The Main Sections Of The Google Search Console Interface

What is this powerful tool?

It’s Google Search Console, or GSC for short (former Google Webmaster Tools, or GWT).

GSC is a free service provided by Google to manage your website’s search functionality. The search console is a collection of reports and tools that help you rectify errors as well as strategize and optimize your search engine rankings.

Putting it bluntly, GSC is to SEO what oxygen is to humans. You need it. Your site can’t live without it.

And it’s going to make a huge difference in your SEO.

The article is divided into sections and subsections, based on the the GSC menu:

Part A: Search Appearance

The Search Appearance section helps you visualize what your website would look like in the search results.

Please be aware that there are many code snippets such as rich cards, rich snippets, and different types of framework such as Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) as well as the usual HTML corrections that can help your website stand out and look ultra informative in search results.

Part B: Search Traffic

This section digs deeper into your rankings and reports on links to your site, how your keywords are ranking, penalties imposed by Google, mobile-friendliness, etc.

Part C: Google Index

This section reports on how Google is crawling and indexing your website and keywords.

Part D: Crawl

This section reports on Googlebot’s website crawl rate, the errors it picked up, sitemap, robots, URL parameters, and the indispensable Fetch as Google tool.