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Google announced the launch of a new Webmaster Tools feature, which lets verified site owners grant limited access to their sites data and settings to other people.

You can do this from the home page, by clicking Manage Site and going to the Add or remove users option, which has replaced the Add or remove owners option. This will take you to a new User admin page. From here, you can add or delete up to 100 users. Users can be identified as full or restricted depending on the rights you want to assign them.

Full means they can view all data and take most actions. Restricted means they only have access to view most data, but can only take some actions, such as using Fetch as Googlebot and configuring message forwarding.

Heres who can do what:

Youve had the ability to grant full verified access to others for a couple of years, says Google Webmaster Trends analyst Jonathan Simon on the Webmaster Central blog. Since then weve heard lots of requests from site owners for the ability to grant limited permission for others to view a sites data in Webmaster Tools without being able to modify all the settings. Now you can do exactly that with our new User administration feature.

Users added via the User administration page are tied to a specific site, he explains. If you become unverified for that site any users that youve added will lose their access to that site in Webmaster Tools. Adding or removing verified site owners is still done on the owner verification page which is linked from the User administration page.

Hopefully the new feature will make site management easier for webmasters with a lot of employees and colleagues, and save a lot of hassle when changes are needed, or need to be retracted.

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Google Webmaster Tools Gets New Admin Feature

One of the most sought after features in Google Webmaster Tools was to easily give third-party people access to your Google Webmaster Tools account without giving over your own username and password and without giving them full control of your site.

Google has finally satisfied this request by adding user administration to Google Webmaster Tools.

Now, site owners, who are defined as an owner if they go through the verification process in Google Webmaster Tools, can add access for others without making them go through the verification process. The access granted is either owner, full or restricted access.

You can add users either on the overview page where it says manage site and then by clicking on Add or remove users or under the site configuration section where it says user administration.

Those with restricted access will see this label when accessing the tool:

For more details on the access rights based on permission, see this help document.

Related Topics: Google: Webmaster Central | Top News

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Leading UK SEO agency SEO Positive is proud to announce that it will be expanding its client account management team this week with the welcome addition of a new search specialist.

(PRWEB UK) 6 March 2012

As of this week, SEO professional David Friend will be joining the search division of the company. David will be responsible for co-ordinating SEO campaigns and will be liaising closely with his assigned clients to devise innovative approaches to optimisation that will be sure to propel domains to top positions within platforms such as Google.co.uk.

David has a wealth of experience in the industry and impressed SEO Positives management team with his in-depth knowledge of SEO and search engine marketing as a whole.

The news comes as SEO Positive enjoys record interest in their services. Matt Wood, Head of Search, has the following to say about the decision to expand a key area of the business:

While weve been experiencing record sales this year, we also appreciate that retaining our clients and achieving fast results for them should be a top priority for our agency, Matt explains. We feel confident that we are now in a position to handle new and existing clients more efficiently now that we have an extra specialist on board.

SEO Positive was established in 2007 in Chelmsford, Essex with the aim of bringing effective yet affordable online marketing services to companies from all industries and backgrounds. The company offers a huge range of services including search engine optimisation, Pay Per Click account management, social media marketing and online reputation control.

Ben Austin SEO Positive Limited 0800 088 6000 Email Information

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HAVERHILL, MA--(Marketwire -03/06/12)- U.S. businesses are seeing huge boosts in web exposure, and in turn, increased commerce thanks to the powerful SEO blogging services of content creator, WaterMyBlog.

"A blog is incredibly important for today's business," said Senior Gardener Kyle Fugere. "Consistent, original posts, with targeted keywords and internal linking will keep sites at the top of the search engine results pages. This is where successful businesses stay."

In today's fast-paced economy, e-commerce and a strong Internet presence is a necessity. However, in many cases companies don't have the time or ability to create new, relevant content on a consistent basis. This is where blogging service provider WaterMyBlog enters the picture.

WaterMyBlog works with small to mid-sized companies, maintaining and growing company blogs. The WaterMyBlog staff is composed of entrepreneurs, advertising executives, SEO consultants and copywriters who specialize in content marketing.

Small business owners wear many hats, often working as president, accounting, sales, HR and more. Even in mid-sized companies, every employee has a full plate. Over the past few years many companies have seen cuts and downsizing. People are now doing multiple jobs and multi-tasking is a necessity.

These businesses are reaching out to companies like WaterMyBlog for support. It's more important than ever to stay competitive, and to do that, companies must maintain a strong, operative web presence.

Adding consistent, relevant content on a steady basis is the fastest, most efficient way to stay viable, and the staff at WaterMyBlog is well-equipped to fill that need. The content is well-written, appropriate and accessible 24-hours a day for review and posting.

