Free ways to promote your website or business with Google.

Google's Free Webmaster Central & Tools
Free resources for webmasters provided by Google including their site status wizard which will report if your site is currently being indexed by Google. No other search engine provides direct reporting and alerts like Google does with its webmaster central resources, and best of all they are free. Webmaster tools include robots.txt validation, crawl info, keyword reporting and more to keep you well informed about your website's inclusion.

Originally known as Urchin this analytics program was purchased by Google in November 2005. Since then, Google has provided this reporting service free of charge for sites large and small.

When registering you are prompted to enter your website address along with an account name and your time zone. Then you provide your contact information for the account and agree to the terms and conditions. You are then provided a JavaScript code snippet to insert within your web pages. You may verify that your tracking code is installed correctly by using their "Check Status" function.

Reports are compiled over time and may be viewed based on different roles including Executive, Marketer & Webmaster. For example, within the marketer's or executive's report, select "Site Overlay" to view the popularity of links within your web pages.

You may set up custom filters for your account to exclude certain visitors or traffic.

Free resources for webmasters provided by Google including their site status wizard which will report if your site is currently being indexed by Google. No other search engine provides direct reporting and alerts like Google does with its webmaster central resources, and best of all they are free. Webmaster tools include robots.txt validation, crawl info, keyword reporting and more to keep you well informed about your website's inclusion.

Free sumbit URL location for Google search engine. Google crawls web pages to create their index. If you want to make sure your site is always included in Google, then get links to your site from other web sites that are already included within Google. For example see free directories.

Select Add/Edit to login into your Google account (or create a new one) and add your business listing to Google Local/Maps for free. Upon submitting your business listing, Google verifies the physical address of the business by mailing a PIN code that must be confirmed upon receipt. For businesses that have more than 10 locations, see the bulk upload options available with Google Base.

Part of Google's Webmaster Tools, Sitemaps is a program which allows webmasters to create an xml feed of their urls that they want included within Google. The ability to set the crawl priority of urls is provided along with other webmaster reporting including Googlebot errors.

Questions and answers about how to submit your site to Google's Mobile index using their Mobile Sitemaps program. Google's site states that this is only for urls that serve mobile content and that non mobile content is ignored.

Google Base is a separate Google index that you can submit products or information. Based on the listing it may be displayed in Google Search, Local or Froogle Shopping. Options are provided to add listings individually or through a bulk upload.

Did you know Google provides a search of mail order product catalogs? Select this option if you have a print catalog that you would like to include within Google's Catalog search. Offer is restricted to "U.S. mail-order product catalogs which have printed prices".