Google webmaster tool allows webmasters and site owners to check the visibility of the website, indexing status and any error associated with the website.

Google webmaster tool launched three years ago and it provides excellent tools to submit sitemap, check not found pages, remove the outdated pages and even top 20 keywords searched by the users.

Google webmaster tool is user-friendly and easy to use also for the beginners. If you are a webmaster or you are in the field of search engine optimization, you must use this tool.

How to Use Google Webmaster Tool :
You must have a website and gmail id to use google webmaster tool. To login into Google Webmaster Tool, use this url www.google.com/webmasters/tools/. Enter your gmail id and password and signin. In the dashboard, enter domain name and click on “Add Site” to add this website in Google Webmaster Tool.

If you want to get comprehensive statistics and crawl errors about your website, you must verify your website. Google provides two option to verify a website. Either you can add the Meta Tag provided by Google in the home page of the website or upload html file suggested by Google in the root of public_html. You will find button to verify. Click on Verify button to verify your website.

Important Links – Google Webmaster Tool

Settings
If you want to target your geographic location, set crawl rate and want to include the images of your website in Google Image Search, just choose Setting option to do the changes.

Links
If you want to check the backlinks of your websites or pages with external links, the Links option is available to check.

Sitemaps
Google or other search engines accept sitemap in xml format. Search Engines easly crawl the pages with the help of sitemap. Many tools available online to create sitemap file. Upload your xml sitemap file and submit here.

Tools
Google provides option to remove outdated pages or not found pages already in cache. This option also helps you to create robots.txt file, enhance 404 pages.

These are the important options available inside Google Webmaster Tools.

You can also report about spammers and report paid links to Google.