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Category Archives: Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools: Crawl Errors

Google Webmaster Tools got a new face-lift recently. One of the most important sections in GWT is labeled “Health” which is ironic because we have been completely our Website Health Check-Up’s on a lot of our websites lately. On March 12, 2012, Google announced that they rolled out significant enhancements to the Crawl errors feature [...]


Google’s Cracking Down

Google’s fairly new crackdown and call-out on websites that don’t abide by Google’s Webmaster Guidelines is in full effect. Earlier this year, we wrote a “friendly reminder” post on guidelines that are often overlooked, forgotten or ignored. There is no longer any “weight” in arguments challenging Google’s ability to determine paid links, hidden content or other [...]


Google Webmaster Tools Series: Crawler Access

Our first post of the series included how to submit a sitemap and how to submit your non-indexed URLs to Google, too. This week, we’re focusing on Crawler Access (a.k.a. robots.txt file). Most people think that they want all of their website crawled by Google, but since you have valuable time with the Google bot, [...]


Google Webmaster Tools Series: Sitemaps

I recently mentioned  in this post that not enough people are taking advantage of the opportunity to link their Google accounts. To my surprise, many people don’t even have a Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) account. How you can manage a website and not have a GWT account is beyond me. So before we start, if you’re one [...]