A Beginners Guide to Google Search Console

Google Search Console is the best way to get insights regarding your website. By setting up an account, one can easily monitor the performance of the website. It also ensures to give notification when any part of the website needs to improve. Thus, it is necessary to have the best guide for Google search console. Let us discuss the details about it one by one.

How to set up an account in Google Search Console

 Follow the steps to create an account:

  1. In Google Search Console, click on ‘add a new property.’
  2. Type the website or property that you want to add in the space given
  3. You can opt to add domain if you are going to track all the URL related to your website.
  4. Do the verification regarding the ownership of the website.
  5. Put the code to verify the account and start tracking your website.

Features of Google Search Console

Performance tab

The overall performance of the website can be looked through this tab such as the CTRs, impressions, clicks, average position, etc. The older version of the search console allows us to store the performance of the past 90 days. With the new update, it can last up to 16 months. In the tab, there is a list of ‘queries,”pages,”countries’ or ‘devices to check on. All these sections give also information regarding clicks, impressions, CTRs, etc.  

Index coverage

Covering the technical part of the website, it shows information about what are the pages indexed in Google. It also tells the pages which are not indexed and its reasons. All the insights are based on the last update made on the website. It also tells about the errors in it.

URL inspection

This covers the technical aspect of the website, which includes a thorough inspection of your website. The URL inspection tool will tell about the crawling details on your website such as when it was crawled by Google, how it looked, and other insights. 

Enhancement tabs

This will help you in providing insights regarding the speed of your site, AMP, and other details. In all, with this tab, one will be able to monitor everything from essential to adequate information. By working on it, it will help in enriching the results of SERP.

Sitemaps

To see all the essential posts & pages, XML sitemaps are considered as the best road maps for it. Everyone should enter the URL of their website to XML sitemaps so that it can be found easily by Google. Trace the sitemaps regularly to keep yourself updated with the best working pages & posts.

Links

Links to your website will tell a lot of things about your website. You can even perform the SEO based on the maximum anchor texts leading to the site. Thus, keep a close check to the links analytics and let your website function. Proper linking to different pages can also be monitored from this feature. 

Mobile usability

Mobile usability will also ensure the friendliness of your website on mobile phones. All sites are not compatible with phones. Hence it lead to higher bounce rates, and the usability of your website on mobile phones can be tracked through it. 

Security issues 

This feature will enable you to receive a notification regarding the security issue, it will also help you take immediate action regarding the matter.

Conclusion

As much information you can get can be useful to make your website better. Hence, read all the details and understand their meaning carefully. Make the best use of these analytics.

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