Google Bestows Much Love Upon Webmasters

The revamped Google Webmaster Central has enough changes in place that it merits a second look for our readers.

update to the Official Google Blog comes from a familiar name. Vanessa Fox, the Google product manager working with the company's blog for the service. Fox posts items like advice on handling Googlebot's visits to a domain and other issues. Googlers like Fox and webmasters can be found on the Webmaster Central learn more about it. Fox also noted one significant change made to site indexing that webmasters have wanted for some time, by enabling webmasters to designate whether or not they want their sites indexed indexing issues for affiliate sites: I don't know why my site is not being indexed fully, only about 4 out of 200 pages seem to be indexed. I would like to know if "new" affiliate sites will "never" be indexed, or is this just "sandboxing", should I wait for a few months to see if my site will ever be indexed? Answers to this cited solutions like rooting out duplicate content, and using unique content to add value to the site. One respondent cited (tongue-in-cheek perhaps) a discussion on another forum on how a Google Dance - an update to its index - had messed up the well-laid plans of some affiliate marketers: "One was crying that he'd have to go live in a cardboard box under a bridge and it was all Google's fault." Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.