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The Googlebot activity reports in webmaster tools show you the number of pages of your site Googlebot has crawled over the last 90 days. We’ve seen some of you asking why this number might be higher than the total number of pages on your sites. Googlebot crawls pages of your site based on … Continue reading »

Last Friday afternoon, I was able to catch the end of the Blog Business Summit in Seattle. At the session called “Blogging and SEO Strategies,” John Battelle brought up a good point. He said that as a writer, he doesn’t want to have to think about all of this search engine optimization stuff. … Continue reading »

As the web continues to change and evolve, our algorithms change right along with it. Recently, as a result of one of those algorithmic changes, we’ve modified our webmaster guidelines. Previously, these stated: Don’t use “&id=” as a parameter in your URLs, as we don’t include these pages in our index. Read more … Continue reading »

We’ve added a few new features to webmaster tools and invite you to check them out. Googlebot activity reports Check out these cool charts! We show you the number of pages Googlebot’s crawled from your site per day, the number of kilobytes of data Googlebot’s downloaded per day, and the average time it … Continue reading »

We’ve gotten a few questions about whether you can put multiple Sitemaps in the same directory. Yes, you can! You might want to have multiple Sitemap files in a single directory for a number of reasons. For instance, if you have an auction site, you might want to have a daily Sitemap with … Continue reading »

When we launched this blog in early August, we said goodbye to the Inside Google Sitemaps blog and started redirecting it here. The redirect makes the posts we did there a little difficult to get to. For those of you who started reading with this newer blog, here are links to some of … Continue reading »