Google Search Console

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Hello Beatuiful People,
here is my first post within Wealthy Affiliate (WA) Community

It's about Google Search Console and how to use it

Before we start let me introduce myself and tell you my story, I'm Sajjad Alzaher, a new member in WA and this is my first month

My story began after I created few posts, I started wondering about the time that my posts will appear in Google Index. I followed Kyle training step by step, but he didn't mention anything about it. As a person who cares about details I like to work on plan, so I needed to find the answer. I submitted a Question within the Community. Here
Thank you so much for all who answered me
Most of the answers are like "write posts as many as you can and Google index will come later"

But still I couldn't find the answer, I did my search and I found Google Search Console is the answer, it will not give you the exact time to make your posts appear in Google index, but surely it will extremely shorten the time.

Now lets start learning


First and foremost, you have to understand how Google works!

How does Google Search engine works

Google follows three basic steps to generate results from web pages:

    1- Crawling

    The first step is finding out what pages exist on the web. Google search for new pages and add them to its list of known pages. Some pages are known because Google has already visited them before.

    Once Google discovers a page URL (Uniform Resource Locator), it visits, or crawls, the page to find out what's on it. Google renders the page and analyzes both the text and non-text content and overall visual layout to decide where it can appear in Search results. The better that Google can understand your site, the better it can match it to people who are looking for your content.

    Note: Google doesn't accept payment to crawl a site more frequently, or rank it higher.

    2- Indexing

    After a page is discovered, Google tries to understand what the page is about. This process is called indexing. Google analyzes the content of the page, catalogs images and video files embedded on the page, and otherwise tries to understand the page. This information is stored in the Google index, a huge database stored in many, many (many!) computers.

    3- Serving (and Ranking)

    When a user types a query, Google tries to find the most relevant answer from its index based on many factors. Google tries to determine the highest quality answers, and factor in other considerations that will provide the best user experience and most appropriate answer, by considering things such as the user's location, language, and device (desktop or phone).

    Note: Google doesn't accept payment to rank pages higher, and ranking is done programmatically.


    Basically Google Ranking works on two main things:

    - The number of Clicks you receive on your website

    - The time people spend on your website



    After you knew how Google works, now this is the time to know what is Google Search Console and what are its advantages

    Google Search Console and its Uses

    Google Search Console is a free service offered by Google that helps you monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot your site's presence in Google Search results. Search Console helps you understand and improve how Google sees your site.

    Search Console offers tools and reports for the following actions:

    • Confirm that Google can find and crawl your site.
    • Fix indexing problems and request re-indexing of new or updated content.
    • View Google Search traffic data for your site:
      how often your site appears in Google Search,
      which search queries show your site,
      how often searchers click through for those queries, and more.
    • Receive alerts when Google encounters indexing, spam, or other issues on your site.
    • Show you which sites link to your website.
    • Troubleshoot issues for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), mobile usability, and other Search features.

    Who can use Google Search Console?
    Anyone with a website! From generalist to specialist, from newbie to advanced, Search Console can help you.

    • Business owners
    • SEO specialists or marketers
    • Site administrators
    • Web developers

    Now you knew about this amazing service from Google! time to use it :)

    Proof of Ownership

    In order to use Search Console, you must verify your
    website ownership

    There are 7 ways to verify.

    To learn more, See the Google article here

    Also, you can watch Guiding Video here

    To verify Click here




    If you still need help, you can ask Site Support team. They have access to your site (if your site on WA server)
    They can help you to verify your website ownership in few seconds!

    After you verify your ownership, you will be able to access to Search Console



    DashBorad of Google Search Console


    From DashBorad, you can monitor your website's performance.

    In this article, I will show you how to use
    1- Overview
    2- URL Inspection Tool
    3- Core Web Vitals




    Look at Overview. If your site is new, it only requires one day to display the data. On other hand, if your site is old, you will be able to see the data immediately


    URL Inspection Tool

    This Feature help you to do three things:

    - Checking if your website (Home page) or any of your pages are in google index or not.
    To check simply click on URL Inspection Tool and then put the link of the page that you want to check.

    - Live test, the test will show if your site or any of your pages fit for Google index. Finding issues that prevent your site will help you to fix them. It really important to use it before request indexing.

    To do the test, just click on Live Test, as you can see in the picture below


    - Request Indexing, this is what the whole article about, this feature will surely shorten your posts' time to appear in Google index.

    The process takes around one day, I tried it on my 3 posts but no guarantee it always takes one day, it might take more. Even though, requesting indexing is much better than not requesting at all. It will shorten - for sure- the appearing time on Google Index.

    In the next two pictures, I will show the result of request indexing as proof


    As you can see in the above picture, there are 3 articles
    First article posted on September 5
    Second article posted on September 11
    Third article
    posted on September 22

    In the picture below, you can see all my articles. The only article that on Google index is the second article which is the one posted on September 22. It is not first or second article even they are older than third one but only because I request indexing for only the third one!




    How to Request Indexing ?
    After you use URL Inspection Tool and find out that your post not index in Google. Click just on Request Indexing. See the picture below.


    Core Web Vitals are three metrics that score a user's experience loading a web page.
    These metrics score are:
    - how quickly page content loads
    - how quickly a browser loading a web page can respond to a user's input
    - how unstable the content is as it loads in the browser

    If your site is new - less than 90 days - you have to use alternative way, the analysis tool PageSpeed Insights. PageSpeed will show you a full report of your site performance with clear explanations. Remember to try if for mobile phone and desktop together.

    If your site exist in Google index for more than 90 days, you will be able to see full report in Core Web Vitals.

    Have a good look at whole dashboard and try to see many reports just to be familiar with Google Search Console

    (Additional Feature) You can connect Search Console data with Google Analytics

    Google Analytics and how to associate it with Google Search Console

    Connecting data of two Google Services will help you to monitoring your website performance
    much better

    To connect Google Analytics with Google Search Console,
    in Search Console, go to Settings >> Associations and then click on Associate
    (as in the picture above)

    If you don't have an account in Google Analytics, you can make it by following the guide
    Here






    If you like to read more about Search Console, you can search in WA's Search by writing "Google Search Console". You will find a lot of posts, some of them are old but they are useful. I created this post to make new update for Search Console topic within WA to share knowlege



    We reach to our end :)

    Thank you for spending your time reading this post. I’d like to make sure this post was as clear as possible

    I would love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, and comments on this post.
    You invited to leave them in the comment box below.

    Have a nice day

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    Recent Comments

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    Very well done, Sajjad.
    Thank you for the in-depth and informative post on Google Search Console.
    All the best.

    This was such a joy to read
    Well written and thoroughly explained
    Will be used as a bookmarked to give to others who have not yet understand the process
    Well done on your achievements so far
    Keep the momentum going

    I'm glad you were able to do your own research and share it here with us friend. It was thoroughly done and understandable. I am now saving this as one of my favorite. You've been here for only one month, and your post has quality. Congrats! All the best!

    Very nicely and thoroughly done.
    That took some time and real effort.

    Thanks for sharing.

    Yes, Google Analytics and Google Search Console certainly provide a lot of insight into ones website, its traffic and activity.

    We use it heavily. And are delighted to see that these two tools have new features added consistently that make them even more helpful.

    Thanks again for sharing.


    Hi Sajjad, terrific blog. Thanks for the information. I'm so glad that you found Google search Console.

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