Firstly, everyone should use Google Webmaster Tools, because it's free and the Google Webmaster Tools are very useful in lots of ways as I'm about to show you.
Secondly, Google Webmaster Tools are great addition to the website traffic and statistics you get from Google Analytics.
Thirdly, you utilize this free information provided to you after you've done the initial steps and use the data for search engine optimization and make your site even more search engine friendly.
In this post, you'll learn how you start using Google Webmaster Tools, so you too can get all the benefits from them now on..
How To Add Your Website to Google Webmaster Tools
If you have not added your site to your Google Webmaster Tools and claimed the site with the verification code, here's how to do it (very easy):
- Go to Google Webmaster Central
- Sign-in with your Google Account
- Once inside, Click Add a Site
- Add the information about your site
- Get the verification code and add it to your website
- the code will go to the <head></head> section
- in WordPress, you'll find it in your Theme's header.php file
- Several plugins have the ability to add verification code without manually editing the php-files
- e.g. Robots Meta which offers verification support for Yahoo Site Explorer and MS Webmaster Portal and other beneficial SEO features as well.
- Several plugins have the ability to add verification code without manually editing the php-files
Do this for all your websites (if you have multiple ones), even for that 1-5 page mini-site of yours - When you see the search engine data in one page, you can easily use the information to improve the SEO of the site(s) further.
Why You Should Use Google Webmaster Tools?
The main reason to use Google Webmaster Tools is to see how users are reaching your site, see how Google sees your website and make your site more search engine friendly.
Google Webmaster Tool Benefits
You can..
- Get your site indexed faster
- Add your XML sitemaps directly to Google
- Get detailed information about
- How and when your site is indexed
- How high/low your site is ranked for keywords
- Which keywords are bringing in the most traffic
- Google search engine crawl reports, statistics and errors
- See the number of links back to your site and individual pages/posts Google has found
- Get reports if there are problems with indexing
- ..and much more..
Start Using Google Webmaster Tools Now!
Because there are no disadvantages, unless your some kind of anti-Google person (in which case I'd recommend forgetting Internet business and blogging right now) and you get all the info for free, using Google Webmaster Tool for all your websites is a no-brainer.
If you haven't already,
- sign-in to Google Webmaster Tools now,
- claim ALL your websites now by adding the verification code to the header section of your website,
- submit the XML sitemaps in the Google Web Tools and
- check in the data after a week or so.
Then you can utilize the information to easily optimize your site by correcting indexing errors or warnings and checking if you could make you can optimize your content for search engines..
One comment.
Very needful information.Really nice.