Blogger’s Guide to Google Webmaster Tools

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I’m embarking on a new blog series here that will help all sorts of bloggers engage with the ever-popular Google Webmaster Tools, a powerful and absolutely critical web service that you need for your blogging efforts.

From managing your blog to understanding search data to even telling Google how to “see” your blog – we’ll walk through it all.

As usual, here’s a working Table of Contents that will be filled out as we walk through this series. Even if you’re a seasoned veteran I hope you can learn a thing or two from this series!

Let me know if you have any questions or want to call out anything specific that you’d like to see!

  1. Why Use Google Webmaster Tools?
  2. Set Up Google Webmaster Tools for Your Blog
  3. Optimizing Your Configuration Settings in Google Webmaster Tools
  4. Leveraging Search Queries via Google Webmaster Tools
  5. Google Webmaster Tools: Links, Keywords, and Subscriber Stats
  6. Google Plus Metrics via Google Webmaster Tools
  7. Fixing Blog Issues via Google Webmaster’s Diagnostic Tool
  8. Optimizing via Google Webmaster Labs
  9. 3 Tips to Remember When Using Google Webmaster Tools

I hope to get started early next week! See you then!

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20 Responses to “Blogger’s Guide to Google Webmaster Tools”

  1. Chase January 6, 2012 at 2:36 PM #

    Awesome! I was just looking for something like this on the Tentblogger site the other day.

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  2. chrisanthropic January 6, 2012 at 2:41 PM #

    I’m really looking forward to this series of posts! I’ve been playing around with webtools recently and would love your insight.

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  3. Noah Lomax January 6, 2012 at 3:12 PM #

    Thanks for doing this series! I’m still new to the world of blogging so I learn a lot from following you in my reader. I’m looking forward to understanding this better!

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  4. Eric Dye January 6, 2012 at 5:45 PM #

    This is going to be delicious.

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  5. Stephen Hardy January 6, 2012 at 6:45 PM #

    Looking forward to this resource. Particularly using the webmaster tools for optimization. Thanks for your insights!

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  6. judi January 7, 2012 at 11:37 AM #

    can you include google docs for blogging?

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  7. ginasmom January 7, 2012 at 5:49 PM #

    Looking foward to this!

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  8. Stefan January 8, 2012 at 10:04 AM #

    Really looking forward to this guide, since I’m pretty new to this whole Google Webmaster tools!

    Keep it up!

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  9. An Aspiring Tentblogger January 8, 2012 at 7:52 PM #

    Excellent! I tried to go at it on my own but got frustrated and left it….looking forward to the step-by-step :)
    Grace + Peace,
    -Jer

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  10. John Wiehe January 16, 2012 at 3:37 PM #

    I changed my URL parameters of “replytocom” to “no” and now “johnwiehe.com” isn’t found on Google’s server. It’s been this way for a few hours after I reverted it back to its default settings. How do I fix this?

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