Webmaster level: All Everyone who uses the web knows how frustrating it is to land on a page that sounds promising in the search results but ends up being useless when you visit it. We work hard to make sure Google’s algorithms catch as much as possible, but sometimes spammy sites still make it into...Read More

Webmaster level: All If you use Google Analytics to track site data, you can now link your Webmaster Tools verified site to an Analytics profile when they use the same Google Account. Not only will your Analytics profiles be accessible within Webmaster Tools, but you’ll also be able to more easily access a few Google...Read More

Webmaster Level: Intermediate to Advanced To the fabulous, savvy audience that attended our Video Sitemap webinar several months ago, please accept our re-gift: a summary of your questions from the Video Sitemaps Q&A! To those who were unable to attend the webinar, please enjoy our gift of the summarized Q&A — it’s like new! Either...Read More

Webmaster level: Intermediate to Advanced Once in a while we get asked whether a site’s visibility in Google’s search results can be impacted in a negative way if it’s unavailable when Googlebot tries to crawl it. Sometimes downtime is unavoidable: a webmaster might decide to take a site down due to ongoing site maintenance, or...Read More

Webmaster Level: Beginner to Intermediate We on the Webmaster Central team aren’t SEOs, but that doesn’t stop me from pretending to be one! In our latest video, I’ll talk about utilizing some features in Webmaster Tools as though I were the SEO for www.googlestore.com. Just as a grandparent raves about their grandchild, I could have...Read More