First I want to share a nice TIP.
A quick way to find out of your website has some sort of penalty is to do this:
Search in google for your domain name.
Example: www.domain.com and hit search.
If your website does not come first place, or it ranks very low it means you have some penalty.
Google is also informing webmasters who have something “wrong”, who have been penalized – by sending them a message. If you have a Google webmaster account you will receive a message if your website was penalized for some problems.
So you can FIX them.
In other cases they will even email you in extreme cases like if your website gets hacked. In that case they have to remove your website from the index – until you fix the problem, and then ask them a re inclusion request. You do that by filling in a form inside your Google webmaster account.
So by now you are realizing the benefit of having this free account with Google.
Other benefits include:
Hot benefit #1: You get messages if your website has something wrong, so you can fix – it helps improve your rankings.
Hot benefit #2: It’s free and includes several tools like robots.txt creator and analyzer… data about which keywords your visitors are finding you… and which of those people are clicking most.
Hot benefit #3: You can submit a xml sitemap and that helps Google find your website pages faster – your site pages get indexed faster.
Hot benefit #4: You know if some people are linking to your website but they link to a wrong url. So you can contact them and tell them to fix it, so you get the proper backlink credit.
Hot benefit #5: Free gadgets for your website, one which I use is for the 404 error pages of your website. It shows visitors a search box so instead of going elsewhere to look for what they need, they can quickly search your entire site.
This is an advanced tool, not some crap!
With one free account you can manage as many websites as you like.
Other Google service I suggest you check out are: Google Analytics (also free) – it is also an advanced tool. You get traffic data about your website and it has other more advanced features.
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Talk to you soon,
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