What is it? How can this help me? Google Webmaster tools
Google webmaster tools is used to by webmasters to find out how they are doing in Google’s search engine. This is a wonderful tool for any Webmaster this will help you track and find out what your ranking for what keywords your ranking for and also the highest click-ins and what the keyword was. You can also find out how many links you have or at least how many links Google knows about. Well let’s take a closer look at Google Webmaster tool and find out what’s so great about it.
Google webmaster tools - Diagnostic
This is the first area in Google webmaster tools. This section has a basic summary. This will list the last time Google’s spider accessed your home page. This will also list any web crawl errors if the Google spider found any. The next area is web crawl. This page lists URLs from your site that Googlebot had trouble crawling. Then they have the mobile web area this will show errors if found for your mobile site. Then we have the tools area. This will give you an Analysis of your cached robots.txt file.
Verify you website on Google webmaster tools
Google will want to make sure that you are the owner/webmaster of the website you are look at. They will give you a Meta tag to put in you main page. Simply copy the code in to your index page and verification should be complete shortly after that.
Crawl rate
This will show you Googlebot activity in the last 90 days. This will also show you your current crawl speed. This should be at normal. There are 3 different speeds though. Faster, Normal and Slower. For a long time you will only be able to choose Normal or Slower. Better keep it on normal.
Preferred Domain
What they mean by this is, how would you like your website to show up in search results. With the http:// or without it. I chose to use my Domain name To show as www.domaininform.net it’s pretty much the best route. I recommend using www. but you should be able to use it like domaininform.net if you really wanted to. The best method would be www.yourURL.com not http://www.yourURL.com
URL Removals
This is a new way to get old pages of your website out off Googles index. This can be useful if you renamed some of your pages. There are a couple of uses but I have never used it. But if you need to remove a URL this is where you do it at.
Statistics Area
Crawl Stats
this shows your PageRank for every page in your website. Well at least the distribution of it. If the bar is full for PageRank not yet assigned then you are still in the sandbox. It also shows a 3 month list of your highest ranked page in your website.
Query stats
This show you what search results your site is showing up for at what possion your rank in search results. will let Google explain -
Top search queries are the queries on the selected search property that most often returned pages from your site.
Top search query clicks are the top queries that directed traffic to your site (based on the number of clicks to your pages).
Average top position is the highest position any page from your site ranked for that query. Since our index is dynamic, this may not be the same as the current position of your site for this query.
All data is averaged over the last 7 days.
Page analysis
These statistics show you how the Googlebot sees your site. This includes external links and Keywords through out you webesite.
Index stats
Helps to show you how your being indexed
The Links Section
This is one of the best tools you have. This section will show you how many link what they are where they come from. They will show you internal and external links.
Google Webmaster Central Hack Additional Link Information
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to see what the
Anchor Text, the PR level and if the link contained a nofollow. this is
a great tool for SEO. you will need the foxfire browser and 2 plug- ins
I want everybody to know that the nofollow links are yellow and have a cross thought them.
Two simple steps to make this work
1 Install the Greasemonkey add-on to your Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
2 Install the script provided at Joost de Valk.
http://www.joostdevalk.nl/code/greasemonkey/gwt-external-links
Google webmaster tools Sitemaps Section
This is also a very important section. You will need to create a sitemap for your website and upload it on your web server
You can call this file sitemap.xml
This file should be in your root directory
Don’t know how to create a sitemap? this site will make it very easy XML-sitemaps
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