Webmaster Tools API

What is the Webmaster Tools API?
   Google Webmaster Tools is Google's free service for webmasters. See your site as Google sees it, find out any problems we had crawling your site, and share info with us that will help improve your site's visibility in        Google's search results.Your client application can use the Webmaster Tools Data API to view sites in your Webmaster Tools account, add and remove sites, verify site ownership, and submit and delete Sitemaps.

How do I start using the Webmaster Tools Data API?
   1.If you're new to the Webmaster Tools Data API, here's how we recommend you get started:
Read the Developer's Guide to learn how the API works and how to use best coding and testing practices.
   2.Read the Reference Guide to learn about the web service operations and data objects that are available through the Webmaster Tools Data API.

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Webmaster Guidelines

• Design and content guidelines
• Technical guidelines
• Quality guidelines

When your site is ready:

• Submit it to Google at http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/.
• Submit a Sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools. Google uses your Sitemap to learn about the structure of your site and to increase our coverage of your webpages.
• Make sure all the sites that should know about your pages are aware your site is online.

Design and content guidelines

• Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. 
• Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. 
• Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number.
• Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
• Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
• Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. 
• Make sure that your <title> elements and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate.
• Check for broken links and correct HTML.
• If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages.
• Review our recommended best practices for images, video and rich snippets.

Quality guidelines - basic principles

• Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines.
• Don't deceive your users.
• Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you, or to a Google employee. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?"
• Think about what makes your website unique, valuable, or engaging. Make your website stand out from others in your field.

Quality guidelines - specific guidelines

• Automatically generated content
• Participating in link schemes
• Cloaking
• Sneaky redirects
• Hidden text or links
• Doorway pages
• Scraped content
• Participating in affiliate programs without adding sufficient value
• Loading pages with irrelevant keywords
• Creating pages with malicious behavior, such as phishing or installing viruses, trojans, or other badware
• Abusing rich snippets markup
• Sending automated queries to Google

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Google-friendly sites

Things to do

• Design.
• Technical.
• Quality .

1. Provide high-quality content on your pages, especially your homepage.
2. Make sure that other sites link to yours
3. Make your site easily accessible

Things to avoid

• Don't fill your page with lists of keywords, attempt to "cloak" pages, or put up "crawler only" pages.
• Don't feel obligated to purchase a search engine optimization service.
• Don't use images to display important names, content, or links.
• Don't create multiple copies of a page under different URLs.

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