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Setting Up Google Search Console

This document provides instructions for setting up Google Search Console for the first time and connecting it to the Yoast SEO WordPress plugin. The goal is to verify the website's property in Google Search Console and allow crawl issues to be checked directly from the WordPress admin panel. It describes logging into Google Search Console, selecting the website URL, and verifying it using the already installed Google Tag Manager. It then explains authorizing Yoast SEO to connect to Search Console by generating and copying an authorization code.

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Setting Up Google Search Console

This document provides instructions for setting up Google Search Console for the first time and connecting it to the Yoast SEO WordPress plugin. The goal is to verify the website's property in Google Search Console and allow crawl issues to be checked directly from the WordPress admin panel. It describes logging into Google Search Console, selecting the website URL, and verifying it using the already installed Google Tag Manager. It then explains authorizing Yoast SEO to connect to Search Console by generating and copying an authorization code.

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Setting up Google Search Console

Last Updated / Reviewed: Feb 1st, 2022


Execution Time: 5-10 minutes

Goal: To set up Google Search Console for the first time, and to connect it with the
Yoast SEO WordPress plugin.

Ideal Outcome: Your Google Search Console property has been verified, and you are
able to check if there were any crawl issues for your site recently, straight in your
WordPress Admin.

Pre-requisites or requirements: You need to have Google Tag Manager installed on


your website and the Yoast SEO Plugin running on your WordPress website to follow
this SOP.

Why this is important: Google Search Console is a free tool that allows you to monitor
your website’s performance in Google search. It allows you to collect statistics about
your rankings, optimize visibility, and it’s your main channel of communication with
Google, allowing you to monitor potential penalties, or identify crawling errors before
they affect your rankings.

Where this is done: In Google Search Console, and your WordPress admin.

When this is done: Only once per domain. You will need to do it every time you create
a subdomain, or add a new protocol (for example, If you migrate to https://)

Who does this: The person responsible for Website management, analytics, or SEO.

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𝤿 Signing up for Google Search console and verifying your
domain

1. Go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools;
2. Log in with your Google Account;
3. You will be taken to a welcome page and prompted to “Select a property type”.
Select ‘URL prefix’.
a. Note: Make sure your URL is exactly as it appears in the URL bar
including the protocol (http:// or https://) and the subdomain (www. or
non-www., or any other subdomain you might be using).
b. Note 2: If your website supports multiple protocols and subdomains you
will want to add them all to Search Console, since the tool will treat each
of them separately.

4. There are multiple ways to authenticate your account. If you are already using
Google Analytics, or Google Tag Manager these 2 methods will be the fastest
and easiest methods to authenticate. If not, the recommended method is the

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fastest one to use. This SOP assumes you already have Google Tag Manager
running on your website.
a. Note: If you don’t have Google Tag Manager yet, you can follow SOP 004:
Add Google Tag Manager to a Wordpress Site first.

5. Select “Google Tag Manager”, click “Verify”

6. That’s it! You should now see a success message, click “Continue” and you will
be taken to your Search Console dashboard.

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𝤿 Connect Search Console with Yoast SEO Wordpress
Plugin

1. Open your Wordpress Admin Dashboard


2. On the sidebar, hover “SEO”, and click “Search Console”

3. Click “Get Google Authorization Code”

4. Select your Google Account and login

5. Click “Allow”

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6. You will get a code that you will need to paste in your Yoast SEO Search Console
configurations:

7. Open your Yoast SEO Search Console configuration panel again, and paste the
code you have just received. Click “Authenticate”

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8. Select your URL from the dropdown, and click “Save Profile”

9. That’s it! You have successfully connected Yoast SEO and Google Search
Console, you will now be able to retrieve all the crawl issues for your site straight
from your WordPress Admin panel.

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