Official Web Master Blog

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 the older posts that may be of interest.

• Tips from BlogHer | More tips
• Opting-out of Open Directory Project descriptions and titles in our search results
• Tips for non-US sites
• Information on robots.txt files | More tips on using a robots.txt file
• Improving your site's indexing and ranking 101
• Changing domain names | More about changing domain names

Webmaster Tools Account questions

• Can multiple account holders view information for a site?
• About meta tag verification
• About the common words feature
• Changing your Sitemap when your site changes
• Do you have to include every page from your site in your Sitemap?
• If you try to verify and get the error: We've detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (OK) in the header
• Submitting mobile Sitemaps

And you can always browse the blog's archives .