# Search Console Tutorial URL: https://hacktheseo.com/search-console-tutorial/ Date: 2026-10-29 Last modified: 2026-10-29 Author: Hacktheeric --- - Search Console tutorial # Set up your Search Console in 5 minutes Search Console is Google's free tool that shows how people find your site. Claude reads it to build your plan. Four steps, without touching your site's code. Start at step 1 [Open Search Console](https://search.google.com/search-console) 5 minutes - Free, from Google - Claude only reads it ## First, your situation - **You already have one**Nothing to create: connect it right away, [step 5 of the guide](https://hacktheseo.com/getting-started-guide/#step-5). - **An agency runs your site**Ask them to add you as a user of their Search Console (full access), with your Google address, then connect it. - **Your site is new**Create it anyway. Google has no data yet, and that is normal: Claude starts with what exists and refines later. None of these steps changes how your site looks. ## The 4 steps Keep two tabs open: Search Console and your WordPress. 1Add your site 2Copy the code 3Paste it into Hack The SEO 4Verify and connect - 1 ### Add your site to Google Open [Search Console](https://search.google.com/search-console) with your Google account, click **Add property**, choose **URL prefix**, paste your site's address and click **Continue**. To get the exact addressOpen your site's home page and copy the address from the browser bar, https:// included. [Search Console · diagram of the screen](https://hacktheseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tuto-search-console-01-ajouter-en.jpg) - 2 ### Copy Google's code Open **HTML tag** and copy only the code between the quotes after **content=** (in yellow in the picture), not the rest of the line. Keep this window open.You come back to it in step 4 to click Verify. [Search Console · diagram of the screen](https://hacktheseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tuto-search-console-02-balise-en.jpg) - 3 ### Paste it into Hack The SEO In WordPress, open **Hack The SEO**, **Réglages** (Settings), tab **Indexation**, then **Pour les experts** (For experts): paste the code into the **Google** field under “Codes de vérification des moteurs” (search engine verification codes) and click **Enregistrer** (Save). It worked when…the bottom bar disappears after you save: the code is now on your home page, invisible to your visitors. [WordPress · Hack The SEO · Réglages](https://hacktheseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tuto-search-console-03-indexation.jpg) Further down, in “Pour les experts”: [WordPress · Hack The SEO · Réglages](https://hacktheseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tuto-search-console-03-codes.jpg) - 4 ### Verify, then connect Google Go back to Search Console and click **Verify**, then in Hack The SEO click **Relier avec Google** (Connect with Google, on the Démarrer screen or in Réglages, Google tab) and choose that same account. Google says “Verification failed”?If your site uses a cache plugin, clear the cache, wait a minute and click Verify again. [WordPress · Démarrer](https://hacktheseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tuto-search-console-04-relier.jpg) ## Done? Back to the guide. Your Search Console is ready. Pick up the getting started guide at step 5, Connect Google: Claude will read your data without changing anything on Google's side. [Back to the guide, step 5](https://hacktheseo.com/getting-started-guide/#step-5) See the steps again Talk soon, the Hack The SEO team --- Source: https://hacktheseo.com/search-console-tutorial/ Generated by Hack The SEO