Google Webmaster Tools provides an extremely useful set of information under Top search queries (find it under “Your site on the web”). It provides a sanity check to ensure site content matches the searches that visitors are using to get to the site.
This tool has two statistical tables: Impressions and Clickthrough. Impressions lists [...]
Google Webmaster Tools is currently providing a Site Performance feature in Webmaster Tools. This feature delivers two pieces of information:
Performance overview: how long it takes your site to load (measured in seconds), how this compares to other sites, and an assessment of this measurement’s accuracy based on the number of data points.
Page Speed suggestions: suggestions [...]
Here’s a few points to note as a follow up to the Need More Power? post.
Word Exceptions
Commonly used words like ‘a’ and ‘the’ are usually ignored, but there are exceptions [the hobbit]
To avoid synonym replacement of words in a query, insert a ‘+’ before the word to disable this feature
Google may omit a word from [...]
Basic searching usually does the trick, but sometimes a little more power is helpful. Google offers several helpful examples highlighting the advanced features of Google Web Search:
Phrase search: put double quotes around the search phrase. This tells Google to search for those words in that order, no changes.
Search within a specific website: [ diamondbacks site:mlb.com [...]