Friday, December 10, 2010 at 1:21 PM
Webmaster Level: AllJust in time for the holidays, the Webmaster Tools team has updated the "Search queries" and "Links to your site" features.
Search queries with top pages:
Throughout the past year we’ve made some significant changes to the search queries feature in Webmaster Tools. We've received lots of feedback about this tremendously popular feature. One frequent request we heard was that people wanted to be able to see search queries data for their site’s individual pages. Well, we totally agreed that this would be useful and promptly set out to add this functionality to search queries. The fruits of our effort have finally ripened enough on the vine and are ready for you to enjoy. Now when you visit the search queries feature in Webmaster Tools you'll see a new tab titled "Top Pages." The "Top Pages" tab lists impression, click, and position data for the top pages on your site based on their performance in Google's search results.
If you click on one of the individual pages listed you’ll see a list of the queries driving traffic to that page, along with impressions and number of clicks for each query.
Just like in the "Top queries" view, you can click on a specific query to see more detailed data and evaluate how the query is performing across the whole site.
To make filtering in search queries even easier, we've added pie charts to show visually the proportions of search type, location and traffic. Also in the "Top queries" view, you can now specify “containing” or “not containing” when filtering queries.
Links to your site with intermediate links:
Links to your site now shows when a particular URL redirects. If there's a link to your site that links to URL1 which then redirects to URL2, we are now showing the link from URL1 to URL2 as an intermediate link. We also added a "Download all links" option to all the tables in the Links to your site feature.
Now that you know about these updates, please take a few minutes to check them out for your site. We hope it will provide you with a little bit of extra joy this holiday season. Let us know what you think by submitting a comment here or posting in our Webmaster Help Forum. Happy Holidays from the Webmaster Tools team!
30 comments:
Thanks for the continued support - I look forward to the well received information!!
Fantastic news! Sometimes I'm amazed at how much Google gives away for free.
This is a great new addition to webmaster tools.
Great job!
Really like the changes and I know my clients will too.
The per page results have helped identify unknown traffic that has been coming from Google in Analytics. Very thankful for this new data set.
Nice update — Will we ever be able to go back more than just a month in stats? Seems to me that 30 day stat visualizations just don't cut it — and what's the reason this data is non-accessible?
Hi,
Thanks for the update! Great point.
K
thanks Google
Keep it up! Search query reports are one of my favorite strategies to use in 2010.
Now if the data would be only a one-day offset like analytics ;)
Thanks google.
Thank you Google for giving this free tool. It will give us more wiser decisions and reports.
Rosendo
Eyewebmaster
that's very useful tools. I think better I use it immediately.
I like it. thank you.
awesome! Is any of this going to be available via the WebmasterTools API?
Thanks for good addition and help us.
Well done! More and more visitor / search / traffic intelligence becoming available. I spend quite some time on Google Webmaster Tools in my training courses - will work this in asap.
Thanks.
Awesome News...Thanks for Spreading
Really useful the updates! move on this way!
Love the updates. Would love it even more if the filter was expanded to include Google Shopping.
HOLY WOW, WOW, WOW IT'S REALLY HERE! YOU GUYS ROCK, just fyi this makes my year and at least the first part of next year... Grrrrreat job, happy holidays and all the best in 2011!
Excellent efforts by the top googlers!!Always praised the efforts.
goIIT.com
congrat's...\m/
Exelent news. GWT tends to be a more and more usefull diagnose tool.
Nice update in webmaster tool. Thanks
बहुत बढ़िया, मज़ा आ गया भैया
g8 addition!
Thanks Google - Merry Christmas to everyone there and all the best for a successful 2011!
This is an awesome addition. Really useful. Thank you Google for continuing to invest the time, energy and money to develop and implement useful tools for us. I appreciate the Google Team!
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