Webmaster Central Blog
Official news on crawling and indexing sites for the Google index
Looking back on 2007
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Written by Liza Ma, Webmaster Tools Team
2007 has been a great year of change and growth for the
Webmaster Central
team. Without the webmaster community helping us drive our vision to create better tools we wouldn't have accomplished much. All of us with the Webmaster Central team would like to say a big thank you to everyone! Before we look ahead to 2008 and begin to incorporate
your feedback from the blog posts
and
discussion groups
, we would like to take a minute to reflect upon some of our bigger feats of the last twelve months.
Our blog has been very active since its launch in August 2006, and we hope you've found it helpful. For those who are new readers, you can find useful information about our Webmaster Tools updates here, as well as articles on how to make your sites more search engine-friendly and user-friendly. Outside of the US, we have readers from the UK, France, Canada, India and Germany, just to name a few—it just goes to show what a big and widespread community you are! In fact, we also have a dedicated group of readers for our Webmaster Central
German
and
China
blogs. For those
keeping track
, 47.28% of you are using Firefox to read our blog and 45.06% are using Internet Explorer, and our most popular post this past December answered your questions on
meta tags and web search
. Here's a snapshot of what our
top search queries
look like for December:
January
Made preparations for our big debut (see February)
February
Moved
Webmaster Tools
officially
out of beta
Traveled the globe and met with webmasters like you at conferences in
Australia
and
London
Launched the
external and internal links feature
in Webmaster Tools to make it easier for you to learn about your links
March
Extended anchor text information to
show the entire phrase sites use to link
to you (not just individual words)
Posted some
helpful articles
about robots.txt
Kicked off a new
blog for German webmasters
April
Met with more of you at
SES New York
Added URL removal
to Webmaster Tools
May
Shared some useful tips
on how webmasters can make use of Google's newly unveiled
universal search
Met with webmasters like you at
conferences in China, Italy, New York and San Jose
June
Revamped the
Help Center
to make it easier for everyone to find the content they need
Reached out to webmasters at
conferences in Seattle, Santa Clara and Toronto
July
Unveiled the
Message Center
, a key component in helping us keep in touch with you!
Improved Sitemap feedback
to help you identify important issues in your Sitemaps
Launched a Webmaster Central blog in
China
August
Enabled
non-English domain names
in Webmaster Tools
Chatted with you at
SES San Jose
Updated Webmaster Tool's feature to help you
analyze your robots.txt
files
September
Updated
Webmaster Tools:
Introduced Subscriber stats
Revamped the UI
Added support for 2 new languages: Romanian & Turkish
October
Went all out for
Halloween
in true Google fashion
Launched new features in Webmaster Tools—and a lot of them:
Sitemap updates:
cross-submissions
and
Code Search Sitemaps
Top search queries
—for the last 6 months!
Sitelinks
feature to help you identify the ones you have and help you get rid of the ones you don't like
Set your geographic target
to help your users find you more easily in country-specific searches
Improved
data freshness
to keep you better informed about your site's performance
November
Highlighted terrific webmasters in the discussion group and introduced Googlers
ready to answer your questions in 11 non-English languages.
Made it easier for
Go Daddy
users to access our tools
Produced some helpful videos featuring our very own Matt Cutts on the
anatomy of a search result
and how to
use ALT attributes intelligently
December
Another
Webmaster Tools update
loaded with new features:
Improved Sitemap summary pages to help you identify issues in your Sitemaps
Content analysis
Video Sitemaps
Added support for 2 new languages: Czech and Hungarian
Attended PubCon in Las Vegas and
SES Chicago
It was a busy year, but we had a lot of fun. I hope you'll stick with us as we embark on more
great adventures in 2008
. Remember, you can always reach out to us through our
discussion group
or at various search conferences throughout the year and around the globe!
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