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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.
Say No To NoFollow!
October 3rd, 2008 • seo, wordpress
Tags: backlink, Blog, comment, internet marketing, link building, link exchange, link popularity, nofollow, search engine, search engine optimization, search engine ranking, seo, submit url, u comment i follow, web promotion, wordpress, Wordpress Plugins
Say No To NoFollow
nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring in the first place.
This is what Wikipedia says about nofollow attribute. It means that, if you use nofollow attribute in your links, search engine spiders will not use that link in target site’s ranking calculations. Under normal terms if a site links to your page, it’ll add some value to your page’s ranking. However if that site add a nofollow attribute, than that value will not be counted by search engines. After some time, spammers realized that they can build a large link set just posting automatic comments to random blogs or adding links to wikipedia. To remedy this situation, authorities suggested to add a nofollow attribute automatically to the links in comments etc. However it seems that this doesn’t work any more. Spammers still post automated comments. For wordpress - and most of popular content managements systems - the best way to keep spam away is comment moderation. For the search engine optimization view, allowing do-follow comments will encourage your readers to drop comments since each comment will be counted as a backlink to their site. So no need to talk more about the benefits of dofollow links : ) Just say no to nofollow!
U Comment I Follow
For Wordpress you can use the NoFollow-Free plugin to change the Wordpress’ default behaviour.
What Actually Affects Search Result Rankings?
September 26th, 2008 • seo
Tags: image search, increase traffic, increase web traffic, link popularity, link submit, search engine optimization, search engine submission, seo, submit url, web promotion
Google Search Results For RunSEORun
Good morning my dear blog,
I start my day with a cup of tea - yeah, not coffee - and a query. Tea was good and search results was confusing. Trully they were not confusing but I need a way to attract my reader, sorry. Anyway I got 8 search results as can be seen in the screen shot that I’ve provided. After I checked Reader and marked a couple of posts as read - without reading them of course - , I started to think about rankings of my posts. You know me, I can’t start to think unless I check my Reader account. I asked my self “How Google decide that ‘Hi There!‘ is important than my previous check point post?”. And continued enjoying my cup of tea.
Ok, ok I’ll go into the subject directly. Here are some thoughts on search engine rankings of my posts and how Google decide that one of my posts is better than others. These are just thoughts, not facts.
- First of all my latest post “Check Point #1: Get 100 Daily Unique Visitors In Ten Days” is in the second place. It’s normal for this post to get high rankings since it’s fresh. Newly published content will get high rankings for a limited time. The actual ranking will change after that ‘freshness’ gone. I think that it’s ranked #2 just because it’s fresh, not any other reason.
- “On Sugar Blogging Platform” ranked better than “Use Semantic Coding (Semantic Markup)” even it’s an older post. Both have no trackbacks, I’ve submitted both to StumbleUpon. “On Sugar Blogging Platform” has some links and an image while “Use Semantic Coding (Semantic Markup)” has nothing. Both of them has no links pointing to them. So should I conclude that links and images will discriminate two identical posts?
- “Russell Crowe Is A SEO Freak!” is identical to “On Sugar Blogging Platform” except I haven’t sumbitted it to StumbleUpon. So only one external link can make this difference?This post has lower ranks than “Use Semantic Coding (Semantic Markup)“. So can I conclude that external links has greater importance than the internal linking and article content (images etc.)?
- “First Steps” ranked better than “Search Engine Submission“. First one has two trackbacks, second has none. Second one has images. And both has external links. So I guess having internal links point to some article is important too.
- Why “Hi There!” is in first place? May be it’s because it has both trackbacks and a page linking to it.
After all, I’m really confused now. It seems that;
- Creating fresh content will bring you high rankings immediately.
- However, this will not last too much. After a while you will lost your importance that you gain due to freshness.
- Actual importance comes from external links (External sites link to your page)
- Internal linking (trackbacks etc.) and giving some links (to external sites) are also important.
- Content of your post is important.
So the conclution is “If you create fresh and high quality content (that contains images, links to external sites and links to your other posts) and some (external) sites links to your content than you’ll get traffic“.
Ok, I got it.
Check Point #1: Get 100 Daily Unique Visitors In Ten Days
September 25th, 2008 • 1 comment Uncategorized
Tags: hit counter, increase website traffic, keyword tool, link popularity, search engine optimization, search engine submission, seo, site promotion, submit url, traffic, visitors, web site optimization, web site traffic, Webmaster Tools, website traffic, wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, wordpress templates
Hi,
Let me go over the seo techniques that I’ve applied on this blog and give the results:
- Day - 1: I wrote my first post: Run SEO Run! and a second post about how I configured Wordpress. I changed my blog theme, installed Akismet and configured Wordpress to use permalinks.
