Google has added the “Google Webmaster Central” site to their roster of blogs, in order to facilitate communication between the search behemoth and us common folk. Google has occasionally issued webmaster communications in the last few years through various media, but it would be assumed they could consolidate any sort of alerts into this new central blog. The blog is manned by Matt, Vanessa, and Adam, so with three authors you could assume they’ll update often.

Vanessa Fox posted an interesting article on 8/4/2006 about a new webmaster tool from Google which may help people who have suffered from indexing woes because of the famous “non-www” versus www routing issue. If a 301 re-direct hasn’t done the job, you can use the form they mentioned in order to finally just tell them which version who consider to be the main one. That seems like a reasonable way to handle the issue for website owners who have experience chronic frustration with the 301 issue.

Google has also delivered more tools that report on the crawlability of your websites. They go into graphic detail concerning any issues the spiders might run into. If you feel like you’re being plagued by some sort of crawling issues, this could be the key to unlocking the solution. You’ll get a report on what Google is actually seeing when they crawl.

All in all, this blog is worth checking out. I have no idea how often this blog will be updated, but I’ll keep an eye on if for updates.