How To Index A New Story On Google Search Console Manually

Very new content published on a website in any part of the world needs to be indexed to ensure it becomes part of search results options to be shown by Google Search and other search engines such as Bing and Yahoo when keyword phrases related to the content are searched.

Indexing of new, refreshed, or edited content can be done automatically by Search Engine Crawlers at their own convenience however, to be on top of the game and drive good drive from your content quickly; it is prudent that you manually index your content. To manually index your content through Google Search Console means to personally inform search engines such as Google Search through Google Search Console that you have created or published new content and demand that it be crawled now and added to search results that match the content and the keyword phrases they relate to.

Any online news website or business that fails to manually index content as soon as they are published will lose out on visibility via search engines, leading to lower organic traffic from Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

You must create a Google Search Console before you can index. Let us get that done now.

Easy steps for creating a Google Search Console for Indexing Content on Word Press Sites

If you are not indexing your content, your website is dead and irrelevant on search engines such as Google and Bing. In this post, we will take a look at the Easy steps for creating a Google Search Console for Indexing Content on WordPress Sites.

What Do I Need To Create A Google Search Console Account?

1. A Gmail account
2. A website
3. A header or Footer Plugin. I recommend WPCode Lite

Install WPCode Lite Now

To register for Google Search Console, do so for your word press site, We will use the WPCode Lite plugin hence install it

1. Go to plugins on your website and click new
2. Search for the WPCode Lite plugin, install and activate it.

What are the Easy steps for creating a Google Search Console for Indexing Content on WordPress Sites?

Log into the Gmail account you want to use for creating the Google Search Console

Go to Google and search for Google Search Console

Click on the first search result, which is Google Search Console, and proceed until an interface like the one below shows up.

Copy the website URL and paste it in the space for URLs. Choose the panel on the right for this and click CONTINUE to proceed.

On the next page that pops up, scroll until you find Other verification methods and choose the HTLM Tag method.

Click on the Drop-down menu icon on the HTLM Tag method and copy the tag provided.

Go to your dashboard and look for WPCode Lite, hover the cursor on, and click on Header and Footer.

Past the HTLM Tag method in the Header section of the WPCode Lite plug-in and click save changes.

Go to your Google Search Console setup and click on the Verify button beneath the HTLM Tag.

After a while, this should turn Green and come with a confirmation that your site is verified.

Once you see this message, it means, your site can now be indexed.

READ: How to rank using Search Engine Optimization and Google Search Console

How To Index A New Story On Google Search Console Manually

Now that we understand indexing and the basic but critical reasons why we must index contents manually, let us look at how to do this. This post assumes that, you already have a Google Search Console activated for your site.

Go to Google and search for Google Search Console

Click on the first search result with the keyword searched for.

Keep clicking the options until the final interface opens.

Copy the URL of the new story and paste it into the search bar of the search console

Hit enter on your keyboard and wait until it indexes

Click on Request Index and wait for it to complete

After a while, your manually indexed content via Google Search Console would show in search results. However, remember that new sites may take a while to show compared to old sites which may get their contents indexed in less than one might after publication.

It is important that you keep indexing content manually until Google begins to value your content and automatically prompt crawlers to visit your site each time you publish content. Even when that happens, keep indexing your content manually to be ahead of the competition at all times.