Google Search Console

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Introduction

Google Search Console is a free analysis tool from Google that helps website owners with search engine optimisation (SEO). The data available in Search Console, such as clicks, impressions or the number of indexed pages in Google, is available to website owners after successful verification.

Find out how to create a Google Search Console account, confirm ownership and submit your sitemap here.

Setting up Google Search Console

First, you need to create a Search Console account here. To do this, you need to have a Google account.

Confirming website ownership

After successfully registering with Google Search Console, you can use ‘Add property’ to create a data view for your online shop.

Figure 1: Adding a property

Property Typ Domain

Property Type Domain

If your online shop runs on a main domain, for example ‘example.com’, then you can select the property type Domain. After entering your domain, you can click on next.

Figure 2: Selecting the property type

Now copy the TXT record and send it to support@glarotech.ch. We will insert the code into the DNS configuration for you.

Property Type URL prefix

For a subdomain such as ‘shop.example.com’ or for a redirect to ‘www’, select URL prefix, enter your online store URL and click Next.

Figure 3: Selecting a property type

Next, you need to confirm ownership of the website. The easiest way to do this is to select the HTML tag.

Figure 4: Confirm ownership via HTML tag

Simply copy the given code snippet and paste it into the header of the HTML document.

To do this, go to PepperShop Administration - Settings - Languages - Header Variables (e.g. Meta Tags) and copy the HTML tag into it.

Figure 5: Insert HTML tag into header variables

After saving the HTML tag, you can now confirm the website in Google Search Console.

Submit sitemap

A sitemap is a search engine tool and helps search engines to find your website or shop.

PepperShop automatically creates a sitemap of your complete online shop. You can find the generation of the sitemap of your PepperShop under Article - Mass mutations - Search engine optimisation - Generate sitemap.

Figure 6: Generate a sitemap in the PepperShop

Now you can copy the link and paste it into the Google Search Console under Sitemaps.

Figure 7: Inserting the sitemap link into Google Search Console

Further help

Do you need further assistance? PepperShop offers you a range of options.

Often, clicking on the question mark icon in the top right-hand corner of the administration screen helps. This will take you directly to help on the topic in question.
You will find various answers in the FAQ. These can also be accessed in the shop administration via Help & News -> Help Archive. Or via our homepage https://www.peppershop.com/de/services/support/faq/
In the PepperShop Academy https://www.peppershop.com/de/services/academy/ you can easily and conveniently find various free video tutorials.
We are also happy to help you by email or phone (CHF 195./h) support@glarotech.ch or +41 71 923 08 58