The final tab allows you to manage and upload a sitemap to Google.
"You can use a sitemap file to tell Google about all the pages on your site, and optionally, to provide information about those pages, such as which are most important and how often they change. Sitemaps are particularly helpful if your site has dynamic content, pages that aren't easily discovered by following links, or if your site is new and has few links to it."
Whilst there are a lot of tools and analysers out there that can tell you a lot about your website and help you optimise each and every page on your website, Google Webmaster tools tells you exactly how Google sees your website, and gives you the opportunity to fix any outstanding issues.
Even if you only visit the tools every so often to get an all clear on your website, it is worth doing – and best of all – it is free!
Comment #1
(Posted by Brad) Rating
This seems to be obsolete now. I could not find the tools you are referring to after creating and verifying my google account.
Comment #2
(Posted by tom) Rating
Excellent article - The tools showed me some great stuff about my site.
Comment #3
(Posted by Google tools are Great! God bless Google ;o) ) Rating
URL Removals - Nice I have few dead pages I can remove
Comment #4
(Posted by Tim) Rating
I have an account and am unable to locate the webmaster tools anywhere. Is this a current feature?
Comment #5
(Posted by NetRegistry News) Rating
Hi,
Google Webmaster Tools is active - this article was written 6 July 2007. You need a google account to access these tools though. I have updated the access details on page 1 of this article to make it clearer on how to sign up.
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