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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.
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.
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
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.
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 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).
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 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.
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 09, 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 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
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.
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
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.
May 04, 2018
Google Search Console - finally updated!
I've used Google Search Console for all companies I worked for. It's a great FREE tool for tracking keyword positions, impressions, clicks and CTR and other metrics for your websites. The good part is that the ranking data is coming directly from Google (while ALL other tools pull it through Google's API).
- Rankings tracking for pages and keywords on Google.
- Impressions, clicks and CTR tracking for separate keywords and pages on Google.
- Comparing rankings, impressions, clicks, and CTR for different time periods.
- It shows information about recent Google and GSC updates on the graph.
- They used to have a limitation on how far back you can go with data (the limitation was 90 days), meaning you couldn't see data from 100 days ago. However, the new version (I think it's in Beta now) doesn't have this limitation anymore.
- Also, it's not possible to group keywords and pages and track performance for groups. Tools like Conductor Searchlight have this function.
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.
February 22, 2018
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Google search is easy to use and it finds many related links. It also 'remembers' your search history and I find this feature is helpful especially when I forget how I found a particular site in the past. The only downside I can think of is that it's difficult to find less popular items/links.
- Search a location nearby
- Search particular items
- Search reviews of a particular item or establishment
- Searching less popular items/reviews is a challenge.
December 20, 2017
Pros and Cons of using Google Search Console
We use Google Search Console all the time. One of my clients had once a case of Negative SEO when a competitor tried to lower their site's rankings in the search engines. It was really easy to disavow those untrusted links though GSC. This task cannot be accomplished anywhere else. You can get a list of bad links with other softwares but you can only disavow those links with this platform (GSC).
I also suggest adding your Google Console to your Yoast SEO plugin (if you don’t have you should have it) so you can track how Google is indexing your website.
I also suggest adding your Google Console to your Yoast SEO plugin (if you don’t have you should have it) so you can track how Google is indexing your website.
- Disavow bad links.
- Search Analytics – so the viewer can quickly find all the search terms, pages and position of each term that brings traffic to the site.
- Fetch as Google so you can test how Google crawls your site.
- Google Search Console provides a list of HTML errors it discovered in the course of crawling your site but sometimes this feature is not up to date. Sometimes it shows errors that had been previously fixed.
November 28, 2017
Should be part of any SEO toolkit
Google Search Console is used by several teams across the whole of the organization. These teams generally sit within Marketing departments. The tool is used primarily by those involved in SEO efforts, but it has also proven beneficial for detecting user experience issues that happen to impact SEO such as broken links on websites.
- Google Search Console is a good resource for learning which keywords are driving organic traffic to our websites. We realize that much of that data is actually not made available by Google, but even the data we get is worthwhile.
- GSC is also the primary method we use for submitting brand new or significantly revised pages to Google for indexing.
- GSC also helps us identify issues on our websites which impact not just SEO but also other areas.
- As mentioned, the keyword data available is far from complete. Like most people involved in SEO, I would love to see all the other data not shown.
- It's unfortunate that users can only look back at the last 90 days of data at any point in time. Fortunately we are able to integrate GSC with other tools that store this data for future reference.
- GSC does occasionally flag warnings that have been applied to our sites' presences in search results. Often, these warnings are unnecessary and GSC makes it possible to have them reviewed and removed, but it is annoying that unnecessary warnings are visible even for a short time.
October 13, 2017
Must have, but not too great of a tool
We use it to support our SEO efforts. Initially it was a main tool to work with sitemaps and update newly added pages. The latter is still a good option to manually submit new pages.
Mainly it's a useful addition to Google Analytics, which itself offers more value than Search Console.
Mainly it's a useful addition to Google Analytics, which itself offers more value than Search Console.
- Submit pages
- Measure inbound links
- Measuring indexed pages
- Should be included in Analytics
October 12, 2017
Free Is A Very Good Price
We've used Google Search Console since it was introduced as Google Webmaster Tools as a way to upload sitemap information about websites. For years, it has been a standard line item in our website launch checklist as a vital resource for any site owner. Here you can interact with Google on how your site should be displayed, view any problems that may come up, see how Google views your website, and seemingly countless other useful things.
- Verify site ownership with Google.
- Upload real-time sitemaps to alert Google to new content on your website.
- Review your website's search health.
- View how Google looks at your website with specific page granularity.
- I think the standard con here is that Google is a big business with lots of access to your data. We hope they behave responsibly with it, but there isn't as much transparency with how they analyze data or position your website as we might like.
April 10, 2017
The VIP Pass for Google Search Engine Results Page
Google Search Console (Webmaster Tools) is the flip side of Google Analytics. Analytics gives you data on your website from the user's point of view, as well as aggregate data on user behavior. Search Console gives you data from Google Bot or the search engine view, from simple to read search query data to more technical features like AMP and structured snippets. Like other Google platforms, there is a plethora of easy to find step by step instructions and explanations of how to use Search Console. It isn't used by or necessary for everyone in the company and is used only by the individuals that need this technical data to make sure the website is performing without errors and taking advantage of the multifaceted options to be visible and on good standing with Google Search.
- Submit sitemap and robots.txt to make sure Google indexes the most recent version of your website and there aren't errors.
- View, sort and filter search queries that provide your website with impressions and clicks. Also see the average position and click through rate of those keywords.
- Take advantage of more advanced SERP features like AMP, structured snippets.
- Discover crawl errors, duplicate/missing HTML elements, pages blocked from bots.
- The interface is not as user-friendly as Analytics.
- The additional features, like snippets, is (or seems) too confusing to use without advanced knowledge.
- Crawl errors need better guides/explanation for how to resolve.
- It would be nice to have a customizable report that could be used to archive and share this information.