What is Google Search Console?
Google Search Console is a tool from Google, one of its functions is to make it easier for website articles that are written, to be recognized by Google more quickly. Through this Google tool, you can also find out the progress of your website on Google's display. For this reason, it is very important for you to immediately register your website and domain verification to Google Search Console.
In addition to making articles on the website more quickly recognized by Google, here are other benefits of Google Search Console, as follows:
- Know the number of visitors coming from search engines.
- Knowing how your website performs on search engines.
- A means of communicating with search engine "crawler" bots, their schedules and how they crawl websites.
- Monitoring your website for errors found by search engines.
This time we will discuss how to verify the domain by uploading an HTML file on Hosting. as follows:
Adding a website in Google Search Console
1. Access and login using your Gmail account to the following address https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome
2. Then Click add site / add property
3. Then select the URL Prefix option as shown below:
4. Click the Continue button to continue the process.
5. After that, an html verification popup will appear. You can download the HTML file provided, then you can upload the file to the hosting you are using.
Uploading HTML Files to Hosting
After downloading the HTML file, then you can log in to the hosting panel to upload the file. Here's the upload guide:
File Upload via cPanel
You can apply this guide if you order Cloud hosting and Unlimited hosting services. The steps are as follows:
- Login to cPanel
- Click the File manager menu > select public_html (or customize it with your domain root directory)
- Then click the Upload menu and please upload the html file that you previously downloaded.
Once uploaded, return to the Google Search Console verification page. Continue by clicking the upload confirmation link to make sure the file has been uploaded correctly. Click the Verification link. If successful, a "success" message will appear.
Upload via Plesk Panel
You can apply these guidelines when you order WordPress hosting services. The steps are as follows:
- Login ke Plesk Panel
- Click the Files menu > select httpdocs
- Click the Upload button, then please upload the html file that you have downloaded previously.
Once uploaded, return to the Google Search Console verification page. Continue by clicking the upload confirmation link to make sure the file has been uploaded correctly. Click the Verification link. If successful, a "success" message will appear.
That's it from us for how to Verify Domain to Google Search Console via HTML File to Hosting. Hopefully, by registering your website to Google Search Console, your website can be more recognized on Google.
Hope this is useful andThank you.