Useful tools for blogger

Google Webmasters tools

Google Webmaster Tools is free web service tool by Google for webmasters. It allows webmasters to check indexing status and optimize visibility of their websites.

Steps to use Google webmaster tool

1.First we need to do Login for Google webmaster.

2.Add your website/blog url using Add site button

3.Submit a Sitemap to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover

Click Site Configuration section click sitemaps

for bloggers

   atom.xml

e.g

 http://xxxxxxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml

or we can add site feed also

e.g

http://xxxxxxx.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/

Crawl access:

In this section we have robots.txt file to specify how search engines should crawl your site's content.

We can specify whether search should search your site/blog or not.

for unregistered bloggers can’t change their robot.txt file

If you have any problem with your sitemap or your site pages then you will get some crawl errors that will be displaying in crawl errors section.

If you don’t have any errors then after few days if googlebot successfully crawled your site/blog means you will get the below

message.

Googlebot has successfully accessed your home page.

Pages from your site are included in Google's index.

Google Analytics

 Google Analytics  is a free web service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website.

    

Windows Live Writer

Writer Live Writer makes it easy to share your photos and videos on almost any blog service—Windows Live, Wordpress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, and many more.

     It is a development tool/platform for blogger.And It has lot of features to post the blog easily.   

This update to Windows Live Writer 1.0 (Beta) features:

• Tagging support
• Support for Blogger Beta
• Improvements to categories
• And more...(details below)