Google’s new search index: Caffeine Today, we’re announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible...

Crawl Errors now reports soft 404s Today we’re releasing a feature to help you discover if your site serves undesirable “soft” or “crypto” 404s. A “soft 404″ occurs when a webserver responds with a 200 OK HTTP response code for a page that doesn’t exist rather than the appropriate 404 Not Found. Soft 404s can limit a site’s crawl coverage by search engines because these duplicate URLs may be crawled...

Is your site hacked? New Message Center notifications for hacking and abuse From Official Google Webmaster Central Blog - As we crawl the web, we see bad content inserted on to thousands of hacked sites each day. The number of sites attacked is staggering and the problem is only getting worse. Hackers and spammers target and successfully compromise any sites they can – small personal sites, schools and universities, even...

Request visitors’ permission before installing software - From the Google Webmaster Official Blog - Legitimate websites may require that their visitors install software. These sites often do so to provide their users with additional functionality beyond what’s available in standard web browsers, like viewing a special type of document. Please note, however, that if your site requires specific software for your visitors, the...

How did you do on the Webmaster Quiz? From The Google Webmaster Blog - Webmaster Level: All Thanks to all of you who took our webmaster quiz and waited patiently to see how well you did! Today, we’re pleased to present the Webmaster Quiz answers! We hope this quiz has provided some clarity on common issues users ask about in the Webmaster Help Forum. We’ll go over a few of the questions and answers here, but if some...

Handling legitimate cross-domain content duplication From Google webmaster Central blog : We’ve recently discussed several ways of handling duplicate content on a single website; today we’ll look at ways of handling similar duplication across different websites, across different domains. For some sites, there are legitimate reasons to duplicate content across different websites — for instance, to migrate to a new domain name...

Your site’s performance in Webmaster Tools Now You can see your Site Performance in your Google Webmaster tools, Previously Google announced that Site Speed may vary your Website PR. Probably this is the first step to the way Check out Google Official Webmaster Blog for details and can see below. Let’s take a quick look at the individual sections in the Google Webmaster Tools’ Site Performance feature: Performance...

Site Speed may affect on Google Page Rank In a recent interview with Google Engineer Matt Cutts, Web Pro News is reporting that Matt  may have hinted on the future of how Google may  rank websites. And guess what? It has something to do with how fast a website actually loads. He said that ….. “I think a lot of people in 2010 are going to be thinking more about ‘how do I have my site be fast,’ how do I have it be rich without...