- Day - 2: I installed StatCounter plugin and also Google Analytics tracker. I’ve noticed that Wordpress fails for some basic SEO steps like setting up a meta description and keywords. Although meta keywords aren’t as useful as once they are, I considered to provide some good keywords as well. I installed All In One SEO Pack Wordpress plugin and manually corrected the description and keywords of my previous posts. From that day to now, I manually add some popular keywords to every post using Google Adwords Keyword Tool. Lately in the same day I installed another plugin: Google Sitemap Generator. I also submitted my site to Google Webmaster Tools. A couple of days later I’ve noticed that Google bots had visited my site on this day. So it seems that if you like your site to be indexed as soon as possible submit a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.
- Day - 3: I submitted my sitemap to Live.com Webmaster Center and Yahoo! Site Explorer. Also to see the reactions on my blog, I claimed my blog on Technorati. I still got no visitors.
- Day - 4: I submitted my blog to StumbleUpon. A couple of hours later I got my first visitors from StumbleUpon! After a little happiness I decided to add some of my posts to Del.icio.us. After all it seems that StumbeUpon is the best source to draw traffic to your site quickly.
- Day - 5: I do some house cleaning and this has nothing to do with search engine optimization.
- Day - 6: Gladiator for the eleventh time. That day I noticed that RunSEORun has been added to Google Index. Also I got my first fav on StumbleUpon. It’s six now. If you liked my site why not give my a fav? Also at the same day I’ve created a dummy blog on new blogging platorm: OnSugar.com.
- Day - 7: I wrote a little article on image search optimization. Although I’ve used proper naming and proper images, I haven’t been added to image search. Still no results, still no visitors.
- Day -8: Another article on semantic coding. Since Wordpress uses semantic markups by default, I don’t need to worry. But are you sure you’re choosing correct markups?
This is the 10th day since I’ve opened my blog and I’ve got 91 unique visitors and 146 pageviews just for today. Not bad.
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.
Increase Your Web Site Traffic Using Social Bookmarking Tools: Del.icio.us
September 19th, 2008 • seo
Tags: delicious, increase web site traffic, keyword tool, link popularity, search engine, search engine optimization, search engine submission, search submission, seo, site promotion, social bookmarking, social bookmarking tool, stumbleupon, submit to search engines, submit url, targeted web site traffic, traffic site, web promotion, web site promotion, web site traffic, web traffic, website traffic
Del.icio.us
After I’ve submitted RunSEORun to StumbleUpon, just in a couple of hours I started to get some hits So, all those SEO articles about StumbleUpon weren’t wrong at all. For now I’ll just stop at this point and not focus on StumbleUpon. A more in depth work will be crucial for StumbleUpon later. Tonight I’ll introduce my dear blog to Del.icio.us, another social bookmarking site. I don’t expect any traffic from Del.icio.us unless I share my blog link with some people on site. Since Del.icio.us uses “nofollow” attribute in anchors listing your site to these tools will not increase your PageRank directly. But hey, this blog is totally for experiments. There is no harm in trying everything.
Since I’ve thousands of visitors from StumbleUpon, I can talk to my visitors from now on
Add RunSEORun to Del.icio.us
Sitemap.xml And Google Webmaster Tools
September 17th, 2008 • 1 comment seo
Tags: create a sitemap, generate site map, search engine, search engine optimization, search engine submission, seo, seo tool, site map, site map generator, site map tool, site maps, site promotion, sitemap, sitemap generator, sitemap plugin, sitemap wordpress plugin, sitemaps, submit, submit url, webmaster search engine, Webmaster Tools, website marketing
Google Webmaster Tools
After setting up permalinks and correcting meta-tags it’s time to build a sitemap for my lovely blog which already has thousands of visitors every day. Sitemaps are great tools to help search engines discover the pages on your site. If you don’t have a sitemap yet, consider building one. You can find some detailed explanation about sitemaps on Google’s Webmaster Help Center. Again for Wordpress we have a great plugin: Google Sitemap Generator. For those who haven’t got a clue about what this plugin does from it’s name: This plugin generates a google sitemap. Surprising, isn’t it? Anyway, I’ve downloaded this plugin from this link and activated from my admin panel. And got my first sitemap.xml file. So what am I gonna do this file? Yep, Google Webmaster Tools. Google provides a set of very useful tools that you can use to analize your web site. It provides feedback about crawl issues, meta-tag issues, index status etc. I’m planning to write a detailed post about webmaster tools. I verified RunSEORun.com on Google Webmaster Tools and submitted my sitemap.xml. All I can do for now is to wait Google spiders to crawl my blog. Hope it’ll not took much.
