Webmaster Tools

Source: AJB Blog — https://blog.ajb.bz/webmaster-tools
Author: Alan Bollinger
Published: Oct 17, 2010
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All three major search engines provide webmaster tools that give you detailed information and statistics about how they see and crawl your website. In order to access most of the features, you will have to verify your sites.  Here are links to each service and examples of each ones META tags. Google Webmaster Tools Example: <meta name='google-site-verification' content='dBw5CvburAxi537Rp9qi5uG2174Vb6JwHwIRwPSLIK8'> Yahoo! Site Explorer Example: <meta name='y_key' content='3236dee82aabe064'> Bing Webmaster Center Example: <meta name='msvalidate.01' content='12C1203B5086AECE94EB3A3D9830B2E'>