Google SEO Training – All About Webmaster Central

Webmasters have a lot to consider when structuring a website. To help you make your site more powerful, narrow down problems as well as learn from other webmasters, there’s an entire area of Google built specifically for webmasters.

Google Webmaster Central offers a comprehensive set of tools, the official webmaster blog, discussion group and help center that offers information in over 24 languages. And best of all, it’s totally free.

Google Webmaster Tools

You’ll want to get your site registered with Google Webmaster Tools. It only takes a few minutes to sign up and verify that you’re the owner of the website. Once you’ve signed up, it can take up to a few days before you can actually see detailed site statistics for your website. This will allow you to get Google’s view of your site and then diagnose any potential problems.

You’ll be able to see how Google crawls and indexes your site as well as learn about any problems that Google may be having in accessing the site. You will be able to see how the site is preforming and learn which queries are driving traffic to your website and what position the site is showing in for those specific search queries.

Taking Action With Google Webmaster Tools

By submitting an XML sitemap, Google will be able to understand what pages you have on your website as well as how frequently they are getting updated. Google Webmaster Tools will not only give you information, they enable you to take action and improve the quality of your site.

you can tell Google if you want the www or non www version of our website listed in search result. You can ask Google to crawl your site at a different rate. If you want to get rid of an outdated site link that is showing for your site, you can do that there a well.

Google Webmaster Guidelines

The Google Webmaster Tools area also gives you the opportunity to let Google know about sites that are in violation of the Google Webmaster Guidelines and they take these reports very seriously. Google may not take action on every site reported, but they do however, use the reports to improve the quality of the search results.

If your own website has been negatively impacted due to a violation of the Google Webmaster Guidelines, you can simply fix the problem on our site, file a reconsideration request and someone from Google’s search quality team will then evaluate your request and take the appropriate action.

Google Webmaster Central Blog

After setting up you Google Webmaster Tools account, you will want to get an even broader and timely set of information for webmasters by reading the Google Webmaster Central Blog. You can find announcements of new webmaster tools, helpful information on site accessibility, indexing, crawling and a lot more. You’ll also find the blog is in multiple languages, which addresses many of the questions webmasters frequently ask.

Google Help Center

You can even search for more in depth information in the Google Help Center. There are hundreds of webmaster focused guidelines, tips, getting started guides and definitions in over 20 languages. There may be times that you just can’t find the exact information you’re looking for in the Tools, Blog or Help Center.

Google Webmaster Help Groups

You’ll also want to check out the Google Webmaster Help Groups where you’ll find discussions on topics such as indexing, crawling, etc. The groups are available in over 12 languages and include tips and suggestions from other webmasters around the world. All of this can be found at Google Webmaster Central .

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