Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google toolbar'

There seems to be a Google Toolbar PageRank update going on right now. We have threads on the topic at WebmasterWorld, DigitalPoint Forums and HighRankings Forum. The update seemed to have started sometime yesterday afternoon and many SEOs and webmasters...

Posted on October 30, 2009 9:30 AM

tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020960.html'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';Google has removed the PageRank section in the crawl statistics in Google Webmaster Tools. This has gone mostly unnoticed, with the release of the labs feature, until now. A Google Webmaster Help thread reports...

Posted on October 15, 2009 9:27 AM

The other week, we wrote about how to block Sidewiki users from commenting on your site. The issue was, it basically blocked all Google Toolbar users from accessing your site. There is a new script that reportedly blocks only those...

Posted on September 30, 2009 8:57 AM

Yesterday, we reported on Google Sidewiki which allows anyone to basically comment on your site, on your site, with the Google Toolbar. Some webmasters are not into this idea and they want to know if there is a way to...

Posted on September 25, 2009 9:05 AM

Yesterday, Google announced the launch of Sidewiki. Sidewiki is basically an add on to the Google Toolbar that allows you to comment about any site, directly on that site, via the Google Toolbar. For more about the tool, see the...

Posted on September 24, 2009 9:27 AM

Google has posted a new beta version of the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer over here for users to test. The new version is currently a labs project only and brings location services to the toolbar. This allows Google to...

Posted on April 29, 2009 8:21 AM

If you have been like me and been tracking the Google Toolbar Help discussion area, you may have noticed complaint after complaint on how buggy the Google Toolbar was in Internet Explorer. Google announced they have released a stable version...

Posted on April 16, 2009 7:10 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around how Google seems to not be promoting the PageRank indicator on the latest version of their toolbar. In fact, no longer is Google showing the PageRank score in the marketing image used on the...

Posted on November 4, 2008 7:56 AM

The Official Google Blog has announced that the Google Toolbar 5 is now available for Firefox and has many cool new features. One such feature is Autofill, which acts as a password manager and can auto-fill forms with credit card...

Posted on September 29, 2008 9:16 AM

Google's Matt Cutts announced Google is pushing out "new toolbar PageRank values," over the course of the "next few days." Yes, I keep saying toolbar PageRank is really all that not important. You can read my thoughts on that over...

Posted on July 25, 2008 8:24 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks a question most people who participate in search forums ask themselves. Does Google, on occasion, update the toolbar PageRank score of a particular web site between the major and mass toolbar PageRank updates we report? Why...

Posted on June 26, 2008 7:43 AM

Today is the day that Firefox 3 is supposed to be unleashed to the wild. I don't see an official download link yet (according to Dave Woods, it won't happen until 6PM BST, which is 1PM EST), but if you're...

Posted on June 17, 2008 9:15 AM

There are reports that the new beta version of the Google Toolbar is acting a bit evil. Reports are that when you install the toolbar and surf to a 404 page, a page not found, Google will replace the 404...

Posted on February 12, 2008 7:04 AM

The Google Blog announced the newest Google Toolbar. Some of the new features include the ability to add gadgets to the toolbar, an improved AutoFill, saving settings online, and clipping content using Google Notebook. These features are highlighted in this...

Posted on December 14, 2007 9:42 AM

I'll be honest, I haven't been following the different shades of colors in the Google Toolbar. But Gabs, someone I trust started a thread at Search Engine Roundtable Forums noting that new pages now have a grey color in the...

Posted on May 2, 2007 7:29 AM

Now that we know that toolbar PageRank does not mean all that much, in terms of ones ranking at this point in time - we can discuss a possible bug in the Google Toolbar. A WebmasterWorld thread has dozens of...

Posted on April 27, 2007 7:47 AM