🔎 SEO

💡 Introduction

In this article, we explain how to make your application and it’s content visible to search engines, especially Google, for driving organic traffic.

👩🏻‍💻 How to Make Your Application Visible to Google

Google Search Console is a free tool that helps you monitor and maintain your site's presence in Google Search results. In the following steps, we explain how to use it to make your application and it’s content visible to Google.

1. Register to Google Search Console

2. Add Your Domain to Google Search Console

To add your domain to Google Search Console and verify ownership, follow these steps:

1. Access Google Search Console

Navigate to Google Search Console and sign in with your Google account.

2. Add your domain

• Click "Add Property" in the property selector dropdown

• Choose "Domain" as the property type (recommended over URL-prefix)

• Enter your domain name without www or http(s):// (example: domain.com)

3. DNS verification

• Google will provide you with a TXT record

• Copy the TXT record value (it will look like "google-site-verification=...")

4. Add DNS record

Please contact your colleague who is in charge of domain administration (IT administrator) for this step.

• Log into your domain registrar's DNS settings

• Add a new TXT record:

Host/Name: @ or leave empty (follows registrar's format)

Type: TXT

Value: Paste the verification code from Google

TTL: Use default or set to 3600 (1 hour)

5. Complete verification

Return to Google Search Console

Click "Verify"

Wait for DNS propagation (can take up to 48 hours)

Once the TXT record is detected, Google will verify your domain.

3. Add Your Sitemaps

A sitemap is an XML file that lists all important pages of your website to help search engines crawl your site more efficiently. Here's how to add your sitemap to Google Search Console:

1. Locate your sitemap

Currently, we provide sitemaps for Pages. We have planned the implementation for Custom Modules and Events. For modules with a limited number of entries, you can add the URLs manually (see the following entry “Alternative to Sitemaps: Adding Web Pages Manually”). You can identify the URL based on the following structure: Pages

{{domain}}/p/sitemap.xml

E.g. https://yourdomain.com the sitemap URL is https://yourdomain.com/p/sitemap.xml

One sitemap for all pages

By default, all pages are listed in the sitemap. If you want to exclude a page (e.g. during development), you can disable “Enable page in sitemap” in the page setting.

2. Submit the sitemap to Google Search Console

Go to Google Search Console and select your property

Click "Sitemaps" in the left sidebar

Enter your sitemap URL in the "Add a new sitemap" field

Click "Submit"

3. Monitor sitemap status

After submission, Google Search Console will process your sitemap and show:

Status (Success or has errors)

Number of URLs discovered

Last read date

Alternative to Sitemaps: Adding Web Pages Manually

If a sitemap is currently not available or you want to make a single web page visible, please follow these steps:

1. Access URL inspection tool

In Google Search Console, select "URL Inspection" from the left sidebar menu.

2. Enter the URL

Enter the complete URL of the page you want to add in the search bar at the top.

3. Request indexing

Click "Request Indexing" after Google analyzes the URL

Google will crawl and process the page for inclusion in search results

This process may take several days

4. Check indexing status

You can monitor the status of your submitted URLs in the URL Inspection tool:

URL is on Google: The page is indexed and can appear in search results

URL is not on Google: The page is not indexed and needs attention

URL is indexed, but has issues: The page is indexed but may have problems affecting its search performance