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Webmaster Central: Another Treat for the Googleholics

February 5th, 2010
"Work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun."

This statement happens to be the working philosophy of one of the most successful companies serving the online community today. A research project turned billion-dollar business enterprise, Google is the name responsible for the many booming trends on the web. If you are a frequent surfer of the Internet waves, there is a fat chance that you have already encountered the terms Blogger, GMail, and Google Earth. These are just some of Google's brilliant innovations that made Fortune Magazine hailed it as 2007's best company to work for in America.

Google strives to deliver fresh ideas that can ultimately surpass the expectations of even the most cynical. The latest release so far is the Webmaster Central that has been garnering praises from people who recognize its advantages. Webmaster Central gives your website a way to make it to the top of web search results. It can also help you improve the delivery of information and services to your target clients. Now, if you are ready for increased web traffic and more profits, read the following simple steps to follow in order to get the most out of Google's Webmaster Central:

Create An Account. It's Free and Easy.

If you choose to sign up for a Google account, you are about to hold a key that could open the door to Google's complete set of services. You will get 2 GB of email space from Gmail, access to Google's social networking site Orkut, earn through Adsense, shop securely using Checkout, and of course, take advantage of the tools found at the Webmaster Central.

To create an account, just go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/ and fill out the short form. No fees to worry about, no catch at all.

Log In to Webmaster Central and Get Started!

Already a Googleholic? Now, give Webmaster Central a try! On the main page of your account, you will find a field where you are required to enter the URL or address of your website. After that comes the most important part -- the verification process. You will be asked to verify your website in two ways: one is by adding a meta tag inside the HTML file of your main page, and two, by uploading an Google HTML verification file to your own web server.

What Can You Get From This?

Once you have successfully followed the instructions, you will be taken to a page where the precious webmaster tools are found. There, you will see the specific details of your site's activities: when it was last indexed by the Google web crawlers, your PageRank statistics, page analysis, and list of internal and external links. You can use these information to identify the weaknesses of your website. Moreover, the data you will see will also help you come up with better ways to perform in search engine optimization. Once you have managed to patch up your site's deficiencies with the help of Webmaster Central, expect increased popularity, web traffic, and profits.

About the Author

Max Adams is the owner of Web Hosting Daily (http://webhosting.infospotters.com/). Our duty is to find you a web host that offers maximum security, reliability, and stability at a price that will surely fit your budget.

Author: Max Adams

 

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Being a webmaster is a much more important job than most companies would dare admit. Webmasters are responsible for the company web presence on every level, from the website copy to the web and email server administration. Additionally, webmasters are often tasked even more duties that should be considered unrelated responsibilities for the position of webmaster. These extra duties often will include online as well as offline promotion and marketing, search optimization, advertising, application programming, graphic design and/or brand management. The role of the webmaster has grown over the years and webmasters need to grow with the company's expectations or the website will not succeed. For instance, it is easy to get banned from the search engines for not knowing the correct methods to use to optimize a website for a better results ranking from the search engines for any particular search phrase.

This is why Webmastery is here, not just to offer direction and assist webmasters, but to do so masterfully, as you expect of yourself, or as your company expects out of you.
 

Since I am an American and know only American English and SEO methods, I specialize in American Webmastery. Hence the domain name, Webmastery.US.
 

However, please note that often both sides of the coin are presented here. Some webmasters swear by Linux and we offer articles by such authors to give insight to their creativity. Others are die-hard Microsoft software fans and use Windows based servers. Despite the bias, each system has its own advantages, and such articles are reprinted here for their positive contribution to those platforms, not to enforce their bias. It is we that have to make the final analysis.
 

This difference is even more apparent when I am showcasing and promoting white hat SEO (search engine optimization) and a black hat SEO article is published here, which method if followed could get a website banned from the search engines. The reason I allow it a small platform is to showcase its apparent and obvious idiocy in contrast to white hat SEO techniques. And as I cannot edit these articles in order to correct them, I let their illogicality and stupidity stand on their own for a time without any edits. But in case their spaminess is not apparent, I often do not let such articles stand long.
 

 


 

 

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