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GSC, Google Search Console lets you know how your website and its individual pages are performing on search engines; you can see page indexing and de-indexing, technical SEO and crawling issues, and more. Google Search Console is a free tool that provides a complete report to monitor a site’s experience on search engines. It gives sitemap submission practices as well as submissions of individual’s.
So if you are willing to improve your site search engine experience and also okay with giving in amount of time to SEO practices. Google search console helps you in site indexing, crawling, searching canonical URL, de-indexing of URLs, and submission of sitemap. Basically, analyze each and every process that relates to SEO to get your site the best search results.
For setting up a Google Search Console account, first search for the Google Search Console official site and sign up with the mail ID. If you don’t have a Google Search Console account, then first create an account, then sign up and visit the welcome Google Search Console page.
You have to select one property type among the domain and url prefix. First, if we choose the domain property type, we need to enter the simple domain name for an example as “example.com,” and then you will get verified domain ownership via the DNS record popup window. You have to follow the instructions as mentioned in the popup window.
Second, if you select “url prefix” and type the complete url of your site, you will get the window with the verify ownership methods. Select any one of those verification methods and follow up to the mentioned steps, and then click on done text. Within the successful verification of the site, you will reach out to the Google search console dashboard to manage everything related to SEO.
When you reach out to Google Search Console Dashboard, the first thing that you will see is an overview section. From the overview section, you can watch the search console insight and the full performance report, indexing report, site experience, further enhancement report, etc.
Every report and performance report will be visible only after the submission of the sitemap. Google Search Console will take little time to capture everything after the successful verification of GSC with your website. You will be able to see the URL inspection, indexed page, video pages, sitemaps, removal requests, and more.
The URL Inspection tool option allows you to test and request web pages for indexing and to check if individual web pages have been crawled or not. in which you will find things like page is available for indexing or not, page is ready to serve over HTTPS or not, breadcrumbs, Sitelink searchbox options, and more. These are the options to detect errors like mobile usability and HTML and Javascript-related issues that should be fixed.
Google Search Console is a much-benefitted tool of Google to improve SEO and help in search optimization practices such as:It tracks the organically upcoming traffic from different channels, geo locations, searched keyword rankings, CTAs, individual web pages, site positions, and more.It also keeps the record of indexing sites, and other indexing properties prohibit the web pages from being ranked by Google.
GSC helps in identifying a list of removing URLs, disable links, and other URLs listed in sitemaps.It also analyzes mobile responsiveness-related issues, troubleshooting the ranking, and indexing related problems. GSC analyzes all types of linked URLs, such as internal URLs, external URLs, and other site URLs.
There are listed types of errors that should be fixed while working with Google Search Console, such as:
1. Http status Code errors that can be found when search engine boats crawl webpages. Each time when a site loads respective HTTP codes related to it, such as 200, 3XX redirections, 404 not found, 5XX server errors, 401 unauthorized access, and so on.
2. Site Crawling and Page index related issues, such as when ever a search engine boat comes to the site to read the content. And the page doesn’t exist, or something is stopping crawlers from reading and indexing the web page. We have to keep focusing on these issues and keep checking the page reports.
3. If any page gets blocked, then the crawler can’t find the web page. because sometimes such issues are faced by the users when the pages get blocked intentionally.
4. Poor user experience and mobile/desktop usability issues faced by the users many times. Pages with low content and poor user experience do not get crawled by the search engine boats, and that is bad for SEO.
5. Core vital issues that contains the set of metrics refers to slow loading site content experience. User-centered metrics include the largest contentful paint, interaction with the next paint, cumulative layout shift, and so on.