How to add your website to Google Search

Create a Search Console property

Go to Google Search Console and sign in with a Google account. Choose Add property. You are offered two kinds. Domain covers every version of the address but needs a DNS record. URL-prefix covers one exact address, and it lets you verify with a tag on the page.

Pick URL-prefix and enter your site's address exactly as it loads, including https and the www if you use it. If you are unsure, load your homepage and copy the address from the browser bar.

Verify with the HTML tag

Search Console lists verification methods. Choose HTML tag. It shows you a line of code with a long token inside the content part. You only need the token, the string of letters and numbers between the quotes.

In Website Builder Studio there is one field for it. Paste the token, save, and the tag is on your pages. Back in Search Console, press Verify.

If it fails, the usual cause is a stray character or a site that has not republished yet. Check the token, wait a moment and try again. The in-app assistant walks you through it if you get stuck.

Submit your sitemap

In the left menu, choose Sitemaps. Type sitemap.xml after your address and press Submit. Your sitemap lists every page that should be indexed, with its address and the date it last changed. Google reads it and queues the pages.

You submit once. Google re-reads the sitemap on its own visits, and a new page does not need a new submission. Every site the builder generates carries a sitemap, so there is always one to submit.

Add Bing Webmaster Tools

Other search engines and some AI answer engines draw on Bing's index, so it is worth the extra few minutes. Open Bing Webmaster Tools, sign in, and choose Import from Google Search Console. It reads your verified sites and their sitemaps and sets itself up.

The import needs a verified Google property to read from, so do the Search Console steps first. Once it is in, Bing has its own reports, and they are worth a look for the same reasons.

What 'Crawled, currently not indexed' means

In Search Console's Pages report you will see statuses. Crawled, currently not indexed means Google fetched the page, read it, and decided not to store it yet. It is not an error. It is a judgement that the page did not add enough to what Google already has.

The fix is not resubmitting. It is substance. Compare the page with the results for that search and ask what yours says that those do not. Add the specific thing: a real process, a real answer, a real local fact. Then wait for the next crawl.

Discovered, currently not indexed is different. Google knows the address but has not fetched it yet. That is a queue, and new domains sit in it longer.

Patience, and what to do while waiting

A new domain is unknown. Google crawls it lightly at first and returns more often as it finds pages worth returning for. Weeks is normal. Nobody can give you an honest number.

While you wait, write the pages you skipped. Fix the ones on the not-indexed list. Read the Performance report when it starts filling and see which searches actually brought people. Check that the sitemap status stays Success.

How the in-app assistant helps

The in-app assistant walks you through every third-party connection step by step, and this is one of them. Ask it to set up Search Console and it tells you which screen to open, what to copy and where to paste the token.

It cannot press Verify for you, and it cannot make Google crawl sooner. What it can do is make sure your pages arrive clean: one main heading, a title and description per page, a sitemap and structured data. Every page passes a check that runs before anything publishes, validated against Google Search Essentials and modern web standards.