Is Your Website Connected to Google?
Google provides a free service called Google Search Console that allows website owners to monitor how their website appears in Google Search.
Before you can use many of its features, Google needs to know that you actually own the website. This is called website verification.
Why does this matter?
Connecting your website to Google gives you useful information about your website in Google Search.
For example, Google Search Console can help you see:
- Whether Google has discovered your pages
- Search queries that bring visitors to your website
- Problems Google has found
- Indexing problems
- Search performance
- Technical issues affecting your pages
Google provides tools such as URL Inspection to help website owners understand how Google sees individual pages.
What does our health check look for?
Our check looks at your website for a Google site verification tag.
If that verification tag is present, we know that Google verification has been set up on the website.
If it is not present, we warn you that no Google verification tag was found.
Does this mean my website is in Google?
No.
This is important.
Passing this check does not guarantee that your website or pages are appearing in Google Search.
It simply means that a Google verification signal was detected.
Google still needs to discover, crawl and index your pages.
What should I do if this check fails?
Set up Google Search Console and verify your website.
Google will provide you with instructions for verifying ownership. Depending on the type of property you create, verification can involve methods such as adding a verification tag or adding a DNS record.
If you are not comfortable doing this yourself, ask your web developer or hosting provider for help.
In simple terms
This check makes sure your website has been connected and verified with Google. It does not guarantee that Google has indexed your website.