{"id":23939,"date":"2007-12-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/fyi-on-google-toolbars-latest-features\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T00:00:00","slug":"fyi-on-google-toolbars-latest-features","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/fyi-on-google-toolbars-latest-features\/","title":{"rendered":"FYI on Google Toolbar&#8217;s latest features"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"key-point\">It&#8217;s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some images may be missing, and some links may not work anymore).<\/aside>\n<p class=\"gargardate\">Friday, December 14, 2007<\/p>\n<p>\n  The latest version of<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/toolbar.google.com\/T5\/intl\/en\/index.html\" class=\"external-link\">Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer (beta)<\/a><br \/>\n  just added a neat feature to help users arrive at your website, or at least see your content, even<br \/>\n  when things go awry.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It&#8217;s frustrating for your users to mistype your URL and receive a generic<br \/>\n  <code>404 - Not Found<\/code> or try to access a part of your site that might be down.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Regardless of your site being<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/search-essentials-overview\/#design\">useful and information-rich<\/a>, when these issues arise,<br \/>\n  most users just move on to something else. The latest release of Google Toolbar, however, helps<br \/>\n  users by detecting site issues and providing alternatives.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Website Optimi<b>z<\/b>er or Website Optimi<b>s<\/b>er? The Toolbar can help you find it even if<br \/>\n  you try &#8220;google.cmo&#8221; instead of &#8220;google.com&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google Toolbar link correction feature\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-106a83596682.gif\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"3-site-issues-detected-by-google-toolbar\" tabindex=\"-1\">3 site issues detected by Google Toolbar<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>\n    <b><code>404<\/code> errors with default error pages<\/b>: When a visitor tries to reach your<br \/>\n    content with an invalid URL and your server returns a short, default error message (less than<br \/>\n    512 bytes), the Toolbar will suggest an alternate URL to the visitor. If this is a general<br \/>\n    problem in your website, you will see these URLs also listed in the crawl errors section of your<br \/>\n    Webmaster Tools account. <br \/>\n    If you choose to set up a custom error page, make sure it returns result code <code>404<\/code>.<br \/>\n    The content of the <code>404<\/code> page can help your visitors to understand that they tried<br \/>\n    to reach a missing page and provides suggestions regarding how to find the content they were<br \/>\n    looking for. When a site displays a custom error page the Toolbar will no longer provide<br \/>\n    suggestions for that site. You can check the behavior of the Toolbar by visiting an invalid URL<br \/>\n    on your site with the Google Toolbar installed.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <b>DNS errors<\/b>: When a URL contains a non-existent domain name (like www.google.cmo), the<br \/>\n    Toolbar will suggest an alternate, similar looking URL with a valid domain name.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <b>Connection failures<\/b>: When your server is unreachable, the Google Toolbar will<br \/>\n    automatically display a link to the cached version of your page. This feature is only available<br \/>\n    when Google is not explicitly forbidden from caching your pages through use of a<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/robots-meta-tag\/\"><span>robots<\/span> <code>meta<\/code> tag<\/a><br \/>\n    or crawling is blocked on the page through the<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/robots-txt-intro\/\">robots.txt file<\/a>. If your server is<br \/>\n    regularly unreachable, you will probably want to fix that first; but it may also be a good idea<br \/>\n    to check the Google cache for your pages by looking at the search results for your site.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 id=\"suggestions-provided-by-the-google-toolbar\" tabindex=\"-1\">Suggestions provided by the Google Toolbar<\/h3>\n<p>\n  When one of the above situations is found, the Toolbar will try to find the most helpful links<br \/>\n  for the user. That may include:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    <b>A link to the corrected URL<\/b>: When the Toolbar can find the most probable, active URL to<br \/>\n    match the user&#8217;s input (or link they clicked on), it will display it right on top as a<br \/>\n    suggestion. The correction can be somewhere in the domain name, the path or the file name (the<br \/>\n    Toolbar does not look at any parameters in the URL).\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <b>A link to the cached version of the URL<\/b>: When Toolbar recognizes the URL in the Google<br \/>\n    cache, it will display a link to the cached version. This is particularly useful when the user<br \/>\n    can&#8217;t access your pages for some reason. As mentioned above, Google may cache your URLs provided<br \/>\n    you&#8217;re not explicitly forbidding this through use of a<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/robots-meta-tag\/\"><span>robots<\/span> <code>meta<\/code> tag<\/a> or the<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/robots-txt-intro\/\">robots.txt file<\/a>.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <b>A link to the home page or HTML sitemap of your site<\/b>: Sometimes going to the home page or<br \/>\n    an HTML sitemap page is the best way to find the page that a user is really looking for. HTML<br \/>\n    sitemap pages (these are not<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/sitemaps-overview\/\">XML Sitemap files<\/a>) are generally<br \/>\n    recognized based on the filename; if the Toolbar can find something called &#8220;sitemap&#8221; or similar,<br \/>\n    this page will probably be recognized as the HTML sitemap page. Don&#8217;t worry if your HTML sitemap<br \/>\n    page is called something else; if a user decides to go to your home page, they&#8217;ll probably find<br \/>\n    it right away even if the Toolbar doesn&#8217;t spot it.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <b>A link to a higher level folder<\/b>: Sometimes the home page or HTML sitemap page is too far<br \/>\n    out and the user would be better off just going one step up in the hierarchy. When the Toolbar<br \/>\n    can recognize that your site&#8217;s structure is based on folders and sub-folders, it may suggest a<br \/>\n    page one step back.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <b>A search within your site for keywords found in the URL<\/b>: It&#8217;s a good practice to use<br \/>\n    descriptive URLs. If the Toolbar can recognize keywords within the URL which the user tried to<br \/>\n    access, it will link to a site-search with those keywords. Even if the URL has changed<br \/>\n    significantly in the meantime, the search may be able to find similar content based on those<br \/>\n    keywords. For instance, if the URL was <code>https:\/\/example.com\/party-gifts\/holidays\/<\/code><br \/>\n    it will suggest a search for the words &#8220;<span>party<\/span>&#8220;,<br \/>\n    &#8220;<span>gifts<\/span>&#8220;, and &#8220;<span>holidays<\/span>&#8221; within the site<br \/>\n    <code>example.com<\/code>.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <b>An open Google search box<\/b>: If all else fails, there&#8217;s always a chance that similar<br \/>\n    content already exists elsewhere on the web. The Google web search can help your users to find<br \/>\n    it&mdash;the Toolbar will help you by adding the keywords found in the URL to the search box.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  Are you curious already?<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/toolbar.google.com\/\" class=\"external-link\">Download the Google Toolbar<\/a><br \/>\n  for your browser and give it a try on your site!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  To discuss how this feature can help visitors to your site, jump in to our<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/community\" class=\"external-link\">Google Webmaster Help Group<\/a>;<br \/>\n  or for general Google Toolbar questions, try the<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/IEToolbar-Group\/topics?start=\" class=\"external-link\">Toolbar group for Internet Explorer<\/a><br \/>\n  or the<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/FFToolbar-Group\/topics\" class=\"external-link\">Toolbar group for Firefox<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-author\">\n  By <a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnMu\">John Mueller<\/a>,<br \/>\n  Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google Z\u00fcrich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we published this blog post. 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