Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google webmasters'

WebPosition Ranking Software Being Blocked by Google?

The historically popular search engine ranking software, WebPosition, has reportedly been blocked by Google from checking rankings automatically. A WebmasterWorld thread reports that WebPosition is no longer able to process one's search rankings as of August 5, 2008. Old time...

Googler, Bergy - Berghausen, Leaves Google

I am sad to report that Mark Berghausen, aka Bergy, of Google Webmaster Central, has decided to leave Google to pursue his legal profession. Bergy, as he likes to go by, has responded to well over a 100 questions in...

Google Adds "Excessive" To Link Exchange Guidelines

A WebmasterWorld thread reports Google has made a slight but yet important change to their link schemes page within their Webmaster Guidelines section. BEFORE: Examples of link schemes can include: Link exchange and reciprocal links schemes ("Link to me and...

Giving Multiple Users Access to your Google Webmaster Tools Account

Google Webmaster Central is an excellent resource for site owners and developers. A Google Groups thread asked if there is a way to give someone else access to your Google Webmaster Tools reports. Why would someone want to do this?...

Fake German Google Search Quality Team Warning from DONOTREPLY@gmail.com

digg_url = 'http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/013438.html'; Vanessa Fox of Google has confirmed this is not an email from Google and that these are fake emails. She said in a comment below, "The email you describe here did not come from Google." I...

Google Officially Requests Webmasters To Block Internal or External Search Results

Matt Cutts posted an interesting write up he named Search results in search results. In that post, he located a Google Groups thread started by Philipp Lenssen asking: Is there any official Google statement regarding that search result on one's...

Google Webmaster Sitemaps Tool Back With Old Data?

Like any new tool, there are bugs, and Google's Webmaster Central tools, including their powerful Sitemaps tool, seems to have its share of bugs. Two different reports come from WebmasterWorld with possible bugs in the tool over the weekend. The...

Google Webmaster Central Sitemaps Tool Shows a Rollback?

Folks at WebmasterWorld are reporting that the Google Webmaster Central Sitemaps tool is now showing older data. One member said when he looked at his last visit date to his home page it was November 7th. He then looked again...

Google Best Kept Secret Service?

A great thread at DigitalPoint Forums asks member to post what is "Google best unknown feature." There aren't too many posts yet, but pretty much all the answers are unique. Answers include: Google Alerts Google Spreadsheets GMail GTalk Googles Webmaster...

Google Adds Features to Webmaster Tools Section

The Google Webmaster Central blog announced the release of several new tools added to the Webmaster Central toolbox. The new features are pretty neat and include; Googlebot activity reports that shows the "number of pages Googlebot's crawled from your site...

Can a Competitor Hurt Your Google Rankings?

Most likely not, says Google. Google has a FAQ that I have never seen before named What can I do if I'm afraid my competitor is harming my ranking in Google? The response? There's almost nothing a competitor can do...


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