Tuesday, September 1, 2009

How to create and use and Google Webmasters Account

Google Webmaster is an excellent place to provide you with the detailed reports about your website. Getting started with the Google Webmaster account is very simply. With this account, you can share information about your website with Google.
Once you add and verify you website, you find the detailed information, statistics, website contents, robots.txt, top queries, indexing information, links and error messages of your website. With these statistics you can learn that what Google sees about your website.
There are multiple tools in the Google Webmaster account that help to diagnose any kind of issues in your website and make your website Google friendly. Creating Google Webmaster Account is very simple. With the below steps you will learn that how to create and use Google Webmaster Account.
• Create a Google Webmaster Account.
• Once you successfully create the account, log into your account.
• On the Dashboard, you need to add your website and verify it. This is either done by adding a MetaTag to your homepage or by uploading an empty html file with the file name that you will be provided with.
• After verifying your website, you need to add sitemap.xml in your account.
• After submitting the sitemap.xml, you will be able to see the statistics of your website like top search queries, errors in URL, indexed pages, not found URLs, pages with external links and pages with internal links etc.
There are plenty of webmaster tools available in the Google Webmaster account. These tools helps to analyze robots.txt, set crawl rate, set preferred domain, remove URLs, manage site verification, enhance image search and set geographic target etc. Using these tools you can learn that how Google crawl and which pages of your website have been indexed in Google.

Knowing your crawl statistics, you can analyze your traffic trends, top search queries and back links. Creating and using the Google Webmaster account enables you to view, download and classify the internal and external data of your website and fix any kind of errors to increase the usability of your website and make it more search engine friendly.

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