Saturday, November 23, 2019

Webmaster Tools to Improve Visibility of Website

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Are you looking for your website to have better search engine rankings?

To analyze a website, SEO analysts use many tools. 


  

Beginner’s Guide to Google Search Console


If you are low on your funds, you can only focus on organic search engine or search engine optimization. Google has many tools to understand, what is your site about, your traffic rate, how you can improve your website for better ranking in search results.
this tool is known as a webmaster tool or search console. For a while, this tool was known as a webmaster tool and later in 2015 Google rebranded it as Google search console.
Google search console or GSC is made by Google itself and is completely free for webmasters.





How a website is verified by Google Search console?


 

5  Methods to Verify a Website by Google Search console



  1.     HTML file verification method
  2.     Meta tag verification method
  3.     Verification by Google analytics
  4.     Verification by DNS Text
  5.     Verification By Tag manager

    HTML File Verification Method




 In this method, you need to upload an HTML file to the root directory of your website. For this you will need to access your server to upload the file, using cPanel File Manager.
 It is the recommended method by Google. These are the steps.







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 Step 1: Download Verification File

         First add your Website to Google search console, after adding your site, You should see an option to download an HTML file, download this file to your desktop.


  Step 2: Upload file via SFTP

  Step 3: Click the verify button at Google search console
 


 

Meta Tag Verification Method

 



  Step 1:Select HTML tag in the alternative methods, Copy the value in the box. After copying paste this in the Root directory.

 

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 Step 2: You can see the settings in your dashboard, here insert Headers and Footers(paste the meta tag here)






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  Step 3:click save after this click verifies button in the Search console.



                                                                                             

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Verification by Google Analytics




Google Analytics is an analytics service offered by Google that helps to track your report website traffic. Analytics records a visit each time a user enters your page with google analytic code. There are no details steps for this method.
If you already added your website, you can see the below tab, You just click the verify button.





                    
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Verification By DNS Text



                   

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In this method, you’ll add a TXT record to your DNS provider. This is the best method.

 Step 1: Get TXT Record
        

Step2: Add TXT Record at DNS           Provider.                            
 Step 3:Click Verify Button At the Search Console.

 

Verification By Tag Manager



 Tag Manager is a free tool by Google, that allows you to manage and marketing tags on your website without changing code.
 It is quite similar to Google analytic method. If you are already using Google Tag  Manager, You can just click the verify button to verify your site.

    google-tag-manager-verify
  1.  Select the alternative method                    
  2. Select Google Tag Manager button
  3.    Click verify.




 






 I hope you got an outline of the webmaster tool or search console. To know about the optimization techniques just take a look at my last post. 


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