Friday, February 12, 2010

Utilizing Google Webmaster Tools

As a website owner it makes a lot of sense to utilize the Webmaster tools offered by Google. The tools help you to visualize how your site would appear to the Google crawler and where would your site's content appear on Google Search Results.
The tools allow you to tell Google what content to index and what to leave out. If certain existing pages are removed from your site, the tools allow you to notify Google about removing these from their indexes. You can define an optimal crawl rate for your website.
The tools also tell you about user search queries that lead to your website, information about other sites that have linked to your website, suggestions to make websites more "Google Search" friendly, information about broken links and other common HTML errors.
Best of all, its free :)

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