Add your webmaster site with Google Search Console
Google Search Console will allow you to monitor, maintain and troubleshoot your site’s appearance in Google search results. This will help you understand and improve Google’s visibility of your site. Herein lies its importance as soon as possible once you launch your website. You’ll need to do this every time you create a domain subdomain, or add a new protocol (eg migrating from http:// to https://). You need to add your site with Google Search Console webmasters. If you haven’t added Google Tag Manager to your site, you can check SOP-002 “Install Google Tag Manager on WordPress”. The site owner or analytics administrator keeps track of those results on the Google Search Console website. This process takes about 15 minutes.
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Sign in with your Google account.
On the next page, start the URL prefix” method
Enter your website URL as it appears in a web browser’s search bar (including HTTP).
Press CONTINUE.
In the event that you add your site with Google Search Console webmasters, Google Search Console will automatically try to verify whether you are the owner of the website via Google Tag Manager, so a verification message will appear.
After verification, you will be given confirmation that your ownership has been verified via Google Tag Manager.
Click on “GO TO PROPERTY”.
And that’s it. Your site has been correctly added to Google Search Console webmasters. Don’t close Google Search Console just yet. You should add more ways to check your properties in case you change one of them at any time.
Check your properties with Google Analytics
Verification requirements: You need to set up Google Analytics on your website. If you haven’t done so yet, you can check SOP003 – “Check and Setup Google Analytics on Your Website Using Google Tag Manager” or SOP004 – “Check and Setup Google Analytics on Your Website Using WordPress Plug-In”.
In the Google Search Console tool, on the left side of the screen, select your site address.
Then tap on Settings in the menu on the left side.
The Property settings window will appear.
Click the arrow in the “Verify Ownership” line.
You will see a list of available “additional verification methods”.
Click the arrow in the “Google Analytics” line to publish it.
Then press “VERIFY”.
The verification process pop-up will appear and should end with “Verified Successfully”.
Your web site has now been successfully verified using the Google Analytics method.
Check your property with the domain name
Click the arrow in the “Domain name provider” line.
Choose your domain from the drop down menu.
After selecting your domain provider, click on “Start Verification”.
You will be redirected to the domain name provider and asked to verify ownership of the domain by logging in and allowing Google to access your account.
Verify your ownership with an HTML tag on WordPress
In order to be able to add your site with Google Search Console webmasters, you must verify your ownership, and this verification requires the following:
Verification requirements: You must have access to your website to modify your website code. For this SOP, we will be editing the code on the WordPress site.
Click the arrow in the HTML Tag line.
Copy the meta tag by clicking “copy” next to it. (Note that there are directions where the code should be pasted). Leave the Google Search Console open inside your web browser tabs.
Log into your WordPress admin panel yourdomainname.com/wp-admin.
In the menu on the left side choose “Appearance”.
Then click on “Theme Editor”.
From the menu on the right side choose “theme header”.
Then paste the meta tag (Ctrl + V) just below the “<head>” line.
Now click on “Update File”.
Now go back to the Google Search Console and press ‘VERIFY’ or ‘Verify’.
The message “Verified Successfully” will appear.
Verify your ownership with the HTML tag on your WordPress site using Yoast SEO Plugin For this method, you need to install Yoast SEO Plugin on your WordPress site.
Go to your WordPress admin panel (eg: “yourwebdomain.com/wp-admin”).
Log in to your WordPress admin panel:
In the left menu, click on “SEO”.
Then choose General or General.
Select the Webmaster Tools tab.
All you have to do is enter the “Google Verification Code” in the box shown in the image.
Leave that page open in your web browser.
Click the “Google Search Console” highlight.
On the next page, choose “HTML Tag”.
Copy the verification code. This is a piece of code between quotes.
Go back to the WordPress site and paste the code.
Click Save Changes.
Click on “Google Search Console” again.
Choose “HTML Tag” again.
Then click on “Verify”.
You should see a “Great job” message.
Verify your ownership using an HTML file (optional)
This verification requires that you have FTP access to your server. This is an advanced verification method for the site admin. If you already verified yours using the other backup method above, you can skip this one.
Click the arrow in the “HTML File” line.
Download the “HTML file” by simply clicking on it.
Now upload this file that you just downloaded to your domain.
After uploading the file, click on “Verify”.
The message “Verified Successfully” will appear.
Check “Domain Property”
Go to the Google Search Console website.
Click “Get Started Now”.
Sign in with your Google account.
In the “Select site type” window, choose “Domain”.
Fill in your Domain Name and click Continue.
A verification popup will appear.
Investigate with your domain.
Click the drop down menu and find your domain.
After selecting your Domain, click Start Verification.
You will be redirected to the Domain Provider and asked to verify Domain ownership by logging in and authorizing Google to access your account. Verify by manually updating the DNS record.
If you don’t find your Domain in the list, you need to add new DNS records to your DNS configuration. In one of our SOPs, we recommend using Cloudflare Nameserver to get a free CDN and SSL, so we’ll explain how to do it with Cloudflare. If you use any other nameserver (like GoDaddy), type on Google “how to modify your DNS + registrar name” to find a guide online.
Click copy.
You should see a “Copied to clipboard” message pop up at the bottom of the page.
Leave Google Search Console open at all times in any tab of your browser.
Go to cloudflare.com.
Click “Login”.
Enter your credentials and press “Sign In”.
Select the domain name you want to check.
Click “DNS” at the top of the screen.
Click “+ add record”.
Choose “TXT” from the dropdown menu.
In the Name box, type: “@”.
Now paste the text you copied from Google Search Console.
Click Save.
You should see your new DNS record.
Go back to Google Search Console and click Verify.
Note that sometimes you have to wait up to 48 hours for the changes in the DNS record to take effect, so don’t panic if you can’t check right away.
After successful verification, the message “Ownership Verified” will appear.
Now your site has been added to Google Search Console webmasters, and your ownership has been verified correctly. You only need to have one validation method active. But if you have more than one method, you don’t have to worry about accidentally changing something inside one of them. Your data will appear in Google Search Console after two days.
