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I rarely use Google Webmaster but this is really useful tool for bloggers and the good news, it is absolutely free. It allows webmasters to check indexing status and optimize visibility of their websites.

Why you need to use Google Webmaster Tools? Here’s the Top 10 Reasons why you need to use this marvelous tool!

1. Google Provides Key Information About the Indexing of Your Site – Once you set up and verify your site in Google Webmaster Tools, you are privy to a ton of great information.  Google lets you know about everything from the last time Googlebot successfully accessed your homepage to Not Found 404 error reports to which of your URLs that you currently strict via the use of your robots.txt file.

2. Google Webmaster Tools Allows a method for XML Sitemap Submission – Webmaster Tools allows you to submit an XML sitemap to help Google index your deeper site pages and pages that are header to find or may not yet be indexed.  Once you have submitted an XML sitemap, you can view the status of it, see when it was last downloaded by Google and see how many URLs you have submitted via your sitemap.

3. Google Provides Key Diagnostic Data about Your Site – Once you are logged into Webmaster Tools, you can click on the “Diagnostics” Link/Tab where you are presented with a quick snapshot of some very helpful information in terms of Web Crawl data, Content Analysis (which lets you know if you have duplicate title or meta descriptions or have pages that are missing titles etc.) and Mobile Crawl Errors (where you can see errors and problems encountered by Google’s crawlers while accessing pages on your site created specifically for viewing on mobile cell phones.)

4. Webmaster Tools Provides Key Statistics About Your Site – Clicking on the “Statistics” Tab in Webmaster Tools allows you access to great information including your top search queries, top clicked search queries and information about the Page Rank distribution of your site page.

5. Webmaster Tools Provides Insight into the Anchor Text of Links to Your Site – From the “Statistics” tab you can click on “What Googlebot sees”.  This is a very useful section for examining the anchor text of what people are using to link to your site pages.

6. Webmaster Tools Allows You to Generate / Analyze Your Robots.txt – Through Google Webmaster Tools, you can interactively create a robots.txt file to indicate which robots you don’t want crawling your site, and which files or directories you don’t want crawled.

7. Google Webmaster Tools You Can Set a Preferred Domain – Have canonicalization issues with your site?  Through Google Webmaster Tools, you can set a preferred domain that will associate a preferred domain with this site, to always or never show the leading “www.” in Google’s search results.

8. Google Webmaster Tool allows You to Set a Geographic Target - Targeting users within a certain geographic area?  Webmaster Tools allows you to associate a particular geographic location with this site if you are targeting users within that area.

9. Google Webmaster Tools is Free! – The cool thing about Google Webmaster Tools is that anyone and everyone can use it because it’s free! If you are using the GoDaddy’s blog hosting and domain services, Google Webmaster Tools is already set up on your domain. Just simply look for the tab for Google Webmaster Tools and you’ll get to see the performance of your website.

10. Google Webmaster Tools is Easy to Set Up - Setting up Google Webmaster Tools is extremely painless.  The verification process consists of implementing a meta tag or creating a file for Google to crawl.  You can expect data to be delivered within hours of properly setting up Google Webmaster Tools.

Watch the 5-minute video how to set Google Webmaster Tools:

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