What Is The Google Search Console

Search Console is a web service by Google which allows webmasters to check indexing status and optimize visibility of their websites. That includes viewing your referring domains, mobile site performance, rich search results, and highest-traffic queries and pages.

The service includes tools that let webmasters

• Submit and check a sitemap
• Check the crawl rate, and view statistics about when Googlebot accesses a particular site
• Write and check a robots.txt file to help discover pages that are blocked in robots.txt accidentally
• List internal and external pages that link to the website.

• Get a list of links which Googlebot had difficulty in crawling, including the error that Googlebot received when accessing the URLs in question.
• See what keyword searches on Google led to the site being listed in the SERPs, and the total clicks, total impressions, and the average click through rates of such listings.
• Set a preferred domain 
• Highlight to Google Search elements of structured data which are used to enrich search hit entries 
• View site speed reports from the Chrome User Experience Report.
• Receive notifications from Google for manual penalties.
• Provide access to an API to add, change and delete listings and list crawl errors.
• Rich Cards a new section added, for better mobile user experience.
• Check the security issues if there are any with the website. 
• Add or remove the property owners and associates of the web property.
• Google Search console brought an advanced featured breadcrumbs and AMP to provide ultimate help to the users.
• You can analyze on-site structured data schema in the Google search console’s dashboard or use one of Google’s tools: Rich Results Test or Schema Markup Validator.
• Search Console provides information on how Google crawls, indexes, and serves websites. This can help website owners to monitor and optimize Search performance.
• Google Search Console also has a feature called the URL Inspection Tool.