Adding and Verifying a property on Google
Go to Google Search Console.
☐ 1. Navigate “Add a property.”
☐ 2. Copy your URL in the search box and click Add a property.
You will then be asked to verify your property
☐ 3. Select the Alternate Methods tab.
☐ 4. Select HTML tag. A line of code should appear.
☐ 5. Copy the tag (code).
Navigate to your admin WordPress website.
☐ 6. Click on the Yoast SEO tool.
☐ 7. Click Webmaster tools tab.
☐ 8. Paste this tag (code) into the box next to “Google Search Console”
☐ 9. Click Save changes
☐ 10. You should see “Settings saved” at the top of the page.
Navigate back to Google Search Console website.
☐ 11. Click Verify at the bottom of the page.
☐ 12. You should see a “congratulations” message at the top of the page
Click Continue.