Connect Google Search Console

A site with its own verified custom domain can carry your Google verification tag, so the clicks, searches and indexed pages for that domain show up in a Search Console account you control. The steps below cover a site for one home, a site with several listings, a group site, and an independent hotel. Pasting the tag does not change your SEO score or your ranking. The Search Console & Bing step is marked Not scored.

When to use

Use this once the domain on the site is verified in Haven and you want Google's own reports for it: clicks, the searches people typed, average position, and which pages Google has indexed. A listing on a group site uses that site's domain. Save the tag on the group site, once, and it covers the listings on that domain.

The tag renders only on that host, beside Haven's own google-site-verification tag. A Haven address (bookwithhaven.com/... or {name}.bookwithhaven.com) cannot carry your tag. Clicks and searches for a Haven address are already inside Haven, under Sites → SEO → Performance.

Connecting the domain itself is in Custom Domains. Bing Webmaster Tools is covered in SEO and Discoverability.

How to

The field is in two places. Either one stores the same tag.

• Sites → SEO → Checklist → Search Console & Bing, in the section labeled Google Search Console. The field is Verification token. It saves as you type.
• The custom-domain panel on the Domains tab, headed Track your site in Google Search Console. The field is Google verification token. Choose Save there.

1. Add your hostname as a URL-prefix property in Search Console (https://www.yourdomain.com/).
2. Choose the HTML tag method, not the HTML file. An HTML file will not verify.
3. Paste the tag's content value into Verification token or Google verification token. A bare token or the whole meta tag works in either field. On the Domains tab, choose Save.
4. Return to Search Console and choose Verify.
5. Under Indexing → Sitemaps, add sitemap.xml. Adding it is safe if it is already listed.

Use a URL-prefix property and the HTML tag method only. Haven renders what you paste as a meta tag on that host.

What you can watch

After Google verifies the tag, the property's Performance report shows clicks, impressions, the searches people typed, average position, and the pages that received them. Indexed pages are in the Pages report in your own Search Console, and that report needs your own domain. There is no indexed-pages count in Haven.

In Search Console, turn on Search generative AI features. Google says a site has to be included there to appear in AI Overviews and AI Mode.

Haven's own access

Haven keeps a separate URL-prefix property, https://your-domain/, in Haven's own Search Console access. Once Google has confirmed Haven's tag, Haven submits sitemap.xml, vacation-rentals-sitemap.xml and image-sitemap.xml there. Haven's own Search Console access never adds you as an owner and never writes into a property you own. Those three files may not be listed in yours. Step 5 is how you add sitemap.xml yourself.

A Haven address

Performance does not ask for your own domain. A Haven address shows the same clicks and searches in Sites → SEO → Performance, filtered to that site's pages. The tiles are Clicks, Times shown, Avg. position and From AI assistants, with the top searches, pages and sources under the chart. Before Google has rows, Haven says Google hasn't reported any searches for the site yet.

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