Google Webmaster Tools Part 3
Day 43 of The 100 Days To Building A Great Website Guide
In my previous posts on Google webmaster tools I have covered How to diagnose problems with your site, and how to find out who is linking to you. This post will cover several other tools available to you in Google’s Toolbox.
Check Your Page Rank
Although there are many tools available to let you look at the page rank of a specific page, I think that the one available on Google is very good at letting you take a macro look at your entire page. It gives a break down of how many of your pages are ranking high, medium, low, and how many haven’t been ranked at all.
Currently all the pages on Savvy Affiliate are ranking low. Given that this is a new site it isn’t entirely surprising. It is nice to see that most of the pages have been indexed and assigned a page rank though. Additionally it is handy to see the page with the highest page rank. I’m surprised it isn’t my main site, but that will sure to correct itself with time.
Site maps
You can access your sitemaps in Google webmaster tools. If you have a sitemap for your page, use the webmaster tools to point Google at it. This will ensure that Google indexes all of your pages, and does so fairly quickly after they are first posted. Google checks the sitemap on a daily basis, which is more frequently than many new sites would be checked on their own.
Search Queries
Finally you can use Google webmaster tools to see how most searchers are finding your site, and where you rank for that query.
Unfortunately Savvy Affiliate isn’t currently ranking well for any really desirable keywords. Most of the search traffic I am receiving is from my long tail search terms. However this give me some direction of keywords I might want to target in the future. Am I getting some hits for “Monetize Your Persona?” and I rank number 4 for the topic? Perhaps I should do a post on the subject and try to move up to number 1.
on July 8th, 2007 at 2:24 am
I don’t know if it is my computer or my browser or what, but in Firefox the first graphic covers part of the right sidebar. Also does the same thing in Safari on Apple. Thought I’d give ya a heads up. Very good information though.
on July 8th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Thanks for the information. I had noticed that myself. I just upgraded my theme and found that on this theme, the content dominates the sidebars where it overlaps. Except on IE7, the content gets shifted down. I would like it so that where there is an overlap the sidebar goes on top of the content, but haven’t figured out what I need to edit to do that yet.
on July 10th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I really got a lot of value out of this series. I need to put some more time into Google Webmaster. Ranking for some “desirable” keywords would be nice too.
on July 10th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
I really got started on it when another webmaster recommended it fro solving some a problem he had suddenly dropping in the Google rankings. It has been handy for me so far, especially for cleaning up bugs in my page
on April 8th, 2009 at 5:05 am
Excellent article - The tools showed me some great stuff about my site. I have an account and am unable to locate the webmaster tools anywhere. Is this a current feature?
on May 12th, 2009 at 9:50 am
I don’t think I would be able to live without my G Analytics!
on October 29th, 2009 at 6:45 am
I love Google’s Webmaster tools, and especially they fact that is continually getting better =D
Till then,
Jean
on December 24th, 2009 at 4:43 am
Improve your landing page quality. The relevance of your keyword and ad text is high. However, your poor landing page quality is negatively impacting your overall Quality Score and ad performance.
Try one of the following:
on January 23rd, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Thanks for posting this site is very knowledgeable content and also i love google webmaster tools.
on January 23rd, 2010 at 9:36 pm
You have a great resources.
on February 3rd, 2010 at 5:00 am
I think this post can surely help for building a great website and there are some nice tips here to follow for getting the great success. I agree that one should improve the landing page quality as its a good part to do in SEO for better improvement.
on February 19th, 2010 at 2:20 am
I also love the google toolbar, nice tips
on February 19th, 2010 at 2:20 am
The is very helpful to the seo people. Thanks for sharing.
on March 4th, 2010 at 6:58 am
I love Google’s Webmaster tools
I think this post can surely help for building a great website and there are some nice tips here to follow for getting the great success.
