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Spookier than malware

hotdog
lion king

…and infinitely more fun: webmasters and their pets incognito! Happy Halloween, everyone! If you see any costumes that would pass the SafeSearch filter :), feel like sharing a gripe or telling a good story, please join the chat!
Take care, and don’t forget to brush your teeth. Yours scarily,  The Webmaster Central Team
Our glasses-wearing, no vampire-teeth vampire [...]

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Malware? We don’t need no stinking malware!

(Cross-posted from the Google Online Security Blog.)
“This site may harm your computer”You may have seen those words in Google search results — but what do they mean? If you click the search result link you get another warning page instead of the website you were expecting. But if the web page was your grandmother’s baking [...]

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Reflections on the "Tricks and Treats" webmaster event

What featured over 750 webmasters and a large number of Googlers from around the world, hundreds of questions, and over one hundred answers over the course of nearly two hours?  If you guessed “the Tricks and Treats webmaster event from this earlier this month!” well, you’re either absolutely brilliant, you read the title of this [...]

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Webmaster chat event: Vote early and often!

No matter where in the world you are, you can vote right now on webmaster-oriented questions by registering for our free Webmaster chat  (”Tricks and Treats”) which is scheduled for tomorrow at 9am PDT (5pm GMT).  Even better: you can suggest your own questions that you’d like Webmaster Central Googlers to answer.

We’re using the new Google Moderator tool, so posting questions and voting on [...]

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Where’s my data?

Today we’re going back to basics. We’ll be answering the question: What is a website?
…Okay, not exactly. But we will be looking into what a “website” means in the context of Webmaster Tools, what kind of sites you can add to your Webmaster Tools account, and what data you can get from different types of [...]

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Join us for our third live online webmaster chat!

You know how some myths just won’t die?  Well, do we have some great news for you!  A not-so-scary bunch of Gooooooooooooglers will be on hand to drive a stake through the most ghoulish webmastering myths and misconceptions in our live online “Tricks and Treats” chat this coming Wednesday.

That’s right!  You’ll be treated to some [...]

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Helping you break the language barrier

When webmasters put content out on the web it’s there for the world to see. Unfortunately, most content on the web is only published in a single language, understandable by only a fraction of the world’s population.
In a continued effort to make the world’s information universally accessible, Google Translate has a number of tools for [...]

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Video Tutorial: Google for Webmasters

We’re always looking for new ways to help educate our fellow webmasters. While you may already be familiar with Webmaster Tools, Webmaster Help Discussion Groups, this blog, and our Help Center, we’ve added another tutorial to help you understand how Google works. Hence we’ve made this video of a soon-to-come presentation titled [...]

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Message Center warnings for hackable sites

Recently we’ve seen more websites get hacked because of various security holes. In order to help webmasters with this issue, we plan to run a test that will alert some webmasters if their content management system (CMS) or publishing platform looks like it might have a security hole or be hackable. This is a test, [...]

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First Click Free for Web Search

While working on our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, we sometimes run into situations where important content is not publicly available. In order to help users find and access content that may require registration or a subscription, Google offers an option to web and news publishers called [...]

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