Google webmaster tools

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Google Webmaster Tools is a a Google service that allows you to analyze:

  • who is linking to your pages
  • which keywords are used to find your pages and how well these pages show up in a google search
  • What pages link to your side

The free version only show the top 20 searches queries.

You can download data files in csv format to do some further analysis

Statistics

The most useful feature are the top search queries and its traffic column. It will show the top 20 google queries that made people land on your website and it will show they typical position in displayed results. As you can see in the following screendump, edutech pages come on top. Most queries are relevant, i.e. people should find what they are looking for. Finally, pages that turn out to me most popular, are not necessarily the ones I am most proud of :).

The column to left (impressions shows shows the top 20 queries in which edutech wiki appeared. The first item is totally useless (i.e. a wiki template I now removed since it wasn't used).

Google Webmaster tools traffic for edutechwiki (March 7 2009).

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