Google’s sitemaps console has added another new and much sought after feature, backlinks! It appears as a new tab at the top of the sitemaps page (next to statistics) and shows a breakdown of the number back links for your site by page. If you click the link next to it you get a list of said links. Neat huh?
You can also find who’s linking to a specific page on your site with a nifty little search tool, handy if you have a huge site with hundreds or thousands of pages. All in all a much welcome update form the Google Sitemaps team.
Category Archives: Google
Google increases personalization options
Search Engine Land has this in depth report on Google’s increased personalization options, including how bookmarking the sites you visit regularly can increase their search engine rankings and how personalized results differ from the main SERPS. It also details how new Google accounts have search history on by default and how to disable it if you don’t want the Big G spying on your searches.
Google explains the basics
Those fine folks at The Official Google Blog have posted this guide to controlling how search engines access your site, or robots.txt for dummies if you like. A great place to start reading about search engines.