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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
We've been listening to you at conferences, user studies, forums and blogs and we decided to start
from the ground up with a brand new Webmaster Tools design! It was much needed, and the end result
is beautiful in our eyes:
Highlights
One-stop Dashboard: We redesigned our dashboard to bring together data you view regularly:
Links to your site, Top search queries, Sitemaps, and Crawl errors.
More top search queries: You now have up to 100 queries to track for impressions and
clickthrough! In addition, we've substantially improved data quality in this area.
Sitemap tracking for multiple users: In the past, you were unable to monitor Sitemaps submitted
by other users or via mechanisms like robots.txt. Now you can track the status of Sitemaps
submitted by other users in addition to yourself.
Message subscription: To make sure you never miss an important notification, you can subscribe
to Message Center notifications via e-mail. Stay up-to-date without having to log in as
frequently.
Improved menu and navigation: We reorganized our features into a more logical grouping, making
them easier to find and access.
More details on changes.
Smarter help: Every page displays links to relevant Help Center articles and by the way, we've
streamlined our Help Center and made it easier to use.
Sites must be verified to access detailed functionality: Since we're providing so much more
data, going forward your site must be verified before you can access any features in Webmaster
Tools, including features such as Sitemaps, Test Robots.txt and Generate Robots.txt which were
previously available for unverified sites. If you submit Sitemaps for unverified sites, you can
continue to do so using Sitemap pings or by including the
Sitemap location in your robots.txt file.
Removal of the enhanced Image Search option: We're always iterating and improving on our
services, both by adding new product attributes and removing old ones. With this release, the
enhanced Image Search option is no longer a component of Webmaster Tools. The Google Image
Labeler will continue to select images from sites regardless of this setting.
Go ahead, get started
The new user interface is available at
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/new.
The old user interface will continue to be available for a couple of weeks to give you guys time
to adjust and provide feedback.
We did our best to get the product localized; however, you may notice a few missing translations
in some areas of the user interface. We apologize for the inconvenience and when we switch
everyone over in a couple of weeks, we'll fully support 40 languages. The one exception will be
our Help Center, which will be available in 21 languages going forward.
We're really excited about this launch, and hope you are as well.
Tell us what you think
and stay tuned for more updates!
Posted by Sagar Kamdar, Product Manager, and Josh Teague, Interaction Designer, Webmaster Tools
Team
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Users can track up to 100 search queries and monitor sitemaps from multiple sources. Email notifications were introduced for the Message Center. The menu and help features were improved. Site verification became mandatory for accessing all Webmaster Tools features. The enhanced Image Search option was removed. The new interface is live, with the old version temporarily accessible.\n"],null,["# Spring time design refresh!\n\nTuesday, May 12, 2009\n\n\nWe've been listening to you at conferences, user studies, forums and blogs and we decided to start\nfrom the ground up with a brand new Webmaster Tools design! It was much needed, and the end result\nis beautiful in our eyes: \n\nHighlights\n----------\n\n- One-stop Dashboard: We redesigned our dashboard to bring together data you view regularly: Links to your site, Top search queries, Sitemaps, and Crawl errors.\n- More top search queries: You now have up to 100 queries to track for impressions and clickthrough! In addition, we've substantially improved data quality in this area.\n- Sitemap tracking for multiple users: In the past, you were unable to monitor Sitemaps submitted by other users or via mechanisms like robots.txt. Now you can track the status of Sitemaps submitted by other users in addition to yourself.\n- Message subscription: To make sure you never miss an important notification, you can subscribe to Message Center notifications via e-mail. Stay up-to-date without having to log in as frequently.\n- Improved menu and navigation: We reorganized our features into a more logical grouping, making them easier to find and access. [More details on changes.](https://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139065)\n- Smarter help: Every page displays links to relevant Help Center articles and by the way, we've streamlined our Help Center and made it easier to use.\n- Sites must be verified to access detailed functionality: Since we're providing so much more data, going forward your site must be verified before you can access any features in Webmaster Tools, including features such as Sitemaps, Test Robots.txt and Generate Robots.txt which were previously available for unverified sites. If you submit Sitemaps for unverified sites, you can continue to do so using Sitemap pings or by including the [Sitemap location in your robots.txt file](/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/overview).\n- Removal of the enhanced Image Search option: We're always iterating and improving on our services, both by adding new product attributes and removing old ones. With this release, the enhanced Image Search option is no longer a component of Webmaster Tools. The Google Image Labeler will continue to select images from sites regardless of this setting.\n\nGo ahead, get started\n---------------------\n\n\nThe new user interface is available at\n\u003chttps://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/new\u003e.\nThe old user interface will continue to be available for a couple of weeks to give you guys time\nto adjust and provide feedback.\n\n\nWe did our best to get the product localized; however, you may notice a few missing translations\nin some areas of the user interface. We apologize for the inconvenience and when we switch\neveryone over in a couple of weeks, we'll fully support 40 languages. The one exception will be\nour Help Center, which will be available in 21 languages going forward.\n\n\nWe're really excited about this launch, and hope you are as well.\n[Tell us what you think](https://support.google.com/webmasters/community)\nand stay tuned for more updates!\n\n\nPosted by Sagar Kamdar, Product Manager, and Josh Teague, Interaction Designer, Webmaster Tools\nTeam"]]
