{"id":23953,"date":"2008-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/7-must-read-webmaster-central-blog-posts\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T00:00:00","slug":"7-must-read-webmaster-central-blog-posts","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/7-must-read-webmaster-central-blog-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"7 must-read Webmaster Central blog posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gargardate\">Tuesday, February 12, 2008<\/p>\n<p>\n  Our search quality and Webmaster Central teams love helping webmasters solve problems. But since<br \/>\n  we can&#8217;t be in all places at all times answering all questions, we also try hard to show you how<br \/>\n  to help yourself. We put a lot of work into providing documentation and blog posts to answer your<br \/>\n  questions and guide you through the data and tools we provide, and we&#8217;re constantly looking for<br \/>\n  ways to improve the visibility of that information.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While I always encourage people to search our Help Center and blog for answers, there are a few<br \/>\n  articles in particular to which I&#8217;m constantly referring people. Some are recent and some are<br \/>\n  buried in years&#8217; worth of archives, but each is worth a read:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/how-to-verify-googlebot\/\"><b>Googlebot can&#8217;t access my website:<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n    Web hosters seem to be getting more aggressive about blocking spam bots and aggressive crawlers<br \/>\n    from their servers, which is generally a good thing; however, sometimes they also block<br \/>\n    Googlebot without knowing it. If you or your hoster are &#8220;allowing&#8221; Googlebot through by<br \/>\n    allowlisting Googlebot IP addresses, you may still be blocking some of our IPs without knowing<br \/>\n    it (since our full IP list isn&#8217;t public, for reasons explained in the post). In order to be<br \/>\n    sure you&#8217;re allowing Googlebot access to your site, use the method in this blog post to verify<br \/>\n    whether a crawler is Googlebot.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/debugging-blocked-urls\/\"><b>URL blocked by robots.txt:<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n    Sometimes the web crawl section of Webmaster Tools reports a URL as &#8220;blocked by robots.txt&#8221;,<br \/>\n    but your robots.txt file doesn&#8217;t seem to block crawling of that URL. Check out this list of<br \/>\n    troubleshooting tips, especially the part about redirects.<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google_Webmaster_Help-Tools\/browse_thread\/thread\/7373992320bba7fd\/a848d486580e28ba#a848d486580e28ba\" class=\"external-link\">This thread<\/a><br \/>\n    from our Help Group also explains why you may see discrepancies between our web crawl error<br \/>\n    reports and our robots.txt analysis tool.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/9689846\" class=\"external-link\"><b>Why was my URL removal request denied?<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n    (Okay, I&#8217;m cheating a little: this one is a Help Center article and not a blog post.) In order<br \/>\n    to remove a URL from Google search results you need to first put something in place that will<br \/>\n    prevent Googlebot from simply picking that URL up again the next time it crawls your site. This<br \/>\n    may be a <code>404<\/code> (or <code>410<\/code>) status code, a <code>noindex<\/code><br \/>\n    <code>meta<\/code> tag, or a robots.txt file, depending on what type of removal request you&#8217;re<br \/>\n    submitting. Follow the directions in this article and you should be good to go.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/best-uses-of-flash\/\"><b>Flash best practices:<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n    Flash continues to be a hot topic for webmasters interested in making visually complex content<br \/>\n    accessible to search engines. In this post Bergy, our resident Flash expert, outlines best<br \/>\n    practices for working with Flash.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/the-ultimate-fate-of-supplemental-results\/\"><b>The supplemental index:<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n    The &#8220;supplemental index&#8221; was a big topic of conversation in 2007, and it seems some webmasters<br \/>\n    are still worried about it. Instead of worrying, point your browser to this post on how we now<br \/>\n    search our entire index for every query.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/google-duplicate-content-caused-by-url-parameters-and-you\/\"><b>Duplicate content:<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n    Duplicate content&mdash;another perennial concern of webmasters. This post talks in detail about<br \/>\n    duplicate content caused by URL parameters, and also references Adam&#8217;s previous post on<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content\/\">deftly dealing with duplicate content<\/a>,<br \/>\n    which gives lots of good suggestions on how to avoid or mitigate problems caused by duplicate<br \/>\n    content.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/sitemaps-faqs\/\"><b>Sitemaps FAQs:<\/b><\/a> This post<br \/>\n    answers the most frequent questions we get about Sitemaps. And I&#8217;m not just saying it&#8217;s great<br \/>\n    because I posted it. <span>\ud83d\ude42<\/span>\n  <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n  Sometimes, knowing how to find existing information is the biggest barrier to getting a question<br \/>\n  answered. So try searching our <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/blog\">blog<\/a>,<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\" class=\"external-link\">Help Center<\/a> and<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/community\" class=\"external-link\">Help Group<\/a><br \/>\n  next time you have a question, and please<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/community\" class=\"external-link\">let us know<\/a><br \/>\n  if you can&#8217;t find a piece of information that you think should be there!\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-author\">Posted by Susan Moskwa, Webmaster Trends Analyst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Our search quality and Webmaster Central teams love helping webmasters solve problems. But since we can&#8217;t be in all places at all times answering all questions, we also try hard to show you how to help yourself. 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