Google Search Console

Google Search Console or previously known as Google Webmaster Tools is an interface with the google search engine. With Search Console, you can submit sitemaps and get health indication on your search indexing. A crucial to for anyone who wants to get there website ranked in the google search engine.

Google Search Console Features

The Google Search Console comes packed with features that can help you better understand your search rankings.

Performance

Under the performance tab, you can see vital information about your current rankings such as Total Clicks, Total Impressions, Average CTR and Average Position of all keywords that you are currently ranking for. By using including filters you can get historical data reading back to the day you verified your website with Google Search Console.

URL Inspection

With the URL Inspection tool, you can get a better understanding of how Google sees your page. Use this to troubleshoot if your page isn't appearing, or isn't appearing properly, in Google Search results.

Coverage

Under the coverage tab, you will get information on your various URLs and their coverage.

Sitemaps

It's important to submit your sitemap to Google's search engine, you can do this here by simply linking to your sitemaps destination "example.com/sitemap.xml".

Mobile Usability

As mobile internet usage has skyrocketed in the past few years Google has put more pressure on web developers to improve mobile usability. This feature will come in handy if you need to get a better understanding of how Google views your responsive design or mobile dedicated site. 

Links

Under the links tab you can get useful information of what pages are linking to yours, but where the tool shines would be around the internal links and their health. 

 

How Much Does Google Search Console Cost?

Google Search Console is free of charge as the tool is mutually beneficial to both webmasters and Google's search engine. Webmasters want to improve the way the search engine sees the website, and Google always wants to improve its understanding of websites so that it can provide more accurate search results to its users.

Support Offered by Google Search Console

Platforms Supported by Google Search Console

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