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Best of Webmaster Central a helpful list

A handful of Google's Webmaster Central posts answer a lot of the most frequently asked questions webmasters have about their sites in relation to Google.

Webmasters should go ahead and bookmark Susan Moskwa's post at the Webmaster Central blog. Her collection of posts, and a useful help article on URL removal requests, probably address common questions webmasters have about their sites.

Googlebot access to crawl a site, and issues with robots.txt, make the difference in having a site properly indexed and available to searchers. Compared to some other issues, these are easily resolved.

Issues like best practices for Flash, and duplicate content, are a little trickier to handle. The richness and interactivity of Flash content means little to people who can't find the site in search. Duplicate content poses a danger; set up incorrectly, those pages could be penalized in the index.

Moskwa also pointed out past posts on Sitemaps, and the once-dreaded supplemental index. While Sitemaps continue to be a relevant topic, it's time to forget about the supplemental index, as Google eliminated it in 2007.