Google Search Console integration signals are present

Without Search Console verification you cannot see the queries driving traffic, detect indexation regressions, receive manual-action notifications, or submit sitemaps for priority crawling. Sites running blind for months accumulate undiagnosed issues — missing pages, schema errors, Core Web Vitals regressions — that GSC would have surfaced on day one. No analytics means no attribution either.

Add the Google Search Console verification string to your root layout metadata and deploy. Once GSC confirms ownership, submit your XML sitemap and enable email alerts for coverage issues and manual actions. In Next.js App Router, set metadata.verification.google to the token GSC provides.

// app/layout.tsx
export const metadata = { verification: { google: 'YOUR_VERIFICATION_CODE' } }