Set up Google Search Console and connect the sitemap

The Search Console helps to understand and improve how Google sees the respective website, but is not absolutely necessary to be included in the Google search results! To optimize your website for SEO SEO stands for in German Search engine optimization and is derived from the English: search engine optimization
SEO is about organic ranking optimization, not paid advertising. , we recommend that you set it up.
Here’s our quick guide to connecting your WordPress WordPress does more than 38.8% of all websites on the internet. Yes - more than one in four websites you visit is likely powered by WordPress. • WordPress.org , often as self-hosted WordPress is the free open source WordPress software that you can install on your own web host to create a 100% custom website.• WordPress.com is a for-profit, paid... website to Google Search Console The Search Console is a free service from Google that allows you to monitor and manage your website's presence in Google search results and correct any errors. You do not need to register for the Search Console for your website to be included in Google search results. However, you can use the Search Console to better understand how your website... mehr erfahren.

1. add property

To register your domainA domain is a name that is unique and unambiguous worldwide on the Internet. The domain can be used for websites and emails., go to the GSC website: https://search.google.com/u/1/search-console

Use the search field at the top left and select “Add property”.

You must then add the TXT record to your domainA domain is a name that is unique and unambiguous worldwide on the Internet. The domain can be used for websites and emails.. (What is a TXT record?). Make sure that your website can be crawled by Google.

2. connect sitemap of your WordPress website

We recommend using the Yoast plugin for this. The plugin is free to use!

Install the plugin and follow the one-time configuration.

After the setup you can already display the sitemap. To do this, go to the settings of the Yoast SEOWhat is Yoast SEO? Yoast SEO is one of the most popular WordPress plugins for search engine optimization (SEO). It offers a comprehensive range of tools with which you can improve the SEO of your website, optimize the readability of your content and increase the performance of your pages in the search engines. From analyzing your texts to creating sitemaps... plugin.

Copy the URLA Uniform Resource Locator identifies and locates a resource, for example a website, via the access method to be used and the location of the resource in computer networks. of your sitemap and paste it into the Google Search Console The Search Console is a free service from Google that allows you to monitor and manage your website's presence in Google search results and correct any errors. You do not need to register for the Search Console for your website to be included in Google search results. However, you can use the Search Console to better understand how your website... mehr erfahren page. Here you can see an example using the website geo-klimatechnik.de.

After adding, it may take a few hours for Google to process the result.

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