How to use Google Search Console

1 What’s Google search console?

Google search console enables:

• Get content on Google search engine
• Analyze site’s impressions, clicks, and position on Google Search
• Alert on issue about Google identified issue
• Suggest how Google search see the pages

2 Register

1. Go to search console and “start now”
2. Enter domain(e.g. hommalab.io) and continue
3. Search Console provides a value to register DNS TXT record for verification (like google-site-verification=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
4. Go to DNS and register TXT record to domain. (In my case, go to AWS route53 console > host zone > select domain > create record)
5. Back to search console and “confirm”. After verification completed, it’s possible to check domain properties in Google search console.

3 Setup

3.1 Register Sitemap

On Serach Console, choose “site map” and register URL.

Hugo generates <base-url>/sitemap.xml by hugo command. So I registered it on it.

4 Use (TODO)

It looks to need to wait at least one day (as of 2021.5.16)

Reference

• Search Console help
• General task for Search Console users