How to set up Google Search Console for Shopify
To set up Google Search Console for Shopify, add your domain as a property, verify it with a DNS record at your domain provider or an HTML tag in Shopify, then submit your sitemap at /sitemap.xml. Search Console then shows your search traffic, indexing issues and Core Web Vitals.
By Abdullah Ashraf, Shopify expert · Last updated: October 2026
Quick summary
- Domain property covers all versions of your site.
- Submit /sitemap.xml.
- Check the Pages and Core Web Vitals reports.
In this guide:
Add and verify
- Go to Google Search Console and add a property.
- Choose Domain and add the DNS TXT record at your domain provider.
- Or choose URL prefix and use the HTML tag method in Shopify's preferences.
Submit your sitemap
In Sitemaps, submit yourdomain/sitemap.xml. See sitemap details.
Reports to check
- Performance: queries, clicks, positions
- Pages: indexing issues
- Core Web Vitals
- Manual actions and security
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