Tuesday, June 24, 2008
A year ago Google Guides from the Search Quality Team started monitoring Google Webmaster Help
Groups in European languages. It has been an interesting time and a great, rewarding experience
for all those involved :o). We have enjoyed building and growing our communities with webmasters
across Europe and we hope you have as well. The feedback we have been receiving since the
beginning has been encouraging, with many webmasters responding positively to the opportunity to
be able to solve their indexing issues in their native language. Still, we are aware that we have
a lot of work ahead of us. I would like to thank everyone who has been active in our communities
and invite those who have not joined yet to do so. Sign up, participate and help us make a
difference.
Taking advantage of this anniversary, I would like the European Google Guides to have a chance to
say a few words about their communities.
Polish Webmaster Help Group
Guglarz, the Polish Google Guide
Our group grew very fast, especially in the last few months and we are well on the way to hitting
600 users! But what I appreciate even more than our group’s success, is the open, friendly spirit
we have been cultivating in the last twelve months :o). I feel like
this is a community that is able to help with indexing issues and beyond!
I already pointed out some exceptional community members in the last blog post about
communication with webmasters in a dozen languages.
Since then, a few more have joined the list of tremendously committed, group-driving contributors.
Bigu
has been jumping in every time I’ve been traveling or very busy, which is the reason why I’d like
to thank him a lot.
Also I want to acknowledge
Maciej Gluszek
for escalating language issues we used to struggle with. You guys help to improve the Google
experience for everyone.
Lastly, I want to invite all group members to the
chit chat section
in order to introduce yourself and share some more information about who you are and what you do.
I am really curious to find out more about the people I work with! I hope to see you in the group
soon :o).
Группа помощи Google для веб-мастеров
Our Russian Webmaster Help group is growing by the day and just reached an important milestone
—a whole kilobyte of members: 1024 (-:! Thanks to all our users
for the great questions, the wisdom, and the humour which they bring to our community. Special
thanks go to
Web-Master,
Crazy LionHeart,
Andrey Morozov
and
Lmd
for their spot-on comments and prolific posts—we really appreciate your dedication in
helping others. We’re very happy to be part of such a savvy and lively community, we look forward
to more interesting questions and discussions in the future, and to reaching one megabyte of
members (-:! С днем рождения!
Although the Hungarian Webmaster Help Group is one of our youngest, it already counts 300+
members, and has a pretty high number of lively discussions. The atmosphere is really great and
loads of issues are resolved thanks largely to our dedicated and wise users. I would especially
like to thank
snomag
for helping greatly in building the group up in the beginning (where have you disappeared to? We
miss you! 🙂
Google Site Yöneticisi Yardım Grubu
The Turkish Webmaster Help Group has grown into a dynamic and effective community of fantastic
webmasters in just four months. I want to thank to everyone in the group who has been eager to
share their knowledge to help others. Special thanks to
Erkan
(man_blood) who has written a huge amount of posts in the last three
months;
Merve
who has helped the group with her technical skills as well as calm spirit, especially when I was
on vacation;
Salih
(SesVer) who used to help a lot when the group was first launched;
and many more who are not mentioned by name here. It has been exciting and a pleasure to be a
part of this rapidly growing family! Desteğiniz için teşekkürler 🙂
קבוצת העזרה למנהלי ומנהלות אתרים
Our Hebrew group is maturing. To date we have more than 200 users and we are gaining visibility
while more users are using the well-informed discussions we produce.
It is a pleasure to see so many webmasters stopping by to ask, learn and help others. I would
like to take the opportunity to thank all of you who make the group a place for discussion and
collaboration. My special thanks go to
Shoshanna,
AliaG,
Tomer
and
Seosos,
for their great contribution.
By browsing through the
“tell us about yourself”
thread you can learn more about our community where many members introduce themselves. You’re
also welcome to watch my short video giving some
specific tips for Israeli Webmasters.
Google diskussionsgruppe for webmasters
The Danish group has been slowly gaining more subscribers since its launch last year, and we
still hope to attract more people. We’ve grown almost 100% in the past year, and we hope to keep
up the steam! (: This growth wouldn’t have been possible without the
help of Anders who contributes equal amounts of webmaster goodness in the form of sharing his
tips on 301’s and moving content to a new domain (which has been the hottest and most debated
topic in the group), to issues on getting your site better indexed and crawled. So a big thanks
to Anders, and all the others who have made this group useful for everybody.
The Portuguese Webmaster Help Group is now above 1200 members. The success of the group is a
reflection on the great community built by every single contributor. Special thanks to
Carlos Lavieri,
Rodrigo Soares,
Leandro Leite
e
João Carlos
(Orquiza) who used to help so much and recently
Flávio Raimundo
(M&S) and
Ruben Zevallos Jr.
