Google Search Console

Google Search Console

Google Search Console

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Google Search Console	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	Google Search Console is a search engine optimization software solution offered by Google.	N/A

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	Google Search Console
Considered Both Products	Google Search Console Stewart Donaldson Marketing Director Chose Google Search Console I think these tools are a lot better than GSC, to be honest, because they bring everything together in one place and offer better keyword analysis capabilities. However, I would select GSC over these tools because it is Google's proprietary data, and ultimately, I am optimizing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Google Search Console It's a product from the same team as the no. 1 search engine. It's free, so there's no burden, and you can use it for as long as you want and for as big a company as possible. Others are very expensive, and data can be inaccurate sometimes. Google Analytics serves a different … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Google Search Console GSC does not give you as much information as a paid tool, but it does give you direct clicks to keywords which these other tools have no way of knowing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Google Search Console Google Search Console needs to be used alongside other tools like that ones I mentioned. By itself, it's only able to provide basic information for baseline issues. Thankfully, it does integrate well with a lot of other services and can be useful when linked up to those tools. … Incentivized Helpful? Namrata Agarwal Managing Director Chose Google Search Console The best part about Google Search Console is it is FREE to use. However, the performance report shared by Google Search Console may not be as detailed as the one shared by Ubersuggest. Ubersuggest also has tons of other additional features and they have a free version too. I … Incentivized Helpful? WA Wasim Akhtar Assistant Director of Business Operations Chose Google Search Console Bing helps us to submit websites to our bing search engine, manage sitemaps crawl status help to disallow URLs. However it is only for the Bing search engine, obviously, we need to use the Google search console for Google indexing. Incentivized Helpful? Pemba Tshiring Sherpa Search Engine Optimization Specialist Chose Google Search Console The search console provides more detailed data on actual real-world performance. The search console also helps with submitting new websites for indexing whereas other tools only analyze existing SERP results. The search console also gives additional data of keywords that a page … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Serdar Product Marketing Manager Chose Google Search Console All of these other tools have positives and negatives. We use Google Search Console along with Semrush in the past and are using it with Ahrefs right now. Search Console is like the foundation of monitoring our search presence and these other tools are what lets us do the heavy … Incentivized Helpful? Erin Harris Contract US Blogger and Social Media Manager Chose Google Search Console Google Search Console is free to use. HubSpot can be quite costly and out of my client's budgets. Incentivized Helpful? Kelly Michael Skelton Director of Digital Transformation Chose Google Search Console Semrush costs money to obtain the full range of data that Google Search Engine doesn't supply. Start with GSC and then move to Semrush, is my opinion. Incentivized Helpful? Andrea Hester Director Of Operations Chose Google Search Console Google uniquely provides specific data that is important for optimizing SEO and performance for websites. While it doesn't provide as comprehensive an analysis as other tools like Ahrefs and Moz, it provides Google performance-specific data that can't be found elsewhere. When … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Google Search Console I don't know other such tools. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User General Manager Chose Google Search Console The data is more accurate in Google Search Console and you can communicate back with Google using this tool. Incentivized Helpful? Oleksandr Torlo Product R&D Manager Chose Google Search Console If you need advanced SEO information, then of course you need to use expensive tools. Google console will give basic information, but most importantly, it will give promptly and free of charge. So do not ignore the possibilities of this great free tool, because all webmasters … Incentivized Helpful? Lindsay Halsey Co-Founder Chose Google Search Console We focus more of our effort on the feedback and data Google Search Console. Incentivized Helpful? Mike Calabro Photographer: Commercial, Advertising and Editorial Chose Google Search Console There is a lot to learn on how to do SEO properly. As a freelance photographer, I don't have enough time to do this properly. I usually use the options and tips that my web host (Squarespace) provides. It is much easier and simpler to use, but I am sure the results will not be … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Google Search Console We use both SEMRush and Google Search Console. Google Search Console and SEMRush share some similar features, but they're two very different software suites. SEMRush is a more robust platform for SEO and SEM. It offers a lot more features than Google Search Console, … Incentivized Helpful? Jerry Janes Digital Media Specialist Chose Google Search Console Although StatCounter is more like Google Analytics than Search Console, it still has a lot of overlap. StatCounter is relatively small, so it does not provide anywhere near the functions of SC. But, it's good to have a secondary source of traffic and other related data, one … Incentivized Helpful? Frank Watson CEO Chose Google Search Console Smaller traffic numbers but has some better ranking information. Incentivized Helpful? Ruby Goyal Lead Technical Writer Chose Google Search Console We are using Ahrefs and SEMRush along with the search console. Ahrefs helps in creating our backlink strategy while SEMRush for content gaps and opportunities. Search console is more preferred as it is completely free and data comes straight from Google. But you cannot see … Incentivized Helpful? Todd Dodge Marketing Assistant/Graphic Designer Chose Google Search Console We also use SEMRush for our sites to get a better overall picture of our backlinks, keywords, rankings, etc for all our search engine optimization needs, but at a cost of $99/month, it can be quite expensive and does what Google Search Console does for free, albeit in a more … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Walker Director of Digital Marketing Chose Google Search Console Google Search Console offers more information than Google Analytics alone (though they can be integrated together). Google Search Console is also a free tool, so that can be an attractive facet when compared to Moz or other SEO programs (though the information provided is … Incentivized Helpful? Joseph Lesho Team Lead, Digital Marketing Services Chose Google Search Console Google Search Console is obviously not as robust as a paid service like SEMRush, but it provides quick, easy, at-a-glance insights to make our jobs easier. Incentivized Helpful? Evan Laird Chief Marketing Officer Chose Google Search Console I wouldn't really call Google Search Console a competitor of these major SEO software that has backlink management, competitive research, keyword research, PPC research, and so much more a part of them. It's just a bare-bones SEO tool and sitemap submission specifically for … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Google Search Console

