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February 12, 2020
We use Google Search Console at our search engine marketing agency. It creates a communication channel for our account managers to understand better how Google is crawling, indexing, and displaying our clients' websites on www.google.com.
- Keyword specific performance data for SEO.
- Technical SEO feedback including site speed, mobile usability and much more.
- Some features are still in beta and thus have limited or incomplete data.
- The coverage report can have overwhelming data that makes it hard to know what is a concern and what is ok.
January 29, 2020
I often forget that the Google Search Console even exists. When I remember to check it out, it is useful. It gives good recommendations on how to speed up my site, which is less important with the mass adoption of fast internet speeds, but it still helps with mobile users with bad connections.
- The best way to analyze your google SEO.
- It helps to find who is linking to your site.
- The way it shows your sites is a bit confusing. It shows your URL as different sites for "HTTP" and https" It should consider that the same site.
- This tool could easily be combined with Google Analytics. Currently, it just adds another step to the SEO process.
January 29, 2020
I mostly use it for my clients' SEO needs. There usually is not marketing or other relevant department, so I am responsible. Business problems it addresses are data/website monitoring.
- The "new" SC's Overview is great for sharing with clients as it's a simplified presentation of different data with graphs.
- Performance is my turf. It is designed for me at a glance to recognize the peaks and valleys of traffic. Clicks v. Impressions remains something central to SEO and other marketing efforts.
- This is surely subjective, but as long as I could, I used the old SC but now that I am forced to just use the new, there still is a bit of a learning curve. Again, this is not a fair complaint as in time all will be forgotten, but I really do miss the old version.
- One thing I do not like is the loss of the Manual URL Submission. I understand why it's been removed, but sometimes I am doing refreshes of pages and want that new version visited and reindexed ASAP rather than have to wait for Google to revisit.
January 28, 2020
- We use to track the pages indexed in Google Search Console through our site map submissions and general crawl. We see what causes some pages from not getting indexed.
- It also shows insights into links, keywords and page load issues
- Tracks indexed pages of your website
- Insights into use of schema
- Keyword information
- Could use more details on why pages not indexed
January 29, 2020
We use Google Search Console to identify potential search engine crawl issues and track keyword searches with Google for our website. The tool gives us some insight into how Google and its users see and access our website.
- Allows you to directly submit a sitemap to Google for crawling.
- Shows common search queries used to access site.
- Recrawling of pages that have suggested improvements is very slow
- Disavowing non-existent URLS doesn't remove them from the error report
February 25, 2020
We use it to see how our website is performing with organic search. We can see which keywords we are ranking for and how to improve our SEO strategy.
- Data on impressions, clicks and average position in Google results.
- You submit your sitemap and can check for issues.
- None
November 20, 2019
The search console is being used by the marketing team of our company. Its use is limited to the Marketing department for now. It addresses the key problem of finding keywords for our website. Google search console gives you a fair idea and keywords for which your webpages and blog are ranking for. It is crucial for SEO optimization and improves CTR.
- You can also submit your sitemap directly to Google and get it crawled.
- You can also index and crawl you updated and new webpages.
- It also displays errors that are preventing your site pages to get indexed in Google.
- You get a list of all the keywords for which your site is ranking.
- You can track its position, CTR and impressions.
- Sometimes, the average position it shows for a particular webpage is not that accurate.
- Understanding issues depicted by search console can be difficult at times as they are very technical.
- It doesn't accept HTML sitemaps.
October 22, 2019
Our entire organization uses Google Search Console to analyze crawl problems with websites. We can use this data to show clients what issues they are facing that may be preventing them from getting as much search traffic as they might be able to were those problems fixed. We can also use it to identify areas of opportunity based on what queries other people are searching to get to the client's website.
- Detailed insights on search query help us to identify areas of opportunity for clients.
- Great user interface makes working with GSC a breeze to learn.
- Ability to access discontinued tools allows us to use GSC our way, even when it's not necessarily what the devs intended.
- Some specific components can require more in-depth knowledge than may be expected by the average GSC user.
