Most search experts rely on Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) to analyze the technical aspects of a website. These experts focus on data like crawl stats, page errors and rich snippets.
1. HTML Improvements
Under Search Appearance, you will find HTML Improvements. This report provides a snapshot of any issues with your site’s Meta descriptions and title tags, along with a record of any content that isn’t indexable. In the SEO world, we know that it’s important to have unique meta descriptions and optimized title tags. This report allows you to easily identify title tag/meta description issues and prioritize your efforts.
2. Content Keywords
Under Google Index, you’ll find Content Keywords. This tool allows you to determine not what you think your site is about, but how Google sees it. It shows the keywords that are used on your site, along with keyword variations and significance. These data help you quickly determine if you need more content created around certain keywords, themes and topics. It also shows which pages the keywords appear on.
3. Structured Data
Structured data is a helpful way to explain the content of your website to the search engines — which can, in some cases, can help with rankings and traffic. If you have structured data on your site, GWT has a feature that shows the type of structured data that Google was able to detect on your site, along with the URLs containing each type. You can find this report under Search Appearance > Structured Data.
4. Data Markup Helper
Under Other Resources, the Structured Data Markup Helper allows you to tag the data fields for events, products and more on your site. If you aren’t sure where to begin with structured markup, this is an easy to use point-and-click tool. The nice part about this is that HTML changes are not required. Your mouse highlights and tags each key piece of data on the appropriate page of your website.
5. Sitemaps
The Sitemaps section allows you to view all the sitemaps that you’ve added (or Google found) along with statistics such as the last date it was processed and the number of pages submitted and indexed. These stats can be viewed by content-type, meaning Web, video, images and news. Another great feature is the sitemap test option; you provide the URL of a sitemap, and Google scans it, quickly detecting any errors that need to be fixed.
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