October 2008
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Google’s Webmaster Tools is a free service that analyzes the traffic coming into any registered website. Unlike some analytic tools (such as Google’s own Google Analytics, which we’ll discuss later in this chapter), you don’t have to insert any code into your web pages to generate Webmaster Tools data. (It does help, however, if you’ve submitted a sitemap of your website to Google beforehand.)
To access Webmaster Tools, start at Google Webmaster Central (www.google.com/webmasters/) and click the Sign In to Google Webmaster Tools link. This displays the Dashboard shown in Figure 42.1.
Figure 42.1. The Webmaster Tools Dashboard.
The Webmaster Tools Dashboard lists all the ...