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New name better reflects our commitment to communicate with you
August 04, 2006
We're surrounded by moving boxes and construction dust. To better reflect our goal to provide
tools and information to keep you, the webmasters, informed and help you increase your crawl
coverage and visibility on Google, we're renaming Google Sitemaps to
Google Webmaster Tools. The Sitemaps protocol remains unchanged and Sitemaps
submission mechanisms and reporting is still available from the Sitemaps tab. We're also renaming
our blog and Google Group to be more broadly focused on webmaster topics.
You can find handy links to all the
tools, the
new blog,
Google Group,
help center
and more from our newly launched Google webmaster central. Join us at the
blog's new location at
googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
where you'll learn about all the exciting things we're planning. Oh, and please don't forget to
update your bookmarks and
feed!
Posted by Vanessa Fox
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