Search console

Google Search Console is a service offered by Google that helps you monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot your site’s presence in Google Search results.

You don’t have to sign up for Search Console to be included in Google Search results, but Search Console helps you understand and improve how Google sees your site.

Search Console offers tools and reports for the following actions:

  • Confirm that Google can find and crawl your site.
  • Fix indexing problems and request re-indexing of new or updated content.
  • View Google Search traffic data for your site: how often your site appears in Google Search, which searches queries show your site, how often searchers click through for those queries, and more.
  • Receive alerts when Google encounters indexing, spam, or other issues on your site.
  • Show you which sites link to your website.
  • Troubleshoot issues for AMP, mobile usability, and other Search features.

Why and who should use Search Console?

Anyone with a website can use Search Console — from generalist to specialist, from newbie to advanced, Search Console can help you.

Business owners: Even if you aren’t using Search Console, you should be aware of it, become familiar with optimizing your site for search engines, and know what features are available in Google Search.

SEO specialists or marketers: As someone focused on online marketing, Search Console will help you monitor your website traffic, optimize your ranking, and make informed decisions about the appearance of your site’s search results.

You can use the information in Search Console to influence technical decisions for the website and do sophisticated marketing analysis in conjunction with other Google tools like Analytics, Google Trends, and Google Ads.

Site administrators: As a site admin, you care about the healthy operation of your site. Search Console lets you easily monitor and, in some cases, resolve server errors, site load issues, and security issues like hacking and malware.

You can also use it to ensure any site maintenance or adjustments you make happen smoothly for search performance.

Web developers: If you create the actual markup and/or code for your site, Search Console helps you monitor and resolve common markup issues, such as structured data errors.

 

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