How to add a website property to your Search Console account?

Yesterday we touched on how and where to insert the keyword tags.  Now we have the keywords enriched URL ready.  Here is the critical point: to submit it to Google for its search engine to crawl on our blog.  The following is abstracted from Google Console Help: 

Add a website property

Here is how to add a website property to your Search Console account. Note that you must be able to prove that you own the site (or appropriate section of that site) to add it to your Search Console account. You can create a property that includes an entire domain (example.com) or a property limited to a single branch (example.com/clothing/).

Contents:

• Types of website properties
• Add a new property
• Re-add a removed property

Types of website properties

Search Console supports the following website property types:

	URL-prefix property	Domain property
Description	Includes only URLs with the specified prefix, including the protocol (HTTP/HTTPS). If you want your property to match any protocol or subdomain (HTTP/HTTPS/www./m. and so on), consider adding a Domain property instead. See more details.	A domain-level property includes all subdomains (m, www, and so on) and multiple protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP). See more details.
Verification	Many types	DNS record verification only
Examples	Property http://example.com/ ✔ http://example.com/dresses/1234 🅧 https://example.com/dresses/1234 - HTTPS does not match 🅧 http://www.example.com/dresses/1234 - www. does not match	Property example.com ✔ http://example.com/dresses/1234 ✔ https://example.com/dresses/1234 ✔ http://www.example.com/dresses/1234 ✔ http://support.m.example.com/dresses/1234

Add a new property

To add a new property:

1. Open the property selector dropdown on any Search Console page.
2. Select + Add property on the dropdown.
3. Choose the type of property to add:
   1. URL-prefix property
   2. Domain property

   3. Google-hosted property
4. You will be given a selection of verification methods to use for your property. When you choose a verification method in Search Console, you will be shown the required verification steps for that method. You can verify immediately or save your settings and resume the process later:
   • To verify immediately, follow the verification steps described without closing the popup window, then click Verify in the popup window. If it takes you some time to perform these steps, you can permanently save your settings and resume the process later (described next).
   • To pause and resume the process later, click Verify later to save your current state, close the popup, and verify your site at your convenience. After performing the required verification steps, finish verification by selecting the protected (but unverified) property in the property selector in the navigation bar and Verify.
5. Data should begin to appear on your property in a few days. Data collection for a property starts as soon anyone adds the property in any Search Console account, even before verification. Data collection continues as long as any user has that property in their history, whether or not it has a verified owner. Suppose your property has no data several days after verification. In that case, it is possibly because the site hasn't been seen in Google Search or that you have specified the wrong URL (for example, you set HTTP instead of HTTPS for your URL-prefix property).

Support for non-Latin characters in property URLs

Search Console supports Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) as site URLs. Just type your domain name as usual, and it will appear correctly in Search Console. For example, if you type http://bücher.example.com/ in the Add property box, it will appear correctly.

Re-add a removed property

You can re-add a property you have removed without verification, as long as the property still has one verified owner.

To re-add the property, simply add the property as described above in steps 1-3, and you should automatically be re-verified.

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