What is Search Console?

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Search Console is also named Google Search Console, is a tool primarily used to manage the SEO performance of your website. You can monitor the site for keywords that appeared in Google search.

Until 2015, it was called “Webmaster Tools”, so many of you may be familiar with it for this name.

It is a mechanism that aggregates the data that Google can obtain, so it is used to understand the status of the website before the user visits the site through Google search.

Specifically, you can analyze the following factors.

  • What keywords were searched on Google search?
  • What is the search ranking
  • Which page is recognized by Google

How to Add Search Console to Your Sites

You need a Google account to use the Google Search Console. From your Google account, access the following Google Search Console site and register the site information.

Once you’ve registered your site, you’ll need to “verify ownership” to prove that you’re the owner of the site you want to acquire. There are several ways to “verify ownership”, so please proceed in a way that is easy for you to work on. The “verification of ownership” method can be done by embedding an HTML tag in the specified location or using a WordPress plugin.

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