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Google Webmaster Account
How To Set It Up
The Google webmaster tools offer website builders resources that can help improve the website. It has detailed performance reports and allows you to submit an xml site map to help the bots crawl your site.
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Step 2 - Once you've created an account go to your Account page and select the Webmaster Tools option.
Step 3 - Clicking on the Webmaster tools will take you to the Dashboard where you will submit and verify your site map when it is completed.
Step 4 - The next step will be to verify your site. Click on the link Verify Your Site
Step 5 - The verification page gives you a snippet of code. Copy and paste the code in the ADVANCED TAB <HEAD>tag box in SiteBuilder on your Index (Home) page.
Step 6 - After you add the code to your Home (Index) page and publish it, return to the Google page and click Verify. This doesn't always happen instantly so continue on with the process.
Return to the Dashboard and click ADD under the Sitemap Column.
Step 7 - Your xml site map should be placed in the Root Directory and be named sitemap.xml
The address you would then enter in this step would be:
http://www.yoursitename.com/sitemap.xml
Then click Submit Sitemap.
Use the internal search feature to the right or the site map for easy access to information.
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