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Come join Customer Solutions Engineer, Vinoaj Vijeyakumaar, from our Southeast Asia office in a 45 minute webinar that will provide an overview and demonstration of these features so you can start using them for you and your clients today.
Presentation given at Digital Jersey's "Lunch and Learn" M2M event on the 16th of September by Callum Alexandre, SEO and Digital Marketing Analyst here at Quadra.
This presentations explains each feature of Google Webmaster Tool with screen shots to make the most out of it
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In this guide, I am going to talk about all the features of Google Search Console and how to use it to increase your search presence in Google.
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You have your Google Analytics account set up, the code is on your website, so now what? Take a look at the basic reporting functions within your GA account to understand your users and begin utilizing that data!
In this presentation, I have described in details the dofollow and Nofollow links.Do-Follow links are those which instructs the crawler that it can follow the link to other web page or websites and move on. No-follow links are those that instruct the crawler that they shouldn’t be used as the path for travelling between different web pages or websites. For this, the no-follow links contain a small obtrusive piece of code that instructs the crawler to avoid them while travelling from one web page to another.
Google Analytics plays an important role in making important business decisions. 'Introduction to Google Analytics' sheds light on basics of Analytics and it's setup.
Google analytic best website performance checker tool, get complete guide information on website with Google analytics tool for better results and for complete check on information.
Google Analytics is a service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about a website's traffic and traffic sources and measures conversions and sales. It's the most widely used website statistics service.
Google changed Webmaster Tools in May of 2015 to Google Search Console and added some new features. This presentation is part of an event to educate small businesses on the benefits of utilizing Google Search Console and help them implement it.
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Google Analytics is one of the most popular free tools used to reach your website. However, if you’re a beginner, the amount of data and unfamiliar terminology can be overwhelming.
In this Slideshare presentation, you will learn step by step how to answer the following 5 basic questions about your company’s website:
1. How many people are coming to my website?
2. Where are my website visitors coming from?
3. Which social media platforms are driving the most traffic to my website?
4. Which pages on my website are getting the most attention?
5. How many people who are coming to my website are converting?
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Do you want to know what content or ad campaign performs best on your website? Do you want to know the reaction of your visitors?
Knowing the manner in which your visitors move through your website and the way they interact with your content lets you optimize your website performance and conversions. Having said this, it is necessary to know Google Analytics Behavior Application. Its report helps you evaluate the performance of your content and the actions visitors take on your website. To be more specific, it informs you what pages people visit and what actions they take while visiting.
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ios app: https://itunes.apple.com/app/hangouts/id643496868?mt=8&uo=4
android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.talk&referrer=utm_source%3Den-ALL-landingpage%26utm_medium%3DCTA%26utm_term%3D%26utm_campaign%3Dlandingpage
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2. Contents
Introduction: Google Webmaster Tools
Verification
Site Dashboard
Site Messages
Site Settings
Search Appearance
Search Traffic
Google Index
Crawl
Malware
Additional Tools
Labs
3. Intro : Google Webmaster Tool
Google's Webmaster Tools are essential for any strong SEO effort.
It helps you see your website as Google sees it.
The toolset gives you insights into what pages have been indexed on your site,
what links are pointing to it, your most popular keywords, and much more.
A site that's active in Webmaster Tools has a better shot at being fully indexed
and ranking well.
4. Verification
Before you can access any data on your site, you have to prove that you're
an authorized representative of the site. This is done through a process of
verification.
There are five main methods of verification currently in place for GWT.
5. The HTML file upload. Google provides you with a blank, specially named file
that you just have to drop in the root directory of your site.
HTML tag. Clicking on this option will provide you with a metatag that you
can insert into the head of your home page.
Domain Name Provider. Select your Domain Name provider from the drop
down list and Google will give you a step by step guide for verification along
with a unique security token for you to use.
Google Analytics. If the Google account you're using for GWT is the same
account as for GA, is an admin on the GA account, and you're using the
asynchronous tracking code, then you can verify the site this way.
Google Tag Manager. This option allows you to use the Google Tag Manager
to verify your site.
Verification Methods
6. Now that you're verified, you can log in and start to examine the data for your
site.
The first screen you'll see is the dashboard. This gives you a quick view into some
of the more pertinent information for your site, along with any new messages from
Google.
Site Dashboard
7. When Google wants to communicate with a webmaster, this is the place they'll
do so.
