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Registering your site with Google and Naver, step by step
Built a site but can’t find it in search? Here is how to register with Google Search Console and Naver Search Advisor, in order.
Search engines take time to discover a new site on their own. Search registration is telling them directly: “there is a new site here.” If you sell to people in Korea, do both Google and Naver.
Naver Search Advisor
- 1Sign in to searchadvisor.naver.com with a Naver account and open Webmaster Tools.
- 2Enter your site address (starting with https://) to register it.
- 3Verify ownership — upload the HTML file they give you, or add their meta tag to your site’s head.
- 4Under Requests, submit your sitemap (sitemap.xml) and RSS feed.
- 5For important pages, request crawling directly with the web page collection tool.
Google Search Console
- 1Go to search.google.com/search-console with a Google account.
- 2Add a property. Choose Domain (add a TXT record to your DNS) to cover the whole domain, or URL prefix (HTML tag or file) for a quicker setup.
- 3Submit your sitemap.xml address under Sitemaps.
- 4Check your home page with URL Inspection and click Request indexing.
What your site needs before you register
- A unique title and description on every page
- sitemap.xml and robots.txt
- A share preview image (Open Graph) for messengers and social media
- A good mobile experience — search engines judge the mobile version first
- For multilingual sites, a URL per language and hreflang tags
Will registering put me at number one?
No. Registering makes you eligible to appear; search engines decide rankings based on your content and trust. Indexing usually starts within a few days to a few weeks. Be wary of anyone who “guarantees” the top spot.