Google Webmaster Tools
The Google Webmaster tools are a wonderful set of tools available to use free of charge to anyone looking to help manage and view statistical and analytical information about their website.
if you currently are a webmaster of a domain go ahead and log into the webmastering tools section below
www.google.com/webmasters/tools
Once logged in the first thing it’s going to present you with is the option to verify your site and then submit a sitemap. Both of these steps are VITAL in the use of the webmaster tools and for the collection of accurate statistical information by Google.
Once the required fields have been filled out we unfortunately have to wait. Hopefully within the next 24 hours your site will be indexed in its entirety by Google and the data will be logged into your tools section.
Google tools keeps and displays information on …
- Crawl Errors
- Meta and Description Issues and Errors
- Top Search Queries
- External Links
- Internal Links
- Subscriber Statistics
- Sitelinks
- What Googlebot Sees
As for my advice, I would check back on your Google tools every few weeks if you’re doing constant updates to your website, just to make sure there’s no trouble on the indexing side of your website. A clean and healthy site index and no indexing errors throughout your site will help Google and other search engines to stay up to date faster and keep your website from losing natural listings due to errors.
As mentioned in a previous article if you are attempting to increase traffic to your site or are interesting in SEO (search engine optimization) going through this process is a must.
