The next step is to add your site to Google’s Webmaster Tools and provide that sitemap URL to them. I see you’re already using Jetpack, so just follow this guide: https://jetpack.com/support/site-verification-tools/

Once your site is added, you’ll be able to follow its progress in Google there.

Thank you very much for your response.

So I went to the site verification section and I’ve actually already done that. So I went to Google Console and it seems that stuff is coming through. But for some reason stuff isn’t showing up still??

Not sure what could be going on.

I’d double check and make sure that only 1 thing is generating the tag and that it’s the current value Google Webmaster Tools has.

197 results, I’m guessing that is pages. Which is pretty low considering I have like 700+ posts up there. So I’ll need to figure that out.

And 3 google-site-verifications? How am I able to either delete some of them or edit/reset it?
When you say generating the tag, do you mean like tags on a post or….I’m not terribly computer savvy on the back end of this stuff.

Thank you!

And 3 google-site-verifications? How am I able to either delete some of them or edit/reset it? When you say generating the tag, do you mean like tags on a post or….I’m not terribly computer savvy on the back end of this stuff.

From your site’s source, Jetpack, Yoast SEO, and a third element that isn’t identifying itself are all adding a Google verification tag to your site.

You only need one of those, so I recommend that you start by deciding if you want Jetpack or Yoast SEO to add the tag. Since Yoast SEO does so much more, if it were me, I’d keep that in charge of all SEO things and delete the verification tag in Jetpack: https://jetpack.com/support/site-verification-tools/

Next, you’ll have to figure out whichever is the third one adding the tag. It could be another plugin or even a feature of your theme.

I went to google search console to try and figure out where my old pages are and I have like 345 error codes, so 345 of my posts are 404 erroring.

When I transferred to self-hosting I didn’t set up the redirecting thing by paying for the service. Do you think that should be done? Or how can I go about fixing all of these posts. Would I need to go back into the posts on the back end and re-publish them all? Or is there an easier way?

I may need to call my host (HostGator) and see if it can be fixed from their side, if anyone thinks that might be better.

But, the problem here is you didn’t keep the same permalink structure, hence the 404 errors. Different Permalink structure = different links = everything is redirecting to a 404 Not Found error.

Head over to Settings > Permalinks in your site’s Dashboard, select the “Month and name” structure and hit save. That will fix the problem.

Does this mean that all of the new posts, since the transfer to the self-hosted site, need to have their links changed? Or will it automatically be done.

Thank you so much for your suggestion.