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Google has just released a new video that is a how-to guide on verifying ownership of as website’s Google Webmaster Tools account using a HTML Meta tag.
As most of you may already know, Google Analytics can only be accessed by the Webmaster or the site owner. To ensure privacy & security and the fact that only a site’s owner gains access to such resources, …
Google Software Engineer and head of the Web Spam Team, Matt Cutts recently presented a video, answering a long standing question webmasters have had about Google’s enigmatic reconsideration requests—yes, Google reads and responds to all reconsideration requests submitted by webmasters.
Reconsideration requests stem from Google’s strict Webmaster Guidelines, a set of rules in place to ensure all webmasters are following conditions that will make their …
Google rolls out more than 500 algorithm changes each year and some of these updates can have a devastating effect on your websites’ ranking in the Google search engine.
We usually let you know each time there has been a major algorithm update, but do you know what to do once the update hits?
Search Marketer Adam Dince shared some great advice recently which I …
If you thought that Google was done rolling out all of the new changes they had up their sleeve and would be keeping things status quo for a bit, you couldn’t be more wrong.
Google continues to introduce new tools for advertisers, webmasters and Google users alike. This latest development is for webmasters. Google has brought another new feature over to its Webmaster Tools offerings.…
When setting up a new website it is easy to get excited about the design and content of the website, while forgetting the most vital aspect – SEO.
While your website might look great, searchers are never going to find it if you don’t implement even some of the SEO basics.
To help you out I have compiled a list of SEO tasks you must …
Google’s has introduced two new link elements to the Webmasters Tools that offer a solution to something webmasters have often found very difficult.
Pagination is a way of making a website, which contains lots of information, more user-friendly in terms of browsing or searching. For example, Nike.com uses pagination by showing 30 or so shoes per page om their site instead of showing hundreds of …
Google announced an important update to how Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) will now classify your sub-domains. It’s not all bad news though – the total number of links for your site will not change.
The update can be explained simply in two sentences:
Where Google previously classified sub-domains …
Keeping its promise made a few months back, Microsoft recently unveiled a revised version of its Webmaster Tools.
Named “The Honey Badger Update”, Bing says that webmasters can expect to see some great improvement on the content and features of the tool set.
As outlined by Duane Forrester on Bing’s official blog post, the highlight of this update includes the introduction of three new …
Google launched the Instant Previews in their SERPs back in November. The feature allows searchers to see a snapshot of the search listing to determine its relevancy before entering the site. However website owners have been complaining about how the pages are being rendered via the instant previews.
Google responded to the criticism highlighting that these problems were due to blocked resources due to a …
A sudden drop in their Google Sitemaps index count has been reported by many webmasters. Does this include you?
Some sitemap index counts have reported to have dropped as low as zero and Google has pinpointed the reason as being a minor bug in the Google Webmaster Tool causing indexing count to be temporarily impacted.
The problem was first reported by a US based webmaster …