Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 12:45 PM
We're always looking for new ways to help educate our fellow webmasters. While you may already be familiar with Webmaster Tools, Webmaster Help Discussion Groups, this blog, and our Help Center, we've added another tutorial to help you understand how Google works. Hence we've made this video of a soon-to-come presentation titled "Google for Webmasters." This video will introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site's pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content, and the effective indexing of Flash and AJAX content. Lastly, it also talks about the benefits of offerings Webmaster Central and other useful Google products.Take a look for yourself.
Discoverability:
Accessibility - Crawling and Indexing:
Ranking:
Webmaster Central Overview:
Other Resources:
Google Presentations Version:
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dc5x7mrn_245gf8kjwfx
Important links from this presentation as they chronologically appear in the video:
Add your URL to Google
Help Center: Sitemaps
Sitemaps.org
Robots.txt
Meta tags
Best uses of Flash
Best uses of Ajax
Duplicate content
Google's Technology
Google's History
PigeonRank
Help Center: Link Schemes
Help Center: Cloaking
Webmaster Guidelines
Webmaster Central
Google Analytics
Google Website Optimizer
Google Trends
Google Reader
Google Alerts
More Google Products
Special thanks to Wysz, Chark, and Alissa for the voices.
Written by Evan Tang, Search Quality
16 comments:
This is great stuff! Now I have something to point all those people that ask the basic questions.
This is pretty Good. It seems like this post has every thing.
Most of the gray areas been explained.
Thanks Google Blog
Wow....this is a really excellent post and resource for webmasters!
I really learn alot through this 5 star post! Great Job!
Excellent post. As Jenn said, We all now have somewhee to point people who ask the basic questions.
This is a good start to a tutorial. However it is missing some items like what pitfalls to avoid when developing a website. It would be nice to know what NOT to do. I for one have had issues where Google decided to deindex my website after months being indexed. It would also be nice to show users how to escalate issues that arise from Google's auto deindexing agorithms. Right now it is a blackhole when asking for reevaluation.
The "AJAX" link in this blog is broken.
Just thought I'd let you know. :)
Great Advice... but to do all of this would take about 10 years work.., don't believe me... start reading the blogs now and you will never finish, and that's just the blogs.
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great stuff!
its really helpfull...
Question... does a hash (#) in an URL prevent everything after that hash from being indexed?
It just keeps gettin better and better..
I have read the FAQs and posted on the Help Forum, but I still have not received a reply. I want to sign into my blogger account. I have a blog (lulussblog.blogspot.com) that I cannot access. When I request my login info it says that it was sent to my hotmail account; however, the only hotmail account I have never receives the e-mail. My hotmail account is LilLu06@hotmail.com, but I'm thinking it might be linked to my old hotmail account which was LaurenRogers06@hotmail.com. Throughout this process I think I may have created an account for the LilLu06 hotmail account by accident, but it still doesn't show that it is linked to my blog. I'm not sure if I changed it, but back when it was Blogger and not Google, my sign in name was LaurenRae, but I don't remember the password. How can I access this blog??
Thank you so much for your time. I really would appreciate a reply. (laurenrogers06@gmail.com)
Graciously,
Lauren
Hi Lauren,
We're the Webmaster Central team, not the Blogger support team. If you haven't already, would you like to try the resources here? http://help.blogger.com/bin/static.py?page=start.cs
Good luck!
Maile
This is very nice about this stuff, im injoying using it.
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When will I be able to register a regional site in more than 1 country? I have regional sites for EMEA, LATAM, ASIA and other regions of the world that I need to have show up in contry specific search results.
Curious about the Robots.txt file. If you never load one will the spiders simply come along and index your site based on the normal Google spidering schedule?
And if so, what's wrong with that for simple sites?
I understand the directives for specific files and pages but is it not entirely okay to NOT have a trobots.txt. file?
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