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Simple SEO—Google Search Console

Overview

By monitoring and upholding your website's appearance in Google search results, Google Search Console is a potent marketing tool that can assist in the increase of your website's search engine visibility. It offers suggestions to increase your website's search engine visibility and delivers useful information and insights into how Google crawls and indexes your website.

You can receive thorough SEO performance reports created automatically by Simple SEO by connecting Google Search Console to the project dashboard.


In this article, we will discuss: 

Verifying Domain Name

Verifying your domain name in the Google Search Console is the first step to integrating your Google Search Console with your Simple SEO project. Different techniques can be used to verify a domain. You may either:

  1. Log in to your Google account.
  2. Access the Search Console. You can also manually type "search.google.com/search-console/" to your browser without the quotation marks.
  3. Click the Domain tile to select it. In the field provided, type your domain or subdomain name. Then, select CONTINUE.
    Domain tile
     
  4. The TXT record will show. Copy it by clicking COPY as shown in the image below.
    Verify Domain Ownership
     
  5. Log in to your Account Manager and paste the TXT record you copied. You can follow the steps in the How Do I Manage DNS and Advanced DNS records? article and select Text (TXT) Records or Sender Policy Framework (SPF) Records to continue the process.
  6. After the TXT record is added, return to the Google Search Console. In the Verify domain ownership via DNS record page, click VERIFY.
    Verify button


You have successfully updated the DNS record. Please allow 24-48 hours for the change to fully propagate.

Note: We utilized our Website Builder to write Steps 7 through 11. Kindly input the verification code corresponding to the builder you are using.
  1. Log in to your Google account.
  2. Access the Search Console. You can also manually type "search.google.com/search-console/" to your browser without the quotation marks.
  3. Click the URL Prefix to select it. In the field provided, type your domain or subdomain name. Then, select CONTINUE.
    URL Prefix tile
     
  4. Collapse the HTML tag accordion, then copy the meta tag. Do not close this page as you will need to return to complete the verification.
    Verify Ownership page
     
  5. Paste the meta tag in any text editor. Then, copy the verification code only. The verification code is the last data enclosed in quotation marks.
    Meta tag
     
  6. Log in to your Site Editor and click Settings on the left navigation menu.
    Settings
     
  7. Click Google Services, then select the Site Verification option.
    Site Verification
     
  8. Click the Connect button.
    Connect button
     
  9. Enter the verification code, then click Save.
    Verification code
     
  10.  Republish the website.
    Republish the website
     
  11. Return to the Google Search Console in the Verify Ownership page. Then, click the VERIFY button under the HTML tag option.
    Verify Ownership page2
     

A message will show saying that the ownership is auto verified.

 

Google Search Console Access to the Service Account Email

You must go to your Simple SEO dashboard after your domain name has been validated in order to edit the Google Search Console portion of your business profile.

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Select Marketing on the left menu.
  3. Click the MANAGE button on the Manage Simple SEO section.
    Marketing button
     
  4. In the Online Marketing Hub (OMH) Dashboard, click Open under Business Profile Progress.
    OMH Open Button
     
  5. Select the I have a Google Search Console account option. Then, copy the service account email.
    Business Profile page
     
  6. Return to the Google Search Console. Then, select Settings in the left navigation menu.
    Settings Google Search Console
     
  7. Select Users and permissions.
    Users and permissions
     
  8. Click the ADD USER button.
    Add User button
     
  9. Paste the service account email in the Email field. Then, choose Restricted permission from the drop-down. Click ADD.
    Add button
     
  10. Return to your Simple SEO project dashboard and click the VERIFY CONNECTION button in the Google Search Console section. Then, hit the SAVE CHANGES button.
    Verify Connection
     

Your Search Console account is now connected to your Simple SEO project. You can now access the Google Search Console tab and check your website's performance.

Access Google Search Console

Follow the steps below on how to access the Google Search Console in the Simple SEO dashboard.

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Select Marketing on the left menu.
  3. Click the MANAGE button on the Manage Simple SEO section.
    Marketing button
     
  4. In the Online Marketing Hub (OMH) dashboard, click Open under Simple SEO.
    Simple SEO Open button
     
  5. Go to the Google Search Console tab.
    Google Search Console tab
     

You can now see how your website performs in Google Search results.
Google Search results

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