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Google Search Console is a tool that helps you monitor and manage how your site performs in search. By connecting it to Studio.Design, you can:
Check impressions, clicks, and average position in Google Search.
Improve your SEO by submitting your sitemap or individual URLs for crawling.
This article explains how to connect Search Console to Studio.Design and how to troubleshoot common issues.
Note:
These steps include actions you'll take in an external service. Anything outside of the steps in this article — including the behavior or specifications of external services — may be outside the scope of our chat support.
Screenshots and details of the external service are based on information from January 2022. If anything looks different, please check the latest information directly on the external service.
How to connect Search Console
Step 1. Add a property in Search Console
Tip:
You'll need a Google account to sign up for Google Search Console. If you're already using Google Ads or Google Analytics, we recommend using the same account.
Open Search Console and add your Studio.Design site's domain as a property.
Go to Search Console and click Start now.
Sign in with your Google account.
Choose URL prefix (the option for specifying a site's URL).
Enter the URL of the website you created with Studio.Design (for example, https://studio.design) and click Continue.
If you already have another property, click Add property in the top-left corner of the screen.
Note: Studio.Design's Apps integration doesn't support Domain verification.
If you want to verify by domain, you'll need to make changes in your DNS settings. If you verify this way, you don't need to add the HTML code to Studio.Design's external Apps (Step 4).
Step 2. Get the verification code
Select HTML tag and copy the verification string to register in Studio.Design.
Select HTML tag.
Click Copy and paste the code into a notepad or similar.
From the copied code, take only the part you need.
If the code looks like
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" />, copy only thexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxpart.
Step 3. Set up the Apps integration in Studio.Design
In your Studio.Design dashboard, register the code you just copied in the Search Console integration settings.
Open Home in your Studio.Design dashboard and select the Apps menu.
Click Google Search Console.
Paste the string you copied in Step 2, then click Save.
Step 4. Verify ownership
Go back to the Search Console setup screen and complete the ownership verification.
Return to the Search Console setup screen.
Click Verify.
When you see "Ownership verified," you're all set.
Step 5. Confirm that data is being collected
Once the integration is set up, your site's performance data should appear in Search Console within a few days.
As data builds up, you'll be able to track your website's performance in Search Console.
How to disconnect the Apps integration
To disconnect Search Console, follow these steps:
Open the Studio.Design project you want to disconnect.
Go to Home on the dashboard.
Select Apps in the left menu.
Hover over the app you want to disconnect, and click Disconnect from the menu that appears in the top-right corner.
When you disconnect, the value is removed both from the database record for the Apps integration and from your published site's HTML.
Troubleshooting
Here are some common errors you might run into during setup, and how to check them.
1. "Ownership verification failed" appears
If ownership verification fails in Google Search Console, the cause depends on the specific error message shown.
Adjust your settings based on the error message you see.
Note: You can't verify this in Live Preview. Please check on your published site instead.
1-1. Error message: "Verification meta tag not found" or "Meta tag is in the wrong location"
The string you saved in Studio.Design may not be showing up in the <head> section of your published site.
Open Apps > Google Search Console settings and make sure the string was saved correctly.
The string includes the full tag
Paste the code into a notepad and re-copy only the
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxpart.Extra spaces or missing characters
Double-check that the value doesn't contain any extra spaces or missing characters.
The URL entered in Google Search Console is incorrect
Make sure the URL you entered in Step 1 matches the URL of your actual published site.
After checking the above, update your site.
Visit your published site and view the page source. Check that
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="...">appears inside the<head>section.Once you've confirmed this, click Verify again on the Search Console setup screen.
1.2. Error message: "The meta tag is not in the <head> section of your homepage"
This error can happen when the tag is set correctly on the Studio.Design dashboard, but a different meta tag remains in your custom code. Check the following:
Open the Google Search Console settings under Apps and make sure the string is saved correctly.
Open the custom code settings in the design editor and check that no
google-site-verificationcode is left over.After checking the above, update your site.
Visit your published site and view the page source.
Confirm that
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="...">appears inside the<head>section.Once you've confirmed this, click Verify again on the Search Console setup screen.
1-3. If a different error appears
Try the following:
Delete the property and reissue the HTML tag
Follow Step 2 to copy the string again, update your site, wait a few minutes, and then click Verify.
If your site isn't published
If your site isn't published, Google can't access it to verify ownership. Update and publish your site, then try again.
If password protection is turned on
If your entire site is password-protected, Google's crawler can't access it. Turn off password protection temporarily until ownership verification is complete.
2. "Couldn't fetch sitemap" appears
Check the sitemap URL you submitted to Search Console. The sitemap URL for a Studio.Design site is https://(your site's domain)/sitemap.xml.
Open the URL you submitted to Search Console directly in your browser and check that XML content is displayed.
If the URL is wrong, resubmit the sitemap using the correct URL (
/sitemap.xml).On the Studio.Design dashboard, switch the sitemap off and then on again, update your site, and then resubmit.
If this didn't solve the issue, please reach out to chat support via the ? button in the bottom-right corner of the editor. Please include the following:
A screenshot of the screen showing the HTML tag in Google Search Console.
A screenshot of the error message displayed on the Google side.
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