How to Add your Website to Google Search console?

It is important to add your website to Google search console if you are targeting free traffic from Google search engine.

Google search console will allow you to submit your sitemaps to help Google search engine find your pages and index them, and provide you with valuable information about your website, including your website’s ranking in Google search, the keywords it is ranking for, the number of daily impressions for each keywords, in addition to many tools that will help you improve your website visibility.

To add site to Google Search Console, follow these steps:

Sign in to your Google search console account.
Click the property selector drop-down located at the top left corner of any page in your Google search console account.
Click on add property.
Add the URL of your web site. If your site supports more than 1 protocol (ex: http and https), you will need to add a separate property for each protocol.
Choose one site verification method to verify ownership of your website. You can verify ownership of a site by:
- Uploading a special HTML file to your site.
- Adding a <meta> tag to the HTML of a specified page.
- Adding a DNS record in your domain name provider.
- Using the Google Analytics tracking code associated with your web site.
- Using your Google Tag Manager container snippet code If you have a Google Tag Manager account.
- Blogs that you create in Blogger should be added and verified automatically in your Search Console account.
Click Verify.