I don’t care much about Yahoo, Bing, or anything of the other lesser popular search engines. There is Google Search, and there’s everything else. Naturally, I’m concerned about how my blog gets crawled by Google and about what content gets indexed by Google. Google’s Webmaster Tool tells me the inside story of how users find my website through Google. In my opinion, the Search Console Tool is like an ECG that displays the heart beat of internet traffic – Google being the heart. To be able to use this free service by Google for your website, you need to prove to them that you are the owner of your website. Now here’s the question: How do you verify your self-hosted WordPress blog with the Google Webmaster Tool? Google lets you verify ownership of a website using one of three methods: Meta tag. Upload an HTML file. DNS Verification. This question has been answered multiple times before. Let me answer it again, with the bonus of showing you the … [Read more...] about How To Verify WordPress Blog In Google Search Console Tool
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How to use URL Parameters in Google Search Console Tool
Google search console is one of the best and free SEO optimization tools that you can use for your blog. If you ever wanted to make your blog search engine friendly, free search console is the best way to start. You can do various things like submitting sitemap to Google, find 404 pages, check site performance and none the less many users have already shared how search console tool saved their website. Today, we will be learning about URL parameter handling in Webmaster tool. What us URL Parameters? There are many ways URL parameters can be explained but I will take the WordPress route and here is my quick example. Usually, your post permalink is like this: domain.com/permalink but when you get traffic from referral sites like Feedburner, Facebook, Twitter you will notice your Permalink have some extra lines. Ex: domain.com/permalink?utm_source=facebook and so on. This is helped in analytics and keep an eye on from where your site is getting traffic. For an E-commerce site, they offer … [Read more...] about How to use URL Parameters in Google Search Console Tool
How to Verify WordPress Blog In Google Search Console
16 How does your site appear on Google? How many traffic are you getting from Google? How many URLs of your site got indexed by Google? If the answer is YES, then you have to use Google Search Console. Google Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools) is a free service by Google that helps you to monitor your site performance in Google Search results. It provides data to help you to understand how your site appear on Google. It also shows search queries that drive traffic to your site. Google Search Console allows you to submit your sitemap, remove URLs from search results, test robots.txt file, find and fix crawl errors and much more. If you want to use Google Search Console, then you have to add and verify your site in Google Search Console. In this post, I will show you to verify WordPress blog in Google Search Console. How to Verify WordPress in Google Search Console Step 1: Go to Google Search Console Just click on this link, Google Search Console, to get started. And … [Read more...] about How to Verify WordPress Blog In Google Search Console
How to Index a Website in Google Search in 24 Hrs [Case Study]
Having a website today is an essential part of an online presence, and it’s important that your target customers can find your website by your brand name in search engines. Many businesses have already added blogs to their websites for faster indexing and for more exposure from search engines and social media. In this article, I’m going to share information which will help you to make your site visible to search engines in no time. Recently I worked on two websites – one for my client and one for myself. The challenge with both was to index a website in Google within 24 hours. This is not a simple task, but neither is it an overwhelming one if you pay attention to what I am about to teach you here. A proper strategy will help you to put your website into search engines within 24 hours – and maybe only in a couple of hours! Also read: You can try the following instructions with any new domain you have purchased, or with any site which you created in the past but … [Read more...] about How to Index a Website in Google Search in 24 Hrs [Case Study]
How to Submit Your Blog Sitemap to Google Search Console
When we create a website, one of the most common issues we must address is how to list the site in search engines like Google. Whenever I talk to newbies who are not aware of how the search engine works, they think that they need to pay Google or other search engines to list their website. This is is not true, of course. You can show your website in a Google search for free. The only thing you need to work on is helping Google to find your blog. I have already shared my case-study on how to index your new website in 24 hours, and in this guide I will talk extensively about submitting your site map to Google’s Search console. Google search console (Formerly Google Webmaster Tool ) is a free tool that lets you control your website from the search engine’s perspective. I will not go into detail about GWT as I have already covered it in previous posts. In case you missed it, here is the first article to get you started: First we need to understand what a site map is, and why … [Read more...] about How to Submit Your Blog Sitemap to Google Search Console