Herself's Webtools

Google Webmaster Tools are useful tools for your websites. Webmaster tools give different information than you will get from Google Analytics which gives visitor information.

Webmaster tools will tell you when you have broken links and what queries people use to find your site.  The statistics page will also show your websites position in the search results for specific queries.

You will find the terms people use when they link to your site and which pages get the links. Google Webmaster Tools also tells you your highest ranking page by month for each site.

Even though you likely already use analytics, this tool too has its uses.  Like all the Google webtools it is free.

If you are not already reading it be sure to check out Google’s Webmaster Blog. Which is full of useful information for webmasters.

Technorati uses thumbnail images of your blog provided by Alexa. If you want to update the image Technorati shows for your blog you do so at Alexa.

Go to Alexa. You’ll see a box ‘Site Info’ type your blog url in there and hit ‘go’. It will bring up information Alexa has on your blog. Now click the little button that says ‘edit info’ near the top middle. It will take you to a new page with a link that says “Update Thumbnail Image of yourblog.com’ Just click that link. In one or two days your new thumbnail image will appear.