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Getting Google Webmaster Tools Gadgets On Your Homepage

Posted August 26th, 2008 by Jeremy Schoemaker

I am guessing most of you use Google Webmaster Tools.  You probably set it up like year(s) ago and its just been there running good for you…

Well did you know you can add some quick stats to your iGoogle Google homepage.

Simply go into your account… go down to tools then gadgets:

Then just pick the things you care about:

and WHOLA!!!!!!!!!!.  Now for this demo I made a new tab just to show stuff for shoemoney.com but on 1 tab I have 6 content analysis from all the sites I am closely monitoring.

Great stuff:

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61 comments. What say you?

  1. Good Comment?
    Atlanta wedding photographer

    i just use analytics….sounds like something I should incorporate into the site. How has this helped bringing people in to rss?

  2. Good Comment?
    Harish

    Google Gadget! I dont use them much

  3. Good Comment?
    cerita

    webmasters tool on google homepage is help me

  4. Good Comment?
    cerita

    your site is very useful,but im late…

  5. Good Comment?
    Ways To Earn Online

    Thats cool. I use Google webmaster tools. Thanks for the demo.

  6. Good Comment?
    jack

    I just prefer to log in directly into my account and get all the info I need , putting the widget in igoogle is insufficient to me ..

  7. Good Comment?
    Gossip

    Google brings more and more gadgets to us these days!

  8. Good Comment?
    Dustin Cucciarre

    Nice quick access to google webmaster tools.

  9. Good Comment?
    Eva White

    I found it very useful to link to my blog and my financial interests.It makes the interface much more user friendly.

  10. Good Comment?
    SawanM

    I’m a sucker for cool and nifty things like this, thanks.

  11. Good Comment?
    poor jokes

    webmasters tool on google homepage
    dats cool

  12. Good Comment?
    SEO Tricks

    WOW! I am using Webmaster tools from such a long time now and never noticed it.. Thanks

  13. Good Comment?
    Mubin

    Shoemoney, quick question with regards to the search function. Why did you change it from google to lijit?

  14. Good Comment?
    Gossip

    I am trying that new guru provided by Google Webmaster Tool now, thanks!

  15. Good Comment?
    BG Mahesh

    But the sharing part doesn’t seem to work. I “shared” a tab with another user and when he logged in he did not see the webmasters tab from my account

  16. Good Comment?
    Saad Kashif

    This really made a difference in my life.

  17. Good Comment?
    soha

    It was a very handy feature, maybe google would consider my request.

  18. Good Comment?
    Majid

    I am amazed that rather than log into your Webmaster Tools account, you can add the Webmaster Tools gadget to your iGoogle page and access information from there.

  19. Good Comment?
    Hoor Bano

    I am amazed that rather than log into your Webmaster Tools account, you can add the Webmaster Tools gadget to your iGoogle page and access information from there.

  20. Good Comment?
    Hoor Bano

    I am amazed that rather than log into your Webmaster Tools account, you can add the Webmaster Tools gadget to your Homepage and access information from there.

  21. Good Comment?
    Big Ben Patton

    This saves me from even logging in, just boot up at work, pull up FF and viola its on my homepage. Now if I could just get someone to develop an api for wordpress comments that show on the google home page!

  22. Good Comment?
    Patrick

    “Anything Google does they seem to do it the best. The best part is the also do it for free. I just hope once they completly get a monopoly on the market they don’t start adding premium tools and cutting out any useful tools they have now.”
    I agree totally with this. Analytics and admanager are just 2. Google earth, etc.

  23. Good Comment?
    Reid

    Definitely a useful/productive tip!

  24. Good Comment?
    Rasim

    It was nice of you to show the stats for your site. :) Pretty amaizing how you rank so high for some of the keywords. :)

  25. Good Comment?
    Zack - Amer1can Paratrooper

    I have added this to my igoogle but have have a few complaints. First, i wish there could be more tools for optimizing my sites. Still new to the seo game, I find that some of the tools are not as comprehensive as some that I have seen on other seo sites. Also, with the top ten organinic search placement, I wish you could expand the list and see more of where you are placing with other keywords and etc. Even with these small faults, it is a MUST HAVE for those looking to keep a good eye on their google seo.

  26. Good Comment?
    River Girl

    Thank you so much for pointing this out. i use iGoogle and have a ton or tabs and gadget, but not this which I could really use! Have it set up already.

  27. Good Comment?
    Noobpreneur

    Nice tips, Jeremy – Any ways to put the tool on my blogs/sites?

  28. Good Comment?
    LetUsReviewIt

    Anything Google does they seem to do it the best. The best part is the also do it for free. I just hope once they completly get a monopoly on the market they don’t start adding premium tools and cutting out any useful tools they have now.

