UPDATE:

The dashboard below is great but if your trying to do some on-page analysis you need a good SEO Toolbar like my newly released SEO Site Tools to help you with your work... and if you interested in your external anchor text you should defiantly run on over are read about the keyword data I found in Webmaster Tools that is published nowhere else...

i find myself constantly wanting to have one place as a jumping point for me to review all my website stuff and the way chrome does bookmarks makes it where clicking to this post is actually faster(at least for me). but i figure this is one place to start from then i don't have to go looking through all the bookmarks. ill add more items here as i find more tools that i find useful for SEOs and Webmasters


SEO Site Tools is my Google Chrome Extension with over 21,000 users 
im sure you would love it too... try it today

edit: ok so bing already kinda has a twitter search that it plans to improve on but like Google tweets still aren't on main results page but Yahoo (who props to them i like their new stuff) plans to change that announcing that they will be showing tweets in results soon this will hopefully help yahoo gain some ground back as they are struggling keeping their part of the search pie. Google social search experiment is the closest thing google has for social media search so far



the title says it all i was reading my daily rss and this clicked across...
Official Google Blog: RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my!

so Google is going to be joining the twitter bandwagon. but wheres the link? Bing looks like they are ahead of the game already with their Bing Twitter Search it has a small tag cloud but little more im sure google will do it better with longer history but i wonder if we will see ReTweet tools built into searches with the ability to pass oAuth to Twitter and tweet from inside our searches. if it was an unobtrusive menue id think it was great. what are your thoughts?

I subscribe to the Google Webmaster Blog and i saw this click by in my reader this morning and i wanted to do a quick blurb about these new features in google webmaster tools as well as the other webmaster tools that are out there and what they can be used for so lets get into it...

Google Webmaster Tools

ok so google has some really great stuff in their tools but lets real quick talk about the features they added today. First they added the ability to Fetch as GoogleBot so you can see how your page looks to the crawler.

heres how it pulled blog.cartercole.com

This is how Googlebot fetched the page.
URL: http://blog.cartercole.com/
Date: Tue Oct 13 07:46:33 PDT 2009
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Expires: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:14:43 GMT
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:14:43 GMT
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate
Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:08:25 GMT
ETag: "02afcfab-2808-4275-8274-6da1b3584a07"
Content-Encoding: gzip
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-XSS-Protection: 0
Content-Length: 17486
Server: GFE/2.0

-cut for length -

you will also now be notified when your page has been infected which basically looks up your pages automatically with Googles safe browsing API

manual lookup: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://blog.cartercole.com

here are some other options / tools you get...

• changing GoogleBot crawl speed
• the major keywords google found for your site
• manage sitelinks for your site (if you get them)
• a list of links to your site (not complete)
• much more id defiantly check it out

and the API docs for google webmaster tools

Yahoo Site Explorer

ok generally yahoo site explorer will give you the best link list of any other free tool i know and you can get this cool badge



to display the links to your pages and thats about all it does right now
also yahoo site explorer API docs

Bing Webmaster Center

ok bings back up so ill finsih my post about them asap

oops looks like the Bing Webmaster Center is having some trouble... They are back up now but if you care this is what they were showing for a couple days...
yall should get on that this guy has already mentioned it

please leave comments with questions / comments / concerns id love to hear from you