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

Webmaster level: Beginner/Intermediate So 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 young padawan. Let’s take a look at 404s and how they do (or do...Read More

Webmaster level: Beginner – Intermediate We recently hosted our second site clinic, this time at TechHub in London, UK. Like last year, here’s our summary of the topics that came up. Title tags and meta description tags are easy ways to improve your site’s visibility in Google search results, yet we still see webmasters not...Read More

If you have a lot of urls that you don’t want in Google anymore, you can make the pages return a 404 and wait for Googlebot to recrawl/reindex the pages. This is often the best way. You can also block out an entire directory or a whole site in robots.txt and then use our url...Read More