{"id":2419,"date":"2018-06-20T14:56:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T18:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottmckellam.com\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2018-06-20T20:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T00:55:51","slug":"google-search-console-adding-multiple-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottmckellam.com\/google-search-console-adding-multiple-properties\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Search Console: Adding Multiple Properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced recently they are finally addressing one of our biggest pet peeves: having to manually add multiple properties to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/home\">Search Console<\/a>\u00a0for the same root domain.<\/p>\n<p>As things stand, we are required to add and verify all the different versions of the same domain&#8230;one at a time. It&#8217;s not an ideal system. It needs to be simplified and should take far less time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+johnmueller\">John Mueller<\/a> is the Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google. He recently was on a Google Hangout (below) where he addressed the questions of entering multiple versions of the same website (WWW-version and NON-WWW-version as well as the HTTP-version and the HTTPS-version). It doesn&#8217;t sound like they&#8217;re\u00a0<em>close<\/em> to making the changes, as he says they will probably seek input from other webmasters in the future. But at least it&#8217;s on their radar!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zyQbNGUycX8?rel=0&amp;start=11.14\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As Mueller says, they would most likely allow us to add all versions (and possibly\u00a0even subdomains) all at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we&#8217;re still going to have to manually add all four versions of the site but again, at least they are acknowledging that the process is annoying, at best.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for updates on Google Search Console.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a small business owner and you&#8217;d like help setting up your Google My Business profile, Google Analytics account, or even your Google Search Console, please <a href=\"https:\/\/scottmckellam.com\/contact\/\">contact us<\/a> and we&#8217;ll be glad to help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced recently they are finally addressing one of our biggest pet peeves: having to manually add multiple properties to Search Console\u00a0for the same root domain. 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