Step 1: setup Google Search Console

Step 2: Verify domain ownership by logging into namehero hosting (typically have namecheap.com forward DNS to your web hosting provider) under Manage Account -> DNS Zone Editor.

Step 3: upload sitemap to Google, created by RankMath https://barefootbetters.com/sitemap_index.xml

Step 4: identify keyword click data from Performance

Page Speed Lecture

Core Web Vitals Lecture

Mobile Usability

Review snippets

Example Sitemaps

Amrita.net

www.amrita.net/sitemap

1. Pages
2. Categories
3. Brands

Planttherapy.com

www.planttherapy.com/tools/sitemap

1. All Pages
2. All Products
3. All Collections

NaturesFusions.com

www.naturesfusions.com/sitemap/

1. Pages
2. Posts
3. Products

Bumblebeelines.com Sitemap

www.bumblebeelines.com/sitemap.txt

Phase V Fulfillment

URL: https://phasev.com/sitemap/

1. Knowledge base
2. Pages
3. Posts
4. Categories

Google Search Console and Sitemap

Upload sitemap to Google so your website can be crawled and indexed.

Google – Learn about sitemaps and use the URL prefix or Domain (see Create A Profitable Online Store – Google Search Console And How To Add A Sitemap). Also Google Analytics – piggyback on the verification of your Google analytics account.

Namecheap add TXT record that Google provides

WooCommerce sitemap.xml

A sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages, videos, and other files on your site, and the relationships between them. Search engines like Google read this file to crawl your site more efficiently. A sitemap tells search engines which pages and files you think are important in your site, and also provides valuable information about these files. For example, when the page was last updated and any alternate language versions of the page.

Sitemaps especially helpful is your site is new or changes quickly, large site, or isolated pages.

WordPress has plugin to automatically create sitemaps such as WP Sitemap Page by Tony Archambeau see How to Create a Dynamic HTML Sitemap Page in Divi (last updated Oct 2022) or Yoast SEO

Google PageSpeed Insights

Largest Contentful Paint

Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)

Ideal score 0.1 but getting Barefoot Betters has 0.849

Include image’s width and height attributes

References

1. Create A Profitable Online Store – Google Search Console And How To Add A Sitemap)
   • Page Speed Lecture
2. Create A Profitable Online Store – Google Core Web Vitals And How To Fix Your Site For This Ranking Factor
   • Google PageSpeed Insights
   • Web Vitals Extension is now part of DevTools, see The Web Vitals extension, now in DevTools
3. Create A Profitable Online Store – How To Optimize The Speed Of Your Website To Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment
   • Mobile Usability
   • Review snippet – shows the Google 5-star review