google webmaster tools

Google Webmaster Tools is a free-to-use web service by Google, allowing webmasters to check the indexing status and optimize visibility of their websites.

Google Webmaster Tools enables webmasters to:

  • Submit and check a sitemap
  • Check and set the crawl rate, and view statistics about how Googlebot accesses a particular site
  • Generate and check a robots.txt file
  • List internal and external pages that link to the site
  • See what keyword searches on Google led to the site being listed in the SERPs, and the click through rates of such listings
  • View statistics about how Google indexes the site, and if it found any errors while doing it
  • Set a preferred domain which determines how the site url is displayed in SERPs

Read more and access this at http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

Updated January 2010