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Our Valentine's day gift: out of beta and adding
comments
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 1:48 AM
Here at webmaster central, we love the webmaster community -- and today, Valentine's
Day, we want to show you that our commitment to you is stronger than ever. We're taking
webmaster tools out of beta and enabling comments on this blog.
Bye, bye beta
We've come a long way since our initial launch of the Sitemaps protocol in June 2005.
Since then, we've expanded to a full set of webmaster tools, changed our name, listened to
your input, and expanded even more. 2006 was a year of great progress, and we're just
getting started. Coming out of beta means that we're committed to partnering with
webmasters around the world to provide all the tools and information you need about your
sites in our index. Together, we can provide the most relevant and useful search results.
And more than a million of you, speaking at least 18 different languages, have joined in that
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secure.
The Sitemaps protocol has evolved into version 0.9, and Microsoft and Yahoo have joined
us in that support to provide standards that make it easier for you to communicate with
search engines. We're excited about how much information we've been able to learn about
your sites and we plan to continue to develop the best ways for you to provide us with
information about individual pages on your sites.
Hello, comments
Our goal is improved communication with webmasters, and while our blog, discussion
forum, and tools help us reach that goal, you can now post comments and feedback directly
on this blog as well. This helps you talk to us about topics we're posting. We want to do all
we can to encourage an open dialogue between Google and the webmaster community; this
is another avenue to do that.
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Philipp Lenssen said...
Thanks for opening up comments. I have a question for a future post. Is it a
"sneaky redirect" (per your webmaster guidelines) to send some users to a
registration page that does not contain the words available in the search results
page snippet (the words the Google user searched for)?
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 2:16 AM
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WSPC said...
Excellent to see you are now taking comments. And a big pat on the back to you all
for creating the Links option in Webmaster Tools. Great work!
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FEBRUARY 14, 2007 2:59 AM
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Danny said...
Useful links
Congratulations on leaving beta and the move to add comments!
Google Webmaster Central
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 3:02 AM
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Jojo said...
Comments on a Google blog ... Congrats to be the first Google blog with comments.
I hope the others are following.
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YouTube
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FEBRUARY 14, 2007 3:15 AM
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Kalena Jordan said...
Webmaster Central German
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Congrats on coming out of BETA. Webmaster Tools are fantastic, our clients love
the service (although they usually don't know about it until we tell them!). You
should ask your Valentine's logo designer to use spell check heh heh.
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 3:34 AM
Dirson said...
Happy Valentine Day!
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 3:37 AM
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Teo said...
Wow, unexpected gift, thanks for the comments.. btw Happy Valentine's Day!
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 3:38 AM
christian said...
Thanks.
We love you too
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 3:40 AM
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Paul Fisher said...
Congrats team! Ooh, my very first comment :)
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 3:56 AM
Sarah Davies said...
Bravo on opening up comments. Transparency and feedback can be difficult, but
they contribute substantially to the public good.
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FEBRUARY 14, 2007 4:35 AM
Dave Cardwell said...
Thank you for enabling commenting. I don't suppose you could separate individual
comments vertically so they're a bit easier to read please?
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 4:35 AM
Olaf said...
Finally I got the idea there are real people behind the scene :D
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 4:56 AM
Barry said...
Just wanted to mark history with the rest. My first comment on a Google blog. ;-)
Thanks guys.
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 5:16 AM
affili8 said...
To open your blog(s) for webmasters comments - great thing! Congratulations and
Happy Valentine's day!
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 6:13 AM
Edified said...
Happy Valentine's Day! It's great to see all this stuff develop.
Ed
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 6:26 AM
Andre said...
Hi google-Webmaster Team,
it's great that you allow commenting now!
I really like the news services as your backlinks. But it woould be great to be able to
group the links to the tld, so you can get a better impression, how many different
sites link to you.
greeting, andré
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 6:45 AM
De Bolle said...
Thank you Google! And congrats! :D
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 6:50 AM
Brian said...
