Bionic Posters help site owners worldwide

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Setting up and running a website is getting easier and easier, and it’s wonderful to see so many
new site owners sharing their voices with the world! For you as a webmaster it’s pretty easy
going… until you run into an issue that you just can’t seem to solve on your own. Maybe some
technical issues were flagged in your
Webmaster Tools
account; maybe you’re just trying to get your robots.txt to
block a certain part of your site;
or maybe someone reported that they
got a virus while visiting your site (gasp!).
All of these issues can come up and sometimes it’s helpful to have a helping hand when diagnosing
and solving it.

Our Google Webmaster Help Group
is a great place to get help. There are many site owners active in our group, friendly and ready
to help others, often with first-hand experience. They can show you what might be wrong, show you
how you can find answers in the future, and point you towards a solution that you’ll be able to
use.

Just recently a site owner came into the groups with a website that was having strange problems.
Less than 20 minutes later, one of our dedicated members replied and pointed them to
hidden content
that was placed on their site by someone else. Finding that is bad enough; but not finding it
is even more frustrating.

While there are lots of helpful people in our groups, we have some that really stand out as being
exceptionally active, helpful, competent and friendly. They volunteer time and energy to help
build a great community and to help webmasters all around the world. In order to more publicly
recognize their contributions, we’re calling them our
Bionic Posters.
We want to highlight their outstanding efforts and thank them for the sound advice they’ve offered
to so many.

We wanted to take a minute and send a shout out to our Bionic Posters:

• webado
  (Christina from www.webado.net)
• Phil Payne
  (www.isham-research.co.uk)
• cass-hacks
  (Craig from cass-hacks.com)
• abracadabra
  (Tim from www.aitechsolutions.net)
• Aaron Pratt
  (www.ne-design.net)
• Cristina
  (www.asymptoticdesign.com)
• Robbo
  (Vince from www.tesol-direct.com)
• JLH
  (John Honeck from www.jlh-design.com)
• dockarl
  (Matt James from
  www.utheguru.com)
• IceGiant
  (Sasch from
  www.icegiant.co.uk)
• MrGamma
  (James from www.sitebyjames.com)
• The anonymous and helpful
  seo101

Thank you all for helping to make the Webmaster Help Group such a success!

Come and visit the
Webmaster Help Groups
and see how you can make a difference as well. Be bionic!

Posted by John Mueller,
Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google Zurich