Webmaster Tools News
What Is Google's "Unknown News Site" Webmaster Tools Error?
A Google News Help thread has one news publisher saying he is receiving a news specific error in Webmaster Tools named "Unknown News Site." I couldn't figure out what it was, I didn't see it in the News-specific crawl errors dictionary provided by Google. Eventually, I spotted the answer in this help document : This error is displayed if your Sitemap is on a site that is not in the Google News ...Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Canonical Links Users Experiences
The three major search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bing) joined forces in February 2009 and introduced the canonical tag. That was supposed to be a revolutionary way to resolve the duplicate content issues that so many SEOs and web designers were so much worried about. It was the time that the myth about duplicate content [...] Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Canonical ...Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Google Revamps Link Reports In Webmaster Tools
You can drill down to specific URLs and pull similar data. Here are some pictures of these reports:Wednesday, October 13, 2010
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 13, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Google Updates Link Reports Before Bing
Google announced they have updated the link reports in Google Webmaster Tools. The update adds the domains linking most to your site, the pages on your site with the most links, and a sampling of the anchor text external sites are using when they link to your site. Plus you can drill down even deeper. The best way to understand this is to see example screens or just play with them yourself at ...Thursday, October 14, 2010
Forex Pros Emerges as World's Leading Forex Portal
Forex Pros has become the world's leading Forex portal with almost 130,000 visits per day and over 700,000 unique visitors per month, network wide.Thursday, October 14, 2010
Google Adds Link Analysis Features to Webmaster Tools
Google has updated the "Links to your site" section of Webmaster Tools. You can now see which sites link to yours most often, which pages on your site have received the most links, and samples of the anchor text ("how your data is linked") external sites use when they link to your site. Click to read the rest of this post...Thursday, October 14, 2010
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 14, 2010
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.Thursday, October 14, 2010
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: October 15, 2010
This week at the Search Engine Roundtable I covered some important search related news. Most importantly, Bing partnered with Facebook to add a social element box to the Bing results based on your Facebook friends and what they like. Google's Marissa Mayer is changing roles, no longer vp of search products, she is moving to location and local services. Google updated their link reports in ...Friday, October 15, 2010
Bing Likes Facebook, Google's Big Week, Social Media Insights & More - Search Week In Review for Oct. 16, 2010
Calling it the unfolding of a new era of social search, Bing this week revealed big changes to their search results . Bing and Facebook are teaming up to better personalize search results, to essentially serve everyone a different search experience, based on the Likes of their Facebook friends. Facebook open graph data is likely to have its biggest impact on Bing's local search results. With so ...Saturday, October 16, 2010
Your Evil Twin: Identifying and Managing Duplicate Content
Duplicate content can keep you out of the SERPs. A host of tools can help you identify and manage duplicate content. ...Saturday, October 16, 2010
How to Tell if Your Site is Being Penalized
There's a Google Groups thread that is discussing the ways webmasters can tell that their site is penalized by Google. In case you wanted to cover all your bases, you might want to try the tactics that they suggest you look at: One person suggests that you will *only* find your site listed when you do a site:domain.com search (rather than searching for the homepae). Another says you ...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Google Penalty Checklist: Rank Drop Troubleshooting Guide
Is your website not appearing in Google and you re not sure why It is possible that your site has been penalized for not following Google s webmaster guidelines. This article will walk you through troubleshooting your website to help you turn up some of the most common issues and correct them so you can achieve the search engine ranking you deserve.... DOWNLOAD XCELSIUS ENGAGE 2008 - FREE ...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Google Finally Updates Webmaster Tools Link Reports
It has been a while since I posted a link update post, based on Google updating their webmaster tools report. One of the reasons for this is because there has been a two to three month bug, where Google has not updated the report with new links. Google has not confirmed via a Google Webmaster Help thread that the reports are now being updated with the latest linkage data. We typically ...Thursday, December 18, 2008
Share Your Funny SEO Mistakes
I found a fun but serious SEO mistake in a Google Webmaster Help thread that I wanted to share with you all. But I felt it would be fun, if you had the time, to share at least one of your funny, but deadly, SEO mistakes - that you have seen first hand, in the comment section below. The mistake documented in the thread was that someone was not sure why his Webmaster Tools account was showing ...Thursday, December 18, 2008
Google To Auto-Sort Sitemap Formats
Submitting sitemaps to Google has been simplified, the company announced this morning. Webmasters will no longer have to specify which type of sitemap they are submitting. Google will determine the filetype for them. Google still prefers webmasters use Google Webmaster Tools for submission, though, but they also accept files listed in the robots.txt file, or submitted via the HTTP ping ...Thursday, December 18, 2008
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 18, 2008
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.Thursday, December 18, 2008
