A Google Webmaster Tools user found a security hole that allowed him to delete any web page from Google’s index. Luckily, once the exploit was reported, Google had it patched within seven hours. The “Let’s Hack the Index” Exploit James Breckenridge, a web project manager and SEO, was attempting to
Continue Reading →Google’s developer Programs Tech Lead, Maile Ohye, presents a great video in getting the best out of Google Webmaster tools. She use’s Googles product Google Store as a case study. In the video, she shows you how to utilize search queries,reduce duplicate content and maximize PageRank and other ranking signals
Continue Reading →Website: What is a ban and what is a penalty? We speak of a ban if the website has completely disappeared from the search engines (e.g. Google) index. It is the most aggressive action Google can take against a site. You only get a ban if you really ignored all
Continue Reading →A WebmasterWorld thread has some SEOs and Webmasters sharing their recent experience with switching to new domains and how Google and Bing handle that switch. The first case was shared by senior member, HuskyPup who said that after switching over and 301 redirecting the URLs from the .in TLD to
Continue Reading →Google announced that you can now verify your site in Webmaster Tools with a Google Analytics JavaScript snippet. “Nobody likes to duplicate effort,” said Google software engineer Sean Harding. “Unfortunately, sometimes it’s a fact of life. If you want to use Google Analytics, you need to add a JavaScript tracking
Continue Reading →Now that you’ve done the work to get your site ranked in Google it’s time to take a look at where Google is sending your customers once they find you. Do they provide a link to your site? Is it accurate? Does it take them to the most effective page
Continue Reading →New features rolled out by Google, both the soft 404’s and the new feature under News have raised a number of concerns. Google announced they added “soft” or “crypto” 404s to their “crawl errors” report in Google Webmaster Tools. Soft 404s or crypto 404s are page not found pages that
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