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Google Search Console Certified Experts | A How to Guide On Usage

Formerly known as Webmasters tool, the Google Search Console provides lots of helpful information that will help you understand your website’s online presence. Growarocks’ SEO certified expert – Erez Ahrony explains the many useful ways to use the Google Search Console in not only interpreting the data to increase traffic to your website, but also to submit, modify and promote your website through the console. The features associated with the Search Console include tools such as: Submitting Sitemaps Implementing Structured Data Setting a preferred domain Being alerted of a Hacked Site Staying informed of Crawl Issues And more.

Check Indexing Status on the Google Search Console

One of the best features of the Google Search Console is that it provides a clear understanding as to the indexing of your website on Google's search engine.

On the left side panel of the Console, a tab called Index is displayed with a link to 'Coverage'. This link will display any pages that contain: errors, valid with warnings, valid and excluded pages.

This information is very useful because it allows the webmaster to know what pages need to be optimized in order for them to be indexed by Google's search engine. For example: If you click on the box with the pages that contain errors, you will see the details of the error. In the image below, the error on 4 pages is that the 'Submitted url has a crawl issue'. Clicking on that particular error will reveal the pages that are affected and if the webmaster clicks the inspect url icon, which looks like a magnifying glass, then a page named the URL INSPECTION will display the specific error such as 'URL is not on Google: Indexing errors'. The Page Fetch data explains the actual error such as the page failed to due: 'Failed: Crawl anomaly'.