{"id":249,"date":"2006-08-04T16:33:34","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T23:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/archives\/249"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:46:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:46:05","slug":"google-webmaster-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/seo\/google-webmaster-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Webmaster Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Google has unveiled a new interface \/ site \/ screen or whatever they&#8217;re calling it that is designed to give webmasters some resources all in one place. It&#8217;s called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/\">Webmaster Central<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t see anything brand new there at first,  except a quick Google indexing check, so for the seasoned SEO or webmaster, I thought there was nothing new at first glance. However, a lot of familiar tools are now all in one place, which is noce, and as you dig in to each area, there are new features.<br \/>\nThere are links there for  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/sitemaps\/login\">Google sitemaps<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/submit_content.html\">Content Submission<\/a> (including google Video Uploader and Google Base), a brand new <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/\">Google Blog for Webmasters<\/a> the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google_Webmaster_Help\">Google discussion group for webmasters<\/a>, and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\">webmaster help center<\/a>. There&#8217;s even a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/sitemaps\/sitestatus\">Site Status wizard<\/a> so you can find out whther or not your site is even being indexed by Google.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I have to give three cheers to Google for continuing to reach out to the &#8220;common webmaster&#8221; on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it, SEO isn&#8217;t rocket science, but the more that webmasters and business owners have access to these tools and this type of knowledge, the better off we&#8217;ll all be when we&#8217;re looking for something we need to find on the internet.<\/p>\n<p><em>*UPDATE* &#8211; see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seomoz.org\/blogdetail.php?ID=1265\">SEOMOZ<\/a>  for all the details about changes and improvements &#8211; Apparently Webmaster Central is replacing Google Sitemaps, and the more I&#8217;m in it, the more I like it. 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