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There is a lot of chatter in the forums including WebmasterWorld and random Google Webmaster Help threads starting yesterday and this morning about significant changes to the Google search results.

I am seeing a lot of individual complaints that sites that showed up yesterday no longer show up. The folks at WebmasterWorld are claiming that the search results landscape has changed for the SERPs they track.

One webmaster said:

Have you seen changes? I am not sure if this would be considered a Panda refresh or just a general update or nothing at all. I am going to ping Google to see if they can give me more information.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and random Google Webmaster Help.

Update: Google told me there is no Panda update happening right now. Nor is there a data refresh. I am not sure why so many people are seeing changes to the search results, when Google told me it is not Panda, nor is it anything else on their end.

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Updated: New Panda Refresh? Google Update Happening...

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WebsiteHowToMake.com Offering Exciting Spring Discount for Easy Online Webmaster Tutorials

Today there are two live help events taking place, one on the paid search side and the other on the organic search side.

The Google AdWords team is hosting a webinar today at 3pm GMT (which is in about 2.5 hours from now). The AdWords webinar is on making mobile-friendly websites. You can still register for it by clicking here. It is a shame they aren't using Google+ Hangouts for it but I guess they can host more people this way.

The Google Webmaster team is hosting a Google Hangout today and tomorrow on Webmaster topics. The first one is today in about an hour and a half, at 2pm GMT. The second one is a week from tomorrow, March 21st, at 2pm GMT. No registration is required but you need to be one of the first ten. To get in, a few minutes prior to the start time, go to Pierre's Google+ page and watch it.

Forum discusion at Google+ and Google AdWords Help.

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Last night, Google announced a huge revamp to the Google Webmaster Tools crawl errors section. The main changes include new reports, changes to the levels of details, removing some errors, and the ability to mark something as fixed.

Overall, design-wise, it does look more appealing but from what I am reading in the forums, it seems the new reports and clean up seem to confuse more webmasters then help them. In addition, there is a language bug floating around on some people's accounts that isn't helping - Google is actively working on fixing that bug.

There are few people outside of Google that know Google Webmaster Tools as well as Vanessa Fox (she did work at Google and built the product while there) and she shared her disappointment with this "upgrade" at Search Engine Land. So definitely read her review.

Here are some of the new screens:

Site Wide Errors:

URL Specific Errors:

Report Filters:

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New Google Webmaster Tools Crawl Errors Confuses

Google has just revamped the crawl errors data available in webmaster tools. Crawl errors are issues Googlebot encountered while crawling your site, so useful stuff!

I originally started this article by writing that in most cases, these changes are for the better and in only a few (really maddening) cases, useful functionality has been removed. But now that Ive gone through the changes, I unfortunately need to revise my summary. This update is mostly about removing super useful data, masked by a few user interface changes. (And I hate to write that, because webmaster tools is near and dear to my heart.)

So whats changed?

Crawl errors have been organized into two categories: site errors and URL errors. Site errors are those which are likely site-wide, as opposed to URL-specific.

Site errors are categorized as:

URL errors are page-specific.

URL errors are categorized as:

Google now shows trends over the last 90 days for each error type. The daily count seems to be the aggregate count of how many URLs with that error type Google knows about, not the number crawled that particular day. As Google recrawls a URL and no longer gets the error, its removed from the list (and the count).

In addition, Google still lists the date Googlebot first encountered the error, but now when you click the URL to see the details, you can see the last time Googlebot tried to access the URL as well.

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Google Webmaster Tools Revamps Crawl Errors, But Is It For The Better?