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What is Google Search Console?
Google Search Console comes in as a very handy tool to help your blogs get indexed which results in better visibility among internet users. It is a free service offered by Google.
It helps you get detailed information about your site’s visitors, what do they interact with, from where are they accessing your site: Desktop or a smartphone and how your site performs while browsing.
Reasons to use Google Search Console
You’ll get to know what are the keywords that bring traffic to the website during an organic search process, number of sites that provide you with backlinks and let you know if your website is suffering from any mobile usability issues. Also, info about which pages of the blog or site got indexed will be known and stored.
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How to start using it on your WordPress Blog that isn’t Self-Hosted?
Firstly, you should have an account. Simply Sign-in here with your Gmail account. Go to the option that lets you add a new property or a website and type in your blog’s address.
After this, you have to verify that it is your own website i.e, verify your ownership. There are two ways of doing that, either upload an HTML document that will be provided to you or insert a simple meta tag.
As we are not self-hosting the blog, we have the option of meta tag available to use. Copy the meta tag provided and log in to WordPress. Go to ‘Settings’ on ‘My site’. It is located on the left sidebar you get and at the second last position.
You’ll see 4 options at the top: General, Writing, Discussion and Traffic, go to Traffic and scroll down. There will be various Site verification services listed.
The first one is for Google Search console. Here you can paste the copied meta tag and complete the verification process.
Let me know in the comments below if you have any further queries.
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Its interesting but u could have explained the stuff in a more connective way..as we are not that software friendly
Hey! Thanks for your feedback. Can you point out where the terms are difficult to understand?
Kaala aksar bhains barabar…
For me the topic was awesome but I could not get anything out of it as I am mechanical engineer I could know he software things
If you’re not a blogger and this article isn’t for you
I am here I am writing people are liking it I don’t know now whether I am a blogger or not..u could look at my blog posts.if it’s not cumbersome to u.
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Interesting – there are so many ways to track traffic coming to a site! I’m always wondering what search term led people to me. Thanks for the insights!
You’re Welcome Noel
Really interesting ,there are so many ways to track traffic coming to a site! I’m always wondering what search term led people to me.
Glad the post was useful to you Diana. It is always a good to analyse the sources of traffic.
This is really helpful, thank you!
You’re welcome!
Very helpful tips. There are so many things to do with a blog once it is up, thanks for the tip.
You’re welcome Crystal! 🙂
I have a family member who has a WordPress blog (not self-hosted). She’s just learning to use it. I need to send her this link.
Sure! I hope this will help her.
I didn’t even know what search console was before reading this post! I am on wordpress but self hosted but it is still always nice to know more on google search!
Yes, it helps so much in knowing more about what sources bring the most traffic to your site.
Wow this is really useful to know! I didn’t know you could do something like this without being self-hosted. Awesome!
A lot of people don’t take this crucial step when setting up their blogs so I’m glad you’re sharing the necessary steps here.
The more knowledge we share, the better it is!
I am so thankful that I had someone do this for me that installed the google console to my WordPress. Otherwise, I would have totally missed out on this important feature.
Yes it is so important to get the maximum exposure possible!
As someone who is working on building a brand and getting into blogging, I found this very helpful. Everyone is blogging, and I’d love to learn good ways to get traffic on my website once it’s up. Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome Gemille! I hope these tips help you gain more traffic
This is so helpful! Thanks for the great resource!
You’re welcome Sara 🙂
I wish I would have started a word press blog. I now use blogger so I am undecided what to do.
You can shift your blog to WordPress.
As a fairly new blogger, i find this information important.I will have to check this out, the benefits are great.
Yes do check it out!
Thank you for sharing! There is so much to learn when starting a blog. Every bit of information is beneficial.
You’re welcome Tiffany! Hoping this information helps you get more traffic to your blog
This sounds interesting. I could find the function you described in my gmail account. I’ll go look it up but I thought you might want to add a screenshot or a more specific name.
Hey Peter! Can you tell me which screenshot do you need exactly so that I can help you better?
Hello,
Very nice article, many bloggers don’t know how to connect google search console to our blog. Very helpful article for every new blogger.
Regards,
Shubham
Thank you Shubham!