Google search console tips and guidelines

GOOGLE SEARCH CONSOLE TIPS AND GUIDELINES

Introduction to Google Search Console

•  Google search console used to check indexing status and optimize visibility of       websites
• Google search console provides a controlled form of SEO

• Google Search Console is earlier known as the Webmaster Tool
• Google Search Console is a collection of tools and resources to help website owners, webmasters, web marketers and SEO professionals monitor website performance in the Google search index.

Different Methods of verification

• HTML File verification method
• HTML Tag verification method
• Google Analytic method
• Google Tag manager method
•  DNS Record method

TML File verification method

You can verify ownership of a site by uploading an HTML file to your site. Removing this HTML file from your site will cause you to lose verification for the site. HTML verification method is the recommended method by Google, other methods are alternatives

HTML Tag verification method

To verify ownership with an HTML tag, choose the HTML tag method on the verification details page for your site and follow the instructions shown. Google verify that the meta tag exists in the correct location. If Google can't find the tag, Google gives you information about the error encountered

Google Analytic method

You can verify your site using the Google Analytics tracking code associated with the site. To do this, "edit" permission for the web property is needed because the tracking code is used by that page.

Google Tag manager method

Google Tag Manager is a free tool that allows you to manage and deploy marketing tags (snippets of code or tracking pixels) on your website  without having to modify the code

 

DNS Record method

You can verify ownership of a property at the domain level by adding a DNS record in your domain name provider. This is to verify ownership of a property at the domain level. It is done by adding a DNS record in your domain name provider. For this, you must sign in to your domain name provider.

Features of Google Search Console

• Include information about search appearance,
•  search traffic,
•  technical status updates, 
• crawl data and additional educational resources
• It helps in submitting and checking of sitemaps.
• Reports and errors of websites seen in the search console.

Site maps

An XML sitemap is a type of list marked up with XML so that search engines can easily consume information about the URLs that make up a site. It's a way of asking the search engines to crawl and index the pages listed

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