Google’s Resources for Webmasters
February 1st, 2007
Google is the king of search. (Also, this just in: the sky is blue.) Yet, I’m continually surprised at how difficult it is to find things on Google’s own web site.
Case in point, I’ve found it surprisingly difficult to find two specific pages: 1) the “Add a Link” page where you add a site URL to their database, and more recently, 2) their Webmaster Tools.
Well, in my most recent search, I came across a clearinghouse for their tools, their Webmaster Central page. Here, you can find a number of very useful tools including their Webmaster Tools and a blog devoted to issues affecting webmasters.
I’ve found the Webmaster Tools page especially useful. This resource is a clearinghouse for the stats and health of all of the sites under your control. You can find crawling stats, query stats, page analysis, and the latest indexing stats. All very useful stuff that is made all the more useful by the fact that they are all in one spot now. Their Webmaster Tools are available for free here. (Note: In order for these to work, you will need read/write access to any sites you want to track.)
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