Verify & Submit Your Website to Google

When you submit your sitemap to Google and verify your website ownership to them, this allows you to access their various webmaster tools on Google Search Console. These tools allow you to:

• Track how your website is performing in search.
• Discover which keywords your website is showing up for.
• Analyze your traffic data for each search engine.
• Find out about other websites that link back to yours.
• Get alerts for any broken links on your website.

Verify your website on Google Search Console

1. Navigate to Google Search Console.
2. You will be asked to login or create a Google account (any email address ending in @gmail.com). After you login, you will be taken to Google Search Console.
3. When asked to select the property type, choose "URL prefix" and copy and paste the URL of your website's home page, including the https://
   
   
4. Scroll down and select HTML tag to expand the menu.
   
   
   
5. Copy the code inside the quotation marks as seen below.
   
   
   
6. In a new tab, open your mywebsites360.com dashboard. Click on the "gear" icon at the top of the page, then select SEO at the top of the Settings dashboard.
   
   
   
7. Scroll down to the Site Verification section, then paste the meta tag into the Google site verification code field (right-click and then paste or CMD-V on Mac & CTRL-V on PC).
   
   
8. Click the green Publish button at the top of your dashboard.
9. Return to the Google Search Console tab and click Verify on the screen where you copied the HTML code snippet.

Your website ownership should now be verified for Google. Next, you'll want to submit your sitemap.

Submit your sitemap to Google

1. From your Google Search Console dashboard, select Indexing > Sitemaps in the left-hand sidebar.
2. In the box that says Add a new sitemap, you will notice your website’s URL with an empty text box following it. Type in “sitemap.xml” after the backslash (/).
3. Select Submit to finish.

Tip: Any time you make a substantial change to your website content, you can repeat the steps above to re-submit your sitemap. This will allow Google to re-crawl your newly-updated website immediately.