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Google Webmaster Tools is a no-charge web service by Google for webmasters. It allows webmasters to check indexing status and optimize visibility of their websites. It has tools that let the webmaster:
- Check and set the crawl rate
- List internal and external pages that link to the site
- See the PageRank of your site
- See what keyword searches on Google led to the site being listed in the SERPs, and the click through rates of such listings
- View statistics about how Google indexes the site
- Submit and check a sitemap
- Generate and check a robots.txt file
- Set a preferred domain (i.e prefer wikipedia.org over www.wikipedia.org or visa versa).