Suppose you have published a very informative article for your website or we can say you have newly created a website. You are regularly updating your website too. But Google will take time to crawl your website automatically. If you need instant results, then you have to tell Google about your site.
Here in this article, I will be giving you a brief guide through which you can get your website index more often and quickly. This article is not about tricks to attract search engine; it is one step ahead of all tips and tricks, here we will be telling you what Google Webmaster is? And how to add your website to Google Webmaster in 2020? We have mentioned 2020 mainly because Webmaster recently got a new layout.
What is Google Webmaster?
Google Webmaster is a free tool. Google webmaster offers Dozens of helpful features that will help you to maintain the performance of your website. You will get very useful information about your website like How search engines see your website, by using which keyword visitors are coming to your website, Is there any broken link on your website, your website is affected from malware or not, sitemaps and many more features are available in Google webmaster.
I hope you have understood the basics of Webmaster and its importance for your website.
Now let’s learn,
How to add a website to Google Webmaster?
Since Google Webmaster is free for all. Thus, you can quickly sign in with your Google account on the webmaster. If you don’t have a google account, then you can create one and can use it for the webmaster.
Once you have successfully created an account and logged in with that, you have to add your website in it. Adding a site is somewhere a complicated process, few of our readers faced some problems while inserting it. So, to avoid all such issues you can follow the below-mentioned steps:
Step 1#
Just after entering the webmaster, you will see a pop-up. That pop up will show you an option to add a property and asking you a website URL. Insert your website URL in the Website URL section and click on the “add property” button.
Step 2#
If you have already added a website to Google webmaster, then you can use the option “Add property” in the left section of the webmaster’s homepage to add another website.
Step 3#
Once you added your website as property then in this step you have to verify your website ownership.
You can verify ownership of the website using methods like HTML file download, HTML tag, Google analytics tracking code, Google tag manager and DNS but we will use the HTML tag method because it is very easy to add HTML tag to any website’s header.
Step 4#
Just copy the Html meta tag and login in to your WordPress dashboard.
Step 5#
In WordPress, you need to navigate to the editor option. So go to Appearance >> editor and select the ‘header.php’ file. Now, simply paste the copied code in the header file and this code should be added between the opening and closing head (<head></head>) tags.
Note: If you have no idea about HTML or PHP then we recommend you to use the plugins INSERT HEADER AND FOOTER and WEBMASTER TOOLS to verify ownership of your website.
Step 6#
If you have successfully pasted the code then, hit the “verify” option in webmaster, and your website will be verified instantly.
Step 7#
Your webmaster Dashboard looks like this, you can check anything you want about your website from the menu given in the left section of the dashboard.
This was a small guide on How to add a website to Google Webmaster in 2020. We hope all the steps are clear to you. If you still have some doubts then connect to me via the comment section.
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DEVI
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