As we all know that when we look for something on the internet, we type in the search bar and the list of top-ranked sites will be shown. But how Google knows about all relevant sites? So, here an online tool comes into the picture, which is known as Google Search Console. This tool informs google about your website, ownership, and its content.
Driving traffic to your website or blog is an essential function of SEO, and its ultimate goal is to get conversions from traffic. This whole process is time and effort taking at the same time. Since SEO is a vast and ongoing process; Google Search Console helps you to know how well your SEO strategies are working out, how your website is performing on the search engine, what it’s ranking, and all user-related information.
Formerly, It was known as the Webmaster tool. You can consider it as a significant player of the website/blog’s search engine ranking background. Once you gather all search engine ranking related information in Google Search Console, you can fix any website issue as well. Google Search Console is being used by almost every digital marketers around the globe. The reason behind they know how big of lasting imprints a well-designed and optimized website can make.
Here is an array of things that can be done with Google Search Console:
- Sitemap submission
- Integration with Google Analytics
- Source of web traffic
- Search terms that visitors are using frequently
- website’s Top performing pages
- Devices that visitors are using
- Complete list of backlinks
- Finding broken links
- Mobile usability
- Fixing website error
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To verify your website on Google Search Console, follow the below steps-
- Go to Google Search Console setting and click on verify details.
- There are few methods to verify and choose any one of them.
- Once you complete any of one method, you will be provided a code that you have to paste within the section and click on the verify button.
Domain Name Server verification method is the easiest one to verify your website. Follow the below steps-
- Add Property-Go to add a property.
- Add domain name-Type your domain name.
- Click on continue
- The next page is the DNS record page,
- Instruction for – select your DNS provider name
- Leave the txt record copy section and move forward to click on start verification.
- To complete the verification process, the domain name provider login page will be shown, where you are requested to log in with the correct id and password.
- An authorize page will get open, click on the allow button, and now your domain name is added to google search console.
- You can recheck it with the property check option.
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