Understand Google Search Console

Understand Google Search Console

Goal: Understand all Things about Google Search Console fand also Technical Data Report

Ideal Outcome: Analyze Your Technically data using GSC like Performance, Queries, Content Access by Crawler or Not and Many More….

Prerequisites or requirements: You need Google Search Console Dashboard.

Why this is important: Without Google Search Console you don’t crawler crawl your website well or not, if not what’s the actual errors did, they face

Where this is done: Your Google Search Console Dashboard
When this is done: Time to Time weekly or Monthly. 

Who does this: Anyone who Handle Web development and SEO.

Step1: Open Your Google Search Console

Step 2:UnderstandDashboard

The Google Search Console dashboard includes the following reports

Performance report: Shows how your website is performing in search results, including impressions, clicks, average position, and CTR.

• Impressions: The number of times your website’s links appeared in search results.

• Clicks: The number of times users clicked on your website’s links in search results.

• Average position: The average ranking of your website’s links in search results.

• Click-through rate (CTR): The percentage of impressions that resulted in a click.

URL Inspection tool: Allows you to inspect individual URLs on your website to see how Google is crawling and indexing them.

Coverage report: Shows which pages on your website are indexed by Google and which pages have errors or warnings.

• Valid: These pages are indexed and can be shown in search results.

• Excluded: These pages are not indexed and will not be shown in search results. There are a number of reasons why a page might be excluded, such as if it is blocked by a robots.txt file or if it has a noindex meta tag.
• Error: These pages have errors that are preventing them from being indexed. For example, the page might have a 404 error or a server error.
• Warning: These pages have warnings that could prevent them from being indexed. For example, the page might have a duplicate content warning or a soft 404 warning.

Here are some tips for fixing common coverage issues:

If a page has a 404 error, make sure that the page actually exists and that it is accessible to Google. You can use the URL Inspection tool to test the page’s accessibility.

• If a page has a duplicate content warning, make sure that the page is the canonical version of the content. You can use the canonical tag to specify the canonical version of a page.
• If a page has a soft 404 warning, make sure that the page is still relevant and that it is accessible to users. You can use a redirect to redirect users to a more relevant page.

Removal : option in Google Search Console allows you to request that Google temporarily or permanently remove certain URLs from its search results. This can be useful for a variety of reasons, such as if you have made a mistake on a page and you don’t want it to be shown in search results until you have fixed it, or if you are removing a page from your website altogether.

Enhancements report: Shows which features your website can implement to improve its appearance in search results, such as sitelinks, structured data markup, and rich snippets.

Mobile usability report: Shows how user-friendly your website is on mobile devices.

Core Web Vitals report: Shows how your website performs in terms of three key metrics: loading speed, interactivity, and visual stability.

Security and Manual Actions Report: Shows any security issues or manual actions that Google has taken against your website.

You can use the Crawl Stats/Budget Report to monitor your crawl budget and ensure that Google is crawling the most important pages on your website

Links report: Shows how many backlinks your website has from other websites.

Rich Results Test: Allows you to test your website’s structured data markup to see if it is eligible for rich results in search results.

Crawl budget is the number of URLs that Google is willing to crawl on your website in a given period of time. Google’s crawl budget is based on a number of factors, such as the size of your website, the frequency with which your website updates, and the importance of your website to Google users.

 Conclusion

The Google Search Console dashboard is a powerful tool that can be used to improve your website’s SEO performance and to increase organic traffic to your website. By using all of the options and features in the complete Google Search Console dashboard, you can get a deep understanding of how your website is performing in search engines and make informed decisions about how to improve your SEO performance.