Google Webmaster Tools Part 2
Day 42 of The 100 Days To Building A Great Website Guide
Google webmaster tools are an amazing tool for anyone who is building a website. In Part 1 of Google Webmaster Tools I wrote about how you can use the tools to find bugs in your site. This post will be about how you can use the tools to find out who is linking to you, what pages they are linking to, and what anchor text they are using in their links.
What is being linked to?
One of the nicest features about Google Webmaster tools is its ability to to list all of the pages in your site which have external links pointed about them This list is much more robust than the list you would get if you used Link:www.yoursite.com. Google filters the results if you use Link: By using webmaster tools you get the full result list, and it is much more impressive
The next step, if I want to see who is linking to a particular page, is to drill down on that page and see all the incoming link
My page on “Value of a Blog Post” got 18 incoming links. It seems like those 18 links are from about 4-5 different sites. Which isn’t too bad for one of my posts. Clearly I should try to do more like that.
Finally you can look in Statistics, Page Analysis, to see what the most common anchor text linking to you is.
Not surprisingly, my most common anchor text is “Scott”, my name, “Savvy Affiliate”, the site title, and “Top 5 Tools Every Blogger Should Use”, which was a post I wrote for a Problogger group writing project. Since I’m not currently targeting any keywords I can’t say whether or not any of my keywords are on here, but you can use these tools to check how well your key word targets are progressing.
Tomorrow I will show some of the statistics that are available through Google webmaster tools.
on December 4th, 2007 at 4:04 am
Can anybody please explain how to cache and rank in Altavista ?
on January 22nd, 2009 at 1:56 pm
The Google Webmaster tools is a very nice thing from Google. I’ve been using to maintain what exactly I’m getting backlinks from and seeing how often my sitemap is being downloaded.
on February 22nd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
My backlinks just recently quadrupled in webmaster tools. I love using that tool.
on May 2nd, 2009 at 6:01 am
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on September 22nd, 2009 at 10:10 pm
I can’t get webmaster tools to show my external links. It always displays 0.
on November 28th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
@Tech for how long has it been doing that? And have you gotten it fixed?
Till then,
Jean
on December 24th, 2009 at 5:02 am
My website is a piczo site, and I can’t add what I need to verify it on the google webmaster tool thing. Is it possible to add it? If yes, how? (I don’t only want to add it to the search database, I also want to add it to my google account at the webmaster tools place.
on February 18th, 2010 at 1:41 am
I know that using canonicals is rather a hint, but I wonder if it’s necessary when having sitemap.xml file, which does more or less the same job. In other words, does the sitemap release me from adding canonical urls in “link” tags?
on February 23rd, 2010 at 3:44 am
Thanks this very important info to us. Thanks for sharing.
on February 24th, 2010 at 7:39 am
I know that using canonicals is rather a hint, but I wonder if it’s necessary when having sitemap.xml file, which does more or less the same job.
on March 8th, 2010 at 12:50 am
One way link is the best strategy to make your site get high backlinks.
on April 15th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
How does one do that, darjeeling?
Till then,
Jean
on May 2nd, 2010 at 10:55 am
Thanks this very important info to us. Thanks for sharing.
on May 7th, 2010 at 5:54 am
My backlinks just recently quadrupled in webmaster tools
I Love Google
on May 10th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
not bad quantity links
on May 11th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
With the recent new tools for us at the GWT, its just plain awesome how great GWT has become!
on July 12th, 2010 at 8:07 am
@raj said that can anyone explain how to cache and rank in Altavista?
on July 22nd, 2010 at 9:36 am
I’m looking backlinklerime altavista site. Google and yahoo are not shown on their site where I can find a link.
on July 22nd, 2010 at 5:32 pm
I Love Google
on July 22nd, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Google tries hard to index and show pages with distinct information. This filtering means, for instance, that if your site has a “regular” and “printer” version of each article…..
on July 23rd, 2010 at 2:11 am
Google has taken some additional steps to make Webmaster Central even more awesome, now showing clickthrough data!I very helpful tool conveniently placed on the dashboard.
on July 25th, 2010 at 10:18 am
I love you Google Tools,
My favorite: addwors, search and adsense.
on September 16th, 2010 at 11:55 am
Google tries hard to index and show pages with distinct information. This filtering means, for instance, that if your site has a “regular” and “printer” version of each article…..
on October 21st, 2010 at 8:47 pm
I couldn’t verify it using meta tag verification as well as by adding DNS record method. please help me. It is really very important.
on February 6th, 2011 at 8:19 am
Yes, i agree. Google Webmaster Tools is Really a Good Tool to check backlinks.
on February 14th, 2011 at 8:55 am
thanks for posting. it helps me a lot
on February 14th, 2011 at 8:57 am
it is fast than the other website.
on February 14th, 2011 at 8:59 am
i feel so good about this website.
