Sruthy SEO Analyst: Guide to Webmater tools

Webmaster tools -Introduction

Everything can be shared on the internet but how can you make sure that your website is listed in the search results among thousands of other website? Google console makes sure your website is listed. It helps in monitoring the visitors and also shows the keywords for which they have got more results. By focusing on these the business can be improved. It also lists all possible errors by using site map and also sends an email regarding the same.

Web masters tools (now known as Google search console) is a free website for webmasters introduced by Google. This site is used by webmasters to check index status and to optimize visibility. The sites name was changed from Web masters tools to Google search console on May 20, 2015. In January 2015 Google introduced a new version with lots of exciting features.

Google search console can be used by a wide variety of users in the different areas. Such as business owners with website, SEO specialist, web developer, site administrator, app development.

Features:

Google search console was designed to help webmasters. They do so by providing the following tools:
Helps webmasters to maintain their site maps (list of pages of a website) and also find errors in their site map.
The statics about when Googlebots access particular site can be viewed. Crawl rate can be checked and set as needed.
Maintains a robots.txt file that helps find pages that are accidently blocked in robots.txt.
It shows the list of internal and external links which are linked to the site.
It gets the different urls which Googlebots finds difficulty in crawling and also displays the error message encountered by Googlebots.
Shows the different keywords for which the site is listed and also the no of CLR’s.
Check website security issues
Why should we use Google’s search console?
It helps ensure that Google sees your content.
It enables you to upload your document and crawl its content.
You can also remove unwanted articles from the search engine.
Helps you monitor spam issues.
Shows the keywords for which your site has high ranking.

How to create a Google search console account?

Step 1: Register with your Gmail id

Step 2: Paste the html code in the head part of your website.

Step 3: In the Google search console just click verify to verify your account.

With these three steps you can start using Google account.

The google webmaster tools allow you to crawl your content with the Googlebot, first fetch url website url and click on request indexing. Once it is indexed , a complete button will be shown.
When you crawl another content in that website, the other portion of the link need to be added.\