Some insights on Google Webmaster Tools
1. If you want your pictures to appear on Google search results where you are the author for the articles/pages, you need to verify yourself as the author for your articles/pages. Use the Author Stats option under Labs inside Google Webmaster Tools. You are also required to have a Google+ account.
2. You can use special markups to provide structured data on your web-site pages. Google will use these
structured data to generate the search result content for your pages. You can use Microdata, Micorformats, and RDFs to write these structured data. You can select one of the formats and use that. You can use markups to define/mark the following on your pages: Reviews, People, Products, Businesses and organizations, Recipes, Events, and Music
Read details here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/99170?hl=en
You can also use Google Structured Data Testing Tool to test your structured data: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
Check http://schema.org/ as well.
3. You can use the Data Highlighter tool instead of providing structured data. Data Highlighter tool can be easier to
use. ‘With Data Highlighter, you simply “tag” each data field with your mouse’ . You provide your URLs, select
the types of data you want to highlight (events, reviews), and then use mouse clicks to highlight.
4. HTML Improvements: Google webmaster tools will inform you if you have used too long or too short titles; will also inform you if you have missed title tags for your pages. Use these data to improve your site and improve your SEO score.
5. On search results, Google sometimes display a list of your web-site sections such as About X, Solutions, and Products. You can use sitelink tools inside Google webmaster tools to demote a sitelink.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitelink
“Sitelinks are hyperlinks to website subpages that appear under certain Google listings in order to help users navigate the site.
The site owner cannot add any sitelinks; Google adds them through its own secret automated algorithms”
“Search engine optimization experts consider sitelinks to be an important measure of how “trusted” a site is,
and accordingly have attempted to deduce what causes them to appear”
6. Google webmaster tools show you the search queries, clicks on search results, and your top pages in search activity.
7. Google webmaster tools also show you links to your site from external sources. Inbound links from high PR sites and authoritative sites can be good for SEO ranking.
8. Google webmaster tools can show manual webspam actions
9. You will also get indexing stats for your sites and pages
10. You will get an idea on the keywords that Google has discovered on your sites.
11. You can remove your URLs that you do not want to appear on search results using Google webmaster tools.
12. You can also select which of the two URLs you want to appear in search results such as http://www.yahoo.com or http://yahoo.com
13. Google webmaster tools will also show you crawling stats such as:
Crawling Errors: Access Denied, Not Found errors
Crawl Stats: Pages crawled per day
List of Blocked URLs
14. You can upload your sitemaps i.e. list of all of your URLs for Google to crawl and index.
15. Google webmaster tools can show you malware activities on your site as detected by Google
16. Related Tools
PageSpeed Insights: Can show you the speed of your pages and can suggest on how to improve From: http://sitestree.com/?p=944
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