Monday, August 20, 2012 at 12:52 PM
Webmaster level: All
We know many of you check Webmaster Tools daily (thank you!), but not everybody has the time to monitor the health of their site 24/7. It can be time consuming to analyze all the data and identify the most important issues. To make it a little bit easier we’ve been incorporating alerts into Webmaster Tools. We process the data for your site and try to detect the events that could be most interesting for you. Recently we rolled out alerts for Crawl Errors and today we’re introducing alerts for Search Queries data.
The Search Queries feature in Webmaster Tools shows, among other things, impressions and clicks for your top pages over time. For most sites, these numbers follow regular patterns, so when sudden spikes or drops occur, it can make sense to look into what caused them. Some changes are due to differing demand for your content, other times they may be due to technical issues that need to be resolved, such as broken redirects. For example, a steady stream of clicks which suddenly drops to zero is probably worth investigating.
The alerts look like this:
We’re still working on the sensitivity threshold of the messages and welcome your feedback in our help forums. We hope the new alerts will be useful. Don’t forget to sign up for email forwarding to receive them in your inbox.
Posted by Javier Tordable, Tech Lead, Webmaster Tools
We know many of you check Webmaster Tools daily (thank you!), but not everybody has the time to monitor the health of their site 24/7. It can be time consuming to analyze all the data and identify the most important issues. To make it a little bit easier we’ve been incorporating alerts into Webmaster Tools. We process the data for your site and try to detect the events that could be most interesting for you. Recently we rolled out alerts for Crawl Errors and today we’re introducing alerts for Search Queries data.
The Search Queries feature in Webmaster Tools shows, among other things, impressions and clicks for your top pages over time. For most sites, these numbers follow regular patterns, so when sudden spikes or drops occur, it can make sense to look into what caused them. Some changes are due to differing demand for your content, other times they may be due to technical issues that need to be resolved, such as broken redirects. For example, a steady stream of clicks which suddenly drops to zero is probably worth investigating.
The alerts look like this:
We’re still working on the sensitivity threshold of the messages and welcome your feedback in our help forums. We hope the new alerts will be useful. Don’t forget to sign up for email forwarding to receive them in your inbox.
Posted by Javier Tordable, Tech Lead, Webmaster Tools
21 comments:
Nice post.
Great.. Regular updates in webmaster really making it simple..
thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing such wonderful insight!
I can't wait to start testing this new feature out.
I like this feature
Very useful addition to Webmaster Tools. Finding all recent additions and guidance on notifications very helpful.
like
very nice
It is really helpful for all. This notification makes analysis process smoother.
Really nice info thanks MASTER.
Thank you for this well-explained post. Everybody will understand about it. Hoping to see more post soon.
In web world it is just a common need to takes touch with web analytic to go abroad for a legend success so I think
"Search Queries Alerts in Webmaster Tools" is a useful feature produced by Google.Thanks Google
Great that now we can know more about the search queries, we need more useful updates from Google.
Search queries alerts is very useful update in webmaster tools. Now it is very easy to us to know that from which query we are getting more or less traffic to website.
That great Thanks
Thats the best news for my site in a long time, nice idea! Hope you can set it up so you just get a mail when Google detect something?
great info! I just went in and set up the email notifications, this is a great time saver.
How come we can't get an export of the keywords each ranking page has had impressions for? we can see it in the dashboard but can't export or print it out???
I cant enable the email forwarding
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