I have been using and recommending Google Webmaster Tools for almost 3 years now. It’s free, and is extremely helpful to me as an eMarketing service provider. I ensure that it is installed within all client blogs and website alike. I also create and submit a sitemap for each domain and go into the account at regular intervals to ensure everything is running optimally.
Let’s look at the brief description of Google Webmaster Tools (as defined by Google):
Google Webmaster Tools | Improve your site’s visibility in Google search results. It’s free. Google Webmaster Tools provides you with detailed reports about your pages’ visibility on Google. Google Webmaster Tools.
Aside from being able to submit your sitemap and having the ability to log in at any time to ensure everything is in top shape, here are even more benefits you can expect and love when using this amazing tool:
- Top search queries; See which search queries most often returned pages from your site, and which of them were clicked.
- Crawl stats; See your distribution info for your site, including the current PageRank for pages on your site.
- Subscriber stats; If your site publishes feeds of its content, this page will display the number of users who have subscribed to these feeds using Google products such as iGoogle, Google Reader, or Orkut.
- What Googlebot sees; See details about how the Googlebot sees your site.
- Index stats; Learn how your site is indexed by Google, including which pages are indexed, and which other sites point to your site.
And to help you learn along the way you can follow the:
Google Webmaster Essentials
Tip: Check out the Goolge Webmaster Central Youtube Channel:
