Google has updated Google Webmaster Tools to add new dashboards, updated the navigation and added a compact view for the home page site-list.
The dashboard is what you see when you go to a site profile. On this view, you are able to see crawl errors, search queries and sitemaps indexing graphs right there:
Google also updated the navigation on the left hand side, here is the new navigation:
- Dashboard
- Messages
- Configuration
- Settings
- Sitelinks
- URL Parameters
- Change of Address
- Health
- Crawl Errors
- Crawl Stats
- Blocked URLs
- Fetch as Google
- Malware
- Traffic
- Search Queries
- Links to Your Site
- Internal Links
- +1 Reports
- Optimization
- Sitemaps
- Remove URLs
- HTML Improvements
- Content Keywords
- Other Resources
- Labs
- Custom Search
- Instant Previews
- Site performance
Google explains each category as follows:
- Configuration: Things you configure and generally don't change very often.
- Health: Where you look to make sure things are OK.
- Traffic: Where you go to understand how your site is doing in Google search, who's linking to you; where you can explore the data about your site.
- Optimization: Where you can find ideas to enhance your site, which enables us to better understand and represent your site in Search and other services.
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Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
