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About Google Sitemap Settings and Webmaster Tools

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Last Updated: November 14, 2008 10:01 AM

WebSite Tonight allows you to customize a sitemap of your Web site. You can also use Google® Webmaster Tools to easily submit your site to Google for indexing.

Sitemaps created with Website Tonight let Google know how often your site is updated, and how to look at your site. There are two sitemap settings you can customize:

Change Frequency
Change Frequency tells Google how often you update a particular page. This is especially helpful if you update your Web page frequently.
Priority
Google sitemaps allow you to prioritize your Web pages. You prioritize pages relative to their importance WITHIN your site. This does not affect your search engine rankings. It tells search engines that certain pages on your site are more important than others. For instance, you may want to call more attention to a home page, or a sales page. 0.0 is the lowest priority, 0.5 is the middle priority, and 1.0 is the highest priority. Assigning all of your pages a priority of 1.0 will not help your ranking.

To Customize Your Google Sitemap Settings

  1. Log in to your WebSite Tonight account.
  2. From the Manage menu, select Google Sitemap.
  3. Select a Change Frequency and Priority for the pages you want to customize.
  4. Click OK.

Google Webmaster Tools

With Google® webmaster tools, your web pages are submitted to the Google index. You can get detailed reports about the visibility of your pages on Google, sitemap details, and statistical information about your Web site. When you publish your site with WebSite Tonight, your Web pages are automatically submitted to Google and an account is created for your site. Some additional features of Google Webmaster Tools include:

  • Sitemap errors
  • Robots.txt analysis
  • Advanced indexing information about your site
  • Query statistics about your site
  • Crawl statistics about your site
  • Page analysis of your site
  • URLs from your site that Google was unable to crawl, and why Google couldn't crawl them

Note: If you already have a Google Webmaster Tools account, or have already submitted a sitemap, a duplicate account will not negatively affect your account. The Google Webmaster Tools feature in WebSite tonight will not override previous accounts or submissions.

Setting Up Your Google Webmaster Tools Account

  1. Log in to your WebSite Tonight account.
  2. Click Google Webmaster Tools.
  3. In the language list, select a language.
  4. Copy the characters displayed in the Type the characters you see in the picture below field.
  5. Click I Accept to accept the terms of service.
  6. From the Google Webmaster Tools Dashboard you can manage your Webmaster Tools account.

To View Your Google Webmaster Tools account

  1. Log in to your WebSite Tonight account.
  2. From the Home page, click Google Webmaster tools.