Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google webmasters'

For a few years now, some webmasters have been trying to figure out ways to prevent Google from allowing users to translate their pages with the Google Translate tool. From time to time, webmaster ask if there is a way...

Posted on September 1, 2009 8:36 AM

A typical thread I see from time to time in the forums are from webmasters who see Googlebot trying to access their site, but their site is not publicly available. For example, a Google Groups thread has a webmaster from...

Posted on October 20, 2008 8:24 AM

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...

Posted on August 6, 2008 8:01 AM

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...

Posted on July 14, 2008 7:06 AM

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...

Posted on August 16, 2007 7:13 AM

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?...

Posted on July 11, 2007 6:07 AM

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...

Posted on May 10, 2007 7:54 AM

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...

Posted on March 12, 2007 10:45 AM

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...

Posted on November 27, 2006 8:04 AM

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...

Posted on November 10, 2006 7:39 AM

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...

Posted on October 20, 2006 7:38 AM

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...

Posted on October 19, 2006 7:24 AM

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...

Posted on August 4, 2006 8:24 AM