This is great! Expect a lot of spam, though.
Blog is powered by Blogger.
Start your own weblog.
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 7:10 AM
Brian M said...
Thanks for opening up the comments, and for all the great work that you and your
team have done on Webmaster Tools, Vanessa!
P.S. Have a great Valentine's Day!
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 7:16 AM
困兽 said...
双喜临
！
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 7:43 AM
Luis Alberto Barandiaran said...
Excellent! The lastest improvements to the WebMaster Console makes me even
MORE loyal to Google, now more than ever... ;)
The only reason I started using Yahoo, was because of the backlinks thingy, which
in turn made me inadvertedly use other of their services, which I now also use. So
it's great that you've finally decided it was time to evolve...! Great job!
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 7:47 AM
Lior said...
Wonderful :-). Indeed a great time to grant wishes!
Enjoy Valentine's Day everybody!
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 7:48 AM
Eduard Bacquière said...
Hi Google Webmaster Central!
I think you've done a more than wonderful job so far and you can be proud of what
you've done to the webmaster world! Congratulations!
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 8:33 AM
JLH said...
Vanessa is a search engine Rock Star, and this only helps! Congrats.
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 8:40 AM
Richard said...
hello world
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 8:50 AM
TD said...
Nice to see comments on an offiical Google blog :)
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 8:57 AM
Ganesh S said...
see if you can improve my site at http://www.rupya.com
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 10:25 AM
avrgjoe said...
Thanks for setting a precedent. Maybe some of the other Google blogs will follow
suit.
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 11:46 AM
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FEBRUARY 14, 2007 11:47 AM
Modern Architecture Design news said...
Happy Valentine Day! and thank you for comment :)
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 11:53 AM
Tony Wright said...
Thank you Google for embracing Social Media. I love Webmaster Tools and hope
you guys keep up with things to make my life better. Kudos on taking comments
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 12:50 PM
Darnell Clayton said...
Yeah for opening up the comments section! Now I actually feel like I can respond to
the Googlers, instead of having to email them (which can be annoying).
Thanks for all that you guys (and gals) are doing! It's good to see Google becoming
more open in the blogosphere. Now if only most of the other blogs could open up
their comment section.
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 12:51 PM
andychilton said...
Well done you guys. Thanks for all the hard work, it really has been useful to a lot
of us.
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 1:09 PM
Free PS3/Wii said...
FINALLY out of beta! That's grrreat! :)
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 2:25 PM
Adam Lasnik said...
Hey everyone, thanks for the encouraging words!
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 3:46 PM
Vanessa Fox said...
Thanks for the kind words. Our team is very excited!
Philipp, that sounds like a great blog post idea. We'll put something together on that.
Dave, we'll see what we can do about the spacing to make the comments more
legible. Thanks for the suggestion.
Andre, we are definitely looking to add to the links feature, so thanks for the
feedback.
I wanted to also mention that two other Google blogs have comments enabled so
we are in good company:
Llibrarian Central http://librariancentral.blogspot.com/
Google Testing: http://googletesting.blogspot.com/
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 5:55 PM
Aaron Pratt said...
I always wondered when this would happen, don't forget about Google Groups
though because that is less noisy than "comments", I see Adam over there offering
some great advice, been wishing for this sinse 2003, thanks.
Aaron
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 6:48 PM
ELendor said...
Congrats!!!! Long overdue but certainly a step in the right direction. HVD!!!
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 7:20 PM
lini said...
good news. happy day.
FEBRUARY 14, 2007 8:25 PM
Sebastian said...
Thanks, that's nice move :)
FEBRUARY 15, 2007 1:05 AM
Matt said...
I love the comment section, where I can get feedback from all...
FEBRUARY 15, 2007 1:47 AM
Helen said...
Great news! Enabling comments on the blog will probably help bring new ideas to
the table. Thanks for all your hard work. :)
FEBRUARY 15, 2007 7:47 AM
Gareth Jax said...
