Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 12:55 PM
In a recent blog post highlighting our Webmaster Help Group, I asked for your webmaster-related questions. In our second installment of Popular Picks, we hoped to discover which issues webmasters wanted to learn more about, and then respond with some better documentation on those topics. It looks like it was a success, so please get clicking:
- Image Search ranking: Starting things off, JimAtArtsnovaDotCom asked about how Google indexes images. Evan details the factors that account for a site's images appearing in Google's image search.
- Sitelinks and Webmaster Tools: Maile tackled Red Cardinal's request by providing a more detailed explanation of sitelinks, particularly what happens when they are blocked by a user.
- Reconsideration Requests: Want to learn more about reconsideration requests? In response to Chibcha's message, Susan provides additional context on when you should file a reconsideration request and other tips to address your site's performance.
- Redirects: In response to Cristina's question about site moves and redirects, John explains how Googlebot handles absolute and relative URLs in your redirect to a new domain.
- Communication with webmasters: Finally, I responded to bluegill01's message, noting the scenarios when you can expect to receive a message from Google.
24 comments:
Nice to see all the helpful information in one place!
HELP needed please. I've tried several times to get the e-mail that's delivered to my gmail account also delivered to my server account at dslextreme.com
I've tried following the directions on the POP IMAP setting page, but when I click on "save changes" the buttons I've marked don't remain marked. What should I be doing?
Thanx!
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This is really great collection of helpful information for the webmasters..Thanks for the stuff..
I would also like if you can provide some overview regarding canonical issues.
Thanks Again
nice information
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Thank you Googlers
Poor showing on the google homepage today, no 9/11 representation on the google image?
My burning question involves paid web directory listings.
Will I be penalized if I purchase links in web directorys?
I hope this is the appropriate place for the question, I am new to the blog.
Thanks in advance for any guidance you can provide!
HELP PLEASE.
I have submitted all of the required information to verify the
following site, and it is still showing up as having a problem:
www.sistagraphy.org.
I am at a loss as to what to do. This site does not contain
'malware', 'viruses', 'trojans'. It is just a photography site for
some female photographers, and I am not sure why it was all of a
sudden blocked by Google. The site has been in existence since 2003,
and the only thing that changes is the addition of articles and
photos.
Please help, as we are needing to clear this site in preparation for a
large photographic event in October.
Many, many thanks.
Caorlyn Miller
Thanks for the info! Great Job!
Hello,
My wife have a web site:www.abstractpaintings-anacabrera.com, and I was working hard to get it well positioned in Google search engine with the "abstract paintings" keyword, with no result at all.
But today I made a mistake writing "asbtract paintings" instead of "abstract paintings" and suddently my wife's web site appeared in the "second" and "third" place in your search results. Maybe,this indicates that there are some confusion about the keywordswords.
Please help me to solve this mistake.
Thanks, Segis
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THANKS IN ADVANCE !
Help! Using Webmaster Tools I am told that "Pages from your site are included in Google's index."
However, when I view index stats and choose the "site" operator I am told that my site name "did not match any documents".
So, on the one hand, Tools is telling me I have indexed pages, while at the same time it can not find any of these pages.
This is very frustrating because this site has had no problem with page indexing for many months and has been dong very well in the search results pages. This problem has only surfaced in the past week.
Now, with none of my pages showing up, my traffic is down 80%. Is this just a temporary google issue or is there something I can do to resolve this issue.
Thanks for the help!
ed
I am confused when I see some pages on my site disappear from the first page of search and are replaced by sites with no content and are asking people to add there own information to their sites.This is happening in the travel categories.
One site in particular is prominently positioned in several search terms and is completely devoid of info.
I thought sites were rewarded for content not the lack of it?
How can I submit a sitemap to google without uploading it on my server (I live in China and cannot upload files on my server)?
I've got a burning question. My site ( http://www.stockchase.com ) had a page rank of 4 for the last year or so. Recently it dropped to 3, and one of my advertisers jumped to 4 from 2. Looking at google linked search results mine are much larger then his. Now I wish him all the best, but I'd like to know where I've failed. The only two things that I've done differently was
1. re-arrange the look and feel to make it more user friendly.
2. Attempt to advertise using google ad-links. (which is the most recent change).
I'm wondering if I'm being penalized for using google ad-links?
4 months ago I had a quality problem that got my site delisted. I deleted articles I did not know type pad has listed as "published" instead of "draft" and resubmitted my site. Problem fixed.
Months later the same article I deleted was searched last night. It no longer exists on my blog since July. Help, Please!
This blog is directly connected to my job and essential to me. Thank you.
this is very informative, especially about the sitelinks..
Thanks for all the information. Do you think google will ever create a tool to do a site check for spelling errors?
How is it that blackhat sites that were reported many months ago still thrive in the google serps?
Is anything ever done to remove or penalize webmaster guideline violators? or is it just a hit & miss operation?
Id like to know how Google is going to allow us Google Webmasters to validate the new .TEL domains now in general availability within out webmasters panel?
There's no facility out of the box for metatag validation nor hosting validator pages! Is the approach via TELNic's API model ??
It's over a month since the question of verifying .tel sites on Google was raised - any answers out there?
Many thanks if you have one!
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