In December Google made a few changes by adding some new features to their Webmaster tools. One of those features was content analysis which is useful when it comes to looking for any issues there may be with the content of your website. The feature really is designed to look for issues with metadata that could affect Google’s ability to crawl and index the pages of your site effectively and issues of usability.Â
To find the new tool just login to your Google webmaster tools area. When your dashboard comes up click on one of your domains listed there to reach the overview of that domain. Over on the left side you will see a diagnostics link so click there. Now you will see the content analysis option which you can click on.
The content analysis information which Google will provide is fairly basic and includes:
Title tag issues
- missing title tags
- duplicate title tags
- long title tags
- short title tags
- non-informative title tags
Meta description issues
- duplicate meta description
- long meta description
- short meta description
Non-indexable content issues
- flash files
- images
- other non-indexable content
Based on the information you find here it is very easy to make corrections to the content of your site to improve the ability for Google to crawl and index your site.
