Google Adding Features
Here are a few new features in Google. Unfortunately, for most of them you will be on a waiting list…
Create a Web Site
Google lets you create your own (and free) website using an easy-to-use page creator. Pages created in this way get no preferred treatment in search engine positioning - but hey, it’s free! Pages are indexed and ranked by Google, however. You can’t assign a domain name to your site - it defaults to:
http://your_account_name.googlepages.com.
For more information and to get on the waiting list see:
http://pages.google.com.
Track Your Site Statistics
As mentioned earlier (much earlier), you can have Google track a lot of information about your site. To get on this waiting list see:
http://www.google.com/analytics/
Using a Sitemap
By now you should know that creating a site map can help the positioning of your site dramatically. See our SEO book for why. But did you know Google can create the site map page for you? Here are some things you can do with a Google sitemap:
- Find the most common words Google is indexing for your site
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Find the top search queries that are returning pages from your site
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Which queries lead to clicks
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What pages could not be reached and why
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If your robots.txt file is working right.
For more information see:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps