BS or Real

Forget About Videos? -- For Now???

Should I just stick with Google instructions until I get enough of the basics to be able to figure out whether a video is actually helpful?

Getting started with Search Console

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/10267942

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OTHER INSTRUCTIONS I'VE STUMBLED ACROSS:

Learn about sitemaps

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/overview

Video sitemaps and alternatives

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/video-sitemaps

Let your CMS generate a sitemap for you / Manually create a sitemap / Automatically generate a sitemap

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/build-sitemap#cmssitemap

Verify your site ownership

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9008080#html_verification&zippy=%2Chtml-file-upload%2Cgoogle-sites