Google is no doubt the
choiceable search engine of the internet surfers. In the last eleven months or so of blogging this blogger has found this fact while tracking visitors to his blog. He has found that a majority of his visitors
come from the Google search engine. And
all others search engines just come way behind.
This is for this reason all
bloggers submit their blogs to Google first and then submit to other search
engines. Googlebot no doubt searches and
indexes everything under the sun but submitting is the preferable mode of first
seeing one’s blog in the search engine. http://google.com/addurl
But here this blogger would like
to discuss about the Webmaster of service of Google. Interestingly, many newbie bloggers do not
know about the Webmaster service.
Remember apart from Google Adword all other services like Adsense,
Analytics, Blogger, Feedburner, Knol, Friendsconnect, iGoggle, Youtube etc. are
free to use.
Many also think that
when they have submitted their blogs to the Google search engine proper then there
is no use of submitting blogs to the Webmaster.
But a professional internet services provider like Google has not gone mad
to provide two similar services. What do you think? In reality both are
different things. Remember to submit one’s blog to Google Webmaster and to the
search engine are two different things. Apart from submitting your blogs to
Google, those should also be submitted to the Google Webmaster as both are
different services. Let me confine to
Webmaster.
You have a Google
account like others, okay? Then sign in to your account and click Google
webmaster. You will be taken to
webmaster Dashboard.
Look in the dashboard there is a Text box with
a Button written Add Site. Enter your
blog’s URL and hit the Tab. It will take
you to a page and ask you to verify your site.
Now be there. There are two methods to verify your sites: one is
uploading an HTML file and the other is pasting a Verification Code to your template. Now Copy the code provided, done? Now, paste the same code snippet just below
the beginning head of the template. Now see the verify button. You have pasted the code, okay? Then hit the
verify button. If you have pasted the
code in right way and at the right location, straight way you will be given the
confirmation message that your site is verified. If you get similar message then you have done
the first step. If you choose to by pass
this or want to do that at your leisure then don’t worry. You can go through the verification process
once again. Or you can later come to the
Tools tab and get the code once again to paste inside your template. My advice for you is that you should copy
this code and save in a .txt file named GWM verification code. This will save
you from unnecessary hassles when you choose to change your template at some
point of time.
Webmaster provides
different services like:
·
Diagnostics
·
settings
·
Statistics
·
Links
·
Sitemaps
·
Tools
In diagnostics, one
gets a clear cut diagnosis of one’s blog’s contents. Duplicate contents are singled out for the
blogger’s perusal and action. Contents with unfriendly urls or having rich Medias
are also figured out for rectification.
In Settings Tab you can
choose the geographically targeted country to help the site to index information
about your blog accordingly. Remember as
far as keywords are concerned in one country if your keyword happens to at No
10 in other country the same can be at No 1.
Hence, it is for you to choose information from which country you want
to be shown in your page. You can also
specify if http://yoursite or www.yoursite can be your preferred domain as
results of both addresses happen to be different. You can also change the crawl rate here but
please refer to my caution stated in paragraph below. You can also specify if blogs can be indexed
for image search as bloggers always happen to insert images to enhance their
posts readability and addition of value or beautifying them with relevant
images.
In statistics one gets
the Crawl rate, page ranks, keywords analysis, Missing Urls, Keywords not
indexed in search engines. In the
beginning the crawl rate happens to be flexible and the rate can be changed by
bloggers or site owners. But when a blog
or site is matured, the crawl rate is fixed by Google and the googlebot crawls
the site or blog on its own as per the fixed crawling rate. Remember in the beginning don’t try to tamper
with the default crawling rate as that may cause crash or blackout of datas.
An important aspect of
Keywords analysis is that which Keyword comes in which page and what number in Google
searches. Further, what percentages of
the searched Keywords happen to be in an individual post is shown in a tabulate
form. This is very important for content
writing and rectifying individual posts.
By correction one can change the percentage of a keyword to receive
search engine hits and compete against other similar urls.
In links one can check
the Candidate Link, External and Internal link.
The Site operator will
show how many of urls are indexed in the search engine. Very often it happens that duplicate urls are
shown by Google. To know exactly how many urls are indexed sitemap summary is
the best way. But in site link one will
get the urls with their headings. In
other words, one will get the links to one’s posts directly.
In the Link operator
one will get the back links that means how many links are linked to the home
page of a blog or site. This always
happens to be less than the external links as external links shows the links to
individual posts and the homepage.
The Cache link shows
the stored snapshot of one’s blog or site.
The Info operator shows a short Bio that one chooses to share with
others in Google account. Related
operator will show links similar to one’s blog.
This is automatically generated by the search engine.
Sitemap shows how many
of urls are indexed in the search engine.
As far as Sitemap is concerned many newbie bloggers find themselves in a
conundrum regarding the process of uploading the sitemap. This is too easy as nothing is required to be
uploaded as only a feed address happens to be necessary. For example my sitemap url is http://thatlovedflower.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Sitemap helps the search engine in indexing urls of a particular blog and if
the googlebot fails to index any urls, the sitemap helps in indexing all
available urls for search engine.
Under the head Tool one
can find the following links, Analyze robot text, Generate robottext, Enhance
404 page, Manage Site Verification, Remove Indexed Url, Useful Google Gadgets,
The first two about robottext are advanced type and don’t try to do it unless
you know more about them. Many don’t maintain
the 404 page and whenever a link is not found due to deletion the same default
‘Not Found’ text greets. If you don’t happen to verify your site then the code
can be found in the Manage Site Verification link. In the Gadget section one
can find a lot of useful Google friendly gadgets developed by third parties or Google
engineers. Third party gadgets are
ensured Google friendliness and guidelines.
Hence they can be used freely by a site owner or blog owner.
The webmaster is very
useful and free Google service that not only guides but also shows way to
bloggers to steer their blogs in right direction. So, what do you think? Submit your blog to Google
webmaster and enjoy targeted and guided blogging. Remember all available data can be exported
to your desktop in forms of .xls file for your later perusal and next course of
action or for your future reference.
It is very difficult to
find blogging help for newbie bloggers and this blogger has only tried to
present his available knowledge on Google Webmaster. This blogger has also done a guest posting on
Visitors Tracking for the help of newbie blogger. Here is the link if you want to read that
article or save the same for future use.
http://bloggingwithsuccess.net/keeping-track-blog-visitors
Thank you.
Well done. Many bloggers work hard creating articles and overlook these tools. This post gives a basic understanding which can encourage bloggers to try it. After all, we want as many people as possible to benefit from our blog's conversation.
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