How to Add Your WordPress Site to Google Webmaster Tools

How to add your WordPress website to Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools
Google Webmaster Tools


One important step in optimizing your site for search engines is adding your WordPress site to Google Webmaster Tools. Many of our readers ask us for SEO Tips and how to increase organic search traffic on their websites. Using Google webmaster tools along with other tips that we have provided can be a huge help. In this article, we will show you how to add your WordPress site to Google Webmaster Tools.


In today’s hyper-connected world, every little edge and advantage helps, whether you’re a megalithic Fortune 500 company or an entrepreneurial housewife. In today’s persistently digital climate, most people know that when it comes to the ownership, maintenance, and most importantly, the success of a business, you either have a presence on the Internet, or you perish. Of course, just throwing up a shingle, as it were, isn’t enough – you need a gimmick, something to get the attention of the wider world of cyberspace. In fact, get the Big G behind you, and you can do some truly wondrous things. It might seem impossible for anyone who isn’t some kind of industrial or corporate titan to draw Google’s attention, but that just isn’t so. In fact, Google’s own engineers and other assorted geniuses have gone out of their way to make it not only possible but quick and easy, too. All you have to do is integrate your WordPress with their Webmaster Tools. To learn how to do it, just keep reading!

Google Webmaster Tools: A Brief Overview



As it turns out, the reason lots of people – most, in fact – who haven’t yet joined their WordPress sites to Google’s Webmaster Tools fail to do so out of ignorance. After all, what businessperson would hobble themselves on purpose? With that in mind, before you learn how to get things all set up, you need to understand why you’re doing it for the first time. Don’t worry, it’s not complicated.
WordPress, as you almost certainly know if you’re reading this, is a combination blogging platform and content management service (CMS). Having spawned many children and imitators, it’s probably the most popular method of website creation that doesn’t involve hand-coding them yourself (or hiring someone to do it for you). Sites hosted on/through WordPress are commonly referred to as “WordPress sites”, so that’s what we’ll call them in this tutorial.
Google’s Webmaster Tools, on the other hand, is like a diagnostics kit toolbox. It gives you a real-time, under the hood style view of what’s going on with your websites. Wanna know how Yahoo, Bing, and (obviously!) Google view your website? Better yet, would you like to know how your visitors actually found you, right down to the search strings they used? It’s all here, and that’s just the beginning. This suite of tools and technologies will alert you to problems with your website, allow you to make it more optimized for both web crawler and organic traffic, and more – and it’s one hundred percent free. Bluntly put, integrating your WordPress site(s) with Google’s Webmaster Tools is a no-brainer, so let’s get down to the nitty-gritty of how it’s done.

What is Google Webmaster Tools

Google’s Webmaster tools is a set of tools offered by Google to give publishers a look at how their website is seen by the search engine. It provides reports and data that can help you understand how different pages on your website are appearing in search results. It shows you the search queries where a page from your website appears in the results and how often it is clicked. This data can help you improve your older articles, write new content, and formulate a content strategy for your website. Google webmaster tools also allow you to submit XML sitemap of your website, exclude URLs, and help Google display the most important content of your website. It also notifies you if there is a problem with your site which is stopping Google from crawling and indexing your pages.
How to Add Your WordPress Site to Google Webmaster Tools
How to Add Your WordPress Site to Google Webmaster Tools

How to Add your WordPress Site to Google Webmaster Tools

Go to Google Webmaster tools website and sign in with a Google account. After signing in, add your website’s URL and hit the add new site button.
On the next screen, you will be asked to verify the ownership of the website you are adding. You can either upload an HTML file to your website’s root directory using FTP or click on Alternate method to obtain a meta tag which you can then add to your WordPress site.
To easily add the meta tag to your website you can install and activate our Insert Headers and Footers plugin. Copy the meta tagline provided by webmaster tools which will look something like this:

<meta name="google-site-verification" content="VerificationKeyCode" />

Now go to Settings » Insert Headers and Footers and paste the meta tagline into the header field. Save your changes and go back to Google Webmaster tools website and click on Verify site button.

Alternately if you are using WordPress SEO plugin, then you can copy the verification key in content part of the meta tag and paste it into WordPress SEO plugin. Click on SEO in your WordPress admin sidebar and then scroll down to webmaster tools section to paste the unique key in the Google Webmaster Tools field. Save your changes and go back to Google Webmaster tools website to verify your website.
How to Add Your WordPress Site to Google Webmaster Tools
How to Add Your WordPress Site to Google Webmaster Tools

Once you have verified your website, the next thing you would want to do is to add your XML sitemap. Don’t have a sitemap or not sure what is a sitemap? Check out our guide on how to create XML sitemaps in WordPress. After you have finished adding your sitemap, it may take a while for Google to display your site data.
That’s all you need to do to add your WordPress site to Google webmaster tools. Once your data starts coming in, you can use it to your advantage.
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4 comments:

  1. Google index checker tool is used to check if a URL indexed in Google or not. It could also be used to check a total number of pages of a specific website that are listed search results.

    This tool is a useful SEO tool that lets you see the status of your website on the Google search engine, generating you the results you are looking for within a couple of seconds. In this case, you can make use of it automatically without having to download it on your PC or device. And because it is web-based, the tool can be used anywhere, anytime there is an online connection.

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