JohnMu

Googlers strongly believe in dogfooding our own products. We manage our work schedules with Google Calendar, publish our blogs on Blogger, and store scads of documentation on Google Sites. So, ever since we launched our first Webmaster Help Group, w read more »
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Danny Sullivan goes off on everyone who uses subversive marketing tactics. Grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and take it in. read more »
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Interesting move from Google, it's the 1st time I've seen them go granular, but hey, what's with the dig at shadyseo! ;) read more »
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Some insights into the data that SEOmoz revealed today about what their sources for the Linkscape tool are, and what those sources reveal about things behind the scenes. read more »
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Search industry blogger, Lisa Barone, joins the We Build Pages team as Senior Writer. She'll be responsible for writing, setting the direction and tone for content creation, and will serve as a brand evangelist. read more »
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Running a website can be complicated—so we've provided Google Webmaster Tools to help webmasters to recognize potential issues before they become real problems. Some of the issues that you can spot there are relatively small (such as having duplicat read more »
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This is your chance to interview Google engineers! Feel free to ask anything to:

Matt Cutts
Adam Lasnik
Erick Tseng
Jeff Dean
Andrew Morton
Ken Thompson
Guido van Rossum
Taliver Heath
Colby Ranger
Bill Weihl
Any Engineer

PS. as to th read more »
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Rebecca Steelman, Google Search Quality: We'll launch a series of six video tutorials in French, German, Italian and Spanish over the next couple of months. The videos will take you through the basics of Webmaster Tools as well as how to use the inf read more »
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From the post, "Let's put this to bed once and for all, folks: There's no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty." At least, not in the way most people mean when they say that." read more »
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John Mueller works as a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google Zürich. He’s also a regular on Twitter under his familiar username JohnMu. As a test, he will be running Q&A sessions on the application each Friday. Let him know what you think. read more »
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Interesting findings that illustrate why popular ranking software packages aren't approved by Google. read more »
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Google Webmaster Help guru Mark Berghausen aka "Bergy" announced late today that he was leaving Google! John Honeck has more details here.... read more »
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Jefferson Graham didn’t just write an article of free SEO tips — he also brought his video camera along. The result is a five minute video interview with more easy, free search engine optimization tips. Again, this is targeted at beginner SEO and sm read more »
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As Matt writes, "As the head of the webspam team at Google, I'm in charge of making sure your search results are as relevant and informative as possible." read more »
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SERPGuard is launched in beta today. The system is built in Ruby on Rails using the new Safe Browsing API that Google has helpfully made available. We built this application as part of our in-house client suite but decided to release it publicly. Ho read more »
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Google Trends now tracks and shows data on individual web sites, and can compare groups of web sites together. read more »
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I recorded the whole thing, hope sound quality is okay. Also, exported the full Q&A session as text, tons of details. Enjoy! read more »
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Yes they are, and in some situations, probably essential. John Mueller from Google explains it all. read more »
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I've created a 37 slide presentation that walks viewers through the process of setting up and understanding Google's Webmaster Tools. This resource was created to assist search marketers and webmasters with the basics of the program. read more »
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Meet John W. Tuggle, a guitarist living in Athens, Georgia. Thanks to SEO and social media, John was found by Gibson Guitars, uses Skype to give guitar lessons worldwide, and has a waiting list of hopeful students. read more »
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Drop a *brief* note in this thread with:
- Your site's URL.
- The goal of your site ("sell widgets online," "visually teach people
how to lindy hop," etc.)
- One problem or challenge you're facing ("worried that the Googlebot
sees widget variat read more »
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Amusing guide as to how the Googlebot goes about its business. read more »
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Does Vanessa Fox really believe that? Read this post to find out... read more »
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Vanessa Fox posted some important changes to where you can now store your XML sitemaps. read more »
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Google has announced you can now exercise their sitemap cross-submission support via robots.txt letting them know the location of the Sitemaps. read more »
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