Google Webmaster Tools

[mightyone]

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I've just been looking at this for my website:
"Top search queries

Information about user search queries that have returned pages from your site."

And in the table, theres a column that says position. Does this mean the position at which my site was when the search query was typed into google?
Because, I've had a look at todays results, clicked on some of the queries and I cannot find my site at(or anywhere near) the position that it states it is at.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Thanks

[phillip]

I noticed exactly the same issue today. I have 2 queries, one positioning me 8th and another 7th. Yet I cannot find myself anywhere near these positions when performing the queries (both UK restricted and not - or even through the direct links they provide).

How is Google Webmaster Useful?

I've just been looking at this for my website:
"Top search queries

Information about user search queries that have returned pages from your site."

And in the table, theres a column that says position. Does this mean the position at which my site was when the search query was typed into google?
Because, I've had a look at todays results, clicked on some of the queries and I cannot find my site at(or anywhere near) the position that it states it is at.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Thanks

[Andrew Starr]

from Top search queries - Webmasters/Site owners Help

Position: The highest position any page from your site ranked for that query, averaged over the last week. Since our index is dynamic, this may not be the same as the current position of your site for this query.

[prakask]

Can anyone tell me how i can track progress of my website.Would really appriciate it.My website is Healthcaremagic.com
Is there any softwares?

[jezaff]

At the bottom of the page you will see a download this table link. This enables you to do a regular download (afaik there is no API for this?).

At my place of work we imported this regularly via SSIS and munged it into our data warehouse. Allowing us to monitor conversion by time by rank by profitability etc. I'm not sure what resources you have available though?

But there are commercial services out there that will track your ranking for specific words over time - for a fee!

[hairycornflakes]

i wouldnt bother with google webmaster tools...

keep your cards close to your chest and dont show google what you're up to

hc

[phillip]

Well to be honest I haven't found it particularly useful either, I just use it to submit my sitemaps in an attempt to speed up the google indexing process.

Actually I have found some of the HTML suggestions useful (in terms of SEO tips) when it points out broken links, crawl errors and similar title, meta description and keyword tags (google doesn't seem to like this, because it tells me to do otherwise ). But if I wasn't being a lazy coder most of those errors wouldn't happen anyway.

I like google analytics though, I think that's the bee's knees. Not doing me many favours at the moment (except from highlighting my low traffic lol), but looking to the (optimistic) future, when I'm raking in millions of visitors I can see it being handy.

i wouldnt bother with google webmaster tools...

keep your cards close to your chest and dont show google what you're up to

hc

[adampeps]

I cloak all of my links on my website, but they are getting restricted by google robots. Is that an issue I need to worry about? I was thinking it wouldn't matter as my main traffic sites are appearing.

Thanks!