Webmaster Level: All We 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’ve already verified ownership of the site, we can eliminate this requirement...Read More

I answered an interesting rel=canonical question over email today and thought I’d blog about it. If you’re not familiar with rel=canonical read these pages first. Then watch this video about rel=canonical vs. 301s, especially the second half: Okay, I sometimes get a question about whether Google will always use the url from rel=canonical as the...Read More

LinkedIn SEO Tips: How to Promote Yourself on LinkedIn If you want to be found more, get more people contacting you, calling you, signing up for your services and send you more money, this is what you need to do: Add your keywords on 5 different places throughout your LinkedIn profile. Keywords are the words/phrases...Read More

We’re pleased to introduce the Google Webmaster Team as contributors to the Webmaster Central Blog. As the team responsible for tens of thousands of Google’s informational web pages, they’re here to offer tips and advice based on their experiences as hands-on webmasters. Back in the 1990s, anyone who maintained a website called themselves a “webmaster”...Read More

Webmaster level: Intermediate to Advanced Users are taught to protect themselves from malicious programs by installing sophisticated antivirus software, but often they may also entrust their private information to websites like yours, in which case it’s important to protect their data. It’s also very important to protect your own data; if you have an online...Read More