Google and Google Search Console

Adding Properties to Google Search Console

I added two Google Blogger blogs — both under different accounts from Soosooland — to Google Search Console on the same day. Even though the accounts were different, ownership verification went through and the properties were successfully added. After that, Soosooland’s indexing moved forward, albeit slowly, while the other blog stayed stuck at zero indexed pages. With Gemini’s help, I found several settings in the blog that needed fixing — most notably, I disabled the option that had been restricting search engine visibility.

Installing Meta Tags

When indexing still hadn’t happened after some time, I asked Gemini again. It told me that registering a single blog under two separate Search Console accounts is perfectly fine, since each account can independently monitor and manage the site’s status. At that point, I also installed the ownership verification meta tags — one per account — that had been missing all along. It’s like having two nameplates on the same front door.
From Google’s perspective, two people (two accounts) each hold a key (a meta tag) proving they own this house (the blog). So Google grants both of them management access and provides reports to each.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

One Nameplate Is Enough

One day I mentioned this to Claude, who said that registering one blog in two Search Consoles would only double the work. Thinking about it, that made sense. It wasn’t just a matter of adding a property — it meant submitting sitemaps, checking index status, and running URL inspections, all twice over. So I kept only one property per blog in Search Console. I had lazily left the extra meta tags in place, but eventually Search Console flagged them as unused, and I finally deleted them. Now it’s clean and simple: one house each.

One Sitemap Is Enough

Gemini had told me to submit multiple sitemaps, but even the blogs with just one sitemap had no trouble finding all their posts. My first blog, with 127 posts, had three sitemaps discovering pages in duplicate. My second blog, with 175 posts, had a single sitemap that found everything within 10 days. Neither blog, however, had generated a single indexed page.

robots.txt Is Generated Automatically

With no indexing happening, I asked Gemini if there was anything else I needed to do. Gemini told me to configure robots.txt and even provided the content to enter. But when I tried to save it, it kept failing due to a format error. I asked Claude, who told me that Google Blogger generates robots.txt automatically — no manual setup needed. When I passed that along to Gemini, it suddenly agreed and called it a “pro tip.”

AI Can Be Wrong Too

Just because it’s Gemini doesn’t mean it knows everything about Google. It’s helpful to ask multiple AIs and verify things yourself.

🪄 Dev log originally written in Korean | Translated with Claude

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