Thursday, December 04, 2008 at 5:03 PM
One of the many useful features of Webmaster Tools is the ability to adjust settings for your site, such as crawl rate or geographic target. We've been steadily adding settings over time and have now gotten to the point where they merit their own page. That's right, Webmaster Tools now provides a single, dedicated page where you can see and adjust all the settings for your site.
The settings that have been moved to the new Settings page are:
1. Geographic Target
2. Preferred domain control
3. Opting in to enhanced image search
4. Crawl rate control
Changing a Setting
Whenever you change a setting, you will be given an option to save or cancel the change.
Please note: The Save/Cancel option is provided on a per setting basis and hence if you change multiple settings, you'll have to click the Save button associated with each setting.
Expiration of a setting
Some of the settings are time-bounded. That is, your setting will expire after a certain time period. For example, the crawl rate setting has an expiration period of 90 days. After this period, it's automatically reset to the default setting. Whenever you visit the Settings page, you can view the date that your setting will expire underneath the setting name.
That's all there is to it!
We always like adding features and making our interface clearer based on your suggestions, so keep them coming! Please share your feedback (or ask questions) in the Webmaster Help Forum.
The settings that have been moved to the new Settings page are:
1. Geographic Target
2. Preferred domain control
3. Opting in to enhanced image search
4. Crawl rate control
Changing a Setting
Whenever you change a setting, you will be given an option to save or cancel the change.
Please note: The Save/Cancel option is provided on a per setting basis and hence if you change multiple settings, you'll have to click the Save button associated with each setting.
Expiration of a setting
Some of the settings are time-bounded. That is, your setting will expire after a certain time period. For example, the crawl rate setting has an expiration period of 90 days. After this period, it's automatically reset to the default setting. Whenever you visit the Settings page, you can view the date that your setting will expire underneath the setting name.
That's all there is to it!
We always like adding features and making our interface clearer based on your suggestions, so keep them coming! Please share your feedback (or ask questions) in the Webmaster Help Forum.
16 comments:
Great addition to the webmaster tools!
Jenn
What if my sites targeting audience is related to more than one country?
Great n Thanks to Google Webmastertools Team. You guys are always working to improve things and help us to make the things better and improve the results.
Thanks
Regards
Sankar
Thank you Google Web Masters Team!
It is a great addition and it will help so much!
really great improvements especially with Crawl rate
Typical Google. Always on the look out for ways to improve the system. Another great addition to the webmaster tools.
john
Seems like no matter how hard I try and work on my website I still do not get any improvements in my google ranking. I am not a rich guy that can afford to buy traffic and google just seems to not like my site for some reason. I don't know what to do any more.
Seems like no matter how hard I try and work on my website I still do not get any improvements in my google ranking. I am not a rich guy that can afford to buy traffic and google just seems to not like my site for some reason. I don't know what to do any more.
I get a few verification errors with my site when I try and change the non-www/www prefrence setting!
Not sure why, my site is verified etc!
Would be nice to have some more options with that geographic targeting stuff. A country level domain should be able to pick every country.
Hi Sammy,
This behavior may be related to a verification issue we're currently experiencing in Webmaster Tools. It's mentioned in our "announcements" (in the right-hand side of the Webmaster Help Forum homepage):
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en
In the future, hopefully we'll find a better way to communicate potential issues to you.
Thanks for using the new site settings feature!
take care,
Maile
Maile Ohye,
Thanks for the response! Good to hear, as I thought it was something just my website was facing, as I was playing around with my .htacess file!
Thanks again, in the future i'll do some research beforehand!
Its Superb Nice guidance from Webmaster
It's the end of 2011 and I was directed here for trying to find Settings for Google Analytics.
Which I can't find.
Hi everyone,
Since over a year has passed since we published this post, we're closing the comments to help us focus on the work ahead. If you still have a question or comment you'd like to discuss, free to visit and/or post your topic in our Webmaster Central Help Forum.
Thanks and take care,
The Webmaster Central Team
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