New Google Webmaster Tool - Links

8th February 2007

Google keeps adding things all the time, and with this one, they’ve made an excellent addition that can be very helpful. You should use it to identify weakly “linked to” areas of your website.

Go to your Google Webmaster tools account and log in

Notice there’s now a fourth option tab called “Links” between the “Statistics” and “Sitemaps” tabs. You’ll see two options there, “Internet” or “External”.

External provides a complete list of pages on your domain that have links pointing to them from other sites, and then gives a hyperlink to the list for each page.
Internal gives you a list of pages on your domain that have links pointing to them from your own internal pages and then a hyperlink to the list for each page.

How cool is that? I’d say, real cool, since you can instantly spot weak areas, and react accordingly, (at least internally).

Many experts have long been pointing out that your own internal links can be nearly as valuable as ones from external domains, and I think the fact that this chart is provided here proves that theory.

ooking at either area you can see the need to “spread the wealth” and start linking to other areas of your website.

It’s going to take some time and effort, but you’d better get on it, because your competition probably is…