Hello, nice move :)
And i would like to get some official directions about getting some spidering (and
results) in a flash site.
You know, i have some customers that want (extremely) multimedial sites and
You know, i have some customers that want (extremely) multimedial sites and
they want to be well indexed too with their keywords!!!.
It's actually very hard to explain that you can't obtain the same results of a pure
html website!
I'm wondering if i can "legally" insert an hidden "div" with some text "under" the
flash, that could be read only by the spiders.
Of course i'm talking about properly written and formatted texts, not long lists
of keywords to increase the keyword density!
Failing that, it would be nice to have an "Official Guideline" about optimizing Flash
sites in google :)
Thanks in advance for any hint and for the general awesomeness :)
FEBRUARY 16, 2007 12:21 AM
Nelli said...
thanks for this opportunity
this is the best Valentine gift!
FEBRUARY 16, 2007 4:26 AM
pjdscott said...
It's been a sharp learning curve with the effects of Webmaster tools but at least we
can begin to see where we stand with Google - thanks. The Links tool is great - I
was able to see that Google cold not see my links on one of my sites and have
since amended them.
FEBRUARY 16, 2007 6:02 AM
Rick Lee said...
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FEBRUARY 16, 2007 6:10 AM
Jenni and Dave said...
Well done opening up comments. Well done getting Webmaster Central out of Beta.
And Vanessa, well done at SES London. Good info. Thank you.
FEBRUARY 16, 2007 7:46 AM
Home and Garden Gifts.co.uk said...
It was great to hear this was going live at SES London. It was great to meet
Vanessa, Matt and everyone else from Google.
Would also like to thank Matt for the help on Home and Garden gifts. It was great
talking to you.
FEBRUARY 18, 2007 4:44 PM
Morris Rosenthal said...
How about clearing up a mystery or two?
What made the Blogger team think that writers would like a NO-INDEX tage added
to their blogs? Nothing like waking up in the morning and finding your blog vanished
to their blogs? Nothing like waking up in the morning and finding your blog vanished
from the Google index.
Why did Blogger feel it necessary to insist on saved passwords for FTP? Surely you
can understand that some of us consider our FTP password a high security issue
and our Google/Blogger account something to access from a cafe.
Why does Blogger need need to republish the whole blog by default when that FTP
password is changed?
Might strike you as small issues, but cost me 20 to 25 hours of aggrevation, mainly
replacing old posts which had been hand-edited and which Blogger overwrote
without warning.
You've given me a case of Internet Publishing Fatigue and it got my readers worried
that I'm clincally depressed:-) Fortunately, most of them know me better, and I don't
have to worry about any new readers getting confused until the blog gets reindexed!
FEBRUARY 20, 2007 7:01 AM
GaryTheScubaGuy said...
Yea!!!
I'm a little behind getting my first post in here but I've added it to my reader and
GDesktop so I'll be watching :o)
Thanks G!
FEBRUARY 21, 2007 3:06 AM
. said...
Comments are great... er, except for Adam and Vanessa and anyone else at Google
trying to keep up. :)
FEBRUARY 24, 2007 4:48 PM
WEBMASTER CENTRAL said...
Google Webmaster Central out of BETA
http://webmaster-central.blogspot.com/2007/02/google-webmaster-central-out-ofbeta.html
OCTOBER 15, 2007 9:45 PM
Kate said...
What can I say except cool. I have to say that I enjoy blogs a lot more when they
have comments. Gives it a sense of community.
FEBRUARY 11, 2008 1:29 PM
Tilak said...
Thanks for adding up comments.
Happy Valentine's day!
FEBRUARY 14, 2008 9:30 AM
crx said...
thank you.
FEBRUARY 18, 2008 6:11 PM
Google Webmaster Central said...
Hi everyone,
Since over a year has passed since we published this post, we're closing the
comments to help us focus on the work ahead. If you still have a question or
comment you'd like to discuss, free to visit and/or post your topic in our Webmaster
Help Group.
Thanks and take care,
The Webmaster Central Team
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