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Google Webmaster Tools has a slightly different look. The new look augments the new functionality Webmaster Tools added last month. The changes include a new look to the dashboard, redesigned menus and a style that more tightly integrates with other Google properties.

The Google Webmaster Tools home page lists all the sites you're authorized to manage in Webmaster Tools.

The large gray and white interface recently adopted by search, Gmail and other properties is very prevalent.

When viewing your list of sites, you can select a "Comfortable" or "Compact" view modes for controlling the how compact the lines appear on your screen. Google calls this the "Display Density" settings.

You also now have the ability to sort sites not only alphabetically, but also "By site health." Meaning, you can view the sites that have the most issues first. With all the recent concerns over link profiles and notes Google has left for Webmasters, this is a very helpful feature. It also might underscore the importance of the recent algorithm changes.

The dashboard is the first page you typically see when you click through to manage a site. The new Webmaster Tools dashboard looks more like a dashboard rather than a bunch of textual information. Crawl errors have been expanded to be more visually appealing, as have search queries and site map URLs.

Most prevalent is the top message center labeled "New and Important" so you can notice those nastigrams from the Webmaster Tools spam team when you get them.

Lastly, the left column menus have been redesigned to include groupings that are more meaningful. Each of the groups have tasks or reports that have more related functionality.

What are your thoughts on the new look and reports? Let us know in the comments below.

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Majestic SEO announced a new set of link metrics they came up with that should give Googles PageRank metric and SEOmozs MozRank a run for their money.

Majestic SEOs new metrics are named Flow Metrics and are grouped into two categories; trust flow and citation flow.

Lets compare Search Engine Land to Search Engine Roundtable to Google:

Keep in mind, the values for citation and trust flow are between 0 and 100, where Google is a 99 on both, Search Engine Land has a citation flow of 75 and trust flow of 64 and Search Engine Roundtable has a citation flow of 69 and trust flow of 43.

Lets visualize how this looks on a chart. Majestic SEO explains that links with high Citation flow end up more to the right and links with more Trust flow end up higher on the chart.

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Author's Note: This is a technical post on how to use visitor intelligence data to analyze SEO performance. The concepts in this article can be transferred to most marketing and CRM solutions but require basic understanding of SEO and CRM.

In order to understand the impact your SEO efforts have on your business, you first need to make sure you are collecting the right data and attributing it to the right sources. This is why it's important to usevisitor intelligence to analyze your SEO performance and ensure your SEO efforts are producing the right results.

How your data is structured is critical to enable accurate analysis and reporting. It will allow you to build fiveadvanced, but simple, SEO analyses that you can perform with visitor intelligence.

Almost every SEO solution will give you search volumes, keyword ranks and even traffic volumes, but are these the metrics that matter to you?

Most B2B marketers care about leads and opportunities, while every business cares about revenue. What are your KPIs (key performance indicators) and more importantly, what are they being measured by? Is it leads, opportunities, ROI, annual revenue or LTV (life time value)? Whatever it is, make sure your SEO plan has a clear path focusing on how to bring you there.

When you select a marketing software solution, make sure it can provide you with the metrics that align with your companys goals. This doesnt have to be a native feature of the software, as it can be delivered through integrations, but you do want to make sure its possible. Otherwise, you will spend hours every month building Excel spreadsheets and trying to align data from different source to connect the dots.

The right system will provide a comprehensive solution, giving you the ability to report and analyze your data in one place. It might take some upfront work to set up the systems and customize them to your liking, but every minute you spend upfront will save you hours of work later.

Its often easier to plan and build your analysis if you first look at the final product the recommendations.

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