Connecting Google Search Console to your Squarespace website
Connecting Google Search Console to your Squarespace website is a strategic move that can significantly enhance your online presence.
Google Search Console is a free service that empowers website owners to monitor, optimise, and troubleshoot their website's visibility in Google search results.
By linking your Squarespace site to Google Search Console, you gain access to valuable insights about how Google views your website, which pages are indexed, and potential issues affecting your site's performance in search rankings.
In this guide, we'll walk you through the process in five simple steps, ensuring your website is well-equipped for improved search engine visibility.
Watch the tutorial video or read the step-by-step instructions that follow!
What is Google Search Console?
Google Search Console is a free web service provided by Google that allows website owners to monitor, optimise, and troubleshoot the presence of their websites in Google search results. It provides valuable insights into how Google perceives your site, which pages are indexed, and potential issues that may affect your site's visibility.
Why connect your Squarespace site to Google Search Console?
Connecting your Squarespace website to Google Search Console is a smart move to improve your site's visibility, understand its performance, and ensure it's free of issues that might hinder its search engine rankings. It's a valuable tool for anyone looking to make their website more successful in search results.
How to connect Google Search Console to Squarespace in 5 steps
Step 1: Connect Google Search Console to our Squarespace website
First we must connect Google Search Console to our Squarespace website. To do this go to https://search.google.com/search-console/about
In the top left corner click Search Property dropdown click ‘Add property’
You will then have a pop-up with two options:
Note: We recommend selecting Domain, however this will require adding a TXT record to your DNS settings on your domain provider. Something that is a lot more technical!
The easier option is URL Prefix. Add your website URL and press continue:
Step 2: verify that you own the domain
You will then have a range of options to verify that you own the domain and can connect Google Search Console to it:
If you’ve followed our previous step-by-step you can choose Google Analytics to verify your ownership!
Haven’t set up Google Analytics yet?
Read and follow the instructions this guide:
Or you can choose HTML Tag
Copy the code <meta name="google-site-verification" content="youridhere" />
Go to the backend of your Squarespace website and in the search type ‘Code Injection’ to find Code Injection
Paste the code into the ‘Header’ section of the code injection and click ‘Save’ in the top left-hand corner
Go back to the Google Console and click the ‘Verify’ button
This will then start the process for Google to look at your website's code to find that meta tag which proves your ownership of your website.
After a few seconds, it will then say ‘Success’ and your Google Search Console is now ready!
Step 3. Finding your Squarespace sitemap
To find your Squarespace sitemap go to your url and add /sitemap.xml to the end.
E.g. Your website address is https://www.krishnasolankidesigns.com/ to get your sitemap go to https://www.krishnasolankidesigns.com/sitemap.xml
Please note: your website must be public to generate a sitemap
The page will look something like this:
Step 4. In Google Search Console in the left menu go to Sitemaps
Step 5. Then in the bar all you need to add is sitemap.xml and press submit
🥳 That’s how you add a sitemap to Google search console!
Other third-party helpful guides:
Has Google found all your pages?
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/10264824?sjid=16632516415980395480-EU
Submitting a sitemap to Google is a critical SEO practice that provides Google's search engine with a structured map of all the pages on your website, facilitating faster and more efficient indexing.
This ensures that Google is aware of and can crawl all your important web pages, even those that might not be easily discoverable through regular navigation!
Still not sure you’ve done it right? Want us to handle this step? - Get in touch and let us know, we have great Squarespace support packages that will really help elevate your website!
