For Google Webmaster Tool (GWT) and iGoogle users.
Yesterday, Google released a new gadget interface for all your GWT data. The gadgets work on your iGoogle page. There are a few clicks to get started, but after going through the process you will have a new tab with all your data on one screen - a nice feature for busy web workers!
The gadget is really a group of gadgets; one for each major statistic in GWT. The data displayed in your iGoogle tab are:
- Crawl Errors
- Content Analysis
- Top Search Queries
- Subscriber Stats
- What Googlebot sees
- External links
- Internal links
- Sitelinks
- Visit Webmaster Tools and select any site that you've validated from the dashboard.
- Click on the Tools section.
- Click on Gadgets sub-section.
- Click on the big "Add an iGoogle Webmaster Tools homepage" button.
- Click the "Add to Google" button on the following confirm page to add the new tab to iGoogle.
- Now you're in iGoogle, where you should see your new Google Webmaster Tools tab with a number of Gadgets. Enjoy!
One problem with the gadgets: for some reason they default to the first site in your list. So therefore, if you use GWT to track data for more than one site-but you primarily work with the third site on your list-each time you open up the tab you have to change the defaults. It would be nice if it remembered what site you were on last.
1 thoughts:
Looks fairly cool from reading the Google Webmaster Blog. Only problem is I don't use iGoogle and probably never will. I did read this rather negative take on the release.
When they make a widget for Netvibes then we're cooking with jet fuel! :)
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