To add site to Google Search Console, follow these steps:
- Sign in to your Google search console account.
- Click on the property selector drop-down located at the top left corner of any page in your Google search console account.
- Click on add property.
- Add the URL of your web site. If your site supports more than 1 protocol (ex: http and https), you will need to add a separate property for each protocol.
- Choose one site verification method to verify ownership of your website. You can verify ownership of a site by:
- Uploading a special HTML file to your site.
- Adding a <meta> tag to the HTML of a specified page.
- Adding a DNS record in your domain name provider.
- Using the Google Analytics tracking code associated with your web site.
- Using your Google Tag Manager container snippet code If you have a Google Tag Manager account.
- Blogs that you create in Blogger should be added and verified automatically in your Search Console account.
- Click Verify.
Many wordpress plugins allow users to add HTML files and <meta> tags. Please ask the community in the comment area below if you’re having trouble verifying ownership of your web site in Google Search console.
Why is it important to add site to Google search console?
If your goal is to work on your website’s SEO and get free organic traffic, add your website to Google serach console.
This will allow you to submit your website’s sitemaps to help Google search engine find and index your pages, monitor the performance of your site (Website’s impressions, Clicks, Keywords, Ranking…), inspect your URL, check for coverage issues…, and many tools that will allow you to make the necessary changes to improve your website‘s visibility on Google search engine.
Any question, Use the comments area below.
