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Site Connections

You add Site connections in Yoast by going to Yoast SEO → Settings → Site connections, then pasting the verification codes from Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, Yandex, Baidu, or Pinterest. Yoast stores the codes and verifies your site with each platform.

✅ How to add Site Connections in Yoast (step‑by‑step)

1️⃣ Open the Yoast SEO settings

• In WordPress, go to Dashboard → Yoast SEO → Settings.
• Scroll down to Site connections. This is where Yoast lets you connect your site to search engines and platforms.

🔗 2️⃣ Choose the platform you want to connect

Yoast supports:

• Google Search Console
• Bing Webmaster Tools
• Yandex Webmaster Tools
• Baidu Webmaster Tools
• Pinterest

Each platform gives you a verification code (usually an HTML meta tag). You paste that code into Yoast.

🟦 3️⃣ Example: Connect to Google Search Console

1. Go to Google Search Console
2. Add your site as a URL prefix property
3. Choose HTML tag verification
4. Copy the code Google gives you
5. In WordPress, go to Yoast SEO → Settings → Site connections
6. Paste the code under Google
7. Save
8. Return to Search Console and click Verify

🟩 Example: Connect to Bing Webmaster Tools

1. Go to Bing Webmaster Tools
2. Add your site
3. Choose HTML Meta Tag
4. Copy the code
5. In WordPress, go to Yoast SEO → Settings → Site connections
6. Paste the code under Bing
7. Save
8. Click Verify in Bing

🟪 After connecting

Once verified:

• Google/Bing/Yandex/Baidu will start showing crawl data
• Your XML sitemap will be detected automatically
• You’ll get search performance insights