How to register your WordPress site on Google search
How to register your WordPress site on Google search. Very important. Essential process for blogs…
There are a few things to do after installing WordPress. The first of them is this WordPress Google search registration. Actually, the importance of search registration has decreased a lot compared to 2018 when I first wrote this post. In the past, if you didn’t register your site, it wouldn’t show up in search engines at all, but nowadays, in the process of using WordPress properly with SEO plugins and such, WordPress Google search registration happens about halfway naturally.
However, apart from Google being something you’ll inevitably do, opinions are still divided on whether it’s good or not to register your site on Naver’s Search Advisor (formerly Naver Webmaster Tools). Back then, WordPress users faced penalties if they didn’t register their site on Search Advisor, but now my blog doesn’t even show up on Naver at all, so I wonder if it’s even necessary… Naver definitely shows search results centered around Naver. And that phenomenon is getting worse.
Still, the process below is something you absolutely must do before using WordPress. Originally I wrote how to register on search engines like Naver and everything in this one post, but I divided it into three parts because the volume was too much. Oh, and by the way, after this process it’s good to do WordPress SEO work as well. I intend to update this post regularly too. Here’s how to register your WordPress site on Google search!
How to register your WordPress site on Google search!
A process you’ll naturally do if you’re a site owner, or rather, you’ll do it naturally
There are several Google tools, but Google Search Console is fairly easy to set up. In the past, using a tool called Google Webmaster Tools made WordPress search registration even easier, but now you need to use Google Search Console. A few steps have been added so it seems a bit more complicated, but in return this tool is very powerful, so most bloggers or site owners will of course use it. I think it would be good to think of registering while you’re at it.
I’ll emphasize this several times in this post, but since WordPress users need to compete on Google rather than Naver, this content is the most important among WordPress search engine-related content. The post is quite long, but honestly just doing this part alone would be sufficient.
There are various ways to register on Google Search Console, but using just one of them is enough. Especially for WordPress users, there’s a really easy method. I wrote them out one by one to the best of my ability.
1. Google Search Console registration by using Domain (I don’t recommend it personally…)
I accessed Google Search Console to update this post. And I could see how to register our website by using the domain recently. Google Says it is possible to verify ownership of your websites when you register your domain by well-known domain company like GoDaddy I wanted to show how to do it… but I don’t know about it well… is it because my domain company is not well known maybe?
Honestly, the method I’ll talk about later is easier for WordPress users. And personally I’m not happy with my domain site; honestly I want to go somewhere else… Anyway, I’ll explain an easier and simpler search registration method for WordPress users below.
2. Using HTML Tag
If you’re not using a WordPress plugin, you’ll probably choose this method.
First, as shown in the first photo, there’s a method of putting the above code into the <Head> section of WordPress. However, I think if you’re at the level where you can check and handle that code yourself without other processes, you wouldn’t be reading this post. For beginners like us, there’s an easier way. It’s using a script plugin.
You can search ‘head’ on the plugin page. then you can see many related plugins. You just can find and use whatever you like it. After that, usually when such plug-ins enter the code, they automatically put it in the section. These plugins have similar features, so you just can what you want.
3. Using Google Analytics (or using related Plugins)
Using another Google tool, Google Analytics, also registers you on Google Search Console. Looking at the explanation above, it actually seems quite similar to method 2 above. I also actually entered the Google Analytics code into the <head> input plugin mentioned above.
But for us WordPress users, there’s an even easier way. It’s using SEO plugins or Google Analytics integration plugins. You’ll probably use these plugins too if you want to use WordPress properly. In the process of using these plugins, you’ll naturally register Google Analytics. And WordPress Google search registration will naturally happen too…
That screenshot is a SEO plugin called Rank Math, which I use now. But you can use other plugins like famous Yoast SEO and so on. I used Yoast SEO before, and it is still the most famous one. I left what I wrote in the past at the bottom of the article. If the interface has not changed, it will be available for reference even now.
These SEO plugins or Google Analytics plugins need to be made as easy as possible for users to use in order to succeed, so using this method makes WordPress search registration easy. By the way, the Google Analytics plugin I used to use was a friend called Analytify. I don’t use it now, but it was a pretty decent plugin.