  29. Good Comment?
    Le Melon

    Very cool, thanks shoe!
    Is there anyway to add analytics info?

    • Good Comment?
      Craig

      That would be great to have analytics on there as well, maybe even adsense/ad manager data in the future as well would make it easy for quick reference.

  30. Good Comment?
    Custom T-Shirts

    Hey, great tip. I’ve always wanted something like this for my iGoogle

  31. Good Comment?
    Vacation Rentals

    What a great feature. I saw some of the other widgets they offer but hadn’t real explored those items, until now. Thanx!

  32. Good Comment?
    Elite Blogger

    WOW, that looks fantastic. Think I finally found a useful way to use iGoogle.

  33. Good Comment?
    Storm

    It would be nice to see the folks that created the Adobe Air app for Analytics add the webmaster Tools feateure too, I have never been a fan of iGoogle for some reason.

    Storm

  34. Good Comment?
    Oozzl networking

    If only the webmaster tools pagerank stats would be more accurate

  35. Good Comment?
    Jarret

    Google has really done a great job with webmaster tools. The information that they provide is extremely useful especially the top search queries section.

    They just recently released a script to give you a basic 404 page as well located under the Tools section. Considering most sites have a basic 404 page, Webmaster Tools provides a search box and related urls. Wrote a post about it as well as a series on webmaster tools on my blog.

    • Good Comment?
      Agent Magenta

      The 404 page is a nice feature, but I still prefer to not have any 404’s!

    • Good Comment?
      Dick

      I don’t know anything about page 404. What is it?

  36. Good Comment?
    Bryn Youngblut

    That is pretty gosh darn awesome, adding that to my igoogle right now.

  37. Good Comment?
    cheap used cars

    Wow cool. I am actually in Webmaster Tools all the time but never noticed this great feature. Thanks J I am goin to set it up now

  38. Good Comment?
    Remkus

    That’s a cool tip indeed, but what a way to transform voilá to WHOLA! hehe

  39. Good Comment?
    Online Dividends

    Pretty nice Shoemoney, Thanks for the tip. I will look at it more closely.

  40. Good Comment?
    netmeg

    but on 1 tab I have 6 content analysis from all the sites I am closely monitoring.

    How well do these handle multiple sites in an account? I have something like 120 sites in my GWT account, half of which are mine and half belong to clients. I don’t need to monitor *all* of them to that degree, but there are probably a dozen all told that I have to keep pretty close tabs on.

    (Get it? tabs? tabs? ork ork ork)

    Hunh, my iGoogle already has eight tabs on it, what’s another one…

  41. Good Comment?
    den

    Yeah…nice one shoe. I need to start using that too. Would be nice if they came up with a firefox ext that did everything.

    • Good Comment?
      Justin Cook

      I don’t get it. What could a Firefox extension ‘do’? There isn’t much that webmaster tools ‘does’, it’s more informational than anything.

  42. Good Comment?
    Sid

    Wow I never thought to go look for that. That is way more efficient than logging into my account for a quick 50K view of what’s going on.

  43. Good Comment?
    JumboCasher.com

    True, webmaster tools give you access to a large number of vital stats, but these stats are more localized to googles search results. Anyways, Shoe, google has been going around trying to promote webmaster tools on igoogle too… so isn’t this kind of a repetitive post or something?

    • Good Comment?
      Bulbboy

      Repetitive post? Ha, this coming from the 3rd in the top commentators list with 22 comments. Anyone else seeing the humour in this?

      :D

  44. Good Comment?
    web hosting rebates

    looks great….thanks for posting…I wasn’t aware of this new features…last time I accessed my google webmaster account was months ago

    • Good Comment?
      Dick

      I see this is really quite nice.

  45. Good Comment?
    Chris Abernethy

    I found this awhile back and added to my google page, which is my browser homepage. It rocks! I love that it also provides easy links to each of the sections, which used to be annoying to get to without bookmarking.

    • Good Comment?
      Hustle Strategy

      I haven’t added this yet but need to asap. Seems really cool. Are the updates realtime or close?

      • Good Comment?
        Agent Magenta

        I think some of the updates will depend on how often your page
        is crawled – for example the links stats.

  46. Good Comment?
    Nick Throlson

    Webmaster Tools Very user friendly also cant beat google lol

    • Good Comment?
      meethere

      I have already added the gadget and works cool.

      • Good Comment?
        Justin Cook

        Ha, me too. I added it as soon as it was available. I removed it about an hour later. I realized that I have way too many sites, and I much prefer to just go to Webmaster Tools than try to use a different interface to access the information.

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