Google Webmaster team has decided to send out messages about hacked or spammy websites to webmasters through Google Webmaster Tools. Users whose websites have been infected or hacked will receive these message in the dashboard for Google Webmaster.

Usefule bookmarklets to search within websites using the site search operator in Google, Bing and Yahoo. Using the bookmarklets you can quickly and easily search content in any website

RSS counter Tool which allows users to check Feedburner Statistics from their desktop. Users can view circulation count, hits and reach for a particular day or for several days at once. You can also export the data as a CSV file.

The Google India blog has announced a site clinic for websites, where your site will be checked for the search quality by employees of Google Webmaster team.

Pingdom has released a desktop notifier application to monitor your website from your desktop. Pingdom also offers several interesting reports and alerts you whenever you website is suffering from downtimes.

Google has introduced Browser Size a tools which allows users to view their website behind a ruler to find which content is more likely to be seen and clicked on by users.

Google Site Performance displays the performance for your site, which includes the page load times along with suggestion to improve the performance of your site. Google Site Performance is based on Page Speed an add-on created by Google for Firefox.

Indexed by Google is a dedicated site which tells you whether or not a certain site is indexed by Google. Just enter your URL and it will display a simple Yes or No Answer for your query.

Google Webmasters Tools has decided to introduce a new feature where they will alert users whenever their web software is out of date.

Optimizing images for SEO involves adding proper metadata and giving the images proper names. Google considers image metadata and image URL while positioning them in search results.

CSS Menu Generator/Creator is a handy freeware that will let you create regular CSS menus and CSS dropdown menus in a matter of few minutes. All the menus are created using pure CSS code.

A tutorial for creating a Magazine style widgets for your website. Using the widget you can display posts anywhere on your site.

Google’s website translation widget provides webmasters with a easy way to automatically translate webpages based on their browser language settings.

Tired of losing visitors due to 404 errors. In this post we will see how to track 404 errors and setup permalink redirects (301) for them to gain both visitors and page views.

These bookmarklets are specifically created for webmasters and range from useful utility bookmarklets, site analytics bookmarklets and social networking related bookmarklets.