Google Webmaster Central

This posting is about Google Wembaster Central. Every serious webmaster SHOULD BE signed up with Webmaster Central. Google Webmaster Central shows you the following information:

1. When Googlebot last crawled your pages

2. If your pages are in the Google index or not.

3. All web crawl errors. For example:
- HTTP Errors
- URL’s not found
- URL’s not followed
- Whats restricted by robots.txt
- etc

4. Crawl Rate
- This measures how many pages are crawled per day
- Number of KB downloaded a day
- You can select how fast you would like Googlebot to crawl your site

5. Query Stats
This is HUGE. Query stats state what terms people are linking to you with. For example, if an external site is linking to you with keywords “Online shopping,” it will state what keyword they are linking to you with. It also states the top search queries that people type into Google to find your site.

6. Links
Shows you how many links are on the web to specific pages of your site.

As you can see, Google Webmaster Central gives you tremendous value, all for free. If you’re in the sandbox, you can try to figure out why you’re in the sandbox, when you were put there, and possibly find out the reasons.

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