In a previous lesson we have shown you how to set up a Google account.
One of the main factors of ongoing SEO is to track the progress of your website. This needs to be set up from day one. Here is a step by step guide to setting up a Google account for your website.
Please go to www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ and login
This will take you to the “Dashboard”.
On this page please enter your domain name and click add site: www.etc…
On the next screen the first action is to verify your website by clicking on ‘Verify your site’ in the pink box.
On the next screen please click on the drop down box “Choose Verification Method”.
If you click on “Add a meta tag” simply copy the meta tag that is displayed and add this in the code of your websites homepage in the
section.If you click on the “Upload an HTML file” then please create the Google file and upload it to the default directory on the hosting server.
Once one of these methods is complete please click on the “Verify” button.
The next screen should be a success page.
Your website has now been verified.
Adding an XML Sitemap To GWC
If you have created a XML sitemap you can also add this to the webmaster tools. If you haven’t but need one here is a great tool to create one online, this tool will allow up to 500 pages: XML Sitemaps
If you are still logged into Google Webmaster Central please click on Dashboard in the top left corner. If you are not please login, as soon as you click on Webmaster Tools this will take you to the dashboard.
Click on ‘add’ under ‘sitemap’.
Next please enter your sitemap name into the text box (I have called my sitemap sitemap.xml as you can see below) then click ‘Submit Sitemap’.
The next screen should be a success page.