There may be messages that inform you that you have pages infected with
malware, unable to access the website, they've detected a large number of pages
on your site, which may be an indication of other problems.
Not all messages are bad. Sometimes we can get congratulate msg that we have
an increase in traffic to one or more of your pages.
Site Messages
8. Clicking on the gear icon in the top right gives you access to the tools that
formerly resided in the Configuration menu item.
Settings
9. Here you can tell Google some things about your site if you're not able to tell
them in other ways.
If you have a .com site, hosted in India, but it's targeted to the US, there aren't too
many signals to the search engines that that's your intention. In this tab you can set
your geographic target to the UK, which informs Google of your intentions for this
site.
You can also set your preferred domain – whether you want the site to show up in
the search results with the www or without the www.
The crawl rate option allows you to slow down the rate of Google's spider's crawl.
You’ll only do this if
you have witnessed server issues
due to Google's crawling.
Site Settings
10. You decide to migrate your entire site to a new domain, this is where you let
Google know.
Once you've set up your new site, permanently redirected the content from your
old site to your new using a 301 redirect, added and verified your new site on
GWT, then you come to this option and inform Google of the move.
Change of Address
11. If you'd like to be able to see your GWT data in Google Analytics (GA), you can
use this tool to associate a site with a GA account.
Simply select any currently linked GA account to associate it with this site. If you
don't have a GA account, you have the option to create one here.
Google Analytics Property
12. Here you can see a list of all authorized users on the account, and their level of
authorization.
Owners have permission to access every item on the site.
Users with "Full" permission can do everything except add users, link a GA
account and inform Google of a change of address.
Users with "Restricted" permission have the same restrictions as those with
"Full" permission plus the following: they only have viewing capabilities on
configuration data, cannot submit sitemaps or request URL removals, cannot
submit URLs, cannot submit reconsideration requests, and only have the capability
to view
crawl errors &
malware notifications
Users & Site Owners
13. This lets you see any verification issues / successes.
It gives displays the list of Verification attempts by Google to verify the website
Verification Details
14. This section allows you to associate different Google accounts with your GWT
account.
They can't see any data in GWT, but they can perform actions on behalf of your
site (e.g., creating an official YouTube account for the site, or posting to Google+
on behalf of the site through an associated account).
Associates
15. To add an associate user, simply:
Click on the "Add a new User" button.
Enter the email address that's associated with the account you're associating.
Select the type of association you want.
Click "Add".
To associate a Google+ page, if it's the same account on GWT and Google+,
you're done. If you're using different accounts:
Navigate to the Google+ page.
Click on the profile button on the left.
Click "About", in the links section.
Add a link to the site.
Associates
16. Clicking on the ? icon to the right of this menu option delivers a nice breakdown
of the various elements of a search engine results page (SERP).
Search Appearance
17. Here you can see information about all structured data elements that Google's
located on your site, whether they're from schema.org or older micro formats.
Structured Data
18. The data highlighter allows you to help Google identify some types of structured
data on the pages without the need for the code to actually be implemented.
To use the tool, you need to login to Webmaster Tools, choose your site and
then click “Optimization”, then “Data Highlighter”. It gives you the option to tag a
single page or multiple pages, verify the tags, and then “publish” it to Google.
Data Highlighter
19. Here is where GWT will inform you of issues with your title and description tags.
As titles and descriptions should be unique for each page and should be within
certain character length ranges.
Clicking through on any of these errors will give you a more descriptive overview
of the error and will also give you a list of pages where the error was detected.
HTML Improvements
20. Whenever Google determines that your site is an authority for a particular
keyword they'll show a collection of links below the main link, pointing to what
they believe to be the most important links on that page.
While you can't specify the actual pages that you want to display in the site links,
you can specify which pages you want removed.
Site links
21. Search Queries : Here you can get an overview of the top keywords that
returned a page from your site in the search results.
Data shown here is collected in a slightly different way from your analytics
platform, including GA, so don't expect the number to exactly.
Search Traffic
22. The Search Queries section is broken down into five main indicators:
Query: Query gives you details on what keywords your site is currently ranked for. It's
important to remember that "rank for" means showing up in the SERPs – not necessarily
actively attracting traffic
Impressions: If you've ever wondered how many people are seeing your website for a
specific keyword search, this will tell you.
Clicks: Of the people who are seeing your site, how many are clicking? This information lets
you know how many searchers seeing your site are taking action and clicking on your search
result.
