Google Webmaster Tools

Improve your site’s visibility in Google search results. It’s free.

Google Webmaster Tools provides you with detailed reports about your pages’ visibility on Google. To get started, simply add and verify your site and you’ll start to see information right away. Learn more »

1. Get Google’s view of your site and diagnose problems –> See how Google crawls and indexes your site and learn about specific problems we’re having accessing it.
2. Discover your link and query traffic –> View, classify, and download comprehensive data about internal and external links to your site with new link reporting tools. Find out which Google search queries drive traffic to your site, and see exactly how users arrive there.
3. Share information about your site –> Tell us about your pages with Sitemaps: which ones are the most important to you and how often they change. You can also let us know how you would like the URLs we index to appear.

Installing the Google Toolbar

If you’re not (yet) using Google Toolbar, you must begin immediately. I mean it. I’m not cutting any slack on this point. It will change your life. It will consolidate awesome information power a click away at all times. It will both deepen and streamline your relationship to Google. You will be free to worship the oracular power of the Googlebeast at all times, in all (virtual) places.

The Toolbar installation process is almost completely automated. You just click your way through a few buttons before Google takes over. Follow these steps:

1. Go to this page:   toolbar.google.com

2. From the drop-down menu, scroll down and select a language.

3. Click the GET THE GOOGLE TOOLBAR! button.

(The Google folks are just as insistent as I am.)

4. On the next page, click the Terms of Service link.

The TOS specify that Google owns the Toolbar, that Google is not responsible if it blows up your computer (it won’t), and that you can’t try to make money from the Toolbar (for example, by charging admission to watch you Google with it, which sounds a little bit disgusting).

Check Broken Links / Images on Entire Site – 404 Checkers

It is almost impossible to check broken links on a website manually, so you need right automate way to do it.
There are various tools available to check broken links on your site. We have listed the top 404 checkers.

Xenu’s Link Sleuth (TM) Highly Recommended
Its one of the most advanced broken link checker available and highly recommended for large websites. It can check broken links to images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. You can save a report after its done checking.
The best thing we like about it is, its not web based. Its a software which you can download and perform all the process on your own PC. Web Based 404 checkers can’t really check your entire site, if it has a few thousand pages.

Features:
* Simple, no-frills user-interface
* Can re-check broken links (useful for temporary network errors)
* Simple report format, can also be e-mailed
* Executable file smaller than 1MB
* Supports SSL websites (”https:// “)
* Partial testing of ftp and gopher sites
* Detects and reports redirected URLs
* Site Map