Google Webmaster Tools & Verification Procedures

Google search console previously known as Google webmaster tools is a free service by google for webmasters. Search console is a mok point which helps webmasters to communicate with google and vice versa. It will let you learn information about website and people who visit it and also allows webmasters to check indexing status and optimize visibility of their websites and it is a free tool or service by Google to the webmasters. This process is important in Search Engine Optimization.

Other important advantage of using this tool is, It helps you to identify the issues with our website and helps to know spam issues in the websites.

Verification using webmaster tools

Google can confirm the ownership of the blog by adding and verifying blog in search console. Verification can be done through the following steps.

1. Create a blog in your blogger.com account.
2. Login to your search console through the link google.com/webmasters/tools/
3. Copy the URL of your blog with .com extension. If the URL is with .in extension, replace it as .com/ncr and press enter. Then we can copy the URL with .com extension.
4. Go back to webmaster tools and paste the URL of blog in the text box provided with "Add a Property" button. Click the "Add a Property" button.
5. Next you will be asked to verify your blog. And there are a few verification methods. For a blog, select the "HTML tag" verification method and copy the "meta tag" data given in the text box.
6. Go to the blogger dashboard, click on Theme and Edit HTML.
7. Paste the copied meta data inside the ). Click Save Theme button.
8. Go to search console and click verify button.

Now we can get a verification message from google.

Fetch As Google And Submit To Index

After clicking the continue from the verification message, the page will redirect to the blog dashboard. On the left hand side of the screen, we can see "Crawl" option. Click on it and choose "Fetch as Google". The page will redirect to a screen which will show an option to request index. You can request index there. You are done. Just wait for indexing.

Mohammed Muzamil