Use Google’s Webmaster Tools!

Create a Google account to use only for this Internet project!

I believe in leveraging free Google resources for your web work! It all begins with a GMail account.

The main reason I recommend a new/separate Google account is that Google gives you a free 15GB cloud drive, and that’s a great place for you to store backups of your WordPress website. In close second is an extra email account dedicated to your WordPress project.

The GMail name does have to be unique, and it doesn’t have to be particularly memorable because it will be used only by the people working on the website.

For example, a name can be constructed with the domain name or company name, with a special character, then another word such as webwork, webstuff, webetc@ Gmail.com. (eg. rick-2019@gmail.com)

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To do it yourself, you can watch and follow along in this tutorial. It talks you through how to set up your Gmail account:

Try not to use lewd or suggestive words in your GMail name because the account name could become visible as visitors look up a connection you’ve created, such as your calendar or map.

BTW: Google says “Gmail doesn’t recognize periods as characters in addresses — we just ignore them.” I verified this by sending a test message to rick.jaggers@gmail. The message showed up in my rickjagger@gmail inbox.

Next, you will go into the settings for your new GMail account to forward incoming mail to your personal email box. You do this so you have only one mailbox to check.

You can choose whether or not to delete messages from your Gmail account being forwarded. 

Once you have your Gmail account for your website, a lot of tools are opened up!

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