specifies a preferred domain as http://www
example
com and
Google finds a link to that site that is formatted as
http://example
com, Google will treat that link as if it were pointing
at http://www
example
com
Image Search
image search, Google may use tools such as Google Image Labeler to
associate the images included in their site with labels that will
improve indexing and search quality of those images
Crawl Rate
requests during the crawl process
It has no effect on how often
Googlebot crawls a given site
Google determines the recommended
rate based on the number of pages on a website
Diagnostics
Web Crawl
encountered when it crawls a given website
Specifically, it lists
Sitemap errors, HTTP errors, nofollowed URLs, URLs restircted by
robots
txt and URLs that time out
Mobile Crawl
websites
Content Analysis
unfriendly HTML elements
Specifically, it lists meta description
issues, title tag issues and non-indexable content issues
Statistics
These statistics are a window into how Google sees a given website
Specifically, it identifies top search queries, crawl stats, subscriber
Link Data
This section provides details on links
Specifically, it outlines,
external links, internal links and sitelinks
Sitelinks are section links
that sometimes appear under websites when they are especially
applicable to a given query
Sitemaps
This is the interface for submitting and managing sitemaps directly
with Google
Yahoo! Site Explorer
Features
Statistics
title tag of a homepage and number of indexed pages for the given
site
Feeds
Yahoo! for inclusion into its index
This is mostly useful for websites
with frequently updated blogs
Actions
especially important because Yahoo! traditionally has a lot of
difficulty differentiating dynamic URLs
Bing Webmaster Center
Features
Profile
location of sitemaps and a form to provide contact information so
Bing can contact them if it encounters problems while crawling their
website
Crawl Issues
errors, Robots
txt problems, long dynamic URLs, unsupported
content type and, most importantly, pages infected with malware
Backlinks
webpages (including their own) are linking to a given website
Outbound Links
interface allows webmasters to view all outbound pages on a given
webpage
Keywords
their webpages are deemed relevant to specific queries
Sitemaps
sitemaps directly to Microsoft