Google Search Console is a web service by
Google
Google LLC () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, ar ...
which allows
webmasters
A webmaster is a person responsible for maintaining one or more websites. The title may refer to web architects, web developers, site authors, website administrators, website owners, website coordinators, or website publishers.
The duties of ...
to check indexing status, search queries, crawling errors and
optimize visibility of their websites.
Until 20 May 2015, the service was called Google Webmaster Tools. In January 2018, Google introduced a new version of the search console, with changes to the user interface. In September of 2019, old Search Console reports, including the home and dashboard pages, were removed.
Features
The service includes tools that let webmasters
* Submit and check a
sitemap
A sitemap is a list of pages of a web site within a domain.
There are three primary kinds of sitemap:
* Sitemaps used during the planning of a website by its designers.
* Human-visible listings, typically hierarchical, of the pages on a site.
* St ...
.
* Check the crawl rate, and view statistics about when
Googlebot
Googlebot is the web crawler software used by Google that collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine. This name is actually used to refer to two different types of web crawlers: a desktop crawler (to ...
accesses a particular site.
* Write and check a
robots.txt file to help discover pages that are blocked in robots.txt accidentally.
* List internal and external pages that link to the website.
* Get a list of links which Googlebot had difficulty in crawling, including the error that Googlebot received when accessing the
URLs
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed as a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identi ...
in question.
* Set a preferred domain (e.g. prefer example.com over www.example.com or vice versa), which determines how the site URL is displayed in SERPs.
* Highlight to
Google Search
Google Search (also known simply as Google) is a search engine provided by Google. Handling more than 3.5 billion searches per day, it has a 92% share of the global search engine market. It is also the List of most visited websites, most-visi ...
elements of structured data which are used to enrich search hit entries (released in December 2012 as Google Data Highlighter).
*View site speed reports from the Chrome User Experience Report.
*Receive notifications from Google for manual penalties.
* Provide access to an
API to add, change and delete listings and list crawl errors.
* Check the security issues if there are any with the website. (Hacked Site or Malware Attacks)
* Add or remove the property owners and associates of the web property.
See also
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Bing Webmaster Tools
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Google Insights for Search
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Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic, currently as a platform inside the Google Marketing Platform brand. Google launched the service in November 2005 after acquiring Urchin.
As o ...
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Schema.org
Schema.org is a reference website that publishes documentation and guidelines for using structured data mark-up on web-pages (called microdata). Its main objective is to standardize HTML tags to be used by webmasters for creating rich results (di ...
References
External links
Google Search Console (New version)*
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Internet properties established in 2006
Search Console
Search engine webmaster tools