Is google webmasters any good?

jaunty_mellifluous · Post by **jaunty_mellifluous** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:30 pm

I've found over time that it's a real waste of your important time. What's your say on this?

ElbertF · Post by **ElbertF** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:56 pm

I think it's a nice addition to other tools I use like Google Analytics. Any diagnostics are useful.

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:02 am

I use Google Webmaster tools, it's good for seeing how many incomming links you have and if Google is having any problems indexing your site.

jaunty_mellifluous · Post by **jaunty_mellifluous** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:42 am

Is the sitemap feature useful?

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:44 am

It is very usefull if you want to get new content indexed quickly.

ElbertF · Post by **ElbertF** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:09 am

I helps Google and other SEs to find pages that have no incoming links, I've created a dynamic XML-sitemap for this purpose.

Rotsblok · Post by **Rotsblok** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:04 am

may i ask what we are discussing here? as it seems to me ist like any other survey topics as Is phpBB any good? or is "some temamember" a nice guy/girl?

stickerboy · Post by **stickerboy** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:37 pm

I'm inclined to agree with Rotsblok on this one as i'm not seeing the discussion value in this.
I'll leave it open for now, but will lock it on the first signs of it turning into a survey topic.

jaunty_mellifluous · Post by **jaunty_mellifluous** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:37 pm

I just asked those questions because I didn't find any good use of google webmasters in the initial stages of my website's launch. Google didn't visit my pages any often. Now that it's been up or a while google visits my site anyway even though I don't have any sitemaps added to it by myself.

poyntesm · Post by **poyntesm** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:01 am

its a set of tools being discussed.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools

barmajan · Post by **barmajan** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:16 pm

I think Google tools is very useful . Every one Interested in SEO will found Google tools important to improve your web site .

jaunty_mellifluous · Post by **jaunty_mellifluous** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:44 pm

Tools like StatCounter are much more useful I would say. You get all kinds of stats like, total hits, most popular pages, recent keyword searches, search engine results (results coming from which search engines the most etc). And other stuff. Just keep reading the stats you'll get a very good idea for what to do with your website.

Post by **thecoalman** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:34 pm

It may not be useful if you're not getting any traffic but if you have even a moderate amount of traffic it will provide some very valuable information. Off the top of my head you can get a quick glimpse of how many pages Google is crawling per day, what searches you r pages showed up in, the top serches that reuslted in someone going to your site. It also provides a lot of diagnostic tools, I've caught more than few things that needed fixing through there.

davidgid · Post by **davidgid** » Fri May 02, 2008 4:40 pm

One of my favorite things about google webmaster is the tools section. They have a great little tool to both analyze and generate your robots.txt file. The analyze is great because you can test your robot.txt on different urls to make sure you are not disallowing a bot from indexing certain pages you want to be index. The robots.txt can get really tricky when you start filtering on a query string. The analyze tool takes the guess work out of it.

jaunty_mellifluous · Post by **jaunty_mellifluous** » Sat May 03, 2008 4:06 pm

How do you use robots.txt?