Posted by John Mueller on 9th March 2007
Webmaster-slang can take a while to get used to. Here are some of the words and phrases that you will hear from time to time. This is not an attempt at a full glossary of all search engine specific terms but rather a very short summary of some of the more common terms. For a full and constantly updated glossary, see Aaron Wall’s http://www.seobook.com/glossary/.
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Posted by John Mueller on 9th March 2007
The official (and inofficial) information from Google is somewhat spread out over several websites, forums and groups. In order to make finding information easier, I have put together a collection of search engines and forms that will let you find more information.
(I have to link since I can’t insert html forms and javascript here)
The search engines are available at http://oy-oy.eu/huh/google-search/ .
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Posted by John Honeck on 9th March 2007
Update 4/17/07 Google’s very own Vanessa Fox has very thorough explanation of how to remove content on the Offical Webmaster Blog.
If you own the page / site and would like it removed from Google’s index then use the Remove URL tool at http://services.google.com/urlconsole/controller .
This URL removal tool will not actually “delete” the URL from the index, instead it will filter it so that it is not shown in the results for 180 days. After that time, the URL may return to the index if it is still found. The URL will continue to be crawled during this time. You will need to create a new account to use this tool (it is not tied to the general Google account). In order to remove the page (or pages) in question, you will either need to adjust the robots.txt file, the robots meta-tag of the page or make sure that the page returns code 404 (see also: Google: How can I remove content from Google’s index?).
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Posted by John Honeck on 9th March 2007
Googler Jonathon Simon answers this question on 3/8/07.
The link: command only shows a small subset of links and sometimes none.
Webmaster Tools shows more of the links Google is aware of because you verify site ownership to see this data.
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Posted by John Honeck on 9th March 2007
One of the most frequented subjects of concern in the Google Webmaster Help group and most SEO forums is regards to PageRank. That little green bar in your Google toolbar that has cause more headaches than any other invention in recent memory.
The short answer is to get more and better links to your site/page.
As reference I’d like to quote Google’s own statement on the PageRank technology.
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Posted by John Honeck on 9th March 2007
It would be foolish to state the good coding practices should not be followed for any web design effort, however as a first post in this category I wanted to temper any future claims this ascertainment from soon-to-be-famous Googler Adam Lasnik who said this on 12/21/06.
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