Google Webmaster Central is a collection of tools and resources (including an official Google Webmaster Central Blog, a discussion area and help center) designed to help webmasters, marketers and others monitor their web sites on Google.

Google Webmaster Tools Cleans Up With Dashboards, New Navigation & More

May 8, 2012 at 9:36am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google announced on the Webmaster Central blog that they have cleaned up Google Webmaster Tools. The three changes include: (1) Updated Dashboard (2) New Left Hand Navigation (3) Home Compact View Here is a picture of the revised dashboard: The new navigation was changed to be more representative of the content and tools within the portal. Google explained: Configuration: Things you configure and generally don’t change very often. Health: Where you look to make sure things are OK. Traffic: Where you go to understand how your site is doing in Google search, who’s link [...]

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Discover Links Using Google Analytics New Backlink URL Report

May 3, 2012 at 5:09pm ET by Daniel Waisberg

Today the Google Analytics team announced that we will start seeing backlink URLs in their newly released Social Reports. According to the announcement post, written by Ilya Grigorik, Software Engineering Manager, Google Analytics (and PostRank Founder): "These reports provide another layer of social insight showing which of your content attracts links, and enables you to keep track of conversations across other sites that link to your content. Most website and blog owners had no easy mechanism to do this in the past, but we see it as another important feature for holistic social media repo [...]

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Google Webmaster Tools Expands Query Data to 90 Days

Apr 26, 2012 at 5:19pm ET by Vanessa Fox

Today, Google has expanded the historical search query data to 90 days. The number of queries reported has increased as well: the report will now list the top 2,000 for each day of the selected date range (vs. the previous top 1,000). This is great news, as this is data not available anywhere else and when looking at trends, the more information, the better. Google has made a few other minor adjustments to this data recently. So if you use Google webmaster tools query data, see below for all the details of how these reports work. What's In the Top Search Queries Report First, a refresher on [...]

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Site Performance, Subscriber Stats & Robots.txt Tool Removed From Google Webmaster Tools

Apr 25, 2012 at 9:33am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google announced they are removing three features from Google Webmaster Tools. Google made the announcement on the Google Webmaster Central blog saying the three features going away include the site performance report, the subscriber stats and the robots.txt creation tool. Google placed reversed the order of these features when they wrote about it, trying to mitigate the importance of removing some of these features. Site Performance going away is going to be frustrating for a lot of Google Webmaster Tools users. Subscriber stats is not as important and robots.txt is really not a big dea [...]

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Google Sent 20,000+ Hacked Notification Messages To Webmasters Today

Apr 16, 2012 at 1:30pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Google's head of the webspam team, Matt Cutts, announced on Twitter that they have sent out new message notifications to 20,000 web sites that are hacked. Specifically, Google sent these messages to sites doing "weird redirects." I've personally seen a spike in the number of sites redirecting from their web site to a non-authorized site recently. The webmaster is typically unaware of this redirect because the redirects only occur when someone clicks from Google's search results to the web site. Typically the site owner doesn't go to Google to find his web site; the site owner goes direct [...]

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