Recently I had the chance of giving a few public interviews to Portuguese speaking webmasters and
recognizing the group and its success publicly. I’d also like to take the opportunity to thank my
interviewers for their great questions; if you speak Portuguese or you are a Google Translator
fan you can read them:
Entrevista com Pedro Dias
(by Paulo Teixeira) and
Entrevista a Pedro Dias
(by Kazulo Webmarketing). It is a great pleasure to be a part of such an awesome community.
Googlen Keskusteluryhmä Verkkovastaaville
The Finnish Webmaster Help Group will be celebrating its first birthday soon. During the first
year, we’ve built a small but dynamic community and covered various topics from general webmaster
issues to language-related toughies. A huge thank you to everyone who has taken part in
discussions! I’m looking forward to starting our second year as a group, hope to see both familiar
faces and newcomers join in our community!
Groupe Google d’entraide pour les webmasters
The French Webmaster Help Group was launched one year ago and we’ve had a tremendous growth thanks
to all our fantastic members. Special thanks to
Paul-Arnaud
and
Cyrille
who used to help so much and to
Thierry
who is now our bionic poster 🙂
Recently I had the chance to discuss the Webmaster Help Group with a French SEO I met at SES
Paris ’08. It was so great to connect again on the internet and help them with their issues.
Hessam, the Swedish Google Guide
The small Swedish webmaster forum, with currently almost 200 users, has almost tripled its size
since its launch last July. During the past year we have seen a steady growth in user
participation and a number of questions from our Swedish webmasters. I also had the chance to
attend Search Marketing Expo (SMX) Stockholm 2007 which was definitely the highlight of the year.
There I was able to meet a number of Swedish webmasters to talk about Google, our Webmaster Tools
as well as the cold Swedish winter. During the coming year we are determined to further grow the
community to better support our users. Lastly, a big thanks goes to everyone who has supported
the group, especially
Mattias Nordin
and
Widar Nord
who have contributed with their knowledge and time. I am looking forward to hearing more from our
regulars and would like to extend an invite to new members.
Google Diskussionsforum für Webmaster
With more than 2700 members and almost a thousand posts per month, the German Webmaster Help
Group has developed into a vibrant community. You will find many very savvy webmasters there who
are always prepared to discuss all webmaster-related issues and offer advice to both beginners
and advanced webmasters.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has contributed to this forum.
Some webmasters like
luzie,
alpaka,
beejees,
Garzosch
have been a crucial part of our group since this group began, and with the likes of
Zombie
joining in October,
Mikki
in January and
Sistrix
in March after having the pleasure of meeting him at
SMX in Munich,
we have an ever-growing pool of wisdom 🙂
Foro de Google para Webmasters
The Spanish webmaster group now has almost 2500 members. We have some wonderful webmasters that
offer great advice and support, people like
Ricardo Antonio,
Enrique de Mesa,
Jesús Cáceres
(chupi),
Jose Antonio Nobile
(nobilesoft),
Carles Pastor,
and many others who help make this forum work as well as it does. Recently we had one member visit
whose site had been hacked with a cloaking technique and the community was able to help point out
how to detect the hidden links and clear the hacked content. It’s great to see his website clean
again and up and running.
If you want to know who is behind this forum, have a look at the
video where we introduce the forum and Webmaster Tools.
Additionally, please give any feedback you may have in the
thread where we present the video.
By the way, it was great meeting some of you guys face to face at the SMX Madrid conference.
Google Discussiegroep voor Webmaster
Our Dutch Webmaster Help Group now has well over 700 members. Some of our regular posters, like
Marketsharer, Janus and Joop are doing a great job helping a lot of our less experienced (as well
as more experienced!) webmasters with their questions. Recently, some Dutch webmasters have been
dealing with the fact that their sites have been hacked. We’ve added a
sticky post
to the group to help webmasters clean up their sites after getting hacked, so if you are dealing
with this issue, do have a look at the group! At this moment, the group is still steadily
growing and we are really looking forward to reaching the 1000 members mark!
The Italian webmaster group is about to turn one year old pretty soon and has been a great
success. We have a bunch of fabulous witty power posters like Angelo Palma
(Angelo),
Marco
(Customsoft)
and others that keep on massively contributing to the success of the group day by day. Over the
last year we achieved excellent results both in terms of traffic increase and new users posting
frequently. Coordinating the localization of the post on paid links—later translated into
14 languages—was a turning point for the Webmaster Help team. So was Lella’s blog post in
English,
German and
Italian
about the Search Engine Strategies Conference in London, where she represented Google as a
speaker.
Speaking on behalf of all our Google Guides, we are looking forward to continued collaboration
with webmasters all over the world. Surely the upcoming 12 months are going to be exciting for
the Google Help Groups as the communities continue to grow. Thanks again to all the great
webmasters out there and see you soon in the discussions!
Cómo lo aplicamos
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