Beginners Guide On Google Search Console (Submit Sitemap And Index URL's).

How to Use Google Search Console (a.k.a. Google Webmaster).

Google search console is one of the most important and commonly used tools by bloggers. This tool makes the content available in the search engine, when a user search on that particular topic. There are many search engines and each search engine have its webmaster tool. Google Search Console is one of them and it is a free tool.

Google search console helps a lot in getting traffic on your blog. To get good traffic you should write good quality and unique articles. Also, you should use SEO for your blog posts.  

In 2018 Google has changed its looks and some features of Search console and the new design looks better and also easy to use. You can even shift to previous version.

In this post I have used screenshots of new version.  

How to get started?

Search Google search console or webmaster in google.

Click on the first link.

Click on search console.

Insert your blog URL and click on Add Property.

Now you have to verify that you are the real owner of the site. For that click on HTML Tag. (This is the simplest way of verifying the site).

Once you click on it, you will get a HTML code which you have to copy and paste it under head  in blogger template. (For that open your blogger account, click on Theme then Edit HTML)

Once you paste your code click on save theme and then open webmaster and click on Verify.  

Your verification process is now completed.

Once your verification gets complete, submit your blog sitemap to Google search console.  

How to Submit Sitemap…

Before we submit sitemap, let’s see what is a sitemap?

What is Sitemap?

Sitemap is just like a map of your website. It can either be a HTML or XML file. This file contains all your page URL’s. HTML file helps your viewers/visitors to navigate through your blogs and XML sitemap helps search engines to navigate through your blogs. When you add your sitemap to any webmasters, it helps the crawlers to find URL’s and to add these URL’s to their database.

Read How to Customize the Blogger Setting.

Submit Sitemap…

On your left side (menu) Click on Sitemap under Index heading.

Copy your sitemap from your Blogger Settings. (Settings and Search Preferences then click on Custom Robots.txt)

Paste it in Google Search Console and Click on Submit.

Refresh the page.

Now your sitemap submission is completed and very soon the crawlers will start finding your page URL’s.

Index your URL’s

Index URL’s means, submit URL’s to webmaster. When you go for indexing you come to know whether your URL is there on google or not. If your URL is not found then, you can request for indexing.

Follow these steps in Checking and Indexing URL’s.

Open Google Webmaster.    

On search bar paste your post link (URL) and press enter.

The webmaster will start searching your URL on Google search.

IF your URL is not found, then such message will pop up on your screen.

Now you can request for indexing by clicking Request Indexing.

It will take up to 2 minutes for indexing your URL.

Then refresh the page and paste again the same link in search bar and then enter.
You should get this message.