Google Search Console

 

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Google search console is a powerful tool that helps the website owners to monitor how their site interacts with google. Google search console is initially known as Google webmaster tool (GWT). It helps to optimize the website by reporting any errors and performance of the website according to priority of users. 

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Google Search Console Steps

  1. Enter the URL and submit,to get verified using any of the verification methods. If your blogger account and google search console is signed in with same email id, URL will be  auto verified. Else the website has to be verified using any of the five verification method.
  2. Click  "Go to property", it is redirected to blog's dashboard in google search console. Paste URL for URL inspection. Now Test Live URL and request for indexing. If URL is available, the web page can be submitted for indexing request.  If no errors, the google will crawl and index the page.
  3. Now we can submit website's sitemaps

Sitemap

It is a xml document  that contains all related URL's of that web page. It involves details like frequency changes, last modified date, priorities of URL etc. Sitemap enables google to easily crawl the web page. Maximum size of xml file is 10 MB and maximum number of URL's in sitemap is 5000.

Search Console Verification Methods

1) HTML file verification
       It is the most recommended method. We need to download an HTML file and upload to the root directory to your website's Cpanel  for verification. Whereas in other methods,there is a chance to break meta tags or for unintentional changes in the main HTML files as those tracking codes are directly installed.
html file verification




2)HTML Meta tag method

        It generates a Meta tag that can be pasted in the header section of website's HTML file before verification.

3)Google Analytics Method

     We can add google analytics tracking code of  your website in the head section for the respective account for verification. This method is used for URL prefix properties, but not domain properties.

Google Analytics verification



4)Google Tag Manager

           It helps to install, track and monitor meta tags without editing main codes. In this method, tag manager code is pasted in the opening of the body section of HTML file for verification. This method is used only for URL prefix properties but not domain properties.

5) DNS provider

       Submitting DNS Data record in to the domain name provider's record list and verification is done in this method. This is the second recommended method

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