Google Search Console (GSC) is Google's free tool for seeing how your site performs in search: what you rank for, which pages are indexed, and any problems Google finds. Setting it up also helps Google discover your site. It's a Google product, so you set it up on Google's side and connect it to Limecube.
Verifying your site#
When you add your site in GSC, Google asks you to prove you own it. You have a few options, easiest first:
- Google Analytics (easiest): if your Google Analytics is already set up and you're an admin on it, choose the URL-prefix property and pick Google Analytics as the method. It verifies in one click.
- HTML tag: Google gives you a
<meta>verification tag. Paste it into the Before </head> card in SEO Manager › Analytics and code injection, save, then click Verify in GSC. - DNS record: add the TXT (or CNAME) record Google gives you at your domain. If your domain is with Limecube, add it under Manage DNS.
Not every domain host supports TXT records. If yours doesn't, use CNAME instead, or the Google Analytics method, which avoids DNS altogether.
After you're verified#
Submit your XML sitemap so Google can find all your pages, then check the Performance and Pages (indexing) reports every so often to see how you're doing and catch any problems.