebombs Half Defused

About a week ago, the Google Webmaster's Guild (ok, Blog, but it sounds like a secret organization) brought back into attention the Googlebombs, saying that they have been defused after a prolonged and sustained effort from their dev team. The algorithm they came up with actually works… some of the times.Not fam...

30 January 2008
13:06 GMT

Google's Webmaster Central Blog Announces…

"Hi, I'm Mike and I'm a Webmaster.""Hi, Mike!""I just want you to know that it's not easy for me to come here and talk about it… but…this is my story… the way it went, my perspective and my insight on the matter. Some might disagree, but I can't change anything about it right now. So, bear with me...

22 November 2007
03:55 GMT

Google Debuts Message Center - Chat with the Company

Google rolled out Message Center, a special function implemented into the Webmaster Tools that allows the company to communicate with the registered members and keep them up to date with the latest information. The best thing about it is that Message Center is a secure way to communicate because the Webmaster Tools w...

19 July 2007
05:29 GMT

Google in a Move to Save the Company

After the departure of Vanessa Fox, the ex-Google Webmaster Central chief, the Mountain View company tries to fill in the "hole" and made an interesting announcement about the webmaster tools. Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools Team, tries to keep the customers close to the company and sustained they are preparing severa...

19 June 2007
13:51 GMT

Help Google Improve the Search Engine

The spam reported form implemented by the search giant Google is especially useful for the company that is continuously looking to clean the technology and provide only useful weblinks. As numerous clients used the form, the Mountain View company decided to do the same thing with the paid links and allow visitors to ...

13 June 2007
04:45 GMT

Fake Emails Signed by Google

Google's Webmaster Central reported that several German webmasters received numerous fake penalty email notifications, informing them that their pages were relegated on lower positions and excluded from the Google index. The company's officials announced that all these messages are fake emails, although the...

11 May 2007
03:55 GMT

How to Remove Your Content from Google

Google is the best search engine on the Internet and you know it; but this isn't always a good thing. Imagine that Google is able to index all the information discovered on a certain website unless the webmaster sets separate rules for some of his files. Now, there is only one question: how can I remove my conte...

18 April 2007
02:28 GMT

Google Improves Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools represents an innovative pack of utilities able to provide important information for all the webmasters looking to enhance the results obtained after the inclusion in the Google Search engine. Yesterday, the company announced a new and regional version of Google Webmaster Central Blog especiall...

16 March 2007
03:40 GMT

Google Improves Their German Supply

Google is one of the companies that attract the largest category of Internet users in numerous countries such as US, UK and a lot of other states. Because of this, the search giant is continuously looking to develop new solutions meant to enhance the performance of the regional products by adding language options. To...

15 March 2007
03:15 GMT


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