It seems that the Webmaster team either slipped in this update or I just haven’t noticed it. Webmasters can see how many URLs they are submitted for each sitemap now directly from the webmaster center.
This isn’t a revolutionary update and maybe that’s why it wasn’t worth announcing, but it use useful. It’s much easier to compare what Google is actually indexing and see how many URLs you are submitting to Google.
This is important because it will give you a better idea of how much Google is actually crawling and indexing to see where you can make improvements and make your site more accessible to Google.
As a side note, I really appreciate, as a webmaster, how much effort Google puts into interacting with webmasters. Neither Yahoo! nor MSN interact at such as deep level as Google does. It’s really nice to know that Google cares about the webmasters and that they want to see people succeed.
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