Google Webmaster Tool is offered as a free to use service for tracking the health of your website.
Have you heard of it or have you heard about Google Authorship? May be!!
Whatever be your current state, I am sure the posts mentioned in this article will help you know more about Google Webmaster Tool.
You’ll know how easy it is to set it up, know what parameters to look at and also come across it’s various uses. Mainly, how important it is to track your SEO campaigns.
While you could have been looking at Google Analytics or like me following the WordPress statistics and getting to know about all the numbers that matter the most.
But do you ever want to know how your site is being indexed or what are the errors that Google might encounter while indexing your site or setting up authorship. If you need to know and fix those errors, then you will want to set up the Google Webmaster Tool.
Apart from all the issues with indexing, the tools also tells you about all the keywords that are helping you get the traffic.
So, if you would want to know about all of these and keep you site’s health good, you have to setup the Google Webmaster Tool. And the first post by Craig Charley does exactly that. He has an exhaustive guide to help you take the first steps.
But if you are looking for a quick and easy setup, then Paula Allen doesn’t disappoint you in the second post. The nifty little post should be your quick guide to the Google Webmaster Tool.
And then, Ian Cleary is at his best on explaining how the tool can help you to increase the website traffic. Who doesn’t like that??
If you are still not convinced, Rizwan Shahjahan’s and Alex Miranda’s post lets you know why you should be using Google Webmaster Tool.
Finally, to one of the best usage of the tool, knowing the keywords data. Gavin Llewellyn has given a nice overview of how the SEO Data can be leveraged to know the effectiveness of SEO efforts.
Google Webmaster Tool Demystified
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What can do next?
- Tell us your interesting Google Webmaster Tool stories. I know you might have one, because I have recently had one when Google was throwing hatom errors while indexing my site.
- Has setting up the tool helped you know more about indexing?
- Is there an error that you see on GWT and not able to resolve, I can try to help.
Share your thoughts in the comments below.
