What is Google Webmaster Tools?

Google Webmaster Tools is a tool from Google that helps website users increase traffic and improve ranking in Google search. Quoted from Search Console, Google Webmaster is a tool that will help you in measuring website traffic, displaying performance reports and search results in search engines, helping problems in dealing with website traffic and helping you in increasing website ranking. Quoted from Wikipedia, Google Webmaster Tools will also display a status index report on the website that has been registered. On May 20, 2015, Google changed the name of Google Webmaster to Google Search Console to be easily recognized. This tool you can enjoy for free! Last year, precisely in January 2018, Google launched the latest version of Google Search Console with features and appearance that are more attractive and user friendly. Here is an explanation of how to use Google webmaster tools from Google that you can see.

What are the Google Search Console features?

What can be done with Google Webmaster Tools? The following features are Google Webmaster Tools or commonly called Google Search Console,

1. You can view reports and analyze visitors, frequently accessed pages, number of impressions, total clicks per month or website position on search engines through Google Analytics.

2. There are crawling or sitemaps features. So, you can add some other URLs that are related to the website. It aims to let Google know, and be able to find "what's different" from your website compared to the others.

3. If Google finds an issue or problem on your website, Google will notify you by email. These problems are usually related to 404 errors on your web pages. Why? Because the error page indicates that your website is not maintained or is not eligible to be on the first page of Google.

4. Know how the Google search engine "sees" your website. In Google Search Console, you will find detailed index information, pages, sitemap and crawl details from Google Index.