If you haven’t yet played around with Google Webmaster Tools http://www.google.com/webmasters , I strongly urge you to sign up your websites. It has a variety of tools to help you improve and understand your Google rankings.
One of the tools is a Site Diagnostic Tool that tells you how many pages of your site are in Google and when was the last time the Googlebot visited your site. To get detailed statistics, you need to either add a code in your metatag or upload a file in your server. Once that’s done, you can get information on
- HTTP errors
- Not found
- URLs not followed
- URLs restricted by robots.txt
- URLs timed out
- Unreachable URLs
The feature I love most is the Query Stats which tells you the top search queries for your site as well as the top search queries clicks. The Page Analysis tool tells you the main keywords of your site both in your site’s content and in external links to your site.
And of course, you can upload your Google Sitemaps to help let Google know of all the pages of your site. In creating my sitemap file, I use the free Sitemap Builder tool http://www.sitemapbuilder.net/ – it is able to get the dynamically generated pages of our forum but not of this blog.
