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Google Search Console setup for a Craft Store website

Google Search Console tells you what words and phrases your website ranks for (in Google) and where you rank, on average. You can use this to see if your rankings are improving over time and later to identify possible opportunities.

Google Search Console tells you what words and phrases your website ranks for (in Google) and where you rank, on average. You can use this to see if your rankings are improving over time and later to identify possible opportunities such as keywords you hadn't thought of earlier.

The set up is pretty simple once you have Google Analytics installed as we did in the previous tutorial.

  1. First open https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome Enter your 'site URL' and click 'continue'.
    Google Search console step one
  2. When setting up you need to verify you own the website. It will be automatically verified if you have the Google Analytics account. Now, Click 'GO TO PROPERTY'.
    Google Search console step two
  3. Then, You will be redirected to the 'Overview' page. Click 'START'.
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    Inspect any url in "https://prenouscraftstore/"
    Google Search console step three
  4. Now that you are all set up we just need to make sure Google knows about your website (in SEO jargon we need to know if it is "indexed"). In Google search "site:yourdomainname.com".
    Google Search console step four
  5. See if your pages are listed or not. Currently our pages are not listed. So we need to move forward to add it.
    Google Search console step five

This checking step is known as "checking if the website is indexed". The Google Index is all the websites that Google will consider including in its search results. The Bing Index is the same but for Bing search results.

If your website is new the chances are you are not in the Google Index yet so how can we tell Google to "come and have a look"? Here is the step by step:

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