Thanks for this article
on March 8th, 2010 at 12:48 am
Google webmaster is very helpful to diagnose your site what really problem and can you make a strategy how your site get high traffic.
on March 16th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Google webmaster is the best tool to monitor your site with any prob or how many links you have.
on April 7th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
very informative!! this is great!! it would really help a lot..
on April 8th, 2010 at 7:44 am
Make the domain name, the path or the file name.
on April 8th, 2010 at 7:52 am
When Toolbar recognizes the URL in the Google cache, it will display a link.
on April 8th, 2010 at 7:56 am
This is particularly useful when the user can’t access your pages.
on April 8th, 2010 at 7:57 am
This tool help users arrive at your website.
on April 8th, 2010 at 7:58 am
The frustrating for your users to mistype your URL.
on April 8th, 2010 at 7:59 am
The generic “404 - Not Found” or try to access a part of your site that might be down.
on April 8th, 2010 at 8:01 am
This is site give the best idea specially to the commentator of this site.
on April 8th, 2010 at 8:02 am
These issues arise, most users just move on to something else.
on April 8th, 2010 at 8:04 am
This latest release of Google Toolbar is very helpful specially to the owner of site.
on April 8th, 2010 at 8:06 am
The toolbar detecting site issues and providing alternatives.
on April 8th, 2010 at 8:09 am
It also listed in the crawl errors section of your Webmaster Tools account.
on April 8th, 2010 at 8:21 am
The content of the 404 page can help your visitors to understand.
on April 8th, 2010 at 8:22 am
It can provides suggestions regarding how to find the content.
on April 8th, 2010 at 8:23 am
You can check the behavior of the Toolbar by visiting an invalid URL on your site.
on April 15th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Thanks mywoodlasdf, didn’t know that.
Till then,
Jean
on April 24th, 2010 at 2:50 am
From a technical, search engine standpoint, it’s certainly permissible for these two URL versions to contain different content. Your users.
on May 2nd, 2010 at 10:57 am
Thanks for posting this site is very knowledgeable content and also i love google webmaster tools.
on May 7th, 2010 at 5:52 am
I love Google’s Webmaster tools
We Love Google
on July 1st, 2010 at 4:58 am
I absolutely love some of the recent additions we’ve gotten for Google Webmaster Tool’s, it’s really made it a brand new place for myself as a webmaster to look at everyday!
Till then,
Jean
on July 14th, 2010 at 12:14 am
I have, especially for long-tail keywords which only deliver a small amount of traffic to my clients website. The discrepancy between Google Adwords Keyword Tool and Google Webmaster Tools is probably even more pronounced.
on July 14th, 2010 at 12:16 am
The search result position is still there, all you have to do is expand the keyword, infact if you ask me, it’s even better than before.
on July 20th, 2010 at 3:46 am
There are always huge issues getting metrics to make sense together – I’ve lost hours trying to reconcile different analytics figures…
on July 27th, 2010 at 1:53 am
Perfect tool for my blog. How I wish I could spend more time in digging those features.
on September 17th, 2010 at 6:26 am
wow!The tools showed me some great stuff about my site. I have an account and am unable to locate the webmaster tools anywhere. Is this a current feature?Thanks
on October 11th, 2010 at 11:57 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 October 31st, 2010 at 11:09 pm
When I google my name, my facebook comment, which I did not intend it to be public because it was political, shows up on the first page of google search result. I set my all of my facebook setting to private yet it still shows up on Google..
on December 2nd, 2010 at 12:16 am
I have found some useful tips here and google webmaster tools can give you the best visibility of your pages and one can gauge something better for the site.
on January 22nd, 2011 at 9:59 am
to get pagerank is very difficult XD But I love your post!
on February 12th, 2011 at 1:30 am
I wish the Google Webmaster tools would be updated soon as they could use some new features.
on February 25th, 2011 at 5:49 am
I have got here some useful tips and the Google webmaster tools can give you the best visibility of your site pages and keyword.
on March 2nd, 2011 at 6:19 am
Make the domain name, the path or the file name. forr
on April 5th, 2011 at 5:54 am
I believe that having a good theme will impress more visitors in your site.
on April 5th, 2011 at 5:55 am
Thanks for additional information you have shared to us.
on April 5th, 2011 at 5:56 am
This will be very helpful for many blogger.
on April 5th, 2011 at 5:58 am
Nice post. I like it.
on April 29th, 2011 at 11:36 am
Hahaha! That is funny! I like this site.
on June 1st, 2011 at 8:23 pm
have fun withe affiliate job, i love it
on June 1st, 2011 at 8:24 pm
i like this site too
on June 18th, 2011 at 4:04 am
I always prefer to Google webmaster tools,this is a really informative post,. knowledge is one of the most valuable things in the world..
on June 18th, 2011 at 4:04 am
Glad you all liked the post.
on June 30th, 2011 at 5:37 am
Google is one of the best Search Engine.
