Explaining webmaster tools (Google Search Console) and how to link them to your WordPress site

Webmaster Tools (Google Search Console) is one of the most important tools for website owners to monitor site performance in general and search engines in particular. In this article, we will learn about the optimal use of the Search console tool, and how to connect it to your WordPress site correctly to monitor the performance and analyze your site. What is Google Search Console?

How to add a site to Search Console?

Add an XML sitemap to Search Console What is Google Search Console? Google Search Console, also known as “Google Webmaster Tools,” is a free service available to all website owners that shows you how Google indexes your site and adds it to Google search results, and also how users see your site in search results.

What you can do with Search Console: You can

New content for indexing, as well as adding a sitemap. Delete or hide content from Google so that it does not appear in search results. Find and fix common malware and spam issues.

Find out which search queries cause your site to appear in search results. Discover which queries (i.e. searches) drive the most traffic to your site. Find out what other sites are linking to your site.

Shows internal and external pages linked to your site. Tracks total clicks, impressions, and statistics. Sends notifications about Google penalties and crawl errors Discover if your mobile site is attracting traffic to your site.

In other words, Google Search Console is a unique tool that gives you information about your site and the people who visit it. Read also: The comprehensive guide to using Google Search Console to continue analyzing your site How to add a site to Search Console? You can add your site to Google Admin Tools through the following steps: First, you must go to the Google Search Console website and start from there.

2. After that, you must log in using your account. 3- The next step is to enter the address of your website, and there are two ways to do this (either writing the domain name or the URL prefix). Attention must be paid to writing the website address correctly, as there is a difference, for example, between writing HTTP or HTTPS.

In order to know what your site address is correctly, you must go to the WordPress control panel for your site and then to (Settings >> General) 4. Next comes the step of verifying ownership of the site and proving that it belongs to you or that you have permission to work on it and make these updates. There are several ways to do this (you can do this by writing the code manually inside the template files or by using one of the plugins to do this. The easiest way to do this verification process is by copying the code that appears to you in the image and placing it on the home page of your site.

How to copy the verification code 1 - Manual method

Go to your WordPress control panel, then go to /head theme< مع العلم أن هذه الطريقة ربما تحتاج منك إعادة تعيين الكود مرة أخرى في حالة تغيير القالب. 2- أما الطريقة الثانية لوضع الكود، فعن طريقة إضافة Insert Headers and Footers ، حيث تحتاج إلى تثبيتها وتفعيلها ثم في لوحة تحكم الووردبريس ستذهب إلى الإعدادات >> Insert Headers and Footers, then put the code as in picture 5. After that, you must return to the Google Search Console settings and press Confirm 6.

Google Search Console will now search for the HTML tag (the verification code you added earlier) in your website and will show you a success message. “Your site has been successfully added to Search Console.” Here you have finished adding your site to Webmaster Tools and you can go to the control panel to view and preview the performance of your site and many more.

Add XML sitemap to Search Console file

An XML sitemap is a file that contains all the contents of your website in XML format, so that search engines like Google can easily discover and index your content. The easiest way to add a sitemap is by installing and activating the Yoast SEO plugin.

Steps to add a sitemap 1- After installing an add-on

Yoast, you must go to SEO, then Features, then search for the option (XML sitemaps) 2- After that, you must click on the question mark to get the XML sitemap 3- After that, a new window will open containing the XML sitemap 4- After that, a new window will open containing the 6- Then you must add the sitemap URL to Google Search Console. This will complete the addition of your site completely to Google Admin Tools. In the end, Google Search Console, or Webmaster Tools, are indispensable tools for any website today, in order to analyze and evaluate the site and manage your content in a way that contributes to improving the site’s performance.