on March 2nd, 2011 at 6:21 am
How does one do that, darjeeling? yaa
on March 4th, 2011 at 9:18 am
I think the rental results stem from our association with a few property management sites. It isn’t intentional, but I’m not going to complain. We have the NWMLS rental data but haven’t yet decided the best way to use it.
on March 12th, 2011 at 4:58 am
Thanks a lot for showing how to use Google’s Webmaster Tools!
on March 26th, 2011 at 10:55 am
You are the number one commentor here! I admire your skill buddy!
on April 15th, 2011 at 2:19 am
Nice post all blog is very important for every one thanks for it….
on April 16th, 2011 at 2:14 am
It provides important reports and recommendations to make it more appealing and visible to search engines as well as visitors. In my first post on this topic, I introduced the first four of Seven Reasons Google Webmaster Tools Is Essential for SEO.
on May 17th, 2011 at 4:24 am
Google Webmaster Tools is Google’s free service for webmasters. Google Webmaster Tools includes nofollow links that do not convey search engine optimization authority to the linked site.
on June 1st, 2011 at 8:11 pm
hello
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on June 1st, 2011 at 8:12 pm
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on June 1st, 2011 at 8:14 pm
how many days to be first PR in google
on June 1st, 2011 at 8:16 pm
i’d like google web master tools
on June 1st, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Nice post all blog is very important for every one thanks for it
on June 1st, 2011 at 8:20 pm
i start to work affiliate marketer . i have some problem withe ran and index my blog so withe google web master tools in so good
on June 1st, 2011 at 8:22 pm
How have my website many external links?
on June 8th, 2011 at 12:04 am
Is it possible to add it? If yes, how? (I don’t only want to add it to the search database, I also want to add it to my google account at the webmaster tools place.
on June 10th, 2011 at 9:30 am
combien de jours d’être le premier dans google PR
on June 13th, 2011 at 7:05 am
Thanks for guiding us.
on June 13th, 2011 at 7:08 am
many thanks for teaching how to use Google Webmaster Tools
on June 13th, 2011 at 7:08 am
It really helps me a lot.
on June 13th, 2011 at 7:38 am
I really don’t know how to use Google Webmaster Tool since you mention it, you give some idea.
on June 13th, 2011 at 7:39 am
I really don’t know how to use Google Webmaster Tool since you mention it, you give some idea how to use it.
on June 13th, 2011 at 7:40 am
Thanks for sharing. I’ll try it on my blog.
on June 29th, 2011 at 11:52 pm
A very useful way to get the idea on how to use Google Webmaster perfectly. And it is shown here clearly to understand in proper way.
on July 6th, 2011 at 11:33 pm
You can actually even set crawl rates in Google Webmaster if you feel that your pages are not indexed as much as it should’ve been…that’s also one great tool to get all your pages indexed.
on July 22nd, 2011 at 1:29 am
Thanks for sharing your idea on how to use the Google Webmaster Tool. I don’t really have an idea how to use until you mention it.
on July 22nd, 2011 at 1:29 am
Hope that you will continue doing a great job.
on July 22nd, 2011 at 1:31 am
You have shared with us your great tips. Thanks
on July 22nd, 2011 at 1:32 am
I’ll be back again to look for you next significant post.
on August 1st, 2011 at 11:12 pm
I have also currently added my blog to google webmaster tool and learning so many things about marketing our sites in Google.
on August 6th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
i am confused about the robot.txt in webmaster tool.
on August 8th, 2011 at 7:26 pm
With all the updates, I am a huge fan of Google webmaster tools.
on September 3rd, 2011 at 4:22 am
Most website development tools, especially blog tools, can require users to prove they’re a real live human, not a nasty spamming engine. You’ll have seen these: Generally the user is presented with a distorted image….
on September 9th, 2011 at 6:42 pm
great information that will help me better use webmaster tools which i admit i need to focus on, thanks
on September 11th, 2011 at 11:29 pm
I love the post & one way link is the best strategy to make your site get high backlinks
on September 30th, 2011 at 10:48 pm
You have to learn all guidelines of Google adwords. You set a budget according to time limit..whether you want to run the campaign for the day only or you want to run the campaign until your budget reaches at end.
on October 1st, 2011 at 6:46 am
for me there is no harm for external links as long as you are point with site that is no malicious content.
on October 8th, 2011 at 1:54 am
I also want to add it to my google account at the webmaster tools place.
on October 28th, 2011 at 5:32 am
webmaster tools are very much important for a webmaster
on October 28th, 2011 at 5:33 am
these tools provide a very good insight into the world of internet websites.
on October 28th, 2011 at 5:33 am
I am amazed that how I am enjoying your blog
on January 11th, 2012 at 5:20 am
actually it seems, you are monitoring your blog frequently.. this could be one of the aspect of perfect blogging.
on February 3rd, 2012 at 6:57 am
The best aspect about them is anyone can learn how to use them relatively quickly, from what I have seen.
-Jean