Index Status Tab in Webmaster Tools

The New Index Status from Google Webmaster Tools  page provides stats about how many of your URLs Google was able to crawl and/or index.

To check the Index Status follow On the Dashboard, click Health, and then click Index Status.

There are the Basic Tab and the Advanced Tab on Index Status for Webmaster Tools

The Basic tab displays the following data:

• Ever crawled: The cumulative total of URLs on your site that Google has ever crawled. Not all crawled URLs get indexed, and Google may discover some URLs by other means such as inbound links from other sites. This number should increase over time as new pages are added to your site.
• Total indexed: The total number of URLs currently in Google’s index. These URLs are available to appear in search results, along with other URLs Google may discover by other means. This number will change over time, as new pages are added and indexed, and old pages are removed. The number of indexed URLs is almost always significantly smaller than the number of crawled URLs, because it does not include URLs that have been identified as duplicates or non-canonical, or less useful, or that contain a meta noindex tag.

To see basic data plus additional useful information, click Advanced. Click the checkbox next to the data you want, and then click Update. The following additional data is available:

• Blocked by robots: The total number of URLs that Google cannot crawl because they are disallowed in your robots.txt file.
• Not selected: Pages that are not indexed because they are substantially similar to other pages, or that have been redirected to another URL. More information.

Read More at Index status 

Tips for Google Penguin Recovery

Here are pretty Tips for Google Penguin Recovery

1. Ping blogs that were originally highlighted by USER
2. Submit Website to the Penguin review form, twice, specifically referencing this article that was being beaten out by the links that referenced it
3. USE campaign data to implement some canonical URLs to clean up crawl errors and also kill some unnecessary links across the site
4. DO a bit of “SEO cleanup” that revealed your website sitemaps did not exist and/or were broken. Implemented sitemaps and submitted the feeds to Webmaster Tools, which was not happening previously
5. Cleanup up many duplicate title, Pages, Content and other issues which are reported by Webmaster Tools
6. Continue to build natural links to the site and promote other positive signals such as referring traffic and social shares
7. Never the removal of credit from links/Users for the Content or the Website where the source was taken

Previously Google rolled out an update with a function being penalize sites who

1. Engage in Keyword Stuffing
2. Link Scheme Participation
3. Low Quality Issues
4. and many more

So, what can you do if you’ve been affected? And what are we gonna do?

Here is the Video where Rand Fishkin explain how Penguin has worked, and what folk might be able to do.

And who knows if you’re gonna be the victim, or what you could possibly do about it.

Google Webmaster New Look

Google Webmaster Tools began as a way for webmasters to submit Sitemaps. Over the years they have constantly been adding and updating new features. The result was a set of tools we’re pretty proud of–but also a site that had become pretty unwieldy and often difficult to navigate.

That’s why we decided to redesign Webmaster Tools from the ground up. We wanted a logically organized suite of features, and a cleaner, faster interface. So we talked to webmasters. We conducted user studies. We analyzed a lot of data.

The result is a simpler, more intuitive navigation. Features are now grouped together in three categories: Site configuration (where you provide Google with information about your site), Your site on the web (where you can view Google data about your site), and Diagnostics (where you can get reports on any problems we encountered crawling your site). Our goal was to make stats and data more discoverable, while removing redundant pages and features (such as Index stats) that cluttered the interface and reproduced information available elsewhere.

If you can’t find a feature in the new interface, check the table below.

If you’re looking for:	Try the new look og webmaster tools
Site Overview	From the Home page (www.google.com/webmasters/tools), you can access the Dashboard for each site in your account. The Dashboard provides an overview of important stats and data, as well as access to more detailed tools and information.
Message Center	Home (http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools)
Settings	Under Site configuration, click Settings.
Web Crawl Errors	Under Diagnostics, click Crawl errors and then click the Web tab
Content Analysis	Under Your site on the web, click Top search queries.
What Googlebot sees (includes keywords, phrases, encoding, and content distribution)	To see frequently occurring words on your site, and get insight into how your content appears to Google, click Your site on the web, and then click Keywords. To see how other sites link to you, click Links to your site (under Your site on the web), and then click Anchor text. We no longer list content information, such as distribution of file type or encoding information.
Crawl Stats	Under Diagnostics, click Crawl stats.
Index Stats	Advanced Search
Subscriber Stats	Under Your site on the web, click Subscriber stats.
Pages with external links	Under Your site on the web, click Links to your site.
Pages with internal links	Under Your site on the web, click Internal links.
Sitemaps Overview page	Under Site configuration, click Sitemaps.
Analyze robots.txt	Under Site configuration, click Crawler access, and then click Test robots.txt.
Generate robots.txt	Under Site configuration, click Crawler access, and then click Generate robots.txt.
Manage site verification	On the Home page, find the site you want and then click Details in the Verification column
Remove URLs	Under Site configuration, click Crawler access, and then click Remove URL
Enhance 404 pages	This feature is no longer included in Webmaster Tools. Instead, you can generate 404 widget code from our Help Center.
Problem reporting (spam, paid links, etc.)	For information about reporting problem sites, click a link below. Report spam Report paid links
Reconsideration requests	If you believe your site has been removed from our index for violations of our webmaster guidelines, and your site has been updated to remove these problems, you can request reconsideration of your site.