Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 9:21 AM
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There’s no shortage of useful information, but sometimes the relevant bits may be a bit difficult to locate, especially for novice webmasters. We see the same questions popping up over and over again, so we’ve tried to make our most frequently searched information as accessible and visible as possible:
We analysed the questions asked over the past year and a half and identified the issues you are most interested in. We then picked out the relevant bits from across our different resources and collected the answers to those questions in one new convenient FAQ page in our Help Center (available in 20 languages).
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...tell us about a page you want to remove from our search results;
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Now isn’t that a nice stocking stuffer (-:?
Happy webmastering in 2011, and keep the feedback coming!
5 comments:
Google page today.
I looked at all your diverse art for the holiday's today and didn't notice any art for Christmas. After all Christmas is December 25th. That's what we celebrate most. If you are going to include all the others the story of Christ should be amoung them. Most of the country celebrate the birth of Christ... please add a picture that includes the Christ child or something related to the traditional Christmas story.
Thank you.
Hi
First, very good webmaster-tools!
I like it very much!
One thing, here is the problem:
There are still some (old) frame-based websites! :-)
I found a "dissonance" between the tool Google Labs > "see your page how Googlebot it sees" (o.ä) and the "real" google search results.
Example
I checked the following URL with the tool:
www.vdf.ethz.ch/info/showDetails.asp?isbnNr=2665
Result, Code:
title: vdf - Die Stadt in der Schweizer Raumplanung
name="description" content="Die Stadt in der Schweizer Raumplanung - Ein Lesebuch – Martin Lendi gewidmet. ..."
name="keywords" content="Die Stadt ..."
>>>ok, very happy<<<
But see the search-results on google:
Search term: site:http://www.vdf.ethz.ch/info/showDetails.asp?isbnNr=2665
Title: "zur Publikation - vdf Hochschulverlag AG - Wissenschaftliche ..."
Description: "Der vdf Hochschulverlag AG ist Herausgeber und Vertreiber wissenschaftlicher Fachbücher, Hochschulverlag."
>>>nok, very unhappy<<<
This is a standard title and a standard description from an upper-frame! (so there are a lot of pages with the same title & description...)
I know ... frames are "ugly", but this problem seems to be relatively new (about a couple of months), because in the past the vdf-website was very good (almost every book-title was on a first place (no joke)), today y get Nirvana-results.
Seems to be a (newer) Googlebot-Error, that the tool doesn't consider.
Thx
Nick
@NickNack, it would be great if you could post in either the German or the English Webmaster Help Forums. Feel free to post the URL of your thread here, so that we can take a look.
Hello Google! Why don't you stop those sites that make you buy some crap e-books with "secrets to become rich" ? You can't even close the page. When you click to close, they give you alert that they offer you a discount...lol You know what I am talking about.
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