Google Webmaster Tools and / or Google Analytics will expand its reporting to display server data such as calculated server load, server response, page elements' load, consecutive requests and other page, site and server performance metrics...
Essential Tools for Testing Your Website's Usability Go overboard on "optimization" and your site may even get flagged as spam by Google and kicked out of the search results. Vice versa, websites that are well optimized can look outdated, less...
Covering SEO and keyword basics to creating pages and structuring your website through to content, communities, social media, link building, PPC, analytics, tools and tricks to have you optimizing with the best of them.
Are you using Google's PageSpeed Insights and other tools to check your page load speeds? In 2011, they launched the Page Speed reports and tools to help site owners speed up how fast their pages load.
Tools like Whitespark's local citation finder can help you to identify structured citation providers in your area. You can use keyword tools such as AdWords, Wordtracker, WordStream and Übersuggest to generate an exhaustive list of as many possible...
There a number of tools available to help you determine what is relevant for your customers and influence your site. Thirty percent of all product searches now begin on Amazon as opposed to 13 percent on Google according to Forrester Research, and...
Take data from Google and Bing Webmaster Tools (WMT) and try to validate what you’re seeing there in your web analytics tools (e.g. Over time you need to establish the right steps and find the tools that make most sense for your business.
Various helpful SEO tools can be incredibly helpful in assisting your analysis, but nothing trumps human SEO intelligence. The right tools combined with the right SEO intelligence can yield incredible results.
There are plenty of free tools out there to do so. Embedding informative, educational and helpful videos within your content will undoubtedly boost time on page and elicit more of those “long stays” that Google is placing more and more value on...
Semantic markup of data is great as it means you can have a better looking result – we all know this – but if you’re worried about implementation Google have started to develop data highlighters to make things easier – one currently exists for...
Webmaster tools, geo-location setup, canonicals and hreflang tags are imperative if you’re sticking with your .com and want to tell Google and the rest of the world that your .com/kr (Korean) version of your site is over here.
Now Google allows you to add schematic markup using Google webmaster tools – it’s just for “events” at the moment, but it offers a lot of potential for SEO professionals to take action without needing help from developers.
Visit the "Enhance 404 pages" section in Google Webmaster Tools, which allows you to generate a JavaScript snippet. To take this a step further, you can use newer tools for crowdsourced FAQs to literally create a content roadmap for what matters...
Once I dug into the site, I requested access to the client’s webmaster tools account and its Google Analytics account. Google and Bing Webmaster Tools provide a boatload of data, directly from the engines.
Check Google Webmaster Tools at least once a week for site crawler issues. First place to check is your Webmaster Tools, see if Google has sent you a “WE FOUND BAD THINGS ON YOUR SITE” email. When in doubt about a page, you can also use the “Fetch...
While reviewing the pages crawled per day in Google Webmaster Tools, I noticed that out of the gate we had an instant crawl of nearly all site pages. Additionally, so much more new content and refreshed content drives the bots nuts giving them so...
Note the average time for Google to download a page and average pages crawled per visit in Google Webmaster tools. Ignoring this is bad, as Google has stated in the last year that site speed is a ranking consideration – also, slower sites annoy users.
Motion Charts uses four tools to help you visualize trends: Google Analytics now allows you to see the average loading speed of individual pages on your site in the Page Timings report, which you can find on the Content menu:
As for free solutions, Google Webmaster Tools leads the pack by a wide margin. Here are a few other interesting tidbits from the survey: percent of SEOs use Google Analytics, annihilating all the rest; the next most used analytics tool is WordPress...
Last year, Google updated "Fetch as Googlebot" in Webmaster Tools (WMT) with a new feature, called "Submit URL to Index," which allows you to submit new and updated URLs that Google themselves say they "will usually crawl within a day.
