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Google search console verification is a way to prove who owns a website/ domain name.
Once verified, you can monitor and manage your websites and use search console tools and reports.
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What is Google Search Console?
Google Search Console (originally called Google Webmaster Tools GWT) allows webmasters to check on website indexing status and work on visibility by optimising the websites.
Free service from Google to allow everyone with a website ability to monitor how it is working in the search engine results page (SERP) and offer tools to help optimize performance.
These Google tools and reports can help you measure how your website is performing, search traffic, and identify issues that could affect rankings, and generally make your website shine for search engines like Google.
Crammed full of useful statistics to help improve your website rankings, insights about the performance and learn about the people who visit it.
Google Require One Verified Owner
New websites need to add and verify websites with Google Search Console before you can do anything else. Verifying your website proves that you’re either the domain / website’s owner, webmaster, or another authorised user.
Once you have verified, you need to confirm ownership in Google Search data because every domain /property requires at least one verified owner.
Don’t forget to verify your site ownership which may affect your showing on Google Search results.
There can be many reasons why you may be getting google search console verification errors when trying to verify ownership.
Search Console Verification Methods Checklist
HTML File
HTML Tag
Add a tag to the HTML on a specific page.
DNS Record
Add DNS record in the domain name. provider. Login to your domain name provider and add a new TXT record.
Google Analytics
Add a Google Analytics tracking code specifically for your website.
Google Analytics (GA) enables you to monitor website traffic.
Google Tag Manager
Tag manager snippet code must also publish permission on the page.
Google Domain Registration
If you’ve used Google Domains, to register your domain you should be verified automatically.
Frequently asked questions
Looking for more info? Here are some things we're commonly asked
SEO
Google's algorithm is constantly changing, and updates are very common. Most of these Google algorithm updates are minor and unnoticeable, but you’ll notice there is a big update at least once a year a large-scale overhaul of the SERP (search engine results page) that may impact your business and or your clients, but allows the algorithm to keep up with changing trends.
Read More: How do Google Algorithm Updates affect your website?
But what on earth is SEO? Or, for the non-acronym lovers out there, what is search engine optimisation? It is the way you can help increase traffic from search engines organically. What do we mean by organic traffic? Visitors find your website after finding you on a search engine's results page (SERP) and not through paid ads.
Read More: Basic Website SEO Checklist
Technical SEO is the technical changes you can make to help search engines crawl, index, and rank your website content. A successful SEO strategy includes both on-page and off-page SEO aspects. Off-page SEO involves building backlinks. On-page SEO involves the structure, content, and keywords of your website.
Read Me: Basic Technical SEO Checklist
Off-page SEO tactics are actions you can take to help your website rank better in search engine results pages.
Off-site SEO factors like backlinks and reviews are believed to weight ranking by up to 50%. Google Algorithms and ranking factors constantly change, but currently, these are helpful factors.
Read More: Off-page SEO Checklist
On-page SEO or Onpage optimisation (SEO) is the process of optimising each individual webpage to perform the best it can. Impacting on the ability of the page to rank better in search engine results pages (SERPs).
Helping it rank higher in organic search results and earn more relevant traffic from the search engines can help you get the visitors your business wants.
Read More: On-page SEO Checklist
E-A-T SEO is Google way to try and be certain of the websites and content they are recommending to searchers. Google want to deliver the most relevant information — but also the correct, accurate information to their customers.
Read More: E-A-T SEO Google Checklist