Google Webmaster Tools introduced a new feature around few weeks ago. It’s called Index Status. I was taking a look at it today and it can really help you to identify any search indexing related issue for your website. Index Status is under Health menu. When you click on it you should see a graph like below that will give you the total number of webpages indexed in Google search of your site for every week over a period of time. So if you see that your graph is rising steadily then you can rest assured that all is well and your new pages are getting indexed by Googlebot regularly. [...]

Google has now integrated search queries data from Google Webmaster Tools to Google Analytics so that user can better analyze their traffic data with the help of better filtering and visualization options that one can get in Analytics account. So if you now go to your Google Analytics account using the new interface, you will see a new sidebar menu called Search Engine Optimization under Traffic Sources which in turn is under REPORTS tab. For your convenience I have attached a screenshot for the same [...]

Google just announced this significant change on link reporting feature in Google Webmaster Tools on their official Webmaster Central blog. Previously the links from your sub-domains were considered as external links by Google and they used to show these links in external links section. That included www subdomain too. Suppose you registered www.yoursite.com in Google webmaster tools. So links coming from yoursite.com would have been considered as external links. Even in case you registered a domain with sub-folder path like www.yoursite.com/test/group1, link from www.yoursite.com/test/group1/profile.html would have been considered as internal link whereas a link from www.yoursite.com/test/ would have been an external link. That was because Google used to only consider links that started with your exact registered url as internal links. [...]

I use AddThis dashboard to check the data on how my blog has been shared across social bookmarking sites. And as I use AddThis widget to show Google +1 button on my blog posts, I can also get the sharing trend of Google +1 button from my blog pages. But just a day or two ago Google +1 Metrics has been added in Google Webmaster Tools. Now if you open your site dashboard from Webmaster Tools, you will see +1 Metrics Menu at the sidebar. Click on it to get all the sub-menus and explore all the detailed info including how many unique visitors clicked Google +1 button on your site and which pages have been shared and when. There is another interesting aspect of measuring the search impact of Google +1 button on your site. As you can see from the screenshot, you will find the number of +1 annotated impressions on Google search results page compared to the total impressions for your site. You can get the same data on actual results page clicks on your site link. And if you generate enough traffic to gain a substantial data, Google will show the difference on CTR for pages shown from with & without + annotated results. [...]

In February I wrote a post updating you about the implementation of Google’s high-quality sites algorithm that you call as Panda update . At that time it was rolled out only to Google.com users in the USA. A few days back Google has rolled it out for all users using Google search in English whether they are from English speaking countries or non-English speaking countries. [...]