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Google Webmaster Tools Users Get Spanish Version

By Shervin | Published: March 19, 2010
A thread at Google Webmaster Help reports a few users complaining that when they go to Google Webmaster Tools it shows them everything in Spanish. The first report came yesterday and it read: Yesterday everything was fine, but today when I go to www.google.com/webmasters everything is in Spanish, since I do not speak or read Spanish this is a problem. I've searched but can't seem to find any answers on why this is happenning or what to do to change it back to English. A few other webmaster tools users said they experienced the same thing.
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Google Providing SEO Support For Muti-Regional Web Sites

By Shervin | Published: March 16, 2010
JohnMu from Google posted a blog post named Working with multi-regional websites . The post goes over many of the SEO implications behind making multiple web sites all targeting different regions around the world. John discusses URL structures, hosting, domains, using Webmaster Tools and much more. If you ever had to deal with a multi-regional web site before, this post is something you should read. It does not however fully cover multi-lingual issues, but a post on that is coming soon. The beauty of this post is that it is living over in the Google Webmaster Help forums
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Why Is Ask Really Hiding Their Ads Referrer Data

By Shervin | Published: March 16, 2010
I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Ask Sponsored Listings has changed how they handle sending referrer data to webmasters. From now on, they are basically not sharing the page of origin with the webmaster. Why? Ask said they have moved to a new system named PureLeads. What is Pureleads?
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Keyword Data in Google Webmaster Tools Goes Blank For Some

By anthony | Published: March 15, 2010
Over the weekend there were several reports in the Google Web master Help forums that the data in the keywords reports within Google Webmaster Tools was empty. Here are some of those reports: Yesterday and for the last few months the Keywords section in google webmaster tools had keywords listed, now today it says "No Data Available". The GWT shows no keywords... any idea why? Google confirmed the bug in these threads. Googler Jonathan Simon said in a couple threads: There was an issue with the Keywords data that prevented it from being displayed properly for some sites. This issue should be resolved shortly. Please stand by..
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SEO Health Checks – Regular Housekeeping Tasks for Your Website’s SEO

By jorge | Published: March 10, 2010
Posted by richardbaxterseo Technical problems, errors and surprise releases are all regular features in the day to day management of a website when you’re an SEO. There’s no doubt that maintaining a quick, error free and well optimised site can lead to long term traffic success. Here are some of my tips for regular checks you should be doing to stay on top of your website to maximise your search engine performance. General Error Checking General errors can crop up continually with any website and left unchecked, their volume could spiral out of control. Working on improving and resolving large numbers of 404 and timeout errors on your site can help search engines minimise the bandwidth used to completely crawl your site. It’s arguable that minimising crawl errors and general accessibility issues can help get new and updated content into search engine indexes more quickly and often, a good thing for SEO! If you want to get smart with error handling and other crawl issues, start by getting a Google Webmaster Tools account. Take a look at “Crawl errors” found via the “diagnostics” panel after you’ve verified your site: Paying particular attention to the “Not found” and “Timed out” reports, it’s wise to test each error with a http header checker online or using a Firefox plug-in such as Live Http Headers or Http Fox
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Google Shuts Down "Site Performance" Tool While Upgrading It

By anthony | Published: March 10, 2010
An updated Google Webmaster Help thread has confirmed reports from Google's "sreeram" that Google is updating the Site Performance reports in Google Webmaster Tools. During this update, Google has temporarily stopped updating the existing reports. The Googler said: We are making some changes to the algorithms and pipeline behind the site performance feature and so had stopped updating it for a bit. We'll resume the updates soon, hopefully within a day or two. Do stay tuned and keep giving us feedback. One new feature I am expecting is a trustworthy indicator to be added to the tool. I also suspect the tool to update more frequently and possibly offer better explanations of what can be improved. Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help
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Submitedge – Search Engine Optimization Blog » Link Building the …

By jorge | Published: March 9, 2010
Hiring an SEO firm to generate backlinks can help you, but only if they follow the rules and don't get you tangled up by using black hat tactics. To buy backlinks is against Google's Webmaster guidelines, paid links are taboo: ...
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Google’s International Women’s Day Logo at Google Russia Only?

By Shervin | Published: March 8, 2010
I was browsing the various Google forums and spotted several complaints in the Google Web Search Help forums and Google Webmaster Help about there being no International Women's Day Doodle on March 8th, yesterday. There are literally dozens of complaints, some calling Google anti-women. Google is a very women friendly company, I know that. So what is going on, why no Doodle for International Women's Day?
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The Google 7 Day Index Delay?

By Shervin | Published: March 5, 2010
There is a new Google theory going around, possibly a penalty or possibly a Google bug - no one is sure. There are a couple threads on the topic, one at HighRankings Forums and Google Webmaster Help . In short, webmasters are claiming that they will post content and it would take seven full days for Google to index the content and rank it in the search engine. I can't seem to replicate this on any site that I run. But there are several webmasters complaining about the issue.
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.TV Domains Can’t Set Crawl Rate in Google Webmaster Tools

By anthony | Published: March 5, 2010
A Google Webmaster Help thread reports that there is an issue with some domains setting the crawl rate in Google Webmaster Tools. The report came in from an owner of a .TV domain. The person said: I have registered www.themediagroup.tv and themediagroup.tv with Webmaster tools and I want to change the crawl rate. But I keep getting an error 'Setting is restricted to root level domains only'. JohnMu from Google confirmed the issue and said: This looks like a bug -- thanks for bringing it up! If you want to change the crawl rate in the meantime, you can request the change through the problem-report form linked from the "learn more" text. There is currently no ETA for a fix. Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help .
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