Utilizing Google Web Master

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Google Webmaster Tools is a free suite of tools that Google provides to you help you manage your website. It aids in listing your website in the search engine and provides feedback with indexing, crawling and listing links that are pointed back to your site. These are essentially its key features.The first step to utilizing Webmaster tools is to include a sitemap on your website. It enhances or speeds up Google’s indexing process both when you launch and into the future as your website changes.

Webmaster Tools does a content analysis and provides feedback, letting you know if there are any issues such as duplicate content. Duplicate content can hinder your search engine optimization and Webmaster Tools flags content that need your attention.

The next feature is crawl diagnostics. If they find any kind of technical issues as they index your site and crawl through your pages they will list them so that you and your IT team can make any necessary revisions.

Last is the ability to review how many external links you have back-linking to your website. This is where all of the juice comes from in terms of SEO. Knowing how many back links there are and where they’re coming from is a great place to start.

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