This is part of a series of discussions regarding Deploying to a Digital Ocean Droplet. For more details, please see Overview of johnvincent.io website

Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools

Domain

Domain is

www.johnvincent.io

Please note this is a choice. I chose to use www. as this is mostly what people expect to see. Personally I would prefer to use

johnvincent.io

but that may be confusing to people who are used to .com domains.

I configured Nginx to redirect

johnvincent.io
to
www.johnvincent.io

Add a Site

Website is

www.johnvincent.io

Open Google Webmaster Tools

• Add a Property
• Website, www.johnvincent.io
  • Add

Repeat steps below also for

• Add a Property
• Website, johnvincent.io
  • Add

Verify your ownership of the domain.

There are many different options.

HTML file upload

Select HTML file upload

Tool has 4 steps

1. Download the verification file [google9104b904281bf3a3.html]
2. Upload file to www.johnvincent.io/google9104b904281bf3a3.html
3. Confirm successful upload
   • https://www.johnvincent.io/google9104b904281bf3a3.html
4. Verify

HTML tag

• Copy meta tag to site's home page

Added to index.html

<meta name="google-site-verification" content="<your own tag>" />

• Verify

Domain Name provider (optional)

• Domain Name provider
  • Google Domains

1. Add the TXT record below to the DNS configuration for johnvincent.io.google-site-verification=t541b51i2vyIyUl2NSxJvc46YwyLrUSRMuWmJcz2UzI

To do this with Google Domains, add the following record

Name: @
Type: TXT
TTL: 1h
Data:
google-site-verification=t541b51i2vyIyUl2NSxJvc46YwyLrUSRMuWmJcz2UzI

Robots.txt

Building a robots.txt using Gatsby

From Google Webmaster Tools

• Select: https://www.johnvincent.io
• robots.txt tester]
• Add robots.txt

Sitemaps

Building a sitemap using Gatsby

From Google Webmaster Tools

• Select: https://www.johnvincent.io
• Sitemaps
  • Add sitemap
  • https://www.johnvincent.io/
    • sitemap.xml
  • press Submit