Aveline Olivero SEO Analyst: Google Webmaster Tool and it's verification methods

Google Webmasters Tool

Introduction to webmaster tool and it's verification methods

Google webmaster tool is a free service provided by google. On may 20, 2015 google webmaster tool was renamed as Google Search Console. It help us to communicate with google find any errors in our website, show broken pages, site indexing etc. It's the place where you will recieve messages directly from google about any issues or actions taken against the corresponding website.

Verification Steps of GWT

Create a blog and copy it's url(convert the .in extension to .com extension by replacing .in by .com/ncr)
Login onto the google console
Select the 'add property' button. Now a new tab be opened for pasting the copied url, paste the url on the space provided .
From there you will be redirected to a page with list of verification methods from there copy the 'meta tag' content. Eg:(eg: <meta name=”google-webmasters-tool” content=”Hbp…..” />)
Revert to the blogger page and select theme and edit the html of blog template.
Paste the 'meta tag' content inside the head tag and save it.
Now goto webmaster tool and select the verify buttton.
Now an acknowledgement with green tick appears.

Fetching and Indexing

After selecting continue from the acknowledgement, we will be redirected to the dashboard.
Select crawl option on the left side, there different crawl options will be listed from there choose 'follow as google'.
Now a box asking url will appear.
If you need to fetch entire blog leave the text box blank else enter the required url of the page to be indexed, and click the fetch button.
As soon as indexing is completed, 'Request Indexing' box will appear.
Two options will be listed 'crawl only this url'(submitting a specific page) and other option will be 'Crawl its url and Direct link' (index th blog and link).
Select the options as required and click go button.
Wait for indexing to be complete.