Verification Procedures of Google Webmaster Tools

Google webmaster tools

Google search console previously known as Google webmaster tools is a free service by google for webmasters. Search console is a mok point which helps webmasters to communicate with google and vice versa. It will let you learn information about website and people who visit it and also allows webmasters to check indexing status and optimize visibility of their websites and it is a free tool or service by Google to the webmasters.
verification using webmaster tools

Google can confirm the ownership of the blog by adding and verifying blog in search console. Verification can be done through the following steps.

Submit and check a sitemap and also helps the webmasters to check if there are any errors with their sitemap.

Check and set the crawl rate, and view statistics about when Google bot accesses a particular site.
rite and check a robots.txt file to help discover pages that are blocked in robots.txt accidentally.
List internal and external pages that link to the site.
Get a list of links which Googlebot had difficulty crawling, including the error that Googlebot received when accessing the URLs in question.
See what keyword searches on Google led to the site being listed in the SERPs, and the click through rates of such listings. (Previously named 'Search Queries'; re-branded May 20, 2015 to 'Search Analytics' with extended filter possibilities for devices, search types and date periods).
Set a preferred domain (e.g. prefer example.com over www.example.com or vice versa), which determines how the site URL is displayed in SERPs.
Highlight to Google Search elements of structured data which are used to enrich search hit entries (released in December 2012 as Google Data Highlighter).
Demote Sitelinks for certain search results.
Receive notifications from Google for manual penalties.
Provide access to an to add, change and delete listings and list crawl errors.
Rich Cards a new section added, for better mobile user experience.
Check the security issues if there are any with the website. (Hacked Site or Malware Attacks)
Add or remove the property owners and associates of the web property

Fetch as google and Submit to index

After clicking the continue from the verification message, the page will redirect to the blog dashboard.

On the left hand side of the screen, we can see "Crawl" option. Click on it and choose "Fetch as Google".
The page will redirect to the following screen
If you need to fetch entire blog, then leave the text box blank. Otherwise enter the URL of the page you need to indexed.
Click "Fetch" button.
After the indexing has finished, there will be a "Request Indexing" button.
You will be given the options of "Crawl Only This URL" ( fetching/submitting one specific page) and "Crawl This URL and its Direct Links" (index the blog and its links).
Select as per the need and click Go.
Wait for the indexing to complete and you are done.