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A Google web-based console that provides additional insight into a registered website's search performance and potential issues.

Google established the "Webmaster Tools" console with the purpose of providing more transparency to website owners and web-developers with issues that arose out of being discovered, crawled and indexed by the search engine.

The service is provided as web-based console requiring both a Google account to login, and also to have the website 'registered' or 'verified' and matched to the login account using a number of different methods (Google Analytics, Meta Tag, File-Upload and DNS text entry).

The console is located at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

Further information, including help using the tool, can be found at Google's own help resource: https://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=8465

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Can I have multiple Google Site Verification TXT records on one domain?

Our company's domain already has a google-site-verification= TXT record on it, so I guess somebody else set up Google Search Console at one point. However, I'm not sure who in the company that might be. I need to get access into Search Console for…
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How can I clear the "crawl errors" of Google webmaster tools?

How can I clear the "crawl errors" of Google webmaster tools? On my webmaster tools page, there are some "Not found" crawl errors dating back two years which I cleared up a long time ago, but they are still hanging around on webmaster tools. I…
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Does Google crawl and index sites hosted on an IP address only (with no domain name) and non-standard port?

I have website on 203.162.177.159:8071 (Actually, that isn't the real IP address, I changed it for this question.) Because of an internal rule, this site must not have a domain name, and running on non-standard port. In Google Webmaster Tools, I…
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Malicious content detected by google webmasters tool

I have received a malicious content warning in search console (google webmaster tool). However, it has not listed any URL or detection date in the warning so I have no clue what's wrong with the site. It's a wordpress site hosted on a VPS. Until…
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Is it safe to delete a site from Google Webmaster Tools?

We have a site registered with the Google Webmaster Tools, but recently due to some problems we have to shutdown the site temporary. As as a result, links indexed by the Google are becoming invalid. I want to know is it safe to delete the site from…
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Why is there a difference between urls submitted to a sitemap and urls in the google index?

The crawl report shows this: "HTTP ‎(1)‎ In Sitemaps ‎(5)‎ Not found ‎(993)‎ Restricted by robots.txt ‎(487,544)‎" So the discrepancy between 50,000 and 44,592 isn't coming from that. Are there any obvious reasons?
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Is the Google Webmaster Tools verification temporary?

When you add a site to Google Webmaster Tools, it asks you to verify it (e.g. via a tag). I verified a site a while ago, but when I logged in, I noticed that it isn't verified anymore. The history shows that it was verified 58 days ago, but…
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Video outside the viewport - but not really?

I'm getting a Video outside the viewport error for one of my pages in the Google Search Console. This error is preventing the video from being indexed. However, the video shows entirely within the screen (See pic below) although you have to scroll…
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Are backlinks shown in GWT dofollow or nofollow?

Are links shown in the Google Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools) "Links to your site" report, dofollow or both dofollow and nofollow?
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Fetch as Google returning "Partial" not "Complete"

When I fetch a URL of my website, it gives me "partial" indexing status. I want fetch as Google to show "complete" status.
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How do the combinations of http/https and naked/www in Google Search Console work?

When I added my site to Google Search Console (previously Google Webmaster Tools?) it asked me to add combinations of my site, with http and https and no www and with www, so now I have four. I had to verify that I owned each one. My webserver…
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Google Webmaster Tools Not Reporting a Logo from JSON-LD Schema.org [Organization] Markup

I have been waiting for 6+ months for Google Webmaster Tools to report that is has found the logo which is nested our Organization markup. I see no syntax error and the testing tool reports is Good to go. Not sure why it is not able to pull it. Here…
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Multiple webmaster tools accounts on website

I've got a google webmasters tool account with a website I help look after, they've employed the services of an SEO/SEM company* who have asked to add google/microsoft/yahoo webmasters tools accounts I don't want to give them access to my account…
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Google Webmaster Tools - Why does Avg Position change when drilling down in Search Query Analysis?

In Google Webmaster Tools --> Seach Queries, you can see a list like this: I am finding that the Avg. Position column o the above list is seriously out of sync with the Avg Position shown in the drill-down (which can be accessed by clicking on the…
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Remove home page from Google cache

The Google Webmaster Tools Remove URL section allows you to specify a page URL to be removed from the index, or cache, or both. However, I want to remove just the home page, which is / I want to remove it from the cache because it is indexed when…
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