Comments on: More webmaster console goodness

By: Search Engine Specialist

Search Engine Specialist — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:45:02 +0000

Thank you for updating the Webmaster tools. I have been using them for a long time and the evolution of fuctionality is always appreciated.

By: Özel Ders Kurs

Özel Ders Kurs — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:56:08 +0000

This is indeed a nice feature but the usefulness of the Googlebot activity tool is still quite questionable in my opinion. How will an occasional webmaster like me use this tool? I will perhaps keep the Googlebot speed to “Normal” since I don’t want to be crawled less, nor do I have the resources to go fast.

I think Image labeler game on the otherhand is incredibly creative and fun. However with the amount of websites online, the images it can cover is very minimal. I am expecting an even better solution for this dilemma!

By: Andrea Stone

Andrea Stone — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:03:16 +0000

Hello,

We have never had a problem until recently when we type in our company name. A couple of months ago, we discovered when we type in our company name, we don’t find the www url of our domain until the 4th page. On the first three pages, there are links to our company’s site from other pages….but not our own url with title and description.

What would cause this problem?

Thanks!

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:30:22 +0000

Hi All,

I have received a phone call from someone in India. The gentleman was very much interested to know the daily hits of Google / Yahoo & MSN Search Engine. I still don’t have any idea how to check per day hits of Top 3 search engines. So I though that I will ask this question to the SEO Gurus. After listening this question I am really very much interested to know the answer. I want to know becuase next time If someone ask me the same question then I will be in a position to answer their queries.

Thanks in advance.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:22:53 +0000

I have seen the fatures and parameters of Crawal rate link. It’s really great, The number of page crawal per day, number of kilobytes downloaded per day and time spent for downloading a page is really great. This is really helpful how much time Googlebot spent on my website.

By: Tony Lawrence

Tony Lawrence — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:16:33 +0000

The feature I want is in the “Not found” list. What I want to know is WHERE the Bot was when it found the link it couldn’t follow.

The problem is that I have a very large site and almost all of my pages are at least partially generated by code. So when I see something in your “Not Found” list, I have no instant or simple way to figure out how you got that bad link – and I really would like to fix it! Right now I have 15 “Not found” links showing – none of those are “In Sitemap”, so they must be in one of 13,264 pages that ARE in the sitemap.. but I can’t find ‘em..

By: Mehmet Buyukozer

Mehmet Buyukozer — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:27:12 +0000

This is really neat. I like this webmaster tools (I’m still used to call it google sitemaps though) One major thing I realized is the keyword updates. I see keywords from couple of weeks ago, it is not reflecting real keywords that people are clicking on that week. I’m not sure if they also made changes on that one, I can’t rely on ‘webmaster tools’ to follow keywords right now.

By: Mike Garde

Mike Garde — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:41:09 +0000

I like the new webmaster tools and one of the sites I run is for stock photography so it will be interesting how the google image game will influence traffic. Right now we get half our traffic (but no revenue) from google images. I do have one compliant…when playing there are allot of lazy people who can’t describe a sunset, there is a sun over the horizon setting…type sunset, why hit pass, I think the pass button should have a 3 hit max per game. Once if the image is broken, once if it can’t be described, and once if the two can’t find the same words.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:10:23 +0000

Matt,

This is very helpful. It has already helped me to make the decision to upgrade my server. I had my suspicions that my server connection was taking a beating, but this has now proved it to me. The only draw back now is cost, so I’m gonna need to do some pretty pin point costing analysis to make the move.

But, without the info given to me from Google Webmaster Tools I wouldn’t have been certain that the move was required.

Thanks again.
Christian

By: Kelly Jones

Kelly Jones — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:12:26 +0000

A little late for a post but something hit me the other day that would be a great addition to the tools:

Why now allow us to enter x number of keywords and our IP (so that we get the same datacenter as we normally do) and it will tell us our postions and track them over time. Yes, there’s an API for this but why not build it into the Webmaster Tools? Besides, the API results aren’t always as accurate as the real thing so that needs to be cleaned up a bit.

Throw in the current PageRank, backward links and whatever and you’ve got a VERY cool tool Heck, you might even cut down on a little bot traffic