A Search profile cannot force Google to show your website. This guide distinguishes Search profiles from Preferred Sources and explains how to add a button or link so readers can choose your website as a preferred source.
Browsing: Google Search Console
For a Blogspot blog, you can usually verify ownership with the same Google Account that manages Blogger, without managing DNS for blogspot.com. For a custom domain, choose a Domain property if you control DNS, or a URL-prefix property if you only need to monitor one specific URL version. Then compare the public URL with the verified property.
A sitemap helps Google discover URLs but does not guarantee that posts will be indexed. This guide shows how to check a Blogger sitemap and a specific URL in Search Console.
Google Search Console shows how your website appears and earns clicks in Google Search; Google Analytics 4 shows what users do after they arrive. Understanding the distinction helps you choose the right report and avoid misreading the data.
SEO becomes manageable when you diagnose one page before changing it. This beginner guide shows what to check, what to change, and how to verify the result without ranking promises.
Google Search Console does not crawl websites directly. Googlebot accesses and processes URLs, while Search Console helps you verify your site, submit a sitemap, inspect URLs, and request indexing for important pages.
A guide to reading AI reports in Google Search Console, analyzing AI Overviews and AI Mode, and measuring traffic from AI Search more accurately.
After the February 2026 Google Discover Core Update, blogs that want to appear in Discover need to focus on original content, topic-based expertise, honest headlines, large images, and Search Console data instead of chasing short-term views.