Webmaster tools offers you with information how Google sees your website. When you submit your URL to webmaster tools you are basically telling Google your website is out there. It is reasonable for any webmaster to setup a webmaster tools account and validate the site owned. This helps to submit sitemap and also monitor crawl errors top keywords which influence you traffic. Google still being the right and most used search engine, its a necessity for evey website owner to have a webmaster account at Google. Webmaster Tools is for anybody with a website - bloggers, online stores big and small, government, organizational, commercial and education sites.

Webmasters sometimes complain that they fail to validate their website with webmaster tools. There are various persuade for this and here are the normal solutions for most common difficulty. Note that validation also work for reported attack sites.

File Name and Location: This applies when you apply for file upload method to validate the ownership. I approve this method as this is completely easy if you have ftp approach and also this will not add any excess weightage to your webpages. If you apply meta confirmation, you will have to insert one line of code which is of no use to your visitors.

404 errors: This is the most influential and common problem I have noticed in webmaster help forum. You have your site working fine, also the filename and position are proper, but still if you are not able to confirm with webmaster tools, its because of this. If some page is not gettable on your server, it should return 404.

Meta tag verification: Though I don't approve it because of the above said reason, some of you might be comfortable with you may not have ftp access. In the homepage of the head section copy paste the code. The code should use in between and html tags.