The Tools page offers a mix of basic and advanced functionality to webmasters. Of immediate use to new webmasters, robots.txt analysis allows you to check that your robots.txt file is controlling access properly -- click Analyze robots.txt to make sure Google's spiders can reach your pages, and that you've successfully blocked pages you'd like to keep out of the results.
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Manage site verification: Control who has access to detailed information about your site |
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Set crawl rate: Request that Google changes the rate at which it crawls your site |
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Set geographic target: If your site is targeted at users in a specific region, you can specify it here |
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Set preferred domain: Indicate whether you want your site indexed as http://www.example.com or http://example.com |
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Enable enhanced image search: Let Google include your images in our detailed image search |
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Remove URLs: Remove your pages from our index |
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