Verifying your site with Google Search Console is one of the very crucial steps you would want to take while setting up your blog and making it suitable for Google ranking. Contrary to doing this, a lot of veterans out there do not care whether their sites are verified with Google or not.

Once they’ve purchased their custom domains and got these added to their sites, they keep on writing without doing the needful. Before you start creating content at all, it’s necessary to verify the ownership of your site with Google which will eventually ensure that your site receives better rankings on Google.

You need to realize the fact that the verification of your site ownership is simply what makes Google identify you as the site owner and trust your site the more amidst the millions of others.

Prior to submitting your sitemap to Google, you must first verify your domain ownership with Google Search Console (GSC). Congratulations! The final solution to getting the ownership of your site verified with Google is here.

How to Verify Your Site Manually with Google Search Console

I created this training tutorial using the Yoast SEO plugin for Google verification.

The process of verifying your site with Google is explained in seven simple steps with Yoast SEO. If you have this plugin installed and activated on your site, then this tutorial would be a very helpful one for you, I promised.

Step 1: First visit Google Search Console

Visit Google Search Console and begin the process of getting your site verified with Google in earnest.