Google Webmaster Tools - now Google Search Console - is a free tool by Google that allows users to check how their website is performing in the search results and whether it experiences any issues that can affect that performance. It was launched in June 2005 as Sitemaps, an XML tool.

Set-up Your Google Webmaster Tools Account You'll need to go to https://accounts.google.com/SignUp and in a few easy steps you can sign up for an account. This will give you access to all the tools and applications of Google. You don't need to have a Gmail account in order to do it.

A Google Webmaster Account is a way to verify ownership of your website and be able to request updates of your links that rerun in the Google search results to your visitors. To make a request to update links you will need to create a Google Webmaster account and make a request for the re-crawl (or re-index).

Google Search Console is a free service offered by Google that helps you monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot your site's presence in Google Search results. You don't have to sign up for Search Console to be included in Google Search results, but Search Console helps you understand and improve how Google sees your site.