Google provides free tools through Google Webmaster Tools that tell website owners information about their site, including the site's configuration and robots.txt file, links to the site from other websites, and any crawler errors. Other similar tools include Yahoo Webmaster Tools and WebPageTest.org. The presentation demonstrated how to use Google Webmaster Tools to get information about a website from Google for free.

1. What Google Tells You About Your Site
Brian Webster
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May 24, 2010
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2. www.google.com/webmasters/tools
Google tells you about your site - FREE!
Site Configuration - robots.txt
Your Site On the Web - Links
Diagnostics - Crawler Errors
Other Tools
Yahoo Webmaster Tools
WebPageTest.org

3. Demo
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4. Questions
URLs
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites
http://www.webpagetest.org/
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Brian Webster
bwebster@iastate.edu
@bwebster719

5. What Google Tells You About Your Site
Brian Webster
bwebster@iastate.edu
@bwebster719
#netc2010
May 24, 2010
http://www.slideshare.net/bwebster719