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  • Google webmaster tools UI update.

    Google have updated the UI of the front dashboard page in webmaster tools . Here is a screen shot: The really interesting thing is the “Sort: By site health” ??? interesting use of the word health…. Also google are showing the word “New” in bright yellow for domain added within (in my case) the last…

  • Google bug for blocked URLs

    I run a large forum and had a “Defamation Complaint: UK” as a member had posted about how they felt they had been scammed. I’m not going to quote as don’t want to url removed for the search results but here is the gist.. Said member had paid for an ad in a publication which…

  • google webmaster tools bug

    barry beat me to blogging this as I’m far to busy so credit to him for picking up on it. You can see his post here:Â http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/022347.html When he wrote about it the screen grab he had didn’t show this bug so I sent him one from a site of mine. Here is the drop…

  • Google hit by duplicate content penalty.

    I’ve just notice today that google has been hit by a duplicate content penalty and dropped in rankings… I’m lazy and wanted to log into google webmaster tool so I search on google for “sitemaps” (It used to be sitemaps before)… Anyway for the last few years google has been #1 for the search term…

  • Barry is dropping hints again..

    After the success of the barry tag also know as noydir tag to remove yahoo directory titles more info here http://www.seohome.co.uk/2007/03/01/noydir-is-here/ Barry’s new crusade is to get “more” of the new google webmaster tools “link” section …  He’s not asking for much hehehehe PageRank score The anchor text of a link Which links are…

  • Sitemaps update.. True link count from google WOW!

     Pages with external links  Pages with internal links  This is amazing.. Full link commands! WOW Need I say more really.. The next few hr’s i’m playing 😀 Well done google.. Thanks for giving us what we need !!!!!! Read more http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/02/discover-your-links.html Â

  • New Sitemaps Protocol May Hurt Your Listings in Yahoo! Tim Says no!

    Quite a few comments in forums regarding the drop in indexing/ranking when adding the site maps protocol.. This used to be a google sitemaps topic and now has moved to yahoo, however tim (assuming Tim Mayer) has commented on SERT the following  This is simply not true. Tim Posted by: Tim at December 5,…

  • Google bot stats from webmaster tools

    Gbot activity.. This is very cool.. I have 3 sites with ye-oldie google sitemaps and its really good to see the difference.. Anyway this is what google said: Check out these cool charts! We show you the number of pages Googlebot’s crawled from your site per day, the number of kilobytes of data Googlebot’s downloaded…

  • Fresher info for us webmasters

    This is great news imho. Just for some reason only just got around to blogging it.. Ah well.. Â Anyway for anyone who hasn’t read about this yet it the fact that google going to give us far fresher Query Stats in the webmaster tools Query stats page.. From a 3 weeks stats to just…

  • Fun quote in sitemaps

    I’m sure many people have noticed this and most likely blog about it.. But hey i’ve only just noticed it.. Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. — Evan Esar (1899-1995), American Humorist The above quote is taken on my sitemaps / webmaster tools “Crawl stats”…