{"id":461,"date":"2013-05-23T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T11:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=461"},"modified":"2023-12-29T02:03:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T02:03:14","slug":"google-tools-and-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/google-tools-and-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Tools and Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been tidying up my desktop and web sites, and discovered that Google&#8217;s tools consider the subdomains, including this wiki as\u00a0separate\u00a0sites. There&#8217;s obviously some more work to do for some simple SEO work. Both the sub domains are wordpress sites.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Custom Search<\/h3>\n<p>Here are a couple of links<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 22px;\" title=\"google custom search by breezi\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170929094953\/http:\/\/breezi.com:80\/how\/google-custom-search\/\">How to do google custom search<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Google Control Panel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/cse\/all\"><span style=\"line-height: 22px;\">Google&#8217;s Control Panel<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My hosting provider also has some google SEO tools.<\/p>\n<h3>Webmaster Tools<\/h3>\n<p>Wikipedia <a title=\"wikipedia on GWT\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Webmaster_Tools\">says<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Google Webmaster Tools<\/b> is a no-charge web service by <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google\">Google<\/a> for <a title=\"Webmaster\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Webmaster\">webmasters<\/a>. It allows webmasters to check indexing status and <a title=\"Search engine optimization\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Search_engine_optimization\">optimize visibility<\/a> of their websites<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The tools page at Google<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This issues a verification string, which for wordpress is best embeded using the &#8220;verify google webmaster tools&#8221; plugin, there is also a sitemap plugin, see below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/verify-google-webmaster-tools\/\">http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/verify-google-webmaster-tools\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><del><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/google-sitemap-plugin\/\">http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/google-sitemap-plugin\/<\/a><\/del><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also found this<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/simple-google-sitemap-xml\/\">http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/simple-google-sitemap-xml\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>which I used in preference, the sitemap plugin, despite better marks, is a premium product with automatic update an additional chargeable item, the former, seeks to automatically post the file to GWT and needs the login credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Having created sitemaps, I want these to be advertised in the robots.txt file. See <a title=\"on this wiki\" href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wordpress-and-robots-txt\/\">WordPress and robots.txt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;1 and 1&#8221; have a sitemap builder tool.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been tidying up my desktop and web sites, and discovered that Google&#8217;s tools consider the subdomains, including this wiki as\u00a0separate\u00a0sites. There&#8217;s obviously some more work to do for some simple SEO work. 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