Bare-Bones and Easy for non-technical individuals to improve SEO
May 08, 2019

Bare-Bones and Easy for non-technical individuals to improve SEO

Evan Laird | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Search Console

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
  • Free so doesn't add to marketing costs
  • Has helped increased our rankings across the board to get about 3x more web traffic
  • That organic web traffic has led to about 30% of our reservations
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 Google to help you rank higher and get clear easy to understand reports that clients and non-technical individuals love. It's great for a start but once getting more advanced into SEO it's best to invest in one of these costly and much more powerful tools.
Every website on the internet should have a Google Search Console account and submit their sitemaps. It's absolutely free and takes only 5-10 minutes to submit your sitemaps and being able to track progress. Helps SEO and ranking higher on Google with really no effort at all and will quicken your results.

Google Search Console Feature Ratings

10.0
SERP ranking tracking
10
Site audit / diagnostics
10
Local SEO
10
Mobile SEO
10
Global SEO
10
Multi-domain support
10
Integration with web analytics tools
10