Webmaster Tools add Traffic Change Notices and Structured Data Dashboard

As we've noted over the past few months Google seems pretty excited about sending out alerts these days with the announcement of the 'Crawl Error' alert in July and the dreaded unnatural links notice received by so many. Their enthusiasm hasn't waned as they've added a 'Search Query Alert' to the list of notices you may receive within your Webmaster Tools account if your site experiences a significant drop or increase in site visits and impressions.

If your site has consistent traffic and you receive a notice make sure technical problems are not to blame. If you don't check your Webmasters Tools account regularly then be sure that email forwarding is in place so any notices from Google are more likely to be seen. Google released an example shot of the Search Query Alert notice shown below.

You can read their official announcement and want to help them determine the parameters of when a notice is sent then you can give your feedback in the help forums.

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