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Keeping you informed of critical website issues

Monday, October 01, 2012 at 1:45 PM

Webmaster level: All

Having a healthy and well-performing website is important, both to you as the webmaster and to your users. When we discover critical issues with a website, Webmaster Tools will now let you know by automatically sending an email with more information.

We’ll only notify you about issues that we think have significant impact on your site’s health or search performance and which have clear actions that you can take to address the issue. For example, we’ll email you if we detect malware on your site or see a significant increase in errors while crawling your site.

For most sites these kinds of issues will occur rarely. If your site does happen to have an issue, we cap the number of emails we send over a certain period of time to avoid flooding your inbox.  If you don’t want to receive any email from Webmaster Tools you can change your email delivery preferences.

We hope that you find this change a useful way to stay up-to-date on critical and important issues regarding your site’s health. If you have any questions, please let us know via our Webmaster Help Forum.

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14 comments:

Hans van Meteren said...

Great, thanks!!

Sujit Kumar Lucky said...
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Sujit Kumar Lucky said...

really it helps webmaster to watch and deal with issues, and also beneficial when you regularly not logged in WM Tool.

araghu said...

Thank you for sharing these resources!

مدون عربي said...
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Andre van Wyk said...

This is great, Thanks John. It will certainly help us be a little more on top of the situation!

Farhan said...

Thanks and great news.

Jaan Kanellis said...

It would be great if these notifications included more details, especially on how to fix problems Google finds.

Hossam Nageh said...

how can i use it in my website
http://www.bltga.com/vb/index.php

please

Etienne Dupuis said...

Good stuff.. critical issues are .. yeah critical. Better be warned !

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reshma M said...

In webmaster tools if we omit the the waning is there any problem.
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Samiullah said...

well now you don't have worry about your site security. google might tells us how to cope with the problem, as it always does

Cholleti Kumar said...

How can I Know my website has wrong/broken URL's according to google webmaster tools