Google Webmaster Tools
This tools is a free software that helps to understand what's going on with our website. It's a partner to Google Analytics. And it is more focused on technical side of our website. If Google want to send a message about our site, it will make contact via our Google Webmaster tools account (GWT).
Google Webmaster Tools and Verification Procedures
Google webmaster tools is a free service by Google for webmasters. Search console is a mok point which helps webmasters to communicate with Google. It will let you learn information about website and people who visit and allows webmasters to check indexing status and optimizing visibility. This process is important in search engine optimization.
Before, you can access any data on your site, you have to prove that you are an authorized representative of the site. And this is done through the process of verification. There are five main methods of verification currently. There is no real preference as to which method you use, Although the first two tend to be the most commonly used as they have been around for longer.
- HTML file upload: Google provides a blank, specially named file that just have to drop in the root directory of our site. Once we done that, just click on the verify button, and we will have access to our GWT data for this site.
- HTML tag: Clicking on this option, will provide a metatag that we can insert into the head of our home page. We must note an item using this method of verification is that, it's possible for the tag to be suddenly removed during an update to the home page. Which would lead to a revocation of the verification, but reinserting the tag and clicking verify again will fix that.
- Domain Name Provider: Select our Domain Name Provider from the drop-down list and Google will give a step by step verification with a unique security token for use.
- Google Analytics: If the Google account we are using for GWT is the same account as for GA, is an admin on the GA account, and we are using the asynchronous tracking code with, then we can verify the sites this way.
- Google Tag Manager: This option allows, to use the Google Tag Manager to verify our site.
Verifying the Website using Webmaster Tools
- Search Google.com/webmaster/tool.
- From the home screen, click on Add a property.
- Copy the URL which you want to paste and fetch it in the text field appearing and click the Add button.
- Select crawl option from the left panel, then select fetch as Google. Here we requesting Google to fetch our page.
- Above step, we asked Google to fetch base URL. Similarly, to fetch a post we need to copy the rest of the URL and paste it into the text field next, to the base URL and click fetch.
About Search Console
This is a free service offered by Google that helps you, to maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot our site's presence in Google search results. Search Console helps to understand and improve how Google sees your site.
Search Console offers reports and tools for the following actions:
- We have to confirm that Google can find and crawl our site.
- Manage indexing problems and request re-indexing of updated or new content.
- View Google Search traffic data for our site,