October 25, 2019
Google Search Console is being used by our web optimization team and our Digital Marketing team. It helps us with our SEO efforts and to improve our Google search rankings. We rely heavily on our organic traffic and Google Search Console helps us manage our websites and its web performance.
- Very easy to use interface/dashboard.
- The new dashboard is self-explanatory and simple to use.
- Support features are quite limited, especially if you require in-depth assistance.
- Not recommended for beginners.
July 18, 2019
Google Seach Console is helping us monitor our Analytics in our sites to help us improve our search engine optimization where Analytics doesn't. Analytics is good for monitoring where people are clicking, where they are located in the world, their demographics, etc, but Google Search Console will help tell us why they are searching for us, what keywords they were using, etc.
- Search engine optimization.
- Analyze data.
- Audience targeting.
- Implementation,
- User-friendliness,
- Ease-of-Use.
July 16, 2019
As a marketing and web development firm, we utilize Google Search Console to improve and monitor our clients SEO performance. Google Search Console gives search analytics that are vital in tracking and reporting Organic search growth. It also shows which pages could perform better with some SEO changes, especially with metadata. Finally, the Search Console has some other tools, such as Change of Address, URL Inspection, and Robots.txt tester, that are very important to the web development and Search Engine Optimization process.
- Reporting on Search Performance: monitor, track and research your organic performance over time or compare time frames.
- Meta Data Testing and monitoring: make sure your product, events, AMP, and other meta tags are properly configured.
- Monitoring Security and Manual Actions: ensure that Google is not reducing your ranking for security issues or SEO errors.
- Producing suggestions for SEO improvements: Search Console provides links to resources to help improve the way Google crawls, indexes, and shows your website in search results.
- Reporting is strong, but could benefit from some additional functionality, such as sorting by % changed.
- Some functionality is lost in the "New" Search Console, forcing you to revert to the old version to get things done.
- Because the "Old" version doesn't have the same functions as the "New" one, you're forced to switch back and forth between both platforms to get many things accomplished.
- Many of the "Warnings" and Suggestions aren't very clear on how to fix the issue, or are vague in their explanation of what is wrong.
July 04, 2019
It is being used by the Marketing and Research Department. Google Search Console mostly helps our Marketing Team to decide where to put our efforts in organic marketing. We use it to track keywords which are getting impressions but lacking on clicks, so we can tweak it on-page to gain more CTR and traffic. Moreover, we get notifications if something goes wrong and might affect our search appearance. Who else can judge your visibility more than Google? Search Console is a platform provided which bridges this gap.
- 70% of our traffic source is Google and Search Console gives bird eye view of our performance.
- Keeping track of mishappenings on site related to indexing.
- Tips and suggestions help improving cross-device visibility.
- Vital information columns like competition/CPC goes missing in some properties without notice.
- Severe warnings are sometimes a problem on the bot-crawling part and show nothing on the webmaster's side.
May 08, 2019
Google Search Console is first used to submit sitemaps when adding new pages, completely redoing websites, or after making a new site from scratch to notify Google to crawl it as soon as possible so we can start ranking on the Google SERPS. It's then used to track progress on SEO initiatives and find which pages and keywords are working best for us to get organic traffic and high CTRs when gaining impressions.
- Sitemap submission
- Easy performance insights
- Clean UI/UX
- Easy Setup with Integration with Google Analytics or DNS
- Wish you could do keyword research or competitor research inside the tool
- Fixing Crawl errors are at times not clear and have to Google what it means
May 08, 2019
Our company uses Google Search Console to track our websites organic keyword rank. Along with analyzing any trends post-on page SEO tests.
Google Search Console is used by our Marketing department only, not our Sales team nor the Product Development team.
For us, Google Search Console addresses our organic keyword rank, any canonicalization errors, soft 404 errors, duplicate content, website crawling/indexing, and robots.txt file upload.
Google Search Console is used by our Marketing department only, not our Sales team nor the Product Development team.
For us, Google Search Console addresses our organic keyword rank, any canonicalization errors, soft 404 errors, duplicate content, website crawling/indexing, and robots.txt file upload.
- One of Google Search Console's strength is having a robots.txt file submission location. Rather than hoping Google finds the file, one can automatically submit for them to crawl, especially if changes are made often.
