Do you need to add your website to
Google Search Console? Well keep
watching in this video I'll walk you
through how to get your site up and
running on Google search console. One of
the best resources that Google has
supplied us with is something called the
Google Search Console it used to be
called Google Webmaster and they have
recently renamed it to Google search
console so you'll hear both of those
terms used sometimes. So if you're ready
Let's get started.
The first thing you want to do is you
want to make sure that you have a Google
account and that you're logged in. Once
you've logged into your Google account
head over to search.google.com/search-console
and we need to add our
website so we'll do this we'll go to the
drop down here and we'll add property
and click on add property. Once you're
taken to this screen just type in the
address of your website and add property
once you add the site then you need to
verify ownership and you don't
necessarily have to verify that you own
it but just that you have administrative
access to the website. They give you a
recommended method but let's look at the
alternative methods. The one that we're
looking for is we actually want to just
add the HTML tag so I'm going to click
on that and we'll need to copy this
information. So I'm going to highlight it,
right click, and copy. Now we need to go
to our website's dashboard. From the
dashboard let's head over to plugins
because we want to add a new plugin so
let's go to plugins, add new, and under
the search area let's search for insert
headers and footers. It's a very simple
plugin that is created by WPBeginner.
This is the one we want so let's click
install now. Once it's installed go ahead
and activate it and this just gives you
a really simple and easy way to add code
to verify things on your site. So now
that it's here we can go under settings
go to insert headers and footers
and that bit of code that we copied
let's go to the header area, right click,
and paste. Now that's here we can save
that. Settings have been saved so we've
added it successfully to our site. Now a
second method you could use to add this
piece of code to your site is by using a
plugin that you probably
already have installed and that's by
using the Yoast SEO plugin. To connect
your site with search console using the
Yoast plugin head over to your dashboard,
go down to SEO, click dashboard, from here
we have a tab up here called webmaster
tools. When we click on that we have
three different webmaster tools we can
connect to. We want to connect the Google
search console so we'll just click into
this area, right click, and paste that bit
of code. Once we do that we can click
Save Changes and for either of the
plugins that you use the next step will
be the same. We can head back over to the
search console area, scroll down, and we
want to click verify now. It'll go
through and if it sees the code then you
have been verified and now it's added to
the site. Now we can click continue and
it's actively on our site. It will take a
couple of days for the data to show up
here so you'll want to come back in a
couple of days and you can start seeing
the performance of your website. Did you
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