Friday, December 5, 2008

Google webmaster tools

Webmasters do much work in creating a new website keeping in mind SEO’s requirements. But this initial work is not enough and SEO tasks don’t end up with just launching of any website. Each website requires proper aftercare and support forever. It should be regularly monitored also. There are chances of problems which can occur any time. Google makes it much easier for webmasters to handle all this, through offering Google webmaster tools. Webmasters didn’t have any compact solution before introduction of these Google webmaster tools.
It is a general idea that any product needs to be modified according to new demands and needs. Google knows it that’s why it has been constantly updating these tools with new innovations. Each time new and more features are being added to them. This is a great thing about that. 
One of the latest advancements they included in their tools is that they empowered it to discover web pages of any website that are linking to a 404 page. Webmaster tools team is also working on some other advance features also. It is learnt that they are going to introduce a new feature which will have an ability to scan installations, which any webmaster make on his site to secure his site from any kind of security threats. If reader of this article is a webmaster, he would have understood what I have said. But for a reader having less knowledge I feel it necessary to explain him through an example of Wordpress. Wordpress is very commonly being used in websites and it is getting very popular for having useful features. Thousands of websites have Wordpress installed on them. If you have Wordpress installed on your website and getting out of date, that feature will warn you about that through sending message in your message center. Such type of flaws can cause security problems to any website. With this new feature, Google will scan meta data in Wordpress of website. Through this information, it will come to know about version of Wordpress you are currently using.
Whenever any software or web tool is updated with latest features, many people avoid using it. They think that as they have no problem with older version, they should not take latest edition. But one thing they should keep in their mind that as version gets older and older, chances of its hacking increase. That is very important matter demanding the purchase of latest version of any software and also the most ignored one.

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