Google Search Console: to check
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 4:55 am
Google Search Console: to check that your site is being indexed (listed) by Google and that there aren’t any technical problems with your posts and pages
Google Analytics: to see lots of useful data about your website traffic, like where your readers come from, which pages they visited and how long they stayed on your site
You’ll need to verify your website to set up these accounts, so that Google knows you really are the website owner. It’s easiest to set up Google Analytics first and then Google Search Console.
That way, you can use the Insert Headers and Footers WordPress plugin to add the Google Analytics tracking code, then you can also opt to use that code to verify your site with Google Search Console.
4. Generate a Sitemap and Submit it to Google Search Console
Google needs to “crawl” websites to add them to their search co to za numer nl : think of a spider crawling through a web!
To help Google crawl your site, you can submit a sitemap. This tells Google the URL (web address) of all the pages on your website.
It’s really easy to create a sitemap in WordPress. In fact, you have one already – unless you haven’t updated your WordPress installation before August 2020 (that’s a scary thought).
Simply enter your website’s domain name into your web browser, and add /wp-sitemap.xml to the end, like this:
ryrob.com/wp-sitemap.xml
You should see a list of 2 or more links, depending on how your sitemap is structured, and on whether you’re using an SEO plugin like Yoast.
Don’t worry about what your sitemap means. You just need to copy that URL and enter it into Google Search Console. Go to Index → Sitemaps in Google Search Console, then enter and submit your sitemap URL:
Submit Your Sitemap in Search Console to Rank Higher on Google and Get Indexed
Even if you’ve been blogging for a while, it’s smart to go into your Google Search Console and double check that you’ve submitted your sitemap already.
If you’re hoping to rank higher on Google, giving them helpful information to make sense of your blog is a good idea.
Google Analytics: to see lots of useful data about your website traffic, like where your readers come from, which pages they visited and how long they stayed on your site
You’ll need to verify your website to set up these accounts, so that Google knows you really are the website owner. It’s easiest to set up Google Analytics first and then Google Search Console.
That way, you can use the Insert Headers and Footers WordPress plugin to add the Google Analytics tracking code, then you can also opt to use that code to verify your site with Google Search Console.
4. Generate a Sitemap and Submit it to Google Search Console
Google needs to “crawl” websites to add them to their search co to za numer nl : think of a spider crawling through a web!
To help Google crawl your site, you can submit a sitemap. This tells Google the URL (web address) of all the pages on your website.
It’s really easy to create a sitemap in WordPress. In fact, you have one already – unless you haven’t updated your WordPress installation before August 2020 (that’s a scary thought).
Simply enter your website’s domain name into your web browser, and add /wp-sitemap.xml to the end, like this:
ryrob.com/wp-sitemap.xml
You should see a list of 2 or more links, depending on how your sitemap is structured, and on whether you’re using an SEO plugin like Yoast.
Don’t worry about what your sitemap means. You just need to copy that URL and enter it into Google Search Console. Go to Index → Sitemaps in Google Search Console, then enter and submit your sitemap URL:
Submit Your Sitemap in Search Console to Rank Higher on Google and Get Indexed
Even if you’ve been blogging for a while, it’s smart to go into your Google Search Console and double check that you’ve submitted your sitemap already.
If you’re hoping to rank higher on Google, giving them helpful information to make sense of your blog is a good idea.