Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) is a web based service provided
by Google with plenty of wonderful features for website owners, marketers and
webmasters. This service opens the gate to optimize a website in all manners.
You can check your sitemap and indexing status, 404 errors on the website,
server performance, website internal and external links data and many more.
These all GWT features are completely free of charge and will be always. The
tool covers the search queries and results from Google only. And this can be
integrated with Google Analytics to make statistics based analysis.
GWT is very well-organized tool for webmasters to optimize the website. For website owners, it would be complicated but it’s not a rocket science. With this post, you will learn how to add your website in GWT panel so you can kick-start to optimize your website.
Add and Verify your Website into Google Webmaster Tools Panel
The first task is to add your website in Google Webmaster Tool. This tool works with Gmail users or Google Apps users. So login with you Gmail account detail at http://www.google.com/webmasters
After logging in, you will get this below screen –
GWT is very well-organized tool for webmasters to optimize the website. For website owners, it would be complicated but it’s not a rocket science. With this post, you will learn how to add your website in GWT panel so you can kick-start to optimize your website.
Add and Verify your Website into Google Webmaster Tools Panel
The first task is to add your website in Google Webmaster Tool. This tool works with Gmail users or Google Apps users. So login with you Gmail account detail at http://www.google.com/webmasters
After logging in, you will get this below screen –
In screen, you can find ‘ADD A SITE’ (the red button). You
can click over this button and a pop-up will ask you to enter the website URL
in following manner: www.enterwebsiteurl.com
After adding the URL, you will be redirect to verify the ownership of domain. There are several methods to verify the domain but there are two ways (HTML File Upload and HTML Meta Tag) that are easiest and work immediately. HTML file upload is the best option as per my understanding because there is no need to HTML knowledge required to use this way.
This is the window where you will be redirected to verify
the domain. As you can see all the instructions stepwise, just follow them and
make sure that after uploading the file, it should be accessible like this –http://www.yourwebsiteurl.com/uploadedfilename.html
Once you did verify your domain, you will be able access the GWT features where you can manage your website and optimize for better ranking in Search Engines. The following screen is a sign of successful verification where you find link to manage your website.
In above screen, you can see the ‘ADD A SITE’ showing that
you can add more websites into this panel under one Gmail Account. And at right
side of the website URL, you can see link to manage website. This link will
explore many features to do Onsite Optimization.
Note: There are many other ways to verify the website ownership but we prefer you to use this method as Google also recommends it.
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