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Google Search Console

Google's own tool for measuring search performance and fixing indexing issues on your site.

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SEO & AEO

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Search Console shows which queries bring people to your site, with impressions, clicks and positions. It lets you submit sitemaps and URLs, inspect how Google crawls and indexes a page, and get alerts when Google finds problems.

Best for

Every site owner, as the first-party source for how a site performs in Google Search.

Not for

Competitor research, because it only reports on sites you have verified.

How to get your money’s worth

  1. 01Submit your sitemap on day one of a new site, then check index coverage a week later.
  2. 02Use the URL Inspection tool after publishing or fixing a key landing page to see how Google views it.
  3. 03Sort queries by impressions with low clicks to find pages where a better title could lift traffic.

Skills that pair with it

  • ai-seo

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