Google Webmaster Tools - How can they help?

It has been some time now since Google released the Google Webmaster Tools Section for webmasters and site owners alike.

Google Webmaster Tools have various diagnostic and research tools for your websites or those that you manage;



These tools are very useful when looking towards working on your Search Engine Optmisation and increasing your websites page rank.

My company website, which provides cheap website hosting uses these tools to optmise the website.



I can use various Statistics, diagnostics and management tools, sitemap submission and website reporting through the Google Webmaster Tools.

A Sitemap; But why do i need one?

Sitemaps are an easy way for you to inform search engines about your website pages and show that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file which lists the URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

Web crawlers/Spiders; usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata.

Using a sitemap does not guarantee that your website will get listed, but makes it easier for the search engines to navigate your site.