{"id":1699,"date":"2017-09-23T22:03:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/147.91.204.66\/wordpress\/seo-101-which-url-versions-to-add-to-google-search-console\/"},"modified":"2017-09-23T22:03:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T20:03:09","slug":"seo-101-which-url-versions-to-add-to-google-search-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/147.91.204.66\/wordpress\/seo-101-which-url-versions-to-add-to-google-search-console\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO 101: Which URL versions to add to Google Search Console"},"content":{"rendered":" <style>\r\n  .ui-tabs {display: table; }\r\n  .ui-tabs-nav {display: table;}\r\n \r\na.ui-tabs-anchor {\r\n\tfont-family: Tahoma;\r\n\tfont-size: 15px; \r\n\tcolor: #B52700;\r\n        margin: 5px 20px;\r\n}\r\n\r\ndiv.ui-tabs-panel {\r\n\tfont-family: Tahoma;\r\n\tfont-size: 14px;\r\n\tfont-weight: normal;\r\n\tcolor: #B35B22;\r\n}\r\n\r\n  <\/style><p>See details of post SEO 101: Which URL versions to add to Google Search Console below<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-280270\" src=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/figz\/wp-content\/seloads\/2017\/08\/google-console-dials-controls7-ss-1920-800x450-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Google Search Console serves as an excellent (not to mention <em>free<\/em>) source of technical data about your website\u2019s organic visibility and performance. To maximize its usefulness, it\u2019s important to properly set up your website in Search Console by adding all versions of your domain as properties that you manage.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s assume the domain name of the website is <strong>https:\/\/example.com\/<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The first step here is to add the following to Google Search Console as a new property:<\/p>\n<pre>     example.com<\/pre>\n<p>Make sure to verify the domain name, preferably using the a TXT record or CNAME record in the DNS.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_282466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"has-border wp-image-282466 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/figz\/wp-content\/seloads\/2017\/09\/gsc-add-property.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Search Console \u201cAdd a property\u201d form<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Next, add the www version as a property (even if it redirects to the non-www version):<\/p>\n<pre>     www.example.com<\/pre>\n<p>In this case, both URLs above redirect to the HTTPS version of the website (learn how to move your website to HTTPS). That means that these variations will also need to be added as two separate properties in Google Search Console:<\/p>\n<pre>     https:\/\/example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/www.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<p>Note that you must specifically include \u201chttps:\/\/\u201d when adding these two properties, which you did not have to do with the HTTP version. If no protocol is defined when adding a property to Google Search Console, it defaults to the HTTP-protocol.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, the following URLs have been added to Google Search Console as properties, even if the HTTP versions do not serve any content and redirect fully to the HTTPS versions:<\/p>\n<pre>     http:\/\/example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/www.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/www.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<p>To summarize, for any website on its own domain and being served only from the HTTP-protocol, at a bare minimum, <em>two<\/em> versions of your domain need to be present in Google Search Console. For any website on its own domain and being served from the HTTPS protocol, at a bare minimum, <em>four<\/em> versions of your domain need to be present in Google Search Console.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting more data from Google Search Console<\/h2>\n<p>If the website has any subdomains, or language\/country\/content or otherwise specific subdirectories, it will be beneficial to add these properties separately in Google Search Console. Doing so will allow you to get more data, set geographic targets or define specific site maps. (Note that this also includes subdomains that are not meant for indexing, such as staging servers, or have no data available, such as an admin login subdomain.)<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s assume the website has two additional subdomains (<em>blog<\/em> and <em>news<\/em>), two language subdirectories (<em>DE<\/em> and <em>EN<\/em>), two content-specific subdirectories (<em>product<\/em> and <em>amp<\/em>) and a staging subdomain all on the HTTPS-protocol variation. This means that, in addition to the URLs above, the following additional URLs also need to be added as new properties in Google Search Console:<\/p>\n<pre>     https:\/\/blog.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/news.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/example.com\/de\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/example.com\/en\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/example.com\/amp\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/example.com\/product\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/staging.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<p>To be safe, it is best to also add the following as new properties in Google Search Console:<\/p>\n<pre>     http:\/\/blog.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/news.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/example.com\/de\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/example.com\/en\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/example.com\/amp\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/example.com\/product\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/staging.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<p>And to be extra, <em>extra<\/em> safe, the following (www versions) can also be added as new properties to Google Search Console:<\/p>\n<pre>     https:\/\/www.example.com\/de\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/www.example.com\/en\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/www.example.com\/amp\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/www.example.com\/product\/<\/pre>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<pre>     http:\/\/www.example.com\/de\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/www.example.com\/en\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/www.example.com\/amp\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/www.example.com\/product\/<\/pre>\n<p>Now, Google Search Console can provide additional specific and detailed search-related data, such as Search Analytics data, for each subdomain and subdirectory.<\/p>\n<h2>Making the data more useful<\/h2>\n<p>If all the URL variations mentioned above are added as properties, there are now 24 separate properties in Google Search Console, each one providing specific and valuable insights on how Google \u201csees\u201d the website. So it may be hard to know which property to check for ranking data in Google Search Console Search Analytics. Luckily, Google added a new feature called \u201cproperty sets\u201d last year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_282465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"has-border wp-image-282465 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/figz\/wp-content\/seloads\/2017\/09\/gsc-add-property-set.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Search Console \u201cAdd a property set\u201d screen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Property sets combine the data from several properties and present the data in a unified view. To create a property set, go to the Google Search Console and click \u201cCreate a set.\u201d Next, give the set a name and add previously verified Google Search Console properties to the set.<\/p>\n<p>There are various property sets you may find useful in terms of data segmentation; below are my suggestions for grouping properties together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All data property set<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To get one source for all ranking data in Google Search Console for the website, add all 24 properties to one property set (highly recommended):<\/p>\n<pre>     http:\/\/example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/www.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/www.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/blog.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/news.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/example.com\/de\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/example.com\/en\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/example.com\/amp\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/example.com\/product\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/www.example.com\/de\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/www.example.com\/en\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/www.example.com\/amp\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/www.example.com\/product\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/staging.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/blog.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/news.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/example.com\/de\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/example.com\/en\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/example.com\/amp\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/example.com\/product\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/www.example.com\/de\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/www.example.com\/en\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/www.example.com\/amp\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/www.example.com\/product\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/staging.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<p><strong>English language data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To narrow the ranking data in Google Search Console for the English part of the website, group the following into another property set:<\/p>\n<pre>     https:\/\/example.com\/en\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/www.example.com\/en\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/example.com\/en\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/www.example.com\/en\/<\/pre>\n<p><strong>German language data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To narrow the ranking data in Google Search Console for the German part of the website, group the following into another property set:<\/p>\n<pre>     https:\/\/example.com\/de\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/www.example.com\/de\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/example.com\/de\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/www.example.com\/de\/<\/pre>\n<p><strong>News\/blog data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To narrow the ranking data in Google Search Console for the news\/blog part of the website, group the following into a property set:<\/p>\n<pre>     https:\/\/blog.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/blog.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/news.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/news.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Product page data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To narrow the ranking data in Google Search Console for just the product part of the website,\u00a0group the following into a property set:<\/p>\n<pre>     https:\/\/example.com\/product\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     https:\/\/www.example.com\/product\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/example.com\/product\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/www.example.com\/product\/<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Keep track of staging URLs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To make sure none of the staging URLs are indexed, add the following to another property set:<\/p>\n<pre>     https:\/\/staging.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<pre>     http:\/\/staging.example.com\/<\/pre>\n<p>Continue creating new property sets in Google Search Console if it makes sense for your business. 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