Today, Google’s Webmaster Tools have been updated with new diagnostic features that alert site owners to problems Google may have extracting content from pages. In addition, they’ve added Video Sitemaps. They’ve also added Hungarian and Czech to the 20 languages already supported. Below more about these features and how best to use them.

Identifying Content Extraction Issues

A new section called Content Analysis lists issues that Google has had extracting content from the pages of the site, with links to the specific pages. In the help file, they say that the goal is to help identify ways to improve the site for visitors, but in many cases, these issues cause problems in the search result display as well. Fix these things, and your page might be a more compelling result for searchers to click on. The help stresses that pages that have these issues won’t experience ranking problems and that fixing them won’t improve ranking (although that’s not entirely true, as pages that Google can’t extract content from are unlikely to rank well).

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