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Google Webmaster Tools - A Starters Guide
October 13th, 2008 • 2 comments seo
Tags: google webmaster tools, keyword tool, live webmaster tools, robots txt, search engine, search engine optimization, seo, seo tool, seo tools, sitemap, sitemap generator, submit site, submit url, verify a site, web master tool, web master tools, webmaster central, webmaster resource, webmaster tool, webmasters tool, webmasters tools
Hi,
Today I’ll start a series of posts about Google Webmaster Tools. This posts will be tutorial-alike and I’m planning to give basic elements of tools. If you’re already familiar with these tools, don’t waste your time. You can read one of my previous posts about:
or you can go somewhere else.
Anyway, let’s start. First of all, you need a Google acount for this. After you logged in to webmaster account you’ll see the dashboard. Dashboard will look like this:
Google Webmaster Tools Dashboard
All of your sites will be listed in dashboard. I’ve marked three point on the screenshot. First one is the “Messages”. This is the link to the message center. From time to time you will get notices about some of your sites. These notices will be listed in your message center. And sometimes message center will be unavailable. And I don’t know why. Don’t ask. So what notices can you get? Things like “crawl rate changed”, reconsideration requests and some crawl problems.
- I’ll explain this “crawl rate” thing later.
- Reconsideration requests are seems to be important but truly I haven’t got any results from a reconsideration request yet. Normally you can ask Google to reconsider your site which is banned (Google thinks that your site is spammy? dangerous? ) After a reconsideration request, all you have to do is wait for a return. I’m waiting for more than a year and when I got a return I’ll make you learn.
- Crawl problems are the most important ones, as you may guess. You have to follow these notices and try to resolve them immediately.
The second mark is the “add site” form. Using this form you can add your site to your webmaster tools account. Of course you’ll need to verify your site. After you added a site, it’ll appear in the third area marked. Later you can use these links to directly go to that sites reports. So if you haven’t added a site yet, just type your url and hit the “Add Site” button. Now you got a site listed in dashboard and a cross under the “Verified” section. So let’s click it and verify your site. Verification can be done in two ways:
- Using a meta tag: You need to add the provided meta tag to your index page. This means that this meta tag should be accessible from your home page (http://www.example.com). So all you have to do is just copy the line and paste to the header of your site (between <head> and </head> tags)
- Using a html file: You need to create an empty file named exactly as Google says. So if it provides google0e42cde8782c894c.html you have to create that file in the top level of your web root. And it must be accessible as http://www.example.com/google0e42cde8782c894c.html.
After you choose one of the two ways just hit the “Verify” button and Google will handle the rest. After verification completed you can go the “Overview” section. This is the starting point when you next click your site from dashboard. Here is a screenshot of it:
Google Webmaster Tools Overview
Lets start from the top. “Home page crawl” section gives the time of last crawl of your homepage. If your site is new, it’ll take time to see something on this section. In order to get indexed as quick as possible you can follow my way. It’ll be good for you to keep these crawl times. Later you’ll be able to see how often Google bot visits your site — and of course changes in frequency. “Index status” will give an overview of your site’s index status. Either some of your pages are included in index or not. And either some of your pages from your sitemap are included or not. You can find details of inclusion in other sections. For now let’s skip it.
Below we got an important section: “Web crawl errors”. Let’s go over them:
- Errors for URLs in Sitemaps: This gives the number of erroneous URLs listed in your sitemap. If your sitemap is auto-generated (output of a plugin etc.) most probably the url strucure will be correct. So the errors will be due to server downtime or something like that. You have to view the “Details” and inspect the errors. If urls are broken you should remove them from your sitemap. It’s really a bad idea to provide broken links in your sitemap. After correcting the problems these errors will be gone during next crawl.
- HTTP errors: This section contains urls that give an HTTP error (401, 404, 407 etc.): “Article not found”, “Item not found” etc. First of all you have to think about the reason of existance of this url. How Google bot was able to react that url? Who gave a broken link? May be you have changed your url structure lately and created some broken links?
- Not found: Again broken links. (HTTP 404)
- URLs not followed: Mostly you got errors due to redirects. You should always be careful with redirects.
- URLs restricted by robots.txt: I’ll go over the robots.txt later. If you don’t know what robots.txt is and some urls are listed in this section than there is a problem. You can use robots.txt file to protect some of your urls to not to get indexed. So if this list contains a url that you want to get indexed than inspect your robots.txt.
- URLs timed out: This section is also important. If Google bot encountered a time out probably there is an issue with your web server. Or your HTML is too large?
- Unreachable URLs: Get rid of these urls or make them reachable.
I guess this enough for this post. I’ll continue later. See you.
Russell Crowe Is A SEO Freak!
September 21st, 2008 • 2 comments general, seo
Tags: crowe, gladiator, internet marketing, movie gladiator, russell crowe, search engine, search engine optimization, search marketing, seo, submit site, submit url, website traffic
Gladiator
It’s 2 a.m. and I’m watching Galdiator on tv. Actually I’ve already seen that movie about ten times. It’s hard to find something more interesting at these hours, that’s why it’ll be eleven from now on. No harm in making it eleven.
As you may guess Galdiator or Russell Crowe has nothing to do with search engine optimization, at least not related to any seo technique that I’ve known. But eventually due to this post everyone that will search Russell Crowe on Google will come to my blog one day - yes, I really believe that. So we can conclude that Russell Crowe himself is a seo technique that will draw traffic to your web site, I swear. You see, I was wrong saying that Russell Crowe has nothing to do with search engine optimization. Ok, I’ll shut up.
Tonight I noticed that my blog has been included to Google index. Not as I expected but at least now I have some pages indexed. It seems that Google bots have visited my blog the day I wrote my first post. So they took only that post. Now I’m waiting for the bots to crawl my sitemap and include all my pages to google index. After that - hopefully - I’ll get some traffic from search engines. For now I’m ok with StumbleUpon traffic. In fact, I noticed that someone has favorited my blog on StumbleUpon. Thanks a340 for the fav, that just made me happy 
Now, let’s go back to Gladiator.
Search Engine Submission
September 18th, 2008 • seo
Tags: free search engine submission, increase web site traffic, link submit, search engine, search engine optimization, search engine ranking, search engine submission, search engine submission tool, search optimization, seo, site submission, sitemap generator, sitemaps, submission engine, submit site, submit site to search engine, url submit, web search engine submission, website submit to search engines, website traffic
Yahoo Site Explorer
Live.com Webmaster Center
After submiting RunSeoRun to Google Webmaster Tools, it’s time to submit to some other search engines too. I’ve not directly add my url to Google, using their “Add Url To Google” link, since there is no need to do it after submitting my sitemap.xml. There are many services that you can use to submit your url to several search engines, but truly I don’t believe that they affect much. Always I make sure that Google, Yahoo and Live.com crawls my site and don’t care about other search engines. Both Yahoo and Live.com has services like Google Webmaster Tools. None of them are as useful as Google Webmaster Tools. But at least they give you an oportunity to submit your sitemap.xml.
To use these services, again you have to verify your site. There must be a generic way to verify that a site is yours, every tool requires a different action. I hate that wierd meta tags. Anyway, I submitted my sitemap.xml to Yahoo Site Explorer and Live.com Webmaster Center too. From now on, I’ll host some other spiders.
