tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18649577.post-1161287087035173872006-10-19T12:44:00.000-07:002006-10-19T12:44:47.050-07:00<p>Google’s Vanessa Fox has announced on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog that Google has added four new <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/" target="_blank">tools for webmasters</a>;</p> <p>1) <i>Googlebot Activity Reports</i> shows a 90 day backlog of the number of pages Googlebot’s crawled on a site per day, the number of kilobytes of data Googlebot’s downloaded per day, and the average time it took Googlebot to download pages.</p> <p>2) <i>Crawl Rate Control</i> lets webmasters change the frequency that Google crawls their sites by slowing down the Googlebot or have it visit more often… which could lead to bandwidth problems:</p> <blockquote> <p>“If we feel your server could handle the additional bandwidth, and we can crawl your site more, we’ll let you know and offer the option for a faster crawl.”</p></blockquote> <p>3) <i>Enhanced Image Search</i> lets webmasters opt into or opt out of enhanced image tools such as the Google Image Labeler, which associates images included in a site with labels that can improve indexing and search quality of those images.</p> <p>4) <i>Number of URL’s Submitted</i> lets webmasters view the number of URL’s which are could in the Sitemaps submitted to Google.</p> <p>More information on the <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/10/learn-more-about-googlebots-crawl-of.html" target="_blank">Google Webmaster Blog</a>.</p>Cooknoreply@blogger.com