If you have ever made a mistake with your robots.txt file – either by letting Googlebot crawl something you didn’t want it to or because you accidentally blocked Googlebot (or someone hacked your site and did it) – it can be some nail biting times until you see Googlebot picking up the new robots.txt changes. […]
Google Webmaster Tools API Update
If you use the Google Webmaster Tools API, there is a brand new update. The update is designed to bring it in line with other Google APIs. The API, including changes include: This API allows you to: list, add, or remove sites from your account (you can currently have up to 500 sites in your […]
Ultimate List of Must-Have Tools for Your SEO Toolkit
They say that a carpenter is only as good as his tools, I would argue that in many ways the same can be said for SEOs. While personally I avoid tools that attempt to tell me how to optimize a site, (like somehow a site I’m working on and Wikipedia should be measured by the […]
Google Webmaster Tools Adds Hreflang Troubleshooting
For SEOs who are dealing with international issues for a website, there is some great news from Google. Google Webmaster Tools has announced that International Targeting is now available to all users. International Targeting, which was previously in beta, enables advertisers to debug errors with hreflang implementation. The markup hreflang, sometimes referred to as href-lang, […]