Item: Google Search Console
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Search Console

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Return on Investment

Google Search Console is a great tool and it can saves a lot of time.

Alternatives Considered

There are not other products like Google Search Console.

Other Software Used

SEMRush, Moz

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Search Console is great for disavowing bad links and make sure there are no major issues when you launch a major update to your existing site.

One scenario that is less appropriate to use GSC is the Index Status section.
Because GSC allows you to authorize the http, https, www, and non-www version of your site independently, it can be confusing as to what is included in the Index Status metric.

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