About Search Console - Search Console Help (2024)

FAQs

What does the Google Search Console help you do? ›

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 with respect to search performance.

Search Console provides information on how Google crawls, indexes, and serves websites. This can help website owners to monitor and optimize Search performance.

Open Search Console, then add and verify ownership of your site. You'll need to prove that you are the owner of your website, because Search Console shows information about your site that only site owners should see, and allows you to make changes that can affect how your site appears on Google.

Given that Google Search Console holds information, including the clicks and impressions your website receives, the click-through rate your different pages have and other vital information, you can use this to decide where to take your SEO strategies to grow your site's traffic.

Generally, Google Search Console is very accurate in providing insights into a website's performance within Google Search. It sources its data directly from Google's search results, which will naturally offer website owners a reliable overview of: Their site's search traffic.

Note that you must be able to prove that you own the site (or appropriate section of that site) in order to add it to your Search Console account. You can create a property that includes an entire domain (example.com) or a property that is limited to a single branch (example.com/clothing/).

Google Search Central (formerly Webmasters)

Verification is the process of proving that you own the site that you claim to own. We need to confirm ownership because once you are verified for a site, then you have access to its private Google Search data, and can affect how Google Search crawls the site.

What are the benefits of Google Search? ›

With Google Search, individuals can quickly find answers, access essential resources, and complete tasks more efficiently, enabling them to accomplish more in less time. For example, professionals can use Google's advanced search operators to refine their search queries and find specific files or documents quickly.

Crawling is the process of finding new or updated pages to add to Google (Google crawled my website). One of the Google crawling engines crawls (requests) the page. The terms "crawl" and "index" are often used interchangeably, although they are different (but closely related) actions.

The Crawl Stats report shows you statistics about Google's crawling history on your website. For instance, how many requests were made and when, what your server response was, and any availability issues encountered. You can use this report to detect whether Google encounters serving problems when crawling your site.

Indexed pages provide your site with the opportunity to gain qualified, free traffic from Google. In most cases, the most important pages on your site, such as product pages or landing pages, should be indexed. This allows you to benefit from organic traffic through search engine results pages.