Verify your Shopify store with Google, Updated 11th August 2020 – In this post I show you how to set up a Google Search Console account and verify your Shopify store with Google.
You will understand why it’s important to verify your Shopify site with Google and how Search Console can help your site’s visibility.
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Google Search Console is a free tool that helps you monitor the health of your Shopify store. In Google’s own words (source: support.google.com):
Google Search Console is a free service offered by Google that helps you monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot your site’s presence in Google Search results
While you don’t have to sign up to Google Search Console to be included in Google search results, the tool can help you monitor and improve the way Google sees your website.
With Google Search Console you can (source: support.google.com):
To create a Google Search Console account for your Shopify store:
After you add your property, Search Console will request to verify your Shopify store with Google. This is to prove that you are the legitimate owner of your Shopify store.
Google Search Console has several ways of verifying your website:
For the purpose of this tutorial, we are going to verify your Shopify store with Google by using the HTML tag method.
To verify your Shopify store with Google:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9128668?hl=en
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Pasquale is Founder at Increasily.com, a digital strategy agency based in Dublin, Ireland; and Co-Founder at luxury ecommerce marketplace Thesidebe.com. Pasquale has +15 years of experience in Digital Marketing and Account Management. He currently lives in Dublin with his wife, stepdaughter and cat.
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