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Optimize Your WordPress Site By Adding It To Google Webmaster Tools

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Adding your WordPress site to Google Webmaster Tools is one of the important and best ways to optimize your site for search engines. In this article we will tell you how to add wordpress site to Google Webmaster Tools.

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Google Webmaster Tools

Google webmaster tools are a set of tools provided by Google to facilitate us at how our website will be seen by the search engines. With this set of tool you get different data and report with which you can understand how each page of your site is appearing in search results. The Search Query section in Google Webmaster Tools demonstrates the performance of each page of your site, how many times each page is clicked, where your site ranks in search results for each keyword etc. It also permits you to submit XML sitemap of your site, leave out URLs and help search engines to display most imperative content of your site. It also informs you if your site is discontinue crawling and indexing your site’s pages.

Step by Step Process of adding your WordPress Site to Google Webmaster Tools

If you don’t know the exact way of adding wordpress site into Google Webmaster Tools then follow the step by step process given below:

1. First open the Google Webmaster Tools website and sign in with your Google account. If you don’t have Google account then signing in for an account. After signing in, add your website and click “add new site button”.

2. In next screen your verification will be done in order to verify the ownership of domain which you are adding. This can be done either by uploading HTML file in the root directory of your site by FTP or by getting the Google provided Meta tag which you can add in your website’s homepage.

  • If you want to add Meta tag in your wordpress site then make use of Insert headers and footers plugin. For this go to Settings and then Insert headers and footers and add the provided Meta tagline into the header field. Meta tagline looks something like this

<meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”VerificationKeyCode” />. Now save the changes done and return to Google Webmaster Tools site and click “Verify site” button.

  • On the other hand if you want to use wordpress SEO plugin then the simplest way is to  copy the verification key from meta tagline and paste it into wordpress SEO plugin. Save the changes done and return to Google Webmaster Tools site and click “Verify site” button.

3. After the verification of your ownership to domain, the next step is to add XML sitemaps which you have created in WordPress. If you have not created any XML sitemap for your site then it is good to create it because it helps search engines to display the important content of your site. After adding XML sitemap, it may take a moment to show your site data.

So, these are step by step process to add a wordpress site to Google Webmaster Tools. Hope this article will be helpful for you if you are thinking of doing the same and little bit confused how to start with it. You can also find more help on: http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/

Matthew Anton is an expert in giving strategies and tips on Online marketing, SEO and WordPress site optimization.

WordPress vs Joomla: Which is the Best Online Content Manager?

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Whereas there are a large number of content management systems to choose from in the modern day software market, very few of them can match up to the effectiveness offered by WordPress and Joomla.  Some people might argue that these content managing systems are only popular because they are the oldest but that is really not the case.  If you take some time to examine the web development tools of the day, you will actually realize that these two software tools are not even the oldest and neither are they the pioneers of the content management systems space.  In fact, there is a large number of CMS platforms which were in use before these two came into the picture.

One thing that is for sure is that both of these platforms have been growing in popularity pretty fast since they are generally easy to use.  The birth of these open source solutions a few years ago more of opened the doors to possibilities of creating dynamic websites and blogs.

So, between Joomla and WordPress, which one is the best? Here is a brief overview of pros and cons of each:

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WordPress

Pros

·        WordPress is Open source. The open source aspect is one of the main reasons why it is a preferred option for many beginners and advanced web developers both.

·        WordPress is easy to set up.  This is another major advantage that makes this a good option for many web developers.  In fact, many proponents of the platform love to make use of this tagline when marketing WordPress.

·        WordPress is easy to customize.  Even the most inexperienced users can make use of WordPress to customize their websites.  Therefore, if you want to personalize your website to suit your needs and preferences, this is the kind of platform to use.

Cons

·        Security is a major concern for any open source content management system and so it applies to WordPress.

·        Best plug-ins are not free

 

Joomla

Pros

·        Easy set up. Just like the case is for WordPress, Joomla is much easier to setup and deploy.

·        Powerful extensions; Joomla offers a wide range of plug-ins so as to help you in managing and enhancing your web contents.

·        Extensive user permissions; Joomla offers you a range of resources so as to manage user permissions and privileges.

Cons

·        Requires the user to have a more advance knowledge of web application for customisation

·        Joomla is not SEO friendly as WordPress