Some of you have had one of the following responses when trying to verify: Our system has experienced a temporary problem. or, The system is currently busy. Please try again in a few minutes. However, when you do try again later, you continue to …
We recently uploaded a new version v1.4 of the the Sitemap Generator tool. This version has the same features as the last one, but fixes a subtle bug in writing GZip compressed Sitemap files. The old version stored more path information than it need…
We ve been looking into ways to enhance our verification process and noticed that some members of our Group have been unable to upload case sensitive filenames to their webservers. To help them, we now check for a lowercase verification filename if we…
We ve made a few improvements that we wanted to let you know about. Expanded query stats We ve expanded the number of query stats that we show you both top search queries and top search query clicks . Note that the exact number of stats you see depe…
If your site is located in a subdirectory, rather than at the root level of a domain for instance, at http: www.example.com site , you are given two choices when you verify. You can either verify at the subdirectory level or at the root level. …
Two URLs to a site one that is prefaced with www and one that is not for instance, http: www.example.com and http: example.com often point to the same location on a server. But depending on the server configuration, they may point to differ…
We ve added support for four more languages and a Sitemaps Google Group for each one: Danish Finnish Norwegian Swedish As with the other languages we support, if you already use Google in one of these languages, you should see the user interface …
Today, we wanted to review a few things that we get a lot of questions about. I tried to verify and I got a message that said pending verification . Why? If we can t process the verification request right away, we ll add it to a queue and process it…
Recently, someone asked me about moving from one domain to another. He had read that Google recommends using a 301 redirect to let Googlebot know about the move, but he wasn t sure if he should do that. He wondered if Googlebot would follow the 301 to …
Once you add a site or Sitemap to your account and verify ownership, we show you statistics and errors about the site. Now someone else on your team also wants to view information about it. Or perhaps you set up a Sitemap for a client site and now the…