Here's how it works: clients simply log in remotely to the WaterMyBlog dashboard, where they can review created posts, approve and then publish posts directly to their WordPress blog by clicking "Publish."

Within the client's dashboard is a section called "Manage Keywords." In this section, clients input SEO keywords or phrases. WaterMyBlog writers incorporate these phrases with the corresponding hyperlink throughout blog posts. Blog postings are also linked to social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, so that all approved posts are published on corresponding sites. Web reach is then extended to thousands of potential customers.

Pricing plans are set up in a tiered system that allows for as little as four posts per month, or up to 16 posts per month.

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Blogging Service, WaterMyBlog, Connects Businesses in Need of SEO With Professional Writers

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -03/06/12)- Conductor, the leader in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) technology, is ready to take the SEO technology market into the next phase of accelerated growth with its Searchlight platform -- already the first, and most widely adopted cloud-based technology used by Fortune 500 companies to measure, improve and manage their natural search efforts in order to increase site traffic and boost revenue.

92 percent of all search-engine clicks on websites come from organic search traffic and Forrester Research forecasts the SEO technology market to exceed $600 million by 2016 in the United States alone(1). As the leader in this rapidly growing category, Conductor is well poised to continue its enviable growth trajectory and lead the market in delivering a highly scalable solution that gives brand marketers the visibility, optimization and automation to conquer the complexity of SEO, while harnessing its revenue-generating power.

First introduced to market in June 2010, Conductor Searchlight is a cloud-based marketing platform that has transformed SEO by giving marketers and brand owners complete control over every piece of the natural search process. No longer do search marketers struggle with the lack of transparency, insufficient resources or an inability to understand what is going on. With one simple interface, Conductor Searchlight gives digital marketers the ability to effectively stay ahead of the thousands of data points that affect their company's search ranking.

"SEO technology has reached its strategic tipping point -- marketers realize the tremendous gains to be had with natural search vs. the paid alternative -- and are looking for cutting-edge technology solutions that help capture web traffic, increase mindshare and convert impressions into dollars," said Seth Besmertnik, CEO of Conductor. "Conductor's agile technology infrastructure and robust tool set gives brand owners peace-of-mind knowing millions of dollars won't be lost when search engines like Google make changes to satisfy consumer interests. With Searchlight, marketers have the insight, intelligence and real-time data to react quickly to change and stay ahead of the competition at all times."

Conductor maintains a stampede of interest by major brands as they look to replace manual and disparate tools with a strategic, enterprise-level SEO solution. Large brands like FedEx, Siemens and General Electric turn to Conductor Searchlight to optimize their natural search marketing programs. On average, Conductor Searchlight users triple the amount of keywords moving onto page-one by actively implementing the intelligence and recommendations delivered in the platform. Many customers report an increase in natural search traffic of more than 60 percent after deploying Searchlight.

On the heels of the most successful quarter ever, Conductor enters 2012 with more than 1000 brands supporting half a million keywords and more than 3.5 billion in SEO revenue.

A Future-Proof Technology Platform Readies for Big Data Embracing the latest open-source technologies like Hadoop and HBase, and pushing the limits on rapid software development methodologies to build and release new product features, 2011 saw more than 150 releases to the Conductor Searchlight platform -- most notably universal search optimization, enhanced keyword discovery, international SEO capabilities and the first platform to leverage Google +1 for SEO intelligence. On average, Conductor pushes new code out four times a week, enabling customer feedback to make its way into production quickly.

The Searchlight platform was architected from the ground-up to easily scale to meet changing market conditions. This has proven to be a key differentiator for Conductor. As other solutions fail to keep pace with the ongoing, algorithmic changes made by Google, Conductor has easily risen to the occasion and prospered. In fact, Conductor's most successful quarters are directly tied to major changes announced by Google including "fresh" and Search plus Your World.

Conductor's highly responsive, robust and scalable technology infrastructure is equipped to handle Big Data requirements and deliver unprecedented insight into a brand's web visibility. Social media networks, blogs, machine sensors and location-based tools are generating a whole new universe of unstructured data that -- when quickly captured, managed and analyzed -- can help marketers uncover facts and patterns they weren't able to recognize in the past. With its social signal tracking of Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn and the introduction of the SEO Cloud, which allows third-party marketing platforms like Adobe Omniture to integrate and exchange data with Searchlight, Conductor is on the frontlines of turning digital Big Data into actionable marketing intelligence, collecting millions of search engine results weekly and storing more than 25 terabytes of historical data securely.

To meet the growing demand for its products and services, Conductor plans to increase headcount by as much as 50 percent in 2012. To learn more about career opportunities at Conductor, go to: http://www.conductor.com/about/careers.

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Conductor Leads the Half a Billion Dollar SEO Technology Sector With 300 Percent Customer Growth Year-Over-Year