Nora Brown Design

Introduction to Google Webmaster Tools

In addition to its extremely complete Analytics web statistics package, Google also provides a set of tools for webmasters to track broken links, keep track of sitemaps, and more.

Accessing Google Webmaster Tools

1. Go to google.com/webmasters/tools and login with your Google ID
2. Click Add a Site, and enter the URL of your website
3. You will be shown a page that displays “Not Verified” and a short snippet of code
4. Copy that bit of code and email it to me, and click “Verify Later”
5. After I have added the snippet to your site, you can log back in and click “Verify”

Verification meta tag that must be added to your site.

The Dashboard

On the Webmaster Tools Dashboard, you will see summaries of a few features of Tools: Top Search Queries, Crawl Errors, Links to Your Site, and Sitemaps, each with a link for more detailed information. In my next post, I’ll take a closer look at Top Search Queries and other aspects of Your Site on the Web that Tools provides.