In April, Google announced their new Webmaster Tool with
various tweaks and changes. There were a lot of features and structural changes
to it that would help a lot of new webmasters who just got their website up and
running. Here, we will discuss some of the new features of the new tool from
Google
New and Improved Dashboard
This is the first change that you will notice when you first
start the tool. The newly designed dashboard gives quick access to some common
widgets like Crawl Errors, Search Queries and Sitemaps etc.
New Naming Conventions and Groups
Services are regrouped under
new names according to their functions and features they have. The new groups
are Configuration, Health, Traffic and Optimization.
New Structure View
This view gives you a
compact look of all the websites that are linked with your account. This is a
great thing for those webmasters who own or runs multiple sites.
Removal of Subscriber Stats
Since this feature is also
available in the Feedburner offered by Google, it has been removed from the new
version of the Webmaster Tool. This move has been made so that to motivate
people to use specific products for specific purposes.
Removal of automated robots.txt generation
Previous webmaster tool was
capable of automatically generating this file but since due to its limited
usage in the modern sites, this feature is no longer available in the new
version. However webmasters can create these files manually using any text
editor.
Removal of Site Performance Feature
Just like the removal of
robots.txt feature, this feature has also been demoted due to its limited
usage. In contrast to that, Google is offering people to use Site Speed feature
in Google Analytics or Page Speed feature to gather similar data.
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