Google Search Console Webmaster Tools

1. What is Google Search Console or Google Webmaster Tools ?

2. Why we need to connect Google Search Console ?

3. What Google Search Console does ?

4. Benefits of Google Search Console ?

1. What is Google Search Console or Google Webmaster Tools ?

What is Google Search Console is a free web service provided by Google that allows website owners to monitor and manage the presence of their site in Google's search results. It offers valuable insights into how Google's search engine interacts with a particular website. Here are some key features and functionalities of Google Search Console:

2. Why we need to connect Google Search Console ?

To use Google Search Console, we need to verify ownership of your website by adding a specific code snippet or a meta tag to your site's HTML or xml  by using other verification methods provided by Google.. Once verified, we can access the various reports and tools within the Search Console dashboard.

3. Working of search console

Provides Google SERP information like query impressions click CTR position

Indexing Sitemap

Sitemaps:

You can submit XML sitemaps to Google Search Console to help Google understand the structure of your website and index its content more efficiently.

Mobile Usability:

This section provides information about how well your site performs on mobile devices. It highlights any mobile usability issues that could impact your site's rankings in mobile search results.

Security Issues:

Google Search Console alerts you to any security issues on your site, such as malware infections or hacked content, which can negatively impact your site's reputation and search visibility.

Core Web Vitals:

Google has been placing increasing emphasis on user experience, and Core Web Vitals in Search Console provide insights into how well your site performs in terms of loading speed and user interaction.

Tracking maintain and troubleshooting your website's position/presence in google search results.

Reports that google search provides 

Re-indexing

Performance Reports:

It provides information about the performance of your website in Google Search, including the number of clicks, impressions, click-through rate (CTR), and average position for specific queries and pages.

Links Report

It shows information about the external and internal links pointing to your site. This can help you understand your site's link profile and identify potential areas for improvement.

Index Coverage:

Crawling and indexing related information

This section helps you understand how Googlebot crawls and indexes your site. It identifies issues such as indexing errors, crawl issues, and sitemap problems that may affect your site's visibility in search results.

URL Inspection:

You can inspect a specific URL on your website to see how Google views it. This includes details about when the URL was last crawled, its status, and any indexing issues.

Provides updates related to security

Step 2 :  fill your domain name in the box

Step 3 : Verify domain ownership by DNS  copy link and past into DNS configuration

Step 1 : Verification we see the overview of our console

Step 4 : Copy html tag and past into header.php file in the wordpress

Step 5 : Go to Wordpress Appearance > Theme file editor > header.php > Past the html tag into head of htmt >

Step 6 : Go to Wordpress Appearance > Past and upload the file

Page Indexing Issues Google Search Console 

Google Not Indexing Problem 

Feed pages should not be indexed this is a common tag.

Server Errors

Excluded by Nonindexed tags by google