How to Add your WordPress Website To Google Search Console

Everyone knows what search console does for you. It helps an owner to check his website appearance on search, and if it’s doing good or bad in search engines.

Those who still have any confusion about what search console is or what it does can check this post: What is Google Search Console?. You can have a proper idea what search console is and how it works and how it helps you to check your websites search appearance.

Today we’ll go for the first step in setting up search console, now read below and see how to add your website to google search console.

Add Your Website to Google Search Console

Firstly, you will have a create a search console account. Or you can just link your Gmail account from your browser with it. Now you have your search console account where u can add websites, apps that you own to see how they are working on the search.

Adding Your Website to Google Search Console

Just go to your search console dashboard. On the upper right side, you can see a red box written  Add A Property. 

Then you’ll see an option where u can add the link to your website.

Then comes the verification part. You have to verify your ownership with at least one method. The easiest method is using an HTML tag.

Copy the given meta tag and post it on your site’s homepage. Here’s where it gets complicated. You have copied the meta tag but you can’t find the place to paste it. If you ask me, I myself faced this issue. But finally, I realized where I can put the meta tag I copied.

If you are using a website on WordPress platform, You should install a plugin called YOAST SEO. This plugin will help you in sorting out SEO ( search engine optimization) issues. And this plugin will also help you to add your website to search console.

After you have copied the HTML meta tag, you have to follow these steps.

Find Yoast SEO plugin and click on dashboard. A new menu will appear.

Click on Webmaster tools, Paste the search console code on the google search console section, then click on save changes. After you have done these steps, wait for a minute or two, go back to the google search console window and then click on verify.

And that’s it. You’re done with the adding and verification of your website to Google Search Console. I hope this will help you properly with search console first steps. If you still face problems regarding how to add your website to google search console, feel free to ask via comments or directly talk to me via email. I’ll always be here to help you.