How to Submit your Blog to Google Webmaster

Google Webmaster is a tool for Website owners (and bloggers too) and if you want your site to appear in search engines then this post is for you.

What is Google Webmaster

As the name implies, Google Webmaster (or Search console) is a platform where Webmasters manage their Websites SEO performance. Basically, if you own/manage a Website (or Blog), you're a Webmaster and if you want the best of your site (I'm sure you do), you have to make Google Webmaster a must.

When you submit your site to Google Webmaster, it gets indexed and crawled so your site and contents (posts) are seen on search engines.


Why you need Google Webmaster

Like I said if you want the best of your site you need Google Webmaster. Search engines are great source of traffic generation to your site (you should know the importance of traffic) and it's the duty of search console to bring your contents to search engine for users.

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Not only does it bring your contents to search engines, there are other great features at your disposal like submitting a sitemap, setting a custom Robots.txt and monitoring your site's search performance. In Summary, Google Webmaster/Search console gives you full control over your site's SEO performance.

Read this: Principles of Successful Blogging

How to submit your site to Google Webmaster

  • Sign in to Google search console page and click on Add property.
  • Enter your Web address and click on Add
  • The next page that opens is where you'll verify your site ownership (if you're on blogger free domain i.e if your site address ends with .blogspot.com your site gets automatically verified). There are different methods to verify your site ownership but the easiest is by HTML Tag (you can use any method).
  • To use HTML Tag, click on HTML file upload and copy the code you see.
  • Google Site Verification
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  • Go to your Blogger dashboard, click on Template and click on Edit HTML.
  • Paste the code you copied earlier immediately after the opening <head> tag and save template.
  • HTML Tag
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  • Go back to the Search console page and click on Verify. You should now see your site verified on the Search console page.
How to Submit your Blog to Google Webmaster How to Submit your Blog to Google Webmaster Reviewed by Jude Kadiri on July 20, 2017 Rating: 5

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