Webmaster is a Google's product, which is free and used by many website owners to manage their site on the web, and also to increase traffic. Learn more about Google Webmaster in this post.
What's Google Webmaster
Google webmaster is a a powerful tool with which millions of web site owners manage their
site and improve the ways your site is seen on search engines like e.g Google, Yahoo etc.
There are numerous tools available from Google, but Webmaster is one of the most powerful tool, because it's gives the owner of the website, the power to enhance their website their shelves, it's also give you accurate information like, how many times your website get's an impression with what search terms, these information are mandatory for the owner of the site to know more about how their site is being viewed by others, the owners can then try to put those keywords more in their later posts, which will again help to list the website on Google search page when that keyword is entered and searched. It shows how much time your website link has been clicked on searching a particular keyword, and how many impression it got, shows on how many pages that particular keyword is on. These information are very useful if you want to improve your Google Page rank.
Log in to your Webmaster Tools, by going on Google Webmaster and click on 'Sign into Webmaster Tools' button on top of the page.
On the dashboard there will be a button 'ADD A SITE' on top right corner, click on it and a popup will appear.
Enter the URL of your website e.g mywebsite.com, into the text area in the popup box and continue.
Here come's the main thing, download the file, you can find the download link on the page where instruction are given.
Now go to your cPanel of your server, and upload the file you downloaded.
Go to the Webmaster page you opened, and click on the verify button.
Log in to your Webmaster Tools, by going on Google Webmaster and click on 'Sign into Webmaster Tools' button on top of the page.
On the dashboard there will be a button 'ADD A SITE' on top right corner, click on it and a popup will appear.
Enter the URL of your website e.g mywebsite.com, into the text area in the popup box and continue.
Click on Alternate methods, and check the "Add meta tag to your site's home page", I prefer this because this is the easiest one.
Below a code will appear i.e , copy the code that you got there.
After copying the code, go to Blogger Dashboard -> Template -> Edit HTML
Hit CTRL+F and find , and paste the code you copied just below
Save template, now go on the webmaster page, and click on verify, it will accept the site once they found the meta tag in HTML of the webpage.
This verification method makes easy to website owner to verify their site, even if they are not too savvy in those types of thing.
Tip :- Even if you have a paid hosted service, don't bother to download and upload the HTML file to the server, instead use the Meta Tag verification.
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Register on Google Webmaster
After reading the above text you are now very excited to join webmaster tools, registering on it can be easily done, all you need is an valid email id. Go to http://google.com/webmaster when you are on the page, there will be a button on top saying 'Sign in to Webmaster Tool' click on it.If you have a Google account, you can login there with your Google account. If you don't have a Google account you will be redirected to the Google login page, because Webmaster is a tool from Google, it requires a Google account to register, but you can also register there with other email providers like yahoo, hotmail etc. to create a Google account. There will be a link saying 'Sign up for a new Google account'
provide all required information you are done.
Registered? Add a site now
To add a site in your Google Webmaster dashboard, you need to be logged in and need to have access to the server where you are hosting the website you want to Add. But if you don't have any paid hosted services, and running your blog on Blogspot or WordPress .etc , there's also way to add site to Webmaster.
So let's see how to ADD A SITE when you have a paid domain and hosting service.
For those who run their blog on blogger.
This verification method makes easy to website owner to verify their site, even if they are not too savvy in those types of thing.
Tip :- Even if you have a paid hosted service, don't bother to download and upload the HTML file to the server, instead use the Meta Tag verification.
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