SEO

Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
	Google Search Console 5.0 56 Ratings 42% below category average
Keyword analysis	7.848 Ratings
Backlink management	5.644 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking	6.746 Ratings
Page grader	3.933 Ratings
Competitive analysis	1.518 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics	7.748 Ratings
Site recommendations	5.544 Ratings
Task management	1.019 Ratings

SEO Channels

Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
	Google Search Console 7.2 53 Ratings 5% below category average
Local SEO	5.737 Ratings
Social SEO	8.019 Ratings
Mobile SEO	7.549 Ratings
Global SEO	7.743 Ratings

SEO Platform & Account Management

Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
	Google Search Console 8.1 53 Ratings 4% below category average
Multi-domain support	8.047 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools	8.150 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Google Search Console
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (54 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (6 ratings)
Support Rating	6.1 (8 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Google Search Console
Likelihood to Recommend	Google It's suited for all use cases, but for big companies, the data might be crippling, so an add-on tool to analyse the data would be a good companion for GSC to solve this issue. Therefore, I think it's suited for any use case with some add-ons and companions needed for analysis. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Google Google Search Console insights is a great feature which provides an overview of my top content, how my new content is performing, etc. It gives detailed information around backlinks - who is linking to us, how many backlinks do we have, how is the internal linking within the website, etc. I like the graph feature that shows how the website is performing overall in one month, three months etc. Seeing the graph can help us understand whether it is trending upward or downward and we can shift strategies accordingly. Incentivized Namrata Agarwal Managing Director Read full review
Cons	Google It can be a little difficult to navigate More training resources would be an asset. A beginner is given the power to completely destroy a sites search results at the push of a button. Likewise it is a powerful tool to enhance search results also. An option to take care of multiple versions of the same site simultaneously would be helpful. An option to use the same validation script across all versions and administer them simultaneously would be a time save (i.e. non-www, www, http://, and https:// versions of the same site). Incentivized Adam Lumley Digital Marketing Specialist Read full review
Usability	Google It's easy to use, but some features are lacking a clear explanation. Somethings don't always match up. For example, the Core Web Vitals often doesn't match what you would see in the Chrome Lighthouse report or the Google Page Speed Insights tool. The tool itself is a little too basic and has to be used alongside other SEO tools and other Google properties such as Analytics Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Google As it is a free tool, you mainly have to rely on their knowledge base and forums. Google has provided in-depth guides and KB for every function of the search console. So, you can refer to it in case of any problem. You can also ask questions on their forums but direct support is not available. Incentivized Ruby Goyal Lead Technical Writer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Google SEMRush is a supplementary tool we use to provide competitive analysis. While it does, or should, provide the same data that Search Console does, but I only fully trust Search Console when it comes to basic performance in Google for the sites we develop and own. SEMRush, and other products like it, does provide much more in-depth insights that can help drive business decisions, including site performance on other search engines, along putting organic and paid search performance in one spot. However, SEMRush costs money while Search Console is free. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Google Given that this is a free tool, the return on investment has been particularly high - we've identified and addressed a few site issues that could have meant a reduction in search traffic. Our organic search traffic has been on the rise in part due to the insights gained from the search traffic analytics provided within the console. Incentivized Ben Rubenstein Marketing Manager, HMX Read full review
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