Tuesday, December 24, 2013

What New Features You Want in Webmaster Tools 2014

Google added new features in webmaster tools to help webmasters from google major updates. The three new features are:
•    Manual webspam alerts in Google webmaster tools.
•    Better visibility on website security issues.
•    Improved webmaster tools back links.

View Manual Webspam Actions in Web Master Tools  

Google main strategy is to provide users with accurate results because most of the searches rely on major search engine like Google for most relevant results. For this, Google has taken few steps to provide flexibility for searches. This includes improvising webspam algorithms as well as taking manual action on websites which violate webmaster guidelines. Henceforth, Google added this manual action feature in webmaster tool to help Webmasters, who want to check if their sites are affected by manual action penalty.

Click on the Manual Action button under the Search traffic tab to check the messages. Below one is the snapshot of manual action feature.
 

More Information About the Security Issues on Your Site

As being a webmaster it is strenuous and little bit tricky to discover your site is hacked with spam. Moreover, it is a time constraint task to clean up spam links. Hence, to overcome this problem, google introduced a security issue feature in webmaster tools to help webmaster to find malware issues. Google sends you a notification in security issues section when it detects your site is in critical problem( it may be either malware or webspam).  You can find malware issues as well as spam inserted by hackers issues in newly added feature. On this page you can figure out, Urls, issue detected date and type of hacking. Below one is the snapshot of security issue feature.


Improved Webmaster Tools Back Links

You used to get roughly 100,000 back links when you click on the "Download more sample links" button. But those links have been selected by lexicographical order, it means for few sites you did not get complete figure of site's inbound links because the link data misrepresented toward the starting of the alphabet.

Hence to overcome this drawback google improvised this feature to provide complete picture of the back link profile. With the addition of new feature, you can able to see uniform sample links rather than an alphabetical order. Even, You can find also more acceptable links from other top level domains and also from different domain names. Moreover with this feature you can clean up bad links to come out of penalties in an easy way.





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