What is WebMaster Tool?

Google webmaster tool has been rebranded as Google Search Console. It is free Google service that has been made for webmasters to index their website in Google and to check its status and to view the visibility of their website.
 
Google webmaster is useful plugin to check current status on keyword, HTML improvement, sitemap submission, site indexed status and few other factors.
you can also see the status of key terms like ranking and improvement, total clicks, SERP, CTR, Position etc.
account also used to get notification about increasing in issues like increase in 404 not found error, increase soft 404 errors, site un-index, site affected by malware/virus attack. so many other status which help you to improve your site status.
 
Google Webmaster Tool also called Google Search Console is a no-charge web service by Google for webmasters. It allows webmasters to check indexing status and optimize visibility of their websites. As of May 20, 2015, Google rebranded Google Webmaster Tools as Google Search Console.
 
Google Webmaster Tools is a web interface provided by Google free of charge. It is generally used by webmasters to check their website indexing and optimize the overall website ranking in the search engines.
 
Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) is the primary mechanism for Google to communicate with webmasters. Google Webmaster Tools helps you to identify issues with your site and can even let you know if it has been infected with malware (not something you ever want to see, but if you haven’t spotted it yourself, or had one of your users tweet at you to let you know, it’s invaluable).
 
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Google Search Console (previously Google Webmaster Tools) is a no-charge web service by Google for webmasters. It allows webmasters to check indexing status and optimize visibility of their websites.
Submit and check a sitemap.
Check and set the crawl rate, and view statistics about when Googlebot accesses a particular site.
Write and check a robots.txt file to help discover pages that are blocked in robots.txt accidentally.
List internal and external pages that link to the site.
Get a list of links which Googlebot had difficulty crawling, including the error that Googlebot received when accessing the URLs in question.
See what keyword searches on Google led to the site being listed in the SERPs, and the click through rates of such listings. (Previously named 'Search Queries'; rebranded May 20, 2015 to 'Search Analytics' with extended filter possibilities for devices, search types and date periods).
Set a preferred domain (e.g. prefer example.com over Example Domain or vice versa), which determines how the site URL is displayed in SERPs.
Highlight to Google Search elements of structured data which are used to enrich search hit entries (released in December 2012 as Google Data Highlighter)
Demote Sitelinks for certain search results.
Receive notifications from Google for manual penalties.
Provide access to an API to add, change and delete listings and list crawl errors.
Rich Cards a new section added, for better mobile user exprience
 
Google Search Console (previously Google Webmaster Tools) is a no-charge web service by Google for webmasters. It allows webmasters to check indexing status and optimize visibility of their websites. As of May 20, 2015, Google rebranded Google Webmaster Tools as Google Search Console.
 
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