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Google Webmaster Central Blog Apr 07 10 Webmaster Level: AllSitemaps are an invaluable resource for search engines. They can highlight the important content on a site and allow crawlers to quickly discover it. Images are an important element of many sites and search engines could equally benefit from knowing which images you consider important. This is particularly true for images that are only accessible via JavaScript forms, or for pages that contain many images but only some of which are integral to the page content.Now you can use a Sitemaps extension to provide Google with exactly this information. For each URL you list in your Sitemap, you can add additional information about important images that exist on that page. Full story...
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At Google we're obsessed with speed. We've long known that even seemingly minor speed increases can have surprisingly large impacts on user engagement and happiness.
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Using Custom Search Engine (CSE), you can create rich search experiences that make it easier for visitors to find the information they’re looking for on your site.
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After announcing Webmaster Tools spring cleaning earlier this quarter, it’s time to do the job.
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We love data, and spend a lot of time monitoring the analytics on our websites.
Webmaster level: AllWe recently updated the Top Search Queries data to take into account the average top position, we enabled programmatic download and we made sure you could still get all the queries that drive traffic to your site.
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While maintaining a website, webmasters may decide to move the whole website or parts of it to a new location.
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Webmaster Tools added lots of new functionality over the past year, such as improvements to Sitemaps and Crawl errors, as well as the new User Administration feature.
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Google has said before that search engine optimization, or SEO, can be positive and constructive—and we're not the only ones.