If you still do not know Google Search Console, here we will help you understand and use it. This is a tool developed by the Google company and which is designed specifically for developers and web designers.
Thanks to this tool it is possible to carry out different analyzes of your website in terms of SEO positioning, different errors or problems that may exist, analysis of the different keywords and which is the best-positioned entry or section of your website.
In addition to performing this analysis, with this tool, it is also possible to perform various optimization steps with which you can improve your positioning on the WEB.
However, it is important that you know that in order to carry out all these options and steps, there are different instructions that must be done within Google Search Console once new websites have been created.
What are the requirements to use Search Console?
The first thing you should do before you can add your website to the Search Console is making sure you meet these series of requirements:
- To begin, your website must be published on servers and it must be accessible to the public on the internet. If it is located inside a computer or, failing that, it is still in the testing phase, this cannot be verified.
- However, if your page has just been published, it is quite possible that the same system will keep you on hold for 48 or 72 hours.
In the same way, it is possible for any user to access your website without the need to use any type of password. This is because all those pages that need to log in to access their content do not have the possibility of being indexed by Google.
What is the process to add your website to Search Console?
If you want to start the process to add a property in Search Console, just follow these steps:
Start by clicking on the drop-down menu that you will find right in the property selector, located in the upper corner just on the left. You can locate this in this way on any page of Google Console:
- Here you must press the button « + Add property «
- Within the options panel that you will find there, you just have to choose what type of property you want to add.
- After that, you must proceed to verify that you are the owner of said page.
- It is important that you know that, whenever you verify a property, an email will arrive in your email containing a series of instructions with which you can begin to improve your presence in web searches.
What are the types of properties in Search Console?
If you are looking to verify a property with your Google Search Console account, and you are also looking to prove that you are the owner, you can do it through the following options:
- Domain (which must be complete)
- URL prefix is the one defined by the beginning of the path of your page.
- When you have verified the complete domain, you will have the possibility of managing together all the subdomains that you have on your website, in the same way as all those HTTP and HTTPS protocols
However, when the different prefixes of the URLs are being verified, the data that they will see will be counted separately and you can view them as follows:
- https://example.com/
- http://example.com/
- http://m.example.com/
How do I verify a domain within Search Console?
In order to carry out this verification, it is important that you take into account the following steps:
- All subdomains URLs must have the proper protocols including http and http together
- DNS verification