Google Search Console and it's Verification Methods

Google Search Console
Google Search Console


Google Search Console's old name is Google webmasters tool. It is a basic tool used in the process of search engine optimization and it's a resource provided by google which acts as a communication between the user and google. Using this platform, google can alert the users about the mistakes and errors in a webpage. Google treat search console as a mock point. Search console validates the SEO activities in a controlled form. It help us to easily target a particular country, specified audience and language. 

First, we copy the URL and go to the search console. Google id used to login to the search console must be same as that of our Gmail id. Then automatic verification will take place. Otherwise, verification have to be done. Reaching the search console, we see two options, domain and URL prefix. Since we are pasting a sub domain, paste the URL in URL prefix. Press continue button. Click property to verify. Select URL inspection option and paste the URL. Click enter. If it shows URL unavailable, then click Test Live and click enter. Now it will show that the URL is available. Then click request indexing. Now the page will be crawled. 
Sitemap is a document in XML format to use at the time of doing SEO in our website. As a part of SEO, sitemap is a xml document that contains all the related URLs of a webpage. It contains frequency changes last modified date, priorities of the URL, and it enables understand and crawl that webpage. The maximum file size is 10 mb in a sitemap document. If more than that, will be shown as invalid. And the maximum number of URLs is 50000. Google can quickly understand the xml document in few seconds than a html file which takes half an hour or more. Customized xml files can be easily understand by users. 
Search console has five ownership verification methods, They are:

1) HTML FILE VERIFICATION METHOD

 It is the most recommended method of verification methods. Google will provide a html file. That must be uploaded to the root directory of our website. Then the verify button is clicked. If there is any change in meta tag, template, analytics, designs, there will be no serious issues. It will not break the communication with the search console. 

2) HTML META TAG VERIFICATION METHOD 

Search console will provide a html meta tag which must be copied. Go to the setting of your website and select theme head section of the HTML, before the first body section. Then click verify button. Meta tag must be comes in head section.

3) GOOGLE ANALYTICS METHOD

Google Analytics


It is a free tool from google for the process of SEO. It provides the complete details about the website visits, interaction time of users and more information concerning the resources. Verification can be done using the Analytics tracking code. 

4) GOOGLE TAG MANAGER METHOD

It is the simple way of verification which just a click as link in google analytics. It can be verified by Google Tag Manager installation. 

Google Tag Manager

5) DOMAIN NAME PROVIDER METHOD

Purchase a domain name from domain name providers. Copy the text provided by the search console to the DNS data entry option. Then click verify button. Verification is completed.
  
 


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