Posted by
on January 30, 2012 12:04 PM
According to Google Webmaster central Blog, from now on sitemaps page will also display statistics from Web, Videos, Images and News, thus retiring Video Sitemaps Labs. This new addition will let you know how many items of each type were added and for few content types, the number of indexed items.
You can now test a sitemap for errors taking only a few seconds to complete. But the initial testing may miss the errors which can only be detected only once the URLs are downloaded. Besides this, errors and warnings will now be displayed in groups and errors and warnings from child sitemaps have been aggregated for Sitemap index files, so that you do not have to click through each child Sitemap.
Towards the end the working of the "Delete" button has been changed. It will delete the Sitemap from Webmaster Tools, from the accounts of the owners of the website.
Posted by
on January 29, 2012 07:33 AM
Earlier Google introduced Google+ badges to promote Google+ pages. Now Google is providing more options to integrate Google+ badge into your website. This provides the flexibility to configure the badge with the desired width to fit your website design and choose the one that works with your site background.
Also the badges will now include the +1 and the circle count.
As Google says "We recently looked at top sites using the badge and found that, on average, the badge accounted for an additional 38% of followers. When you add the badge, visitors to your website can discover your Google+ page and connect in a variety of ways: they can follow your Google+ page, +1 your site, share your site with their circles, see which of their friends have +1'd your site, and click through to visit your Google+ page."
Posted by
on January 28, 2012 12:10 PM
Google has a newly redesigned Submit Your Content page. The URL submission tool page has also been updated. You can now submit content at google.com/submityourcontent. This page was launched in September 2008, and now has been given a facelift by Google. The purpose of the page was to act as an information resource for site owners to find out how to submit content to Google’s various portals.
You can choose from one of the four categories of users to submit your content. These are: Website Owners, Business Owners, Publishing and Media and Public Agency. Explore the different submissions URLs on each of these landing pages.
