SEO Video Blog – Webmaster Tools Labs #42
Script: Welcome to this weeks SEO Video blog, we are going to take a look at the Google labs feature within ‘webmaster tools’.
Google has introduced 4 features, these include ‘fetch as Googlebot’, ‘Malware details’. ‘Sidewiki’ and ‘Site performance’.
We’re going to take a closer look at the labs in this weeks tutorial.
Fetch as Googlebot - This is designed so that you can see how your website appears to Googles bots that crawl your website. It does take a little time, but you specify which page you want to simulate and then it gives you ability to view the results.
Essentially you want to see a lean version of your website, without the Googlebot’s finding any unwanted information.
Malware Details - If you site has been hacked and is being used for Malware then Google can identify this allowing you to take action, as you can see Creare Communications has no malware detected.
Sidewiki - The Google sidewiki allows users contribute helpful information towards any webpage. With the option within webmaster tools allows you to add a site owners comment, you can see this when you go to Creare Communications and click the side wiki button on the Google tool bar.
Site Performance - This shows the performance statistics for your website, The idea is to improve the performance of the website by analysis the information shown in this section.
You can see that it says that on average Creare Communications takes 2.2 seconds to load and that 63% faster than other sites on the web, which is a helpful statistic and helps puts things in perspective.
It also breaks the information down into a graph, which shows the load speed over the past months and the speed of some of the main pages on your website.
Thanks for watching, if you have any questions or comments please leave them on the Youtube channel or supporting blog post.
