Google Webmaster Tools Guidelines

What is Google WebMaster Tool
“ Google Webmaster Tools is a no-charge web service
by Google which allows webmasters to check indexing
status and optimize visibility of their websites. ”
It has Tools that Let the WebMasters:
 Submit and check a Sitemap
 Check and set the Crawl rate, and view statistics about
how Googlebot accesses a particular site
 Generate and check a robots.txt file. It also helps to
discover pages that are blocked in robots.txt by chance.
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 List internal and external pages that link to the site
 See what keyword searches on Google led to the site being
listed in the SERPs, and the click through rates of such
listings
 View statistics about how Google indexes the site, and if it
found any errors while doing it
 Set a preferred domain (e.g. prefer example.com over
www.example.com or vice versa), which determines how
the site URL is displayed in SERPs

Index
 How to Integrate Web Master Tool ?
 How to Access the Google Webmaster Tools
Dashboard ?
 How to Submit a SiteMap ?
 How to Create a Robots.txt File ?
 How to Check the Possible Error ?
 How to View Site Statistics ?

How to Integrate Web Master Tool

How to Integrate Web Master Tool
 Log In to Google Webmaster Tools
 Add Your Site to Your Google Webmaster Tools
Account

Log In to Google Webmaster Tools

Add Your Site to Your Google
Webmaster Tools Account
1. From the Google Webmaster Tools home page, click
the Add a site button.
2. Type the address of the site you want to add and
click Continue.

3. Click the desired verification option.

4. Follow the verification instructions to add the meta
tag provided to the header section of your site’s
home page.
5. Click the Verify button. You return to the Verification
home page, and the site appears in your Sites list.

How to Access the Google
Webmaster Tools Dashboard

The Webmaster Tools Dashboard provides an overview
of the most important information about each site in
your account.

Main Page - Dashboard

The Dashboard includes the
following information:
 Search Queries: Keywords and phrases users entered to reach your
site.
 Links to your Site: Sites that link to yours.
 Crawl Errors: Problems Google encountered trying to access pages on
your site and/or number of pages you chose to prevent access to.
 Keywords: Relative significance of the most relevant keywords on your
site as compared to the keywords/phrases that users enter to reach your
site.
 Sitemaps: Whether your site has a sitemap and the number of URLs in
the sitemap that are indexed.

How to Submit a SiteMap
What is Site Map?
Example of Site Map
Steps to Submit it to Google Webmaster Tools

Submit a Sitemap
What is Site Map ?
A sitemap tells search bots which pages to index and
each page’s relative importance.

Steps to Submit it to Google
Webmaster Tools
 From the Dashboard, below Sitemaps, click Submit a
Sitemap.
 Click the Submit a Sitemap button.

 Type the sitemap’s name, which should be
sitemap.xml.
 Click Submit Sitemap. Assuming all goes as planned,
you should now see a green check mark for the
sitemap status and the number of URLs submitted.

Index
 How to Integrate Web Master Tool ?
 How to Access the Google Webmaster Tools Dashboard ?
 How to Submit a SiteMap ?
 How to Create a Robots.txt File ?
 How to Check the Possible Error ?
 How to View Site Statistics ?

How to Create a Robots.txt File

How to Create a Robots.txt File
What is Robots.txt File
Ways of Creating Robots.txt File
Sample of Plain text File

Create a Robots.txt File
What is Robots.txt File
A robots.txt file does the opposite of a sitemap — it tells
search bots what not to index.
Two Ways of Creation Robots.txt File
1. Install a plugin to create a robots.txt
2. Create a plain text file called robots.txt that contains
Instructions

Sample of Plain Text File

How to Check the Possible
Problems

How to Check the Possible
Problems
Overview
How to Check the Possible Problems
How to Check for Possible Problems - SnapShot

Check for Possible Problems
Overview
Google Webmaster Tools monitors your site and alerts
you of crawl errors. It also provides crawl statistics and
HTML suggestions to help attract traffic to your site
How to Check for Possible Problems
 Access the Dashboard
 Click the plus sign next to Diagnostics
 Click the desired link under Diagnostics to Check for
Specific Issues.

How to Check for Possible
Problems - SnapShot

How to View Site Statistics
Overview
How to View the Statistics
5 Major Element of WebMaster
View Site Statistics - SnapShot

View Site Statistics
Overview
Google Webmaster Tools provides access to statistics
that provide valuable insight into what your site is
primarily known for.
How to View the Statistics
 Access the Dashboard
 Click Your site on the web
 Then click the desired options

5 Major Element of WebMaster
 Search Queries: Keywords and phrases users enter most
frequently to reach your site.
 Links to your Site: Other sites that link to yours.
 Keywords: Most common keywords on your site.
 Internal Links: Number of links pointing to each page on
your site.
 Subscriber Stats: The number of Google users who have
subscribed to your feeds using any Google product (such as
Reader).

View Site Statistics - SnapShot

Google Webmaster Tools Guidelines

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