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How do you use Webmaster Tools? Share your stories and become a YouTube star!

Thursday, August 06, 2009 at 11:30 AM

Our greatest resource is the webmaster community, and here at Webmaster Central we're constantly impressed by the knowledge and expertise we see among webmasters: real-life SEOs, bloggers, online retailers, and all those other people creating great online content.
How do real-life webmasters actually use Webmaster Tools? We'd love to know, and we'd like to showcase some real-life examples for the rest of the community. Create a video telling your story, and upload it via the gadget in our Help Center. We'll highlight the best on our Webmaster Central YouTube channel, and even embed some in relevant Help Center articles (with full credit to you, of course).


To share your stories: Make a video, upload it to YouTube, then go to our Help Center, and submit your vid via our Help Center gadget. Our full guidelines give more information, but here is a summary of the key points:

  • Keep the video short; 3-5 minutes is ideal. Think small: a short video is a good way to showcase your use of - for example - Top Search Queries, but not long enough to highlight your whole SEO strategy.
  • Focus on a real-life example of how you used a particular feature. For example, you could show how you used link data to research your brand, or crawl errors to diagnose problems with your site structure. Do you have a great tip or recommendation?
  • Upload your video before September 30.
  • White hats are recommended. They show up better on screen.

The comments you read here belong only to the person who posted them. We do, however, reserve the right to remove off-topic comments.

6 comments:

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Pablo Almeida said...

Very nice idea! Google rules! :)

moonrunnerone@gmail.com said...

That is the question of the century. I used the tools and did all that was said to do and now GOOGLE is not posting my site in their list. I say GOOGLE SUCKS!!!!! You tell a person do this and do that and you will raise your rank in search listings, then when a person does that you wipe them off!!! What the hell is the use of listing and asking for help from the mighty GOOGLE when it does more harm than good. GOOGLE you are.............. that is all I have to say on that. May you rot in H..........

Simon said...

My most common use of webmaster tools is to check site links.

I've already suggests site link changes get emailed to the relevant webmaster if possible! But no idea if google took up the suggestion.

SEO Services Delhi said...

The google webmaster tools are use to increase indexing of website check rate of indexing and also give free suggestion regarding your website

Google Webmaster Central said...

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