CTR: Your CTR, or click-through rate, is the percentage of people that are clicking on your
site in the search results.
Average Position: This metric tells you where your site typically ranks for each keyword.
Search Traffic
23. This section identifies the domains that link to you the most, along with your
most linked to content. While you most likely won't see every link that Google's
found for your site.
Links to Your Site
24. Here you can see the top pages on your site sorted by the number of internal
links to those pages.
Any pages that show 0 internal links have been orphaned and should either be
linked to from somewhere on your site, or redirected to an appropriate page.
Internal Links
25. The Index Status allows you to track the status of your site within the Google
index. How many pages are they showing as being indexed? Are there any
worrying trends? Have you accidentally blocked large sections of your site from
Googlebot? This is a great place to get the answers to those questions and more.
Google Index
26. This section displays the most common keywords found by the Google crawler as
it navigated your site. One thing to keep an eye on here is if you see unexpected,
unrelated keywords
showing up, that's usually an indication
that your site may have been hacked
and hidden keywords have been
injected into your pages.
Content Keywords
27. If you want to remove a page from your website, The first step is to either
remove the page itself or 301 it elsewhere so that it can't be crawled and indexed.
Enter the URL that you want to remove, click continue, then select whether you
want it removed from the search results and the cache, just from the cache or if
you want an entire directory removed. Clicking Submit Request adds it to the
removal queue. Typically this request will be processed in 2-12 hours.
Remove URLs
28. Crawl Errors - Here's where you find out about the errors that Google has
detected when crawling your site over the past 90 days.
GWT shows you the number of errors, lists the pages and shows a graph of your
count over time for that particular error so you can see whether it's been a gradual
change or a more sudden occurrence.
Crawl
29. The crawl stats section gives you an idea of how fast the crawlers are able to
read pages on your site.
Spikes are to be expected here, but is you see a sustained drop in pages crawled,
or a sustained spike in time spent downloading a page, or in the size of a page,
then that's an indication that you should take a look and see what's changed on
your site.
Crawl Stats
30. Here is where you can basically view your pages as Google sees them. They'll
return the HTTP response, the date and time, and the HTML code.
This is a great way of verifying that the Google crawler sees the page as you
expect it to and that there are no externally injected hidden links on the page.
You are allowed 500 fetches / submissions a week, and 10 linked page
submissions per week (submitting a page and all pages linked from it at the same
time).
Fetch as Google
31. This section is the place to test out your current robots.txt against any pages on
your site to verify whether they can be crawled or not. You can also test out
modifications to your robots.txt to see whether they'd work as you anticipate
against various pages on your site.
Blocked URLs
32. This section is the place to test out your current robots.txt against any pages on
your site to verify whether they can be crawled or not. You can also test out
modifications to your robots.txt to see whether they'd work as you anticipate
against various pages on your site.
Sitemaps
33. What it does is that it allows you to specify URL query string parameters that
shouldn't be considered when examining URLs on the site to determine unique
URLs.
For example, if you had a tracking parameter that you use for a particular
campaign, then the page is obviously the exact same page as when it's reached
without the tracking parameter. Entering the tracking parameter in here tells
Google that they should ignore the tracking parameter when looking at the URL.
URL Parameters
34. If Google has detected any malware on your site, this is where they'll list it out
(it will also appear in the messages section). If you see a page here you'll want to
get it fixed as soon as possible and click on the "Request a Review" button that
will be displayed here.
Malware
35. This section contains links to tools that are outside of GWT, but are of interest
to webmasters, such as the Structured Data Testing tool, which enables
webmasters to test their schema implementations, the Structured Data Markup
Helper, and others.
Additional Tools
36. The labs section contains functionality that's in testing mode.
Author Stats : With the big push to tie up bylines to Google+ accounts, this
tool allows you to see data for pages which you are the author for, so you'd need
to be logged into an account in GWT that you've previously set up as an author.
Labs
37. This allows you to set up Google customized search for your own site.
Create a custom search engine that searches only your own site.
Put a search box anywhere on your site.
Customize the look and feel of the search results pages.
Custom Search
38. This tool allows you to see how your site looks using Google's Instant Preview
feature (the view of your site that can be seen in the search results when you
mouse over the double arrows that show up next to a result).
However, Google removed Instant Previews in April, so this feature isn't of any
value to webmasters.
Instant Previews
39. This section of Labs has been shut down and links off to alternative resources.
Site Performance