📊 Google Search Console Guide
Monitor, Analyze, and Optimize Your Search Presence
🚀 Getting Started
Sign In
Go to search.google.com/search-console with your Google account
Add Property
Enter your domain or URL prefix to add your website
Verify Ownership
Use DNS, HTML file, meta tag, or Google Analytics
Submit Sitemap
Add your XML sitemap to help Google discover pages
🔧 Key Features
📈 Performance
Track your search traffic and keyword rankings.
- Total clicks and impressions
- Average CTR and position
- Query and page analysis
- Device and country data
📑 Coverage
Monitor which pages are indexed by Google.
- Valid indexed pages
- Pages with errors
- Excluded pages
- Warnings to review
🔗 Links
Analyze your site's link profile.
- External links to site
- Internal link structure
- Top linking sites
- Top linked pages
📊 Performance Report Example
📅 Last 3 months📋 Available Reports
Mobile Usability
Find mobile-friendliness issues
Core Web Vitals
LCP, FID, and CLS metrics
URL Inspection
Check individual page status
Sitemaps
Submit and monitor sitemaps
Security Issues
Detect security problems
Manual Actions
View penalties from Google
Rich Results
Schema markup validation
Removals
Request URL removals
⚠️ Common Issues & Solutions
Submitted URL not found (404)
Page in sitemap returns 404 error.
✓ Remove URL from sitemap or create redirect to valid page.
Server error (5xx)
Googlebot couldn't access page due to server error.
✓ Check server logs and fix hosting/code issues.
Crawled - not indexed
Page was crawled but not added to index.
✓ Improve content quality and internal linking.
Blocked by robots.txt
Important page blocked from crawling.
✓ Update robots.txt to allow crawling of the page.