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November 20, 2019
Search console is a must have tool for every website owner whether small or big to boost SERPs.
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
Reliable, easy to learn, and filled with great insights
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.
July 18, 2019
Great Compliment to Google Ads and Google Analytics
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
A Necessity for Site Owners and Digital Firms
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
Torch Bearer on the Patch of Search Performance
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.
July 02, 2019
Quick, Easy and Free
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.
October 25, 2019
Google Search Console - Required Tool for SEO
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.
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
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.
December 20, 2018
Google Search Console Review
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).
January 25, 2019
You shouldn't be without Google Search Console
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.
January 22, 2019
Why wouldn't you use it??
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.
December 18, 2018
Must-have Tool for Optimizing your Website for Google
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 (Google Webmaster Tools) - An Essential Part of Every Website.
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
This is a great free tool, no reason NOT to use it!
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
Google Search Console - Another great tool for managing SEO
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
February 01, 2019
The Console We've Been Searching For
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
December 05, 2018
An absolute must have for the basics
Google Search Console is the first tool our company uses to understand the performance of our marketing site when it comes to indexing and SERPs within Google, along with backlinks to our site. We also make sure all of our clients that we develop websites for are aware of it, and help them understand the data and use it to their advantage.
- Provides details on what other sites contain backlinks to your site, along with the page they direct to within your site
- Displays impressions and click throughs for Google search queries
- Individual page performance by location and device category as it pertains to generating clicks leading to your site
- Basic indexing and readability issues within your site
- The new interface that just rolled out is much easier on the eyes
- There are no real cons other than it is a basic website performance tool that should definitely not be used alone to improve your site.
- The new interface took a little getting used to as I was very comfortable with the old interface, but the sleek design definitely outweighs this.
- Syncing Search Console with Google Analytics is not the most intuitive thing
February 04, 2019
A unique insight into your SEO performance
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
Google communicates to users through search console. 'nuff said.
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 17, 2018
Find what you're looking for.
As a web development company, we design and build websites for clients. After launch, we manage and maintain search rankings and search engine optimization (SEO) if a client contracts us for ongoing work. Part of this ongoing work includes submitting the sitemap to Google's webmaster tools and monitoring performance through Google's search console.
- The search console ensures a website's sitemap is working properly and identifies any inconsistencies or errors in the sitemap like 4XX errors or 5XX errors and gives you an opportunity to fix the issues.
- Gives users a high-level look at their analytics without having to deep dive into Google Analytics.
- Shows analytics like impressions, click-throughs, etc. that Google Analytics doesn't do as well.
- Search queries are nice to see but could be more detailed as far as if a user typed that in and actually clicked through or if they just saw it in the results.
- Would be nice if you could do more keyword research in this tool rather than having to use Google AdWords to find keyword research.
We use Google Search Console to support our public-facing website within a single unit in our organization (though it may also be in use on other sites). It serves a few different purposes: identifying and solving Google indexing and crawling errors, tracking our organic search performance, and identifying and addressing optimization issues.
- Clearly flags areas where there are technical errors or "low-hanging fruit" we can address, such as duplicate title tags, security issues, or crawl errors.
- Provides an easy way to keep Google up to date on our content/site organization - for example, the ability to upload/update sitemaps.
- Offers sortable search analytics that allows us to determine if we're ranking for terms we think we should be, find unexpected search terms, or identify areas of underperformance. This helps us strategize around what content to create/optimize and potentially feeds into our paid search strategy.
- I'd like more instructions about how to respond to certain errors I see - it can be difficult to understand when you see a red error message what it really means and how to fix it.
- I'd appreciate warnings being 'ranked' somehow to understand what's really a big deal, and what might be a minor issue.
- Search analytics is helpful but not comprehensive - you can only go back so far in the data, and can't see all the search terms that are sending traffic to your site.
November 16, 2018
Necessary - But Not Great!
I use Google Search Console to support public-facing websites within a single unit in our organization. Linked with Google Tag Manager, Analytics and Ads, it provides a powerful resource for us to: Identify Google indexing and crawling errors, track our organic search performance, identify and address optimization issues, submit sitemaps to Google, check security status of the site, demote links and maps that we no longer want promoted, among others.
- Demote sitelinks
- Submit sitemaps to Google
- Review structured data elements on the
- Listing external and internal links on the site
- Disavow bad links
- Fetching as Google
- Poor UI
- Significant data discrepancy between Analytics and Search Console
- Unclear messaging around when a sitemap was submitted and when it was processed
- Terrible support
- Massive learning curve
November 18, 2018
An Insightful Tool Everyone Needs
It's mainly for the marketing team. It helps us monitor our site health, such as if we have broken links to fix, if our pages are mobile friendly or not, etc.
- Good tracking on the broken links
- Great insights on how you can fix the pages to make them mobile friendly
- For some broken links, they have limited information of where it came from, so it's difficult to locate the real issue and fix.
March 28, 2018
Google Search Console Keeps My Sites Healthy
Google Search Console is used across my whole organization and my client base. I use it to find crawl errors, test structured data, check the links to and within my sites, and much more. Google Search Console helps me keep my sites healthy and findable on the web. I have Google Search Console connected to Google Analytics and to third-party tools like SEMRush to give me a detailed view of how my sites are seen and indexed by Google.
- Google Search Console lets me know if there are any crawl errors on my sites, so that I can fix them.
- Google Search Console tells me when I have errors in my structured data. This is particularly helpful, because structured data can be extremely intricate. It's nice to have Google looking at the whole thing while I'm lost in the details.
- Google Search Console helps me keep track of the links coming to my sites and the links within them. Both back-linking and cross-linking are necessary strategies for good SEO, so I appreciate being able to check them at a glance.
- Google Search Console can be difficult to use when you first start. There's a bit of a learning curve, but Google also does a nice job of providing training and help docs.
- As with anything that involves Google, I always wish that I could contact a human being when I have questions I can't answer or problems I can't solve. Unfortunately, contacting Google is next to impossible sometimes.
- Google Search Console does an excellent job of detecting errors in structured data, but it can be very difficult to find instructions for fixing those errors.
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About Google Search Console
Google Search Console is a search engine optimization software solution offered by Google.
Categories: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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