Seach Engine Webmaster Tools

[Shawn Gossman]

Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, and related search engine webmaster tools - do you add these services to your forum?

Have you found them helpful to rank better on these search engines?

If yes, give us some examples of how these services have helped your forum.

 

[AWS]

I use webmaster tools from Google for one reason. To see who is linking to my content. What's intersting about that is I wouldn't know that the xenforo skins I made are on all the popular warez sites.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I'll usually use it (when I use it that is) to address improvements of why pages aren't being indexed.

It's easier to improve those with a blog, though.

 

[Cpvr]

I use Google Webmaster Tools along with Bing’s Webmaster Tools, but I rarely check Bing’s.



I tend to check Google’s much more often because it’s more helpful to me, and the data is now more real-time. It displays your search traffic from the past 24 hours.



However, using Bing Webmaster Tools can help ChatGPT and other AI systems index and crawl your content, as Bing serves as a wrapper for ChatGPT.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I use Google Webmaster Tools along with Bing’s Webmaster Tools, but I rarely check Bing’s.



I tend to check Google’s much more often because it’s more helpful to me, and the data is now more real-time. It displays your search traffic from the past 24 hours.



However, using Bing Webmaster Tools can help ChatGPT and other AI systems index and crawl your content, as Bing serves as a wrapper for ChatGPT.

I've always looked a Google Search Console more so than what Bing offers. I remember when Yahoo had one, too. I'm not sure if they do anymore.