- Another major benefit to Google Search Console is being able to submit a sitemap by simply adding the /sitemap.xml into the Sitemaps tab and having Google crawl the website.
- Lastly, being able to see the organic keyword position is important to know if you need to create any content or add the keyword to the on-page SEO to move up the SERPs. Google Search Console shows position over time of keywords with their simple performance chart.
- As of recently, Google Search Console has switched to a new design interface and in the new design interface, it's extremely difficult to add new users to a property, along with find the rich snippets and schema tabs. On the surface, it appears that Google Search Console removed some features from the old design.
- Difficulty verifying domain... On multiple occasions, I have been revoked access to Google Search Console data and have had to re-verify the domain DNS. I follow the step-by-step process of verifying the domain and the results are very inconsistent. Sometimes Google Search Console recognizes the DNS update and the majority of the time it does not.
We use Google Search Console to monitor the organic rankings and site optimization of our client's websites. There are plenty of tools out there that can do the same thing, but GSC has the advantage of being a Google product, which means it directly integrates with their other marketing platforms. Plus it's free, which is always a good thing.
- Easy-to-use UI
- Makes time period comparisons quick and easy
- Easy integration with a wide variety of marketing tools
- The mobile usability error section needs to provide more specific details about what exactly the errors are.
January 25, 2019
We use Google Search Console to monitor every one of our websites. We use it in conjunction with Google Analytics as both a search optimization tool and to make sure everything is healthy web development-wise. It has proved especially helpful since the update. Tracking what keywords are actually being used by the people who visit our site and knowing the ins and outs of our link profile are the top use cases for Google Search Console.
- Lists keywords that users find our site with.
- Features how your site appears to site crawlers
- Shows any issues in indexing
- Not the most intuitive UI but greatly approved since the update.
- Gets difficult to manage when domain changes take place or if you have multiple versions of one site
- Needs more resources for SEOs. Training or something to help navigation easier.
Google Search Console is used to get better insight into our website as well as client's websites. It's really the only way to understand how the website is performing in Google search and what needs to be improved or changed. It also gives us the ability to see what keywords are being searched and clicked on.
- Organic search insight
- Keyword data
- Issue identification
- Wish there was just a combination of Analytics and Search Console. Not sure why they need to be separate tools.
February 01, 2019
Google Search Console is used by the marketing department to get a better understanding of who is coming to our site by using what keywords. This information provided by Google Search Console dictates our marketing spend for Google Adwords and Display Network
- Organization of information
- Detailed data
- Troubleshooter
- I cannot think of anything
February 04, 2019
Our marketing uses Google Search Console to improve our search engine optimization (SEO) strategy. It helps us in a number of ways:
- It tells us whether our web pages indexed, and lets us submit them for indexing if needed.
- It gives insight into which search terms lead visitors to our site.
- It tells us whether our web pages indexed, and lets us submit them for indexing if needed.
- It gives insight into which search terms lead visitors to our site.
- It gives you a list of which search queries lead people to your site, and ranks them by number of clicks through and impressions. This helps you tailor content to what you rank for, and perhaps more importantly, what you don't rank for yet.
- It lets you analyse each query and see how it performs over time and by country. We use this to plan our content - if we get a lot of queries from Germany, we might translate into German to increase on-page conversions.
- It lets you upload a sitemap, which makes your website easier to read for Google's crawler bot, and hopefully leads to better placements in search results.
- I wish it offered more integration with other SEO optimisation tools, such as Google PageSpeed Insights.
- It's a small one, but I'd like to compare three search types (web, image and video) at once. It currently only lets you compare two at a time.
- I'd like it if Google offered a certification for Search Console, like they do with Analytics and Ads.
January 25, 2019
I primarily use Search Console, however, I am trying to get others within my department to use it more as a data resource for site performance & troubleshooting. We manage several, relatively smaller sites that don't often encounter manual actions, but if something comes up, it's important we move quickly for our clients to address it.
- Performance analytics are much better than they were in the previous webmaster. Being able to go back 16 months to see trends forming has been really helpful to see where we are doing well & where we aren't.
