Yesterday I was playing around in Google’s Webmaster Tools, making a removal request for a number of URLs (254!!!) for one of my clients who had just fixed a badly formed URL rewrite but was unable to get redirections in place. As such there were hundreds of pages of duplicated content indexed, which we have now blocked with the robots.txt and removals request.

I went back to check the status of these removals (sadly not yet approved – so there is still massive duplication on my clients site, but hopefully this will be resolved shortly) and realised that Google’s Webmaster Tools had a makeover and has been reshuffled. The dashboard of Webmaster Tools now looks like this:

No great changes that I notice here, but when you move through to the overview of a website, there is an entirely new layout (I’ve highlighted the area that has changed below:)

Now to be fair, the information displayed hasn’t really changed a great deal, but the layout of where you access this, is completely different. The new layout of this is below:

So eventually I found what I was looking for. Now I just need this removal request to go through. I do think that this is a better layout though!

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