It provides a list of VERY basic information that you can use to manage your site. You can find out which keywords are getting you the most impressions and most click-thrus. You can find pages on your site that are causing crawl issues like 404 errors. You can see a "sample" of inbound links to some of your URLs. You can set the geo targeting for your site to reflect your target audience... Just to name a few. First you'll need to go through the Google site verification process for Webmaster Tools. Then add your site... Then wait several days, sometimes even a couple of weeks on the screens to populate with data. It's NOT real-time
Google webmaster tools is pretty useful to let you know a bunch of basic and some pretty advanced stats of your site, traffic, etc. Another thing you should look into is Google Analytics which is also free and you install a small snippet of code on your site and it provides more advanced tracking which is good for analyzing your site then making changes to improve your results. You should sign up for it and submit your sitemap.xml file too.
Google webmaster tools is a Doctor and your website is a patient. You can check the errors, Broken links, Page indexing, Backlinks, Internal links and other important Data regarding to your site for free. Every Webmaster should use it.
I use it all the time...there are so many useful reports, that it is definitely worth putting into your website! I am so glad I did!
Webmaster tools is where you can see internal linking count, inbound link counts and where sitemaps can be submitted.
it is useful, because if you want to go up on the google ranking, google webmaster tools are a trademark of google. So , just because of that, you have to use it
Google Webmaster is a control panel for a web site that gives you the complete detail about your site like index pages, broken links, crowing states, search queries for your site, errors about your site, shows when Google crawler acceded your site, shows keyword density, HTML Suggestion like any duplicate title or description error so this way Google web master is a mirror for your site that shows your site crawling performance on the Google and to use Google webmaster first of all you need to verify your site on Google webmaster in the Google webmaster after verification you can also submit sitemap of your site that will tell Google bot all about your site links and helps in crawling and indexing.
With Google Webmaster, we can have our site's information like for what keywords does our site ranking, who enters our sites from which, by what keyword people comes to our website, backlinks, traffic, and many more