SeoPapers - article Google Webmaster Tools Program Debuts

Mountain View, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 17, 2008 - Webmaster Tools, which provide important site diagnostics information to help webmasters understand how to create search engine-friendly sites, have debuted at Google.

According to Google, as a Google Webmaster Tools Access Provider, customers may get their web sites set up with Google Webmaster Tools directly within control panels. Google Webmaster Tools is a free service and should be provided free of charge to all customers.

With the Google APIs provided, it is possible to:

Create Google Webmaster Tools accounts your customers. Customers should be opt-in to use Google Webmasters before accounts are created.
Add and verify customers' sites to their Google Webmaster Tools accounts.
Implement single sign-on so that customers can access Google Webmaster Tools directly from the company's control panel.
Submit Sitemaps on behalf of customers. Sitemaps help Google discover new content to include in our search results. Google offers a Sitemap generator, but it is possible to choose any generator.

Google Webmaster Tools Providers may also use Google's marketing kit, to tell customers about the new service being provided. The marketing kit will include the Google Webmaster Tools Access Provider badge and approved marketing messages for use when promoting integration with Google Webmaster Tools.

Per the program policies, within thirty days of completing and publicly releasing the Google Webmaster Tools integration, you must begin offering your new customers an opportunity to opt-in to the Google Webmaster Tools services during their initial sign-up for admin's services; and may, consistent with applicable legal guidelines, contact your existing customers using Google's Approved Messaging Guidelines to offer the same thing. The sign-up process must inform the customer that their User Data will be treated in compliance with admin's and Google's respective privacy policies; and must require the customer to click and accept the Terms of Service at www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/terms.html.

Once approved as a Google Webmaster Tools Access Provider, Google will send the marketing kit, and make the necessary changes to the Google Apps account to enable Google Webmaster Tools integration.

With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry's most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google's technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor's Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, California, Google's investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.

For more about Google, please visit: www.google.com.

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