How to go about using the Google Search Console?
ABC of Google Search Console starts with understanding its use. Webmaster Tools alias Google Search Console is a means through which a website owner connects with the Internet.
It is a platform through which Search Engine Optimization is made possible in a controlled way. One of the main attractions include the country settings available in Google Search Console.
"You want to be found on the web. We want to help. " tells Google Webmasters' webpage.
Firstly we would require to verify the website in Webmaster Tools /Search Console. This is performed by following the steps given below.
- Sign into your google account
- Click the link google.com/Webmasters/Tools
- Click the "START NOW" button
- Click "ADD NEW PROPERTY"
- Copy the URL you need to fetch and paste it to
- There are five methods to verify the ownsership of the website in Google Search Console, including a recommended method.
Recommended Method
Alternate Methods
Four methods open up in the Alternate Methods tab as following:
In the Alternate Methods Tab, the first method is --
- the HTML tag method:
Here you copy the meta tag inside html page's <head> session, i.e: meaningfully within <head> and </head> tags. Click Verify button in the Google Search Console Page.
- The next method is using your Domain Name Provider.
From a dropdown list of Providers choose where you have registered your Domain Name. Next you add a code in a text file inside the account of your Domain Name Provider.
Click Verify button in the Google Search Console Page.
- Third method is using Google Analytics.
If you are the Admin of your google account, add Google Analytics and click Verify on your Search Console.
- Fourth method is using Google Tag Manager.
Here you choose Google Tag Manager option and click Verify on Google Search Console.
Google recommends using the first method as its easy to insert an html page in the root directory of your website.
The first method of adding an HTML file is Google recommended method as in other methods there is common downside.
In an ongoing website development, when the designer makes changes, the tag/code we add to Verify gets altered. Thereby the website's communication with Google is lost.
Whereas by adding HTML file our communication with Google continues unaffected even when the web designer makes any design changes.
Add Users
Google Search Console has the provision to add users, wherin one user would be the Admin. In actual we would have an Admin gmail acount and other users can be managed through this account.
Let us conclude this blog as of now.
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