Google launched 'Instant Previews' in Webmasters Tools last year to help users better understand if a particular result was relevant for a their search query. Since launch, the Instant Previews team has been keeping an eye on common complaints and problems related to how pages are rendered for Instant Previews. When we see issues with preview images, they are frequently due to: Blocked resources due to a robots.txt entry Cloaking: Erroneous content being served to the Googlebot user-agent Poor alternative content when Flash is unavailable To overcome these problems, Google has a new Instant Preview tool in the Labs section of Webmaster Tools. Here, you can input the URL of any page on your site, then the 'Instant Preview' tool will fetch the page from your site and try to render it both as it would display in Chrome and through our Instant Preview renderer. Google says - "Please keep in mind that both of these renders are done using a recent build o...

If you use Google Analytics to track site data, you can now link your Webmaster Tools verified site to an Analytics profile when they use the same Google Account. That will make your Analytics profiles accessible within Webmaster Tools, and you will be able to access more easily the below mentioned Analytics features: Google Analytics Referring Pages : View your Google Analytics Referring Pages report directly from the Links to your site page in Webmaster Tools. This report helps you understand the overall trends in traffic volume from referrals, as well as the sites driving those trends. Google Analytics Dashboard : Access the Google Analytics Dashboard directly from the Analytics link in the top left bar when you’re on a site-related page. How to link a verified site in Webmaster Tools to a Google Analytics profile? There are a few steps involved, On the Webmaster Tools home page, click Manage next to the site you want, then click Google Analytics profile. Select the prof...

This video talk about utilizing some features in Webmaster Tools as though you were optimizing for www.googlestore.com. This is just a 10mins video, but will clear so many of your queries.

Everybody now knows about the Google Webmasters Tools and those who don't it's the way you can let Google know about your website in a much better way, so that Google Bot can index those pages also which were otherwise difficult to. Anyways I am going to talk in this post about the Google Webmasters Tools and it's features. Before starting anything you need to have your Google Account and in case you don't then please create one for yourself. The Google Webmasters Tools Dashboard - This is the first page once you login to your webmasters account. It consists of the following, A Box - box at the top left which says add your website here Sites - where it displays the number of websites added to your webmaster account, which further shows the Sitemap and the Verification tab. There is an option also to download the entire data from the webmaster tools. A Message Center - which displays the messages for the site straight from Google. Talk to Google - where you can repo...

Google, the BIG - G The major player in the internet marketing business. Google has changed the picture the web looks. It has enhanced the features and modified the web to match the user queries. As of today Google is the King. Every body just loves to Googles. GOOGLING and GOOGLING is every where. I have listed some of the most popular services Google features, and they are listed as under: GOOGLE WEBMASTERS TOOLS Google's Webmaster Tools, the heart of the website's optimization. The Webmaster tools are the major source of information about the performance of your website in GOOGLE Search Engine, and to know the website's performance in Google. Not only this, know how Google crawls and indexes your website, Know the specific problems the Google Bot encountered while crawling your website, Analyze and Classify the traffic, by keeping the track of the internal and external links to your site, Inform Google, more about the structure and the important pages of your site, by su...