Google webmasters, re branded Google search console is one of the greatest website managing tools a blogger or SEO can ever hope to have.
It alerts you when there is a problemtells you how google sees your sitegives you direct site statistics from googleallows you to tweak your site on the SERPsubmit sitemapfile complaints and respond to important messages and a ton of other thingsIn this post, i will show you some of the best places you should always check on google search console as a webmaster to always ensure that your site is healthy.
This is important to everyone and highly recommended because, there is almost always something to be done to better your site's search engine presence with the help of search console
Nearly all aspects of the webmaster search console is important but i will just list my favourite ones here and how best to use them.
Fetch As Google: Allows you to tell google about a page on your site that has just been added or modified.
Google can still find this PAGE ON IT'S OWN BUT THIS TOOL ALLOWS YOU TO BRING THE PAGE TO GOOGLE.Crawl Errors: Most of the time, we have some missing pages, or simply pages that are unavailable unknown to us and google uses this medium to communicate this to us. Such error pages may include redirects which you can easily take care of with the right tools. you can learn how to fix redirects here after you must have discovered them first!
Crawl Stats: This will tell you easily how google is moving through your site. Usually, i check for a sudden fall in the graph provided. You may encounter some problems and google will suspend crawling your site until it detects that it has been rectified and this may be unknown to you. So, Checking crawl stats is an easy way to know how google is indexing your web.
4.Links to your site
This is another place i love to check on google search console. it shows you the links google was able to find that are pointing to your site and with the help of this, you can cub the links coming to your site and help to increase your site authority.
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To view more about where the link is coming from and which pages it's linking to, continue to click the links.
- Search Analysis
A very powerful tool provided by google search console team that enables webmasters to see how their websites are doing on the SERP.
With this, you can see the
keywords you are ranking forthe pages that are ranking well from your sitenumber of clicks to your sitenumber of impressions your site is receivingthe trends over timea lot of other helpful tips that shows you how your site is performing on google!with Search console's Search analysis, you can know what's going on and work with the data to make your site better.