Don’t Know How to Submit Your Website URL to Google? Check This Out!
After building a website, you still have work to do since you need to submit the URL to Google so that it may be indexed. Essentially, in order to obtain the most index and visibility, the URL must be submitted to several search engines. You will submit your website to Google first since it is your top priority.
Make sure you’ve finished the site development before submitting your website to Google. Once the website has been properly created, you may submit the URL to Google.
Why Submit a URL to Google?
Google requests the URL of your website in order to index the content. The Google crawler bot will search your webpages for information when it finds them. The bot will transmit the information to Google’s search database when it has finished scanning the page.
Users’ search queries gain access to the web page data when it is contained in the Google database. Thus, you ought to provide Google with the URL.
Where to Submit the URL?
The webmaster tool is required to submit and verify your website with Google. It is cloud-based software developed by Google, specially designed for the website owners. Think of it as a gateway to submit your work to the search engine of Google.
Prior to verifying your website, understanding the webmaster tool’s two versions is a must. The new version of search console (webmaster tool) was introduced by Google back in January 2018. But it is still possible to access the older version if you want to use it.
You can access the webmaster tool only via your Google account. Generally, all of you have your account on Google.
Bonus Point: You should connect your Analytics account to the webmaster. Therefore, try to use the same Google account for both the tools.
Then follow the steps below to submit URL to Google search engine:
1. Browse the webmaster tool URL: https://www.google.com/webmasters/#
2. Then click on the Search Console.
3. First, go to the Webmaster tool.
4. Then click on Add Property on the top left corner.
5. Next add the site URL in the Add site URL field.
After submitting the URL, the tool will automatically scan for the domain availability that you submitted. When the scanning is completed, you will get five options for verifying that the domain is yours.
- HTML file
- HTML tag
- Google analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Domain name provider
For the site verification, you will need to follow one of the given methods. Here let’s go through the first two processes of URL verification:
HTML File Upload
An HTML file will be generated by the webmaster tool. Then download and upload it back to your Domain /root folder.
1. Firstly, Download the given file.
2. Move to your web host and open the cPanel file manager. In case you have FTP clients, you can use it as an alternative)
3. Go to your domain name (File directory).
4. You will need to upload the file on the ROOT directory means https://your-domain.com/(Upload-in-this-directory).
5. Check the below example.
6. After the upload process is completed, go to the webmaster and click on Verify.
7. Google will search for the file on your website automatically. When the HTML file gets located inside your domain, it will verify your domain name.
8. If verification is incomplete, you can try once more with the correct procedure.
9. Or you can use the HTML tag method alternately.
HTML Tag Verification
Meta tags written in HTML code with specific number-character string are called as HTML tags. A HTML tag is provided by the webmaster tool that needs to be pasted in your home page’s section. This tag can be inserted in different ways inside the heading section as below:
- Using header and footer plugin
- Using the Yoast SEO plugin
- Using the Rank-Math SEO plugin
The Yoast and Rank-Math plugin is the most efficient way to verify the HTML tag instead of the header and footer plugin.
Note: Always open a new tab while pasting the HTML tag. This is because it is important to verify tag placement form the webmaster page.
Yoast and Rank-Math Plugin Method
Go to the WordPress left admin bar and navigate to SEO > General > Webmaster tool.
Next, paste the HTML tag inside the blank box and click on Save changes button. Then go to the Google webmaster tool’s verification page and click on Verify button.
Rank-Math SEO Plugin Method
Install the Rank-Math plugin and go to Rank-math > General settings. Then navigate to Webmaster tools > Paste the HTML tag inside Google Search Console. Scroll down and click on Save Changes button.
Now similar to the previous example, go to Google webmaster tool and verify the website. After completing the verification process, you can access the webmaster tool dashboard. Next, submit your website’s sitemap into the webmaster tool.
Submit Sitemap to Google
To have an XML sitemap is essential for SEO. Important update of a website can be recovered by the Google fast from the sitemap. When you add/remove/update any content inside your website, the sitemaps get updated automatically. Even the post types that you want the search engines to index will get updated.
You can use any of the mentioned plugins below for generating a sitemap for your website:
- In case you have installed Yoast plugin then your sitemap address should be as below:
- In case you have installed Rank-Math plugin then your sitemap address should be as below:
- In case you have installed Google XML sitemap plugin then your sitemap address should be as below:
Once you confirm the sitemap address, you will need to submit the URL to Google for indexing. For this, go to your webmaster dashboard and click on the sitemap.
Then add the last part of sitemap URL inside the blank space after your domain name and click on Submit.
Now you will get a notification saying that Google will check for the update soon.
Verify The Submission
Since you have already submitted the sitemap, it is possible to track the status of indexing. It will also let you know the number of URLs discovered during the last indexing. Additionally, to check the status of child sitemaps, click on the primary sitemap.
In order to verify the indexing of individual URLs, you can browse and check them on the top search bar. You will get an idea of whether the URL is indexed by Google or not.
Submit URL to Google Search Engine For 2x Faster Indexing
It is also possible to submit URL to Google individually without submitting the sitemap every time when the website gets updated. You will find this method useful for content types such as a new page, a blog post, etc. Check the below steps to follow:
1. Copy the URL of the recently published page or post.
2. Go to inspect bar and paste the URL inside it.
3. Let the inspecting process get completed.
4. As the page/post gets published, it will be available but won’t be live on Google.
5. Check for the option “request indexing”, below the URL status.
6. Search for that and click for individual indexing request.
7. After requested, Google will display a message that they will check for the requested URL soon.
8. You will need to wait for at least 30 minutes for your page/post to be live on Google.
Implement these steps to submit URL to Google to get your post indexed faster. This method is very beneficial if you want your page to quickly appear on Google. The quickly a page gets available to Google, the faster you can start ranking.
Note: In order to rank higher, you should properly implement On-page & Off-page SEO techniques on your website.
Conclusion
Continue exploring Webmaster Tool’s incredible capabilities. They have added a new and really helpful branch recently. Currently, the only practical tool for submitting, monitoring, and analyzing the progress of your website is the webmaster tool. This article will provide you with all the information you need to quickly and simply submit URLs to the Google search engine and have your sites indexed. If you have any questions about this post, please leave a comment in the space provided below.
