Webmaster central

Google Webmaster Tools Now Shows Clickthrough Data

by

Google Webmaster Tools(GWT) “Top Search Queries” tool has got a complete makeover.The tool now shows complete data of impressions, clickthrough numbers on a daily basis in the form of charts much like the data in Google Analytics.

You can click on any given search query in the Top search queries report to see the number of impressions and the amount of clickthrough the site’s pages have generated for each position in search results (SERPs).

queries_chart-ds query-data-expanded-ds

To find this data for your sites, go to “Your site on the web” tab in Google Webmasters Tool and then click “Top search queries”.

This information is of huge importance to the webmasters as this insightful data is pretty much helpful for webmaster to optimize their title tags and meta descriptions to record higher clickthrough rates and also in other SEO factors.

Via Google Webmaster Central Blog

Google Adds Sidewiki Claim, Fetch As Googlebot Mobile in Webmaster Tools

by

Google Webmaster Tools logo

In an update to Webmaster Tools Labs, Google has added two new features to under labs features.

New features:

  • Fetch as Googlebot-Mobile
  • Create your Sidewiki page owner entry

Fetch as Googlebot-Mobile:

Fetch as Googlebot-Mobile as the name suggests, lets you fetch any page in your claimed website, as it’d appear to the mobile version of the Googlebot (XHTML/WML or CHTML Googlebot Mobile).

[Read how to Use Fetch as Googlebot to find malicious hacks in a website]

You can access this under Labs > Fetch as Googlebot section from your Google Webmaster Tools (GWT)

Fetch As Google Bot Mobile

Sidewiki Page Owner Entry:

This feature I guess is of no value to the webmasters right now, according to me.It is just last week that Google has announced about replacing Google Sidewiki with star bookmarks.Many users have already been migrated from Sidewiki to Star bookmarks, at present only Google Toolbar has Sidewiki option.Only Google should know the logic behind this new feature.Given that Sidewiki itself is a failure, this really doesn’t interest you much right now.

Sidewiki entry in Webmaster Tools

Never the less, good features, especially ‘Fetch as Googlebot mobile’ (may be bad timing for the Sidewiki entry, should have been launched earlier)

Google Webmaster Quiz For Fun

by

Google Webmaster central has today announced that it’s going to conduct a fun and educational quiz for the interested webmasters.The quiz consists of 40 basic questions on topics that every single webmaster should know for successful SEO.

Of course, some questions and answers seem funny, ultimately it’s fun answering those questions.

Quiz will be open till Wednesday, January 27 at 5PM PST.Go take the quiz and If you get them right, as kept in as am options for one of those question, Do the Google dance.Answers to the questions in the quiz will be posted in the Webmaster Central blog after Jan 27.What more? if you are the top scorer of the quiz, your username will be posted in the Google Webmaster Central blog post.That’s lot of free publicity !!

Link: Take the Google Webmaster Quiz

Webmaster Quiz Screen shot

Sshh….Don’t reveal the answers at least until Jan 27 !!