4. Using Site Kit by Google
Actually, the method I’m about to explain now is the best. Because Google directly made a Google plugin… When I first installed this plugin, it didn’t have that many users, but now it’s become incredibly popular and the number of users has surpassed two million in an instant, wow… The usage is also incredibly easy, so honestly just using this plugin makes all the above methods unnecessary—it’s that easy to register your WordPress site on Google search.
As shown in the photo above, after entering the dashboard, if you follow Google’s guidance, you’ll be registered with Google services right away. You can connect to Analytics, Google Search Console, Google AdSense, and more. And as a bonus, being able to see your blog status from the WordPress dashboard is also a good point.
But its figures are quite simple, someone who needs a detailed one or sees those data on the web doesn’t need this plugin. or Site Kit by Google has some flaws like putting advertisements unruly… so I think you may use the web too.
But it is reliable because it is often updated. And it is very easy to use, so I recommend it. I think this plugin makes the status of most Google Analytics plugins precarious in real. Moreover, it is free to use…
- The methods below use the old Google Webmaster, so the interface is very different from now. I’ve written all the methods that seem likely to be used these days above, so you probably won’t need to use the methods below. Just think of it lightly as ‘oh, so this is how WordPress Google search registration used to be done…’
You can see this screen when you run Google Webmaster Tool first time. Those two sites are already existing sites before. So you can ignore them.
You need to click that red ‘add properties’ and write your URL then you can see your sites there. Then You have to confirm your ownership.
You will usually do it by uploading HTML files. You can upload it by using FTP. Or you can use the method to add HTML tags too. You can just add that tag in your website, but the code setting is often difficult if you use a paid theme. I solved both things at the same time by registering Google Analytics.
With Google Analytics, after entering, just do ‘new property’ and WordPress search registration is done simply.
If you enter the ‘tracking information’ in the middle of the place and know the ‘tracking ID’, you can use it in the process below. I took a screenshot before, but because of my ID exposing… sorry about it;
There are many SEO plugins and I used Yoast SEO. This screenshot above is the first screen, and just enter Search Console on the left and you can see the picture below. If it goes like this, it is a success.
You can do this part without too much trouble by entering ‘get google authorization code’ over there.
There are many Google Analytics plugins and I used ‘Google Analytics Dashboard for WP’ before. The most popular Google Analytics plugin is maybe ‘monsterinsights’ but it needs a premium version to use perfectly.
It was correct in 2018 when I write about it first, but it became different now. Its name is changed and has a paid version. So, it has received many bad comments because of losing its initial mind and so on. And that plugin made my blog slow, so I don’t use it anymore.
Click ‘Authorize Plugin’
You can do it easily by just clicking that red ‘Get Access Code’.
We went round and round, but in the end, after verifying ownership using Google Analytics, if you see a message like this, it worked well. Just think of it as ‘oh, so this is how WordPress Google search registration used to be done…’
WordPress search registration review (rambling)
You can feel the convenience getting better and better.
When I did search registration on Google Blog in the past, I also did something called Nate search registration and used a tool called IFTTT, but I excluded them because I think they’re unnecessary in today’s world.
I massively renewed a post I first wrote in 2018 this year in 2022. And I’m updating the content from time to time. It was already a post with quite a bit of volume, but now that I’ve finished writing, it’s become incredibly extensive—2,500 words, or well over 10,000 characters. Over the four years, I don’t think my writing skills have improved… it’s just that my knowledge has increased a tiny bit and I’m trying to write more systematically than before, so that’s how it turned out. And how many hours have I been writing this post now… It’s as intense as making a YouTube video;
However, what’s a bit bitter is that even though I wrote the post this long, there aren’t that many SEO benefits. I guess for blogs, just exceeding 600 characters is enough… So I split the post into several parts. Still, I worked hard on it, so I’ll update it every year going forward…
Additionally, when operating a blog, there are various things you should do after search registration, but one of them is SEO—in simple terms, writing posts so they show up well in search. Reading the complete beginner post I wrote and the post about the SEO plugin I currently use may be helpful. I intend to update these posts regularly as well, as circumstances allow.
