Crawling And Indexing

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. Dependin…

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Maile Ohye on June 7th, 2011

Webmaster level: IntermediateToday we’re beginning to support authorship markup—a way to connect authors with their content on the web. We’re experimenting with using this data to help people find content from great authors in our search results….

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Jonathan Simon on May 17th, 2011

Webmaster Level: AllWe recently made a change to the Remove URL tool in Webmaster Tools to eliminate the requirement that the webpage’s URL must first be blocked by a site owner before the page can be removed from Google’s search results. Because you’v…

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Susan Moskwa on May 2nd, 2011

Webmaster level: Beginner/IntermediateSo there you are, minding your own business, using Webmaster Tools to check out how awesome your site is… but, wait! The Crawl errors page is full of 404 (Not found) errors! Is disaster imminent??Fear not, my you…

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Maile Ohye on April 1st, 2011

Webmaster Level: BeginnerWe’re very glad to announce that our recently updated SEO guide is now available in ten more languages: Spanish, French, German, Russian, Turkish, Finnish, Swedish, Hungarian, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. For t…

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