tools//Google//Search Console

Search Console is Google's tool for monitoring and troubleshooting a website's presence in Google Search results, the dashboard of whoever runs the site's SEO.

Search Console is Google's tool for monitoring and troubleshooting a website's presence in Google Search results, the dashboard of whoever runs the site's SEO.

It does no analytics (session duration and bounce rate belong to Google Analytics) and no server management (that is Google Cloud Console). What it shows is how the site meets the search engine.

PerformanceThe queries that bring users to the site, click-through rates and average position

Index coverageWhich pages are indexed, which are excluded, and why (crawl errors, noindex, redirects)

Sitemaps and indexingSubmitting sitemaps and requesting the indexing of new or updated URLs

Core Web VitalsPage speed, interactivity and visual stability, from real user data rather than synthetic tests

Manual actionsAlerts when Google penalizes the site for spam, cloaking or other violations