PrestaShop Google Search Console

Here’s a complete, practical guide to Google Search Console (GSC) for PrestaShop
(valid for PrestaShop 1.7, 8, and 9, including multilingual stores).

1️⃣ Add Your PrestaShop Site to GSC (Correct Way)

✅ Best Method: Domain Property (Recommended)

1. Go to Google Search Console
2. Click Add Property
3. Select Domain
4. Enter:

   example.com
   

5. Verify via DNS TXT record

✔ Covers:

• www / non-www
• http / https
• All languages (/en/, /fr/, /hi/)

Alternative: URL Prefix (If DNS not possible)

Add each version:

https://example.com/
https://www.example.com/
https://example.com/en/
https://example.com/fr/

⚠️ More work, less clean

2️⃣ Submit PrestaShop Sitemap (CRITICAL)

Default PrestaShop Sitemap URLs

For multilingual stores:

https://example.com/index.php?controller=sitemap
https://example.com/en/index.php?controller=sitemap
https://example.com/fr/index.php?controller=sitemap

How to submit

GSC → Sitemaps → Add new sitemap

Submit:

index.php?controller=sitemap

📌 PrestaShop auto-generates language-specific URLs inside sitemap

3️⃣ Verify hreflang is Working

Test:

GSC → Settings → International targeting
(or URL Inspection)

You should see:

• hreflang="en"
• hreflang="fr"
• Correct canonical URLs

✔ PrestaShop handles this automatically

4️⃣ Coverage / Pages Indexing Issues (Common Fixes)

❌ “Duplicate without user-selected canonical”

✔ Fix:

• Enable Language in URL
• Do NOT block /en/, /fr/ in robots.txt

❌ “Crawled – currently not indexed”

✔ Fix:

• Thin content → translate fully
• Improve internal links
• Submit sitemap again

❌ “Excluded by noindex”

✔ Fix:

• Check product/category SEO settings
• Disable maintenance mode
• Check SEO modules conflict

5️⃣ robots.txt (PrestaShop Safe Version)

Recommended:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /order
Disallow: /my-account
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /module/
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://example.com/index.php?controller=sitemap

❌ Don’t block:

• /en/
• /fr/
• /img/
• /themes/

6️⃣ URL Inspection Tool (Use Often)

In GSC:

• Paste product/category URL
• Click Test Live URL
• Check:
  • Canonical
  • Indexing allowed
  • Page fetch success

7️⃣ Multilingual SEO Setup Checklist

✔ Language in URL enabled
✔ Friendly URLs enabled
✔ Translated slugs per language
✔ Unique meta titles/descriptions
✔ Sitemap submitted
✔ hreflang auto-generated
✔ Robots.txt clean

8️⃣ Core Web Vitals (PrestaShop Specific)

GSC → Core Web Vitals

Common PrestaShop fixes:

• Enable Smarty cache
• Use WebP images
• Disable heavy modules
• Enable CCC (Combine, Compress, Cache)
• Use CDN (Cloudflare)

9️⃣ When to Re-submit to GSC

• After enabling multilingual URLs
• After mass product import
• After changing URL structure
• After major theme/module changes

🔟 Pro Tips for Faster Indexing

• Link new products from category pages
• Add internal links in CMS pages
• Use Request Indexing for key pages
• Avoid auto-translated content