Google Search Console
Rishabh Kumar Shukla
October 21, 2017
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Hello! Today I will discuss about Google Search console, earlier known as Webmaster's Tool. These services provided by Google are most important for bloggers and also, they are free to use. Using google search console is easy to use and is very beneficial for finding errors, checking performance of your website.
Enter Your blog address and click on add.
Now you have added property on Google Search Console, you need to know few things about it to get best results out of it.
I have no crawl errors but if your blog/website has any errors, google will help you to fix that error.
What Is Search Console?
Google search console is a free web tool available to check the functioning of your website/blog, submit sitemaps, check performance of your website/blog, check working of Robot.txt, fixing errors, check google indexing and much more. Google Search console is a very important tool that each blogger should use.Search console allows you to modify your blog as you want and it also helps in SEO optimisation of your blog.
After clicking on ADD PROPERTY, you will see a pop up on your screen like this-Creating A Google Search Console Account
You need a google account for starting your journey on Google Search Console. Open Google search console on your browser and then sign in with your desired google account. Once in google search, You will see ADD YOUR PROPERTY button on upper right corner. Click on that to add your website or blog to the search console and allow Google to track your blog.
Now you have added property on Google Search Console, you need to know few things about it to get best results out of it.
Basics Of Search Console
1. Setting Search Traffic Target
Log in to your Search Console account. There you will find Search Traffic Option on left side. Click on that and then on International Targeting.
Select your target country to activate that.
2. Checking Crawl Errors
I have no crawl errors but if your blog/website has any errors, google will help you to fix that error.
3. Submitting sitemap
For better crawling of your blog by google, you need to submit sitemap to google. It is very easy to submit sitemap, you just need to log in to your google search account and click Crawl and then submit your sitemap.Your sitemap should be in XML form.If you don't know how to get your sitemap, you can use many sitemap generators available on web.
4. Checking Google Indexing
If your blog is new then it will take sometime before google can start indexing of your blog but if your blog is older and even then your blog isn't being indexed then you can request indexing your blog to google. Your blog will only be indexed only when if your blog meets their requirements.
For requesting Indexing on google, click on fetch on google and type your blog URL to request indexing from Google. It takes some time before google will start indexing your blog after requesting so sit and wait.
