Tuesday, July 9, 2013

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

Webmasters rely on GWT to come out of problems with their website and to solve the website issues. Webmaster Tool provides you detail information about your website pages that have included in your account.
After Panda update, Google has announced clean up of GWT to make webmaster to access the account very easily and quickly. At the left menu Google has added a gear icon for quick access as well as Google added one more new appearance pop up feature. GWT helps webmasters to solve their problems in three main areas.

The three changes include:

1. Updated Dashboard
2. New Left hand Navigation
3. Home Compact View

Below one is the snapshot of revised dashboard

New Navigation:

The new GWT navigation is changed to be more representative of the content and this new feature is designed differently to make it synchronize with the levels of the Google flow.

I. Crawl Section: In crawl section, GWT discovers the crawl errors such as links (404 pages), as well as server problems, access denied crawl stats, URL parameters and also fetch as Google feature.

II. Google Index section: Here, Google keeps the track record of how many pages are indexed. In addition, you can see the index status (overall indexed counts), content keywords.

III. Search Traffic Section: This section will display you about how your pages are performing in search results such as search queries, Links to your site, incoming links from other internal pages.

IV. Search Appearance Section: However, this section marks up your web pages to help Google during indexing. It contains structured data dashboard, Site links, HTML improvements and data highlighter.

Search Appearance Overlay:

Below image describes the result page as well as UI feature.


Google has added Pop up feature to explain about search results page for webmasters who doesn't have an idea on how Google works. Click on the question mark button which exists next to the search appearance navigation menu at the left side to access the new feature.









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