When you start your blog, you need to to take
an important step to let Google know about blog.
In this article, you will learn how to add your WordPress website to Google Search Console. There are thousands of guides telling you about SEO optimization.
This is the first step to start the SEO. Google Search Console is a way to talk to search engine and Google Search Console will provides the full detail about your website.
From all the security checks to all the different errors, it is the best way to drive organic traffic to your website but the first step is to submit to it.
Only after verification, you will be able to handle your site in Google Seach Console.
In this article, you will learn how to add your WordPress website to Google Search Console. There are thousands of guides telling you about SEO optimization.
This is the first step to start the SEO. Google Search Console is a way to talk to search engine and Google Search Console will provides the full detail about your website.
From all the security checks to all the different errors, it is the best way to drive organic traffic to your website but the first step is to submit to it.
Only after verification, you will be able to handle your site in Google Seach Console.
How To Add Your
Site in Google Search Console ?
Google has given many options to add your site
in Google Search Console . Let me guide you.
Step
1:-
After you log in to Google Search Console with your Google account. You will
see an option on the right hand top add a property.Click on that button.
A site is considered a property in Google Search Console.
A site is considered a property in Google Search Console.
Step
2:- A
Popup will come asking you to type the URL of your website and add.
Step
3:- It
will take you to a page where you will see an option to verify your website.
You can either download an HTML
file and
upload it to the WordPress directory or use other methods.
The recommended method is to use the HTML
file. Just download that file to your computer and go to the cPanel of your web
hosting account.
Go to cPanel>>files>>file
manager>>upload the
file using the “UPLOAD” button from the
navigation menu shown below.
choose the file from your computer and upload
it. After uploading, verify it by clicking on the button in the Google Search
Console.
Alternate
Methods.
Instead of doing it from the cPanel, you can
use another method. Click on the “Alternate methods” and you will see many
options.
The most effective one is to generate “HTML tag” and put it in the <head> tag of your website.
It will be a meta tag consisting the code for
your website.
To add it on your website head, either you can
use a plugin or add it manually in the header.php file of the theme. as shown
in pic below.
After adding, click on the verify button and
it will get verified.
There are many other options mentioned on the
same page. If you have already installed Google Analytics on your
website then the same account can be used.
Even your domain provider account can be used.
Add Your WordPress
Website To Google Search Console Using Yoast SEO Plugin.
So many users are there who depend on the
Yoast SEO plugin for their website’s SEO.
If you also using this plugin, you would be
happy to know that your website can be verified from that only.
When you use the HTML tag method, you get a
<meta> tag to add in the head section of your website.
Let me give you an example of the code.
<meta
name=google-site-verification” content=”verificationcode” />
You just have to code only the “verificationcode” and paste it in the
plugin.
Just navigate to SEO>>Dashboard>>Webmaster Tools and paste that
verification code in the Google Search Console field.
Save the settings and verify it by using the
verify button from verification page from Google
Search Console.
Now, you can see the growth of your website
using Google Search Console.
To optimize your website for SEO, you have
to add your website sitemap to Google. There are many plugins which
generate it. And if you’re using Yoast SEO, no extra plugin is required.
Can you now add your
WordPress website to Google Search Console?
You have seen many verification methods in
this article, you can use any of them.
Some people don’t feel comfortable with the
cPanel so they can skip the first method. Adding the meta tag is easy but can
be tricky.
The easiest method is to copy the code and
paste it to the Yoast SEO plugin. If you use any other SEO plugin, there are
other options too.
What’s your choice to add your WordPress to Google
Search Console? If
you face any problem, feel free to drop a comment.
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