google webmaster - An insider's view of your Site

Amongst the many resources in Webmaster Central, you may wish to first get your site registered with Google's Webmaster Tools.  It typically takes just a couple of minutes to sign up and verify that you own your site, though it can be a few days until detailed site statistics are shown.  Using this tool, you and other site owners can:

1. Get Google's view of your website and diagnose potential problems.  See how Google crawls and indexes their site and learn about specific problems we're having accessing it.

2. See how you site is performing.  Learn which queries drive traffic to your site and what position your site is showing in per those queries.

3. Share info with Google to help us crawl their site better.   By submitting an XML Sitemap, Google can better understand what pages you have on your site and how frequently they're updated