Google Webmaster Tools Updates in 2011

 We have 31 major Google webmaster tools updates in 2011 till now. Following are the list of updates were live by Sep, 2011. Following are the details:

1.  Better music snippets with rich experience in Google Search - Aug 18th
2. Sitelinks look and feel changed in Google Search - Aug 16th
3. Google Panda algorithm rolled out to additional language sites - Aug 12th
4. New videos on Google webmaster Youtube Channel - Aug 09th
5. Better reporting for webspam  - Aug 08th
6. New feature Fetch Googlebot in webmaster tools - Aug 03rd
7. Speed up website paid Service by Google in future - Jul 28th
8. Better way to handle URLs with parameters - Jul 22nd
9. Valid metrics beyond pagerank - Jun 30th
10. Google +1 Stats on Webmaster Tools & Google Analytics - June 28th
11. rel="canonical" support now in HTTP Headers - Jun 17th
12. New Instant Pages from Google - Jun 14th
13. Webmaster Tools search keywords & impressions info in GA - June 8th
14. Authors Pictures on web search with markup - Jun 7th
15. Search engines come together for richer web with schema.org - Jun 02nd
16. Check your website instant preview in Google Webmastertools - May 18th 2011
17. Better way to Remove URLS from search Engine Results - May 17th 2011
18. Suggestions to build high quality sites in the web - May 6th 2011
19. Google is supporting flash in instant previews - May 6th 2011
20. Wordpress Plugin for Google Webmaster tools verification - Apr 19th 2011
21. New Methods to verify websites in Google Webmaster tools - Apr 21st 2011
22. Google Panda Update goes Global for English Users - Apr 11th, 2011
23. Now Pagespeed online with Mobile Support - Mar 31st, 2011
24. Detecting Mobile User Agent - Mar 30th, 2011
25. Introducing Google Social +1 button - Mar 28th, 2011
26. Video Sitemaps Help - Mar 24th, 2011 
27. Google Panda / Farmer Update - Feb 24th, 2011
28. Making Websites Mobile Friendly - Feb 22nd, 2011
29. Advanced features in Webmaster tools with analytics data - Feb 18th, 2011
30. Single Login for Analytics and Webmaster Tools -  Feb 07, 2011
31. Webmaster Tools Search Queries Update - Feb 03, 2011

29. Advanced features in Webmaster tools with analytics data:

Two weeks before Webmaster tools team has released a feature to merge analytics data with Webmaster tools data. As we expected Google team started releasing more advanced features by combining data of GA and GWT.

Now we can differentiate search queries information based on search type, location and impressions vs clicks. Have a look at above screen shot for clear understanding. This kind of data segmentation will help SEO team for better understanding about search queries, so that they can deliver quality results.

30. Analytics to Webmaster Tools -  Feb 07, 2011

Another update from webmaster team that linking Google analytics to webmaster tools. Many SEO’s have a common questions that “Is it a good idea?”. Yes, it is. Linking analytics to webmaster tools will give more accurate impressions vs clicks count in webmaster tools. It helps SEO professionals to find out the best keywords which are converting well in delivering results.

In future we can expect many changes in webmaster tools relevant to analytics data. We might see like updating current sections and including new sections in webmaster tools. Let us see the future changes in webmaster tools dashboard.

Official Source: Analytics to Webmaster Tools

31. Webmaster Tools Search Queries Update - Feb 03, 2011

Google webmaster team has updated a feature in search queries section based on several webmasters feedback. Before Feb 02, 2011 webmasters are able to see the impressions count in two or three digits. After Feb 03, 2011 onwards count will be shown in one to two digits.

For example instead of impressions count 74,000 it will show 75000, instead of 146,000 it will show 150,000. Google team said that “reason behind this update to represent numbers nicely and to decrease the confusion to webmasters”. Internal ranking and impression counting systems are same, only the outer display will change.

Official Source:  Search Queries Update

How many Hats in SEO?

As per my knowledge is concern only 3 Hats matters most in SEO:

1. White Hat SEO
2. Grey Hat SEO
3. Black Hat SEO
   

1. White Hat SEO:

White Hat SEO means completely following the ethical methods to acquire good rankings in search engines for a website. If a website really providing good information to visitors then white hat SEO works very well
and gives the best results. Now you have question that “what are white hat SEO methods?” All the methods which aren’t trying to cheat or manipulate search engines or visitors are called white hat SEO methods. I hope only few sites like Wikipedia, Google etc... follows white hat SEO methods.

2. Grey Hat SEO:

Grey Hat SEO means following combination of ethical and unethical methods to get fine rankings in Search Engines for a website. Most of the SEOs use Grey Hat SEO Methods to attain rankings. Grey Hat SEO works fine most of the time and most of the professionals recommend it. Grey Hat SEO methods aren’t unethical, it includes little stuffing of keywords in the site and back links etc. Now a day’s these methods are quite common while promoting website. Most of Corporate websites, Personal Blogs etc … follows Grey Hat SEO Methods.

3. Black Hat SEO:

Black Hat SEO stands to follow completely unethical which are used to cheat, manipulate search engines as well as users. In the past years search engines aren’t able to recognize these methods and difficult to find out and filter the websites which use Black Hat SEO techniques. Search engines are became smarter now and able to find out and blocks websites which use black hat techniques. Search Engine Quality Professional are working hardly and updating regularly the SE algorithms to give the best results to the visitors.

Google Search in Color Interface - Looks cool

Google is always used to do different kind of experiments for all products and keep the best in live which are selected and voted by most of the visitors. As a part of this process Now Google is testing New Color Search Interface. We have to wait and see, whether the whole world will love it or hat it. Would you like to test it now then Here is a simple trick to make your google search colorful.

Follow the below steps:

1. Open Google.com
2. Search for the below code in Google instead of Keyword:
   javascript:void(document.cookie="PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com");
3. Now you will see New colored Google interface

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Source : Blogoscoped.com

I am using Firefox 3.5.3 Version and It's working fine for me. Just have a check guys and let me know if it's working for you people or not.

Find all domains hosted on an IP in Bing

Recently I came accross an interesting post in Labnol. In this post Amit explained about a new operator in Bing. Ofcourse we all know that Bing is a new search engine which is released few months back from Microsoft. Using this operator we can find out different domains which are hosted on an IP.

Search for "ip:(IP address)" to get the all different domains which are hosted on the same ip. For example I have taken domain www.educationinandhra.com. It's hosted on ip 66.147.242.170. Now I have searched for the all different domains which are hosted on the same ip as shown in the following screenshot.