- Sitemap submission is very easy. Literally, 1-2 clicks and you're done.
- Mobile usability feature makes monitoring very simple & clearly identifies any issues that needs to be fixed. Mobile user experience is really important to our business (and our users), so knowing how each of our clients' sites are doing on mobile is helpful.
- Features that are missing, in my opinion, are the ability to remove URLs, structured data, crawl errors, fetch as Google, and HTML improvements.
- I haven't encountered anything that is necessarily difficult to use. But there are a few features that are lacking in depth of details that I wish would provide more information. I would like to see when different bots crawl our clients' sites, such as the Google Smartphone.
December 20, 2018
Google Search Console is used in both marketing and web development. Marketing is able to gain valuable incites to improve SEO and the development team is able to detect and improve errors in a fast and efficient manner.
- Provides inbound keywords that can be linked directly to your Google Analytics account
- Quickly update sitemaps and remove pages from search results
- The fetch and render tool is very helpful to ensure your pages are appearing correctly in search results
- 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).
December 18, 2018
We use Google Search Console to measure website organic performance for all our SEO and website development clients. We also use the platform internal to monitor and diagnose any performance issues for our own site. Google Search Console helps to monitor website health when it comes to crawl budgets, html issues, schema/structured data validation and organic search performance monitoring for clicks, impressions, CTRs and Average position for specific keywords and pages on site.
- High-level reporting on important factors that affect organic search position
- Easy to understand how Google indexes and crawls your site gives you an assessment on how most web crawlers are crawling your site
- Many tools to validate and optimize website performance with structured data, google data highlighter, AMP, re-index pages, sitemap verification
- Difficult to navigate new UI in 2018, prefer old version so I'm constantly having to switch back
- Can be challenging to work with if you're new to the platform and don't understand technical SEO, website optimization
December 11, 2018
Google Search Console and Google Webmaster Tools are being used by our marketing department. Verifying and analysing the data from Google Search Console is the first step in client acquisition.
You get the overview of your website's heath. This tool shows you major issues about the website and based on its findings your marketing department can create an SEO strategy.
You get the overview of your website's heath. This tool shows you major issues about the website and based on its findings your marketing department can create an SEO strategy.
- Get alerts about issues and learn how to fix them.
- Understand how Google sees your website.
- Optimize your website using AMP, mobile usability and rich snippets.
- Optimize your content with search analytics.
- UI/UX has recently changed and not for the better.
- The new Google Search Console relies on the old version, so sometimes you don't get all the data, unless you switch back to "old view."
- New Google Search console is not as fast or reliable as the old version and often shows issues when there are none.
December 08, 2018
Google Search Console is mainly being used by the SEO team in my organization, so about 5 persons in my company use it on a regular basis. Then, the analytics team uses that data, too, to investigate issues, traffic spikes or provide recommendations. The PPC team is starting to use it more when creating cross-team/cross-channel strategies.
- This is a great tool to know what organic keywords are being used to enter your site, and you can compare them over time to see improvements of your SEO efforts.
- The new interface is more user-friendly, clean, and nice to use than the old version. You can slice and dice keyword data, use filters, get granular on dates, pages, and devices. It offers a lot of valuable information, and it's totally free!
- You can see keywords data for images, website, or videos!
- I wish you could aggregate keyword data for images, website, and videos to see the total number of impressions and clicks.
- I guess Google is still working on it, but I hope to see all the options that were available in the old version. It's still limited for some of our accounts.
December 02, 2018
I use the Google Search Console for every single website that I manage. As part of initial website development plans, the Google Search Console is a default setup task along with Google Analytics.
I find this an important piece that ties to Google Analytics to monitor traffic, specifically search traffic so we know what keywords are working and what users are searching for.
I find this an important piece that ties to Google Analytics to monitor traffic, specifically search traffic so we know what keywords are working and what users are searching for.
- Providing Search Terms for what real people are searching for
- Providing Appearance Rankings for where my websites appear in search results
- Providing what problems may exist with indexing sites
- Does not accept .html formatted xml sitemaps.
- I don't think indexing is always complete for websites I've submitted
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