googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com - 11/27/2008
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Our date with Googlebot was so wonderful, but it's hard to tell if we, the websites, said the right thing. We returned 301 permanent redirect, but should we have responded with 302 temporary redirect (so he knows we're playing hard to get)? If we sent a few new 404s, will he ever call our site ...
Get up-to-date on Image Search
googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com 3/11/2009 — Webmaster Level: All Recently at SMX West , I gave an Image Search presentation that I'd like to share with our broader webmaster community. The goal of the presentation was to provide insights into how image search is used, how it works, and how ...
GoogleBot Art
searchengineland.com 2/17/2009 — A digital artist named Antonio Lizarazu Balué has created a piece he named GoogleBot. I spotted this via a Matt Cutts Twitter. Here is a low res of the art, but you can see them in better quality at this site.
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404 Pages Should Not Return 200 Status Codes
seroundtable.com 3/20/2009 — There are way too many sites out there that have their "Page Not Found" web pages return a 200 header status code, instead of a 404 code or a 301. The issue with showing a 200 code to spiders or...
Google & Date Formats : US vs UK Date Formats
seroundtable.com 1/5/2009 — A Google Webmaster Help points out that Google handles most date formats in US format. So if a site has a date in the format of 04/06/2007, Google will read that as April 6, 2007, but in UK format, it...
Stop GoogleBot From Indexing You At Busy Times
seroundtable.com 12/12/2008 — A Google Webmaster Help thread has a member upset that Google is crawling his site during times when his server is overloaded. Is there a way to tell GoogleBot to stay away during these times? JohnMu of Google said, yes...
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