How to Index Your Website With Search Console
Getting your website indexed is one of the most important things you need to do if you want to appear in search engines. To do this is not only adding to the console, since it usually takes a few days or weeks for you to appear in Google results , so here we will teach you how to index your website in a much faster and more efficient way .
To index your website and make your post appear instantly, we are going to perform a series of intermediate level procedures. We will use search console and Google Cloud Platform So you must have your Gmail email to start using these services. First, we must create the Google Cloud platform account, since, through an API , we are going to tell Google servers to index our site more quickly.
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1.- Once our search console and Google Cloud accounts have been created , we go to the Google Cloud console and create a service instance.
2.- Created our service we select it, now in the search bar, we look for "API INDEXING".
3.- We select that resource and it will appear disabled, we are going to enable it.
4.- When we enter the administration panel, we go to the right side where the menu is and we go to credentials, now on the right side we go to where it says "manage service accounts". and we give it to create.
5.- We select a name to identify it, then we look for the owner option as shown below.
6.- Next, we get the service account and it created an email for us, we are going to click on the email and save that email because we are going to use it in Search Console.
7.- We will have to go to keys, and we will add a new key.
8.-We give it to generate JSON key, when we click on accept, we will download a JSON file and we save it since we will use it.
9.- Now in our WordPress Panel we will add a new plugin and look for the plugin called "Instant Indexing" and install it.
10.- We go to the configuration inside the plugin and add the JSON file that we downloaded. Now we mark the boxes of entries, page as and means, we proceed to save the changes
11.- We go to the Search Console and add the URL of our website.
12.- Now we add the URL of our website, and it will ask us to verify, it downloads a .html file and we upload it to the "public_html" of our site, we click verify and our site will be added.
13.- Once our site is verified, we go to configuration, users and permissions and add a new owner and place the email that gave us the service account from step number 7.
14.- Finally, we save the changes and in the "console" tab we enter the urls that we want to index and then we will click on the button that says "send to api" . We wait a few seconds and a message will appear that says "success" .
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