If you are a webmaster and really cares about your site status and ranking on search engines especially google you will probably know google webmaster tools and probably visiting quite often to check some errors those robots are trying to check. You will also notice some improvements on its google webmaster area. Here is some sneak peak.

You will notice your data comparison up to 6 months your site is up or some historical data. Good way to check for a certain month what keyword or key phrases you site is highly ranked and highly clicked.

You will also notice some percentage of the click volume you are generating and search volume for the particular phrase.

And remember that authority links? Where when you search for google for a particular term you will notice sites listed at the top with few site pages that are indented below it? Then check the links part under sitelinks.

This was also discussed on google webmaster blog about the google improvements,feedback on sitelinks and code search sitemap where you can submit additional sitemap if you are hosting a public source code on your site.

We can now tools we can play around and increase our site appearance on search engines.