BlogBetter details about when Googlebot last visited a page
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BlogHow search results may differ based on accented characters and interface languages
Friday, September 01, 2006 When a searcher enters a query that includes a word with accented characters, our algorithms consider…
Listen in – Matt Cutts and Vanessa Fox talk search
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 Tune into Webmaster Radio Thursday, August 31 at 1 pm Pacific to hear Matt Cutts and…
BlogSystem maintenance
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 We’re currently doing routine system maintenance, and some data may not be available in your Webmaster…
BlogAll About Googlebot
It’s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some…
BlogBack from SES San Jose
It’s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some…
BlogChat with us in person at the Search Engine Strategies conference
Monday, August 07, 2006 Got a burning question about the new Webmaster Central? Eager to give feedback about our Webmaster…
BlogMore Webmaster Tools
It’s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some…
BlogNew name better reflects our commitment to communicate with you
August 04, 2006 We’re surrounded by moving boxes and construction dust. To better reflect our goal to provide tools and…
BlogHer Tips
It’s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some…
BlogTime to verify
August 03, 2006 Very soon, we’ll be doing one of our periodic checks of verified sites. As our documentation notes,…
BlogBack from BlogHer
August 02, 2006 I just got back from BlogHer, a conference primarily for women about the technical and community aspects…
BlogMore control over titles too
It’s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some…
BlogSupport for Polish
July 14, 2006 Google Sitemaps has added support for Polish. If you already use Google in Polish, you should see…
BlogMore control over page snippets
It’s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some…
BlogTips for Non-U.S. Sites
It’s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some…
BlogYahoo! Merchants get Sitemaps
It’s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some…
BlogGet more from the latest release
June 21, 2006 In response to your requests, our latest release expands some of the features of Google Sitemaps. Here’s…
Webmaster help center updates
June 13, 2006 We recently updated our webmaster help center. Two new sections that you may find particularly useful are:…
BlogThe Sitemaps Google Group
June 11, 2006 If you use Sitemaps, you should check our our Google Group. The Sitemaps team monitors this community…
BlogAnother update on the site: operator
June 09, 2006 We’ve fixed the issue with the trailing slash in site: operator queries. Queries for site:www.example.com and site:www.example.com/…
BlogAn update on the site: operator
June 02, 2006 We’ve fixed the issue with site: queries for domains with punctuation in them. We are still working…
Live in our hometown
May 28, 2006 It’s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated…
BlogA few questions from our Google Group
May 24, 2006 In this post, we thought we’d answer a couple of the questions we’ve been seeing in the…
Issues with the site: operator query
May 19, 2006 We’d like to give you all a quick update on some of the issues you have been…
Bloghttps verification
May 17, 2006 Recently, we told you that we were working on making verification of site ownership available for https…
BlogMore about meta tag verification
It’s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some…
Updated robots.txt status
April 26, 2006 Thanks to our users for alerting us to an issue with incorrectly reporting that sites and Sitemaps…
BlogA whole new look and a lot more
April 26, 2006 If you log in to Sitemaps today, you’ll notice some changes. We’ve revamped the interface based on…
BlogBack from Pubcon
April 21, 2006 We had a great time meeting with webmasters and talking about Sitemaps at Pubcon in Boston. We…
BlogJoin us for lunch!
April 17, 2006 If you’re planning to be at PubCon in Boston this week, join us for lunch with Googlers…
BlogMore third-party tools
It’s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some…
BlogUsing the lastmod attribute
April 14, 2006 With our recent infrastructure changes, we’ve made some minor changes in how we process the lastmod attribute.…
Bloghttps verification
April 12, 2006 Some of you have had trouble verifying ownership of https sites (for instance, https://www.example.com/). We are working…
BlogResolving issues listed in the Errors tab
April 11, 2006 Another question from our mailbag: Under the Errors tab, I see a URL listed with a 404…
BlogAdding new content
April 10, 2006 This week, we thought we’d answer some of the questions we’ve gotten recently. If you have questions,…
BlogRobots.txt tab maintenance
April 04, 2006 Today, we’ll be performing maintenance on the infrastructure that displays the information for the robots.txt tab. During…
BlogMore information on the new “unsupported file format” error for Sitemaps
March 20, 2006 As we told you a couple of days ago, we’ve recently enhanced the infrastructure that processes Sitemaps.…
BlogImproving things behind the scenes
March 15, 2006 We’ve just made some enhancements to the infrastructure that processes Sitemaps. You shouldn’t notice many changes, although…
BlogIf you see a “we couldn’t find your verification file” error when…
March 09, 2006 When you verify site ownership, we check to see if the verification file exists on your webserver.…
We’ve fixed an issue with verification files that included leading zeros
March 03, 2006 Thank you to our Google Group members for finding a bug in the verification file logic, which…
BlogMore new features
It’s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some…
BlogCome by and say hi
February 26, 2006 This week, some of the Sitemaps team will be at Search Engine Strategies NYC. If you’re planning…
BlogUsing a robots.txt file
February 24, 2006 A couple of weeks ago, we launched a robots.txt analysis tool. This tool gives you information about…
BlogWe’d like your feedback on a potential new verification process
February 22, 2006 Before we show you site stats, we verify site ownership by asking you to upload a uniquely…
BlogImproving your site’s indexing and ranking
February 13, 2006 You’ve submitted a Sitemap for your site. As we explain in our docs, a Sitemap can help…
BlogWe’ve fixed a few things
It’s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some…
BlogAnalyzing a robots.txt file
February 10, 2006 Earlier this week, we told you about a feature we made available through the Sitemaps program that…
From the field
February 10, 2006 Curious what webmasters in the community are saying about our recent release? Check out Matt Cutts’ blog…
Unexpected Common Words
It’s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some…