Google Adds Sitelinks Control To Webmaster Tools
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Google has announced that today they are releasing a new update to Google Webmaster Central's tools. The new features include a way to manage your Google Sitelinks, more historical query statistics, an extension of sitemaps to support code search, an improved message center and a warning that may help notify you of possible duplicate content problems.
Google has also extended their query stats to give you a breakdown by date range. You can view data from the past 7 days, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months and 6 months.
Another feature is that the Google Webmaster Central message center will now send you receipts for any spam reports, paid link reports, reconsideration requests, and crawl rate change requests you've filed.
Finally, Google has also added a form of a duplicate content warning. Google said they will now notify you of "high URL counts." High URL counts are often caused by duplicate content issues, such as calendars. Google says these types of pages "could result in Googlebot consuming more of a site's bandwidth than necessary."
The Google Webmaster Central blog just posted on this announcement, saying the feature is live. So I logged into a site that I know has sitelinks, and I get the message that says, "Google has not generated any sitelinks for your site."
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