Data Highlighter in Google Webmaster Tools

More from, http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2692911

Google Webmaster specific quality guidelines

Google has provided specific quality guidelines in its Webmaster Guidelines. These guidelines help your website get crawled and indexed.

- Do not use hidden text or link.
- Avoid cloaking or sneaky redirects.
- Do not send automated queries to Google.
- Not to load pages with irrelevant keywords.
- Avoid duplicate content.
- Do not create pages with malicious programs
- No doorway pages to cheat search bots.
- Provide a value/reason for your customers to visit your site if your site uses affiliate program.

Resource:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769

Index status in Google Webmaster Tools

Index Status is a new feature in Google Webmaster Tools.

More,
Index status, https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2642366

Google Basics, https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=70897

SEO for startups in under 10 minutes from Google

Maile Ohye from Google has a video on SEO for startups in under 10 minutes


source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/seo-essentials-for-startups-in-under-10.html

More Links

SEO for startups in under 10 minutes - Slides
Google Webmaster Central - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/seo-essentials-for-startups-in-under-10.html
Webmaster Academy - http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=checklist.cs&tab=1095542

New Bing Webmaster Tool

Bing Webmaster tool has a new and improved interface.

Bing Webmaster Tools Announces New Features, Tools and Ways to Access Data

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/phoenix-rising-bings-new-webmaster-tools-whiteboard-friday

Site Health Check in Google Webmaster tools

Google Webmaster Tools provide a "Check site health" for your website. This helps to keep your website to run healthy and smoothly.

More
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/work-smarter-not-harder-with-site.html

schema.org - Rich Snippets - Micro Data

From http://schema.org/docs/gs.html

Schema.org provides a collection of shared vocabularies webmasters can use to mark up their pages in ways that can be understood by the major search engines: Google, Microsoft, Yandex and Yahoo!

Know more about Rich Snippets from http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99170&topic=21997&ctx=topic

Piano and Sitar in Google Analytics

Google Analytics : Visitors Overview

Google Analytics has got Piano and Sitar in its dashboard. You can also play Piano or Sitar from the Visitors Overview in Google Analytics. Just next to Visits, there's a Music icon, click on that to see Piano and Sitar. The music plays with the visits stats.

Also today,
You are now 8-bit NES version of Google Maps - Google Japan
Google Street Roo - exploring the outback one bounce at a time - Google Australia

how to add @anywhere in blogspot

example: @abeen

To add @anywhere in your blogspot / blogger,
- visit https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new , provide details.
- Login to your blogger account, Edit HTML
- Before </head>   paste
<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/anywhere.js?id=YourAPIKey&v=1">
  </script>
  <script type="text/javascript">
     twttr.anywhere(function(twitter) {
              twitter.hovercards();
     });
  </script> 


More : https://dev.twitter.com/docs/anywhere/welcome

Submit Your URL to Google

You can submit your web URL to Google, via https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url. And if you have Google webmaster tools, you can fetch the web URL as how the page appears to Googlebot. And also, you can submit your URL.
Log into your webmaster tools, under Diagnostics, click on Fetch as Googlebot. Provide the web URL to be fetched. Allow some minutes, check the fetch status, once it is successful, click submit to index. Select either of 'URL' or 'URL and all linked pages' options to submit. Selecting 'URL' allows up to 50 URLs a week and selecting 'URL and all linked pages' allows up to 10 URLs a month. Visit for More.

Link Google Webmasters Tools to Google Analytics

We can now link our Google Webmasters Tools with the Google Analytics Account.
Simply, Log into Webmasters Tool Account and then Click " Manage" to link to "Google Analytics Profile".
More from http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/02/linking-google-analytics-to-webmaster.html

crawl errors sources by GWT

Just that google talked about Good times with inbound links, the google webmaster tool now shows sources for the crawl errors.

The web crawl errors detailing "Errors for url in sitemaps" and "Not Found" have a new column, "Linked From" added by GWT. This "Linked From" provides linked pages/sources for the URL.

Here's an example from http://www.imavista.com ( Image Editing and Photo Retouching)

The figure shows 4 pages in the Linked From Column for Not Found URL. (click on image to see large view)

Now, after I clicked on 4 pages under "linked from", the above sources are shown. And the mentioned sources have broken links and so is under the Not Found Stat. Very much helpful information provided by "GWT /Linked From".

sitelinks

I know I have already once talked about sitelinks, and today I would again like to post some lines about the sitelinks.
So what are sitelinks? Google sitelinks are little set of links or snippets of links seen in SERPs just below the website URL.These list of links ranges from 2 to maximum number of 8 links.

Here's a screen shot of the popular photo collection website from Netherlands.



The links highlighted are called Sitelinks and they are the sitelinks for the www.photoos.net. Search with "photoos" in www.google.nl, you can see the above result.Here are few points I would like to mention for the sitelinks as I have experienced:-

1. Site should rank first for the keyword used as query to search.
2. Searching for short, high traffic keyword/s usually brand/domain names.
3. Not for every keywords or keyphrase sitelinks appear.
4. Fairly high natural search traffic.
5. High click through rates from the search results page.
6. Sitelinks are usually generated from top level links. Internal links from homepage.
7. Easily crawled, structured navigation. Easy to crawl and relevant page links in HTML, Useful links.
8. Pure HTML links, no java script or flash.
9. Image with proper alt text.
10. 2 to 8 numbers of sitelinks are displayed.
11. Site age is several years or older.
12. High probablity that the information on a web page will be accessed by a user.
13. High probablity that the information will be useful to a user submitting a search query.

Google says, "Sitelinks are calculated algorithmically and completely automated".
You might also want to visit:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Tools/browse_thread/thread/63b915eed3386a60
and
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334

MSN webmaster tool

I happened to see this tool by msn.



MSN webmaster tool is in beta but still provides information stats about your websites. Very good tool for webmaster to drive in traffic.

:)

QA critical to web development company

Web Quality
Quality is a tough concept when you are dealing with a web site. Web Quality refer to measurable characteristics- things we are able to compare to known standards such as:
HTML standards
HTML Validation
Validating links
CSS Validation
Validating accessibility

In practical terms, this requires a site to validate against a series of checkpoints. These include:

• Checking for broken links.
• Checking for missing content, e.g. images.
• Checking for missing page titles.
• Checking the spelling and grammar of content.
• Checking for missing metadata.
• Checking the file sizes of pages to ensure they are not too large.
• Checking for browser compatibility.
• Checking that applications are functioning correctly, e.g. online forms.
• Checking that any Server Side Scripting or other languages function correctly.
• Checking that legal and regulatory guidelines are being adhered to, e.g. data protection and privacy.
• Checking that pages conform to your organisation's Web-Accessibility standard (if any), e.g. missing 'alt-tags'.
• Checking that the Website Design standard is maintained.