In and out about Webmaster Tools - Search Console

Hey!! Let's discuss everything about Webmaster Tool, which is recently changed the name to Search console is generally used for frequent Analysis and checking the statistics of your website on webmaster tools.
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Following are advantages of using Google Webmaster Tool:

1. You can Submit/check the sitemap for your website.

2. Adjust the crawl rate of the Google bots for your website and view the statistics.

3. Generate/check the robots.txt file for your website.

4. List the internal and external pages that link to your website.

5. Check what keyword searches led the site to be displayed in the Google search engine results pages and click-through rates for them.

6. Check statistics about how Google has indexed your website and whether it has found any issues while doing so.
7. Set a preferred domain name (e.g.domain.com over www.domain.com or vice versa) which will determine how the site URL will be displayed in search engine results pages. you need to confirm that you are the owner of the website and have full access to it. The process is absolutely automated and all you need to do is place a given text file in the web root directory for your website. provide a full list of the search phrases that result in your website being displayed on the search engine results pages all internal and external links to your website, keywords, errors and missing pages Here you will see various errors that Google bots encountered while trying to crawl your website. Also, each category will link to a page with more detailed information. Thus you can review and rectify the issues.

Elements of Google Webmasters Tool:

1. Search Appearance:

• Structured data
• Rich cards
• Data highlighter
• HTML improvements
• Accelerated mobile pages(AMP)

2. Search Traffic

• Search Analytics

The Keywords section will display the top keywords associated with your website. This is very important information for your website and how it is displayed in the search engine results pages.

• Links to your Site

This area will display links that lead to your website. It also includes a link to an article where you can find more information why those statistics might differ compared to another tool.

• Internal Links
• Manual Action
• International Targeting
• Mobile Usability

3. Google Index

• Index Status
• Blocked Resources
• Remove URLs

4. Crawl

• Crawl Error

This feature helps detect types of errors.These are of two types: site errors and URL errors.

a)Site Errors

This effect the entire site(D.N.S, Server Connectivity, Robots.txt) & they prevent Googlebot from even requesting a URL. Be careful.

b)URL errors

URL errors are errors that are specific to a particular page.  It can show "not found, Access Denied, Soft 404 errors".

• Crawl Stats
• Fetch as Google
• Robots.txt Tester
• Sitemaps

If you have just started using the Google Webmaster Tools this area will allow you to upload a sitemap for your website.

• URL Parameters

5. Security Issues
6. Web Tools

Conclusion: 
Google Webmaster Tool has its own set of advantages. Let it be site crawling detail or server error detail, It helps you with stats, linked pages, sitemap, robots.txt detail and much more.