It is the most relevant Search Engine which provides you with relevant result.
on July 20th, 2011 at 12:10 am
Good one piece of tools and its a really great tool..
on July 25th, 2011 at 12:17 pm
their new +1 thing is cool too
on August 9th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
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 August 19th, 2011 at 2:38 am
Can someone please tell me how to get my article written in squidoo verified on google webmaster tool? I know how to get the meta tag or the html file. Im just not sure where to put either of them.
on August 21st, 2011 at 2:27 pm
I’ve been fiddling with the Google Webmaster Tools for a while now. They’re quite intuitive and easy to use I must say.
on August 24th, 2011 at 6:03 am
I agree Komodo Dragon, ease of use is key and being able to track results is benefit.
on September 5th, 2011 at 5:57 am
Now, google has add new features in webmaster tool like page insight, click, referral URL
on September 14th, 2011 at 10:01 am
I Got so much benefit through this tool.
on September 19th, 2011 at 3:49 am
Google Adwords is like an advertising auction. YOU ARE HIGHLY UNLIKELY TO BE SEEN WITH 0.01 AS YOUR BID. There are many other businesses competing to advertise. Google would rather take 0.99 for a click rather than 0.01. The lower your bid, the less likely you are to appear on results.
on September 20th, 2011 at 4:43 am
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 September 27th, 2011 at 11:47 pm
Very well written post. It will be helpful to everyone who utilizes it, including yours truly.
Keep doing what you are doing – i will definitely read more posts.
on October 8th, 2011 at 1:50 am
Apparently this entire “tool” is all by Google - I want to email them! Can a site owner WHO HAS USED the Webmaster Tools please tell me what I can do about this - in my position?? I do not intend to “ignore” the warning by Google and simply enter the site,
on October 9th, 2011 at 7:20 am
The latest updates to the Webmaster Tools have really made it extremely easy to use as well as opened up a ton of options and customizations for the user.
-Jean
on October 18th, 2011 at 11:48 am
Google webmaster tool part is a very interesting feature… We can check easy our page PR. I like this.
on October 30th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Disnt get this part clearly, i’d rather read it gain. loved the second part
on October 31st, 2011 at 1:52 am
I need to put some more time into Google Webmaster. Ranking for some “desirable” keywords would be nice too.I also want to add it to my google account at the webmaster tools place)
on October 31st, 2011 at 3:18 am
I set my all of my facebook setting to private yet it still shows up on Google..
on November 2nd, 2011 at 1:55 am
I don’t think there’s any way to achieve complete anonymity on Facebook short of shutting down your account.
-Jean
on November 3rd, 2011 at 4:07 am
Google Webmaster Tools-How long does it take before I can use them?
on November 3rd, 2011 at 4:07 am
I just verified my site for Google Webmaster Tools. It has been a week now, and when I try to access information in the Statistics page, (such as top search queries) it tells me that data is not available at this time.
on November 3rd, 2011 at 4:08 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 November 3rd, 2011 at 4:08 am
What is the correct URL when you submitting it to Google Webmaster tools:
on November 5th, 2011 at 12:10 am
Yea, quite a few of those blogs are not up anymore but that’s to be expected given how old the post is.
-Jean
on November 11th, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Great tutorial I love webmaster tools. It can be hard to figure it out sometimes though.
on December 2nd, 2011 at 12:20 am
Google webmaster tool is the group of tools which provides you with detailed reports about your pages visibility on Google. Google Webmaster Tool shows traffic for each keyword separately, it give more information about website performance according to Google search query. This tool does not cover search query result from others search engine, such as Bing, Yahoo and Baidu.
on December 16th, 2011 at 2:18 am
I’ve been doing it this way forever and it’s quick and easy, but every “expert” says I should use other methods that seem like a waste of time.
on January 11th, 2012 at 5:24 am
you are right, past 3 ago, google made few changes in its infrastructure where the things has been updated in seomoz
on January 12th, 2012 at 3:42 am
Love your series on Google webmaster tools. Some great information if you read the whole series in order.
on January 13th, 2012 at 8:22 am
Now in my country PR is not important. They use some illegal links. İts called hacklink. And you can earn PR8. its not a normal.
on January 24th, 2012 at 1:45 am
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.