How To Submit Your Website On Google Search Console

To optimize your WordPress website for SEO, it is very important and important that you add your website to Google Search Console. Google Search Console was previously also known as Google Webmaster Tools. In this WordPress tutorial, we will learn how we can easily verify our website in Google Search Console. Apart from this, we will also give you complete information about webmaster tools. Stay tuned for our tutorial on how to add your WordPress website in Google Search Console.

What is Google Search Console?

Google Search Console is a free tool that is given to us by the Google company. This is most important for every website owner. Because website owners can monitor their website with the help of this tool. So that their website keeps ranking in Google search results.

It keeps you updated with problems like site error, site security issues, site index issues in your website. Apart from this, it is useful in tracking your website search ranking and tracking website search performance.

Friends, if you are serious about your website or blog and you want your website to grow. So you need to add your website to Google webmaster tools from day one. If you have a problem in doing this process then you can contact a Best Digital Marketing Company in Jaipur. And you can get your website ranked on search engine pages.

How To Submit Your Website On Google Search Console

When you log in to Google Search Console, it will ask you to enter the URL of your website. In this, you will get 2 methods by which you can get your website verified. The first is to use the domain name and the second is to use the prefix of your website URL. We suggest all of you users use the second method website URL prefix. Because it is easy and flexible for every user, whether it is a beginner or a professional.

You have to keep this in mind while using the URL prefix method. That you enter the URL of your site exactly right. Because Google considers both HTTP and HTTPS as two different protocols. Apart from this, Google sees https://www.yoursite.com and https://yoursite.com as two different websites. Therefore, while entering the URL prefix of your website, you have to keep this in mind. You enter the same URL prefix that you are using in WordPress.

Friends, if you are not sure about your website URL prefix, then you can easily know your website URL. For this you simply have to log in to your WordPress admin area and then visit Settings >> General page.

Now on the page that will open in front of you, you can see your website URL in the site address field. So whatever URL is in your site address field, you have to enter the same URL in the Google Search Console URL prefix.

After entering your site address in Google webmaster tools, you have to click on the button “continue”. As soon as you click on the continue button, it asks you to verify the ownership of the website. In this, you will have many option shows, out of which you can verify your website ownership by using any one option. We are telling you here to verify your website ownership through HTML tags. Because this is the easiest way to verify your website ownership, if you want, you can also choose other options.

Simply click on the HTML tag, now copy the HTML code that is showing in front of you. Now you have to add this Google site verification meta tag to your WordPress. With which Google will be able to verify your website ownership. Now if you know about the header.php file and know how it is used. So you paste directly under the <body> tag in the header.php file in your WordPress theme and click on the “Save Changes” button.

But there is a problem with this method if you later update or change your WordPress theme. So it may be that this HTML tag should be removed from there, so later Google will not be able to find that HTML meta tag in your website.

Due to this Google Search Console will be disabled in accessing your website data. That’s why we are telling you a way by which Google will always be able to verify your website ownership, that too easily. For this, first, you have to install and activate the Insert Header and Footer plugin in your WordPress. Now that you have installed and activated the Insert Header and Footer plugin in your WordPress. So you just have to go to your WordPress admin area and click on Settings >> Insert Header and Footer option.

Now a page will open in front of you, in which you will be showing a box named “Scripts in Header”. You have to paste the copied Google verification HTML tag code. After that, you have to save the settings by clicking on the “Save” button.

Now you have to go back to the settings of Google Search Console and click on the button “Verify”. Now Google will find the HTML code in your website code as soon as it gets its verification code. It will show a successful message on your screen.

Even if everything is correct, you do not get a successful message show. Then you have to clear your WordPress cache, along with this you also have to see that your website version is the latest.

Take friends, all of you have successfully added your website to Google Search Console. After this, you have to click on “Go to Property” present in the dashboard of Google Search Console. From here you can see the performance reports and coverage reports of your website. But before that, you should give a little more information to Google about your website. So that Google gets help in crawling your website more easily.