Google Webmaster Central

Webmaster Central is Google's site for partnering with webmasters. Our suite of webmaster tools provides you with a free and easy way to make your site more Google-friendly, while our blog keeps you up to date with the latest developments from Google, and our discussion group is a forum for webmasters to discuss common issues and problems. 

With Webmaster Tools, you can understand how Google sees your site - the first step towards improving your site's visibility in Google search results. You can also quickly see the most popular queries bringing users to your site. And since no one knows more about the pages on your site than you do, you can also share this info with Google to help us discover pages we might otherwise miss. 

All you need is a Google Account - sign up for one on our Accounts home page. If you use Gmail, Orkut, Groups, iGoogle, or other Google products, you already have a Google Account and are ready to sign in to use Google webmaster tools. 

To get started, add your site to your Google webmaster tools account, and verify it.

Improve traffic with Google Webmaster Tools
Statistics, diagnostics and management of Google's indexing of your website, including Sitemap submission and reporting.

Promote your website with Google AdWords
Attract new visitors, even if you already appear in Google's search results. AdWords can help target audiences on Google and our content network.

Earn money from your website
Monetize your site using Google AdSense to deliver ads precisely targeted to your content.

Optimize your content
Test what combinations of content your visitors like best with Google Website Optimizer.

Our suite of webmaster tools provides you with a free and easy way to make your site more Google-friendly. They can show you Google’s view of your site, help you diagnose problems, and let you share info with us to help improve your site’s visibility.

Getting Google’s view of your site, and diagnosing potential problemsThe first step to increasing your site’s visibility on Google is learning how our robots crawl and index your site.

Crawl info: You can make sure we have access to your site, and see when Googlebot last visited. You can also view URLs that we’ve had trouble crawling and why we couldn't crawl them. This way, you can fix any problems preventing us from indexing all of your pages.

Robots.txt file validation: See if we’re having trouble with your file, and test out changes to that file before you change it on your server.Website content: View top content from your site and see the words that other sites use to link to it.

Seeing how your site performs
A second step is learning what drives traffic to your site.
Top queries: Find the top queries that drive traffic to your site and where your site is included in the top search results. This will let you learn how users are finding your site.

Indexing information: See how your site is indexed and which of your pages are included in the index. If we find violations in your site, we’ll give you the opportunity to fix the problems and request reinclusion of your site.

Sharing info with Google about your site

Since no one knows more about your site than you do, you can also share this info with Google and improve your crawlability.

Submit a Sitemap file: Tell us all about your pages by submitting a Sitemap file; help us learn which pages are most important to you and how often those pages change.
Specify your preferred domain: Tell us which URL to use when indexing your site; we’ll do our best to index the version you prefer.

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Google Sites

Simple, Secure Group Websites

Share information with a few people, a whole organization, or the entire world.


Google Sites is an online application that makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. With Google Sites, people can quickly gather a variety of information in one place -- including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and text -- and easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, their entire organization, or the world. Get started with Google Sites at sites.google.com. Key product features:

> Customize your site's interface to resemble your group or project's look and feel
> Create a new sub-page with the click of a button
> Choose from a growing list of page types: webpage, announcements, file cabinet
> Centralize shared information: Embed rich content (video, Google Docs documents, spreadsheets, presentations, Picasa photo slide shows, iGoogle gadgets) into any page, and upload file attachments
> Manage permissions settings to keep your site as private or widely editable and viewable as you'd like
> Search across your Google Sites content with Google search technology

Google Sites is the easiest way to make information accessible to people who need quick, up-to-date access. People can work together on a Site to add file attachments, information from other Google applications (like Google Docs, Google Calendar, YouTube and Picasa), and new free-form content. Creating a site together is as easy as editing a document, and you always control who has access, whether it's just yourself, your team, or your whole organization. You can even publish Sites to the world. The Google Sites web application is accessible from any internet connected computer.

Quick facts

Single-click page creation
Creating a new page for your Google Site just takes the click of a button.

No HTML required
Creating a Google Site is as easy as editing a document, which means there's no markup language for you to learn -- just get started.

Make it your own
Our customization options let you give your Google Site your own look and feel

Get started with templates
We offer a growing list of page types -- web page, announcements, file cabinet, dashboard and list -- to help you get started with your Google Sites pages.

Upload files and attachments
Use the file cabinet to upload files up to 10MB in size. Each Google Apps account receives at least 10GB of storage in Google Sites. Google Apps Premier and Education editions get an additional 500MB for each user account.

Embed rich content
Google Sites is integrated with other Google products, so you can insert videos, docs, spreadsheets, presentations, photo slide shows, and calendars directly onto your Google Sites pages.

Work together and share
Our permission settings let you designate owners, viewers and collaborators (meaning they can edit pages) for your site. And you can make your Google Sites available to just a few people, your entire organization, or the world.

Search with Google
You can search across Google Sites pages and content using powerful Google search technology. You'll find specific pages and documents instantly, the same way you would on Google.com.

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