Google search console is a free google service to bloggers and webmasters. It is previously known google web masters tool.
For easy high ranking on search engines especially on google with a tool to check the rate of your blog ranking. Google console also gives blogger an overview of the lists of external links where your site was clicked like you share to social media, forums and so on.
Google console is also powerful as it gives bloggers the statistial view about the popularity of your contents over your competitors.
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Amazing features about Google search console. {According to Wikipedia}
Accurate data
Search Analytics reports deliver more accurate reports than the Search Queries report. The reports are up-to-date and provides the latest information possible.
Individual page count
Search Analytic reports considers all the links to the same page as single impression.
Separate reports are available to track the device type and search type.
Image click count more accurate
Search Analytics reports only count clicks as clicks on expanded images in an image search result to your page. The previous Search Queries report counts all the click on an images, expanded or not, in both web & images search.
Data consolidated by full domain
Search Analytics reports assign all clicks, impressions, and other search data to a single, complete host name.
Subdomains are regarded as separate entities by Search Console and need to be added separately.
How to add blogs to google search console
In a single google search console account, you can add as many blogs as you want, track many site and review them in a single account.
How to go about it
First Step
In your blogger dashboard => setting => Click on search preferences
Click on EDIT Search Consule then the dashboard opens.
Step 2
Once the dashboard opens (Note; you dont need to login, it will be authomatically connected to your blogger account)
1 Click on Add Property
2 Choose if to monitor website stats or for apps. Choose wesite and type in your blog url. It might be a freenom custom domain, .wordpress, .blogspot, a country specified like .in, .ng, .co.uk, .com.gh and the likes. Now click Add.
Now you've added your blog and awaits verification to be sent to the email associated to the blogger account.
You have your blog in your dashboard. Hit the view details link to start tracking.
"Note: You will get blank results untill the blog is being verified by the system."
Now you are good to go as Google systems will start showing you all you need to know about your blog stats, links to, links from, crawling and many more after doing some little setups.
Set up your Search Console now:
1 Add all your website versions
Make sure you add separate Search Console properties for all URL variations that your site supports, including https, http, www, and non-www.
2 Select your preferred version
Choose whether you want your site to appear with or without "www" in Google Search.
3 Select target country
Set your geographic preference if your site targets users in a specific country.
4 Share access with co-workers
If you want other people to access your error reports and search analytics in Search Console, add them with the appropriate access levels.
5 Submit a sitemap file
This helps Google better understand how to crawl your site.
While you are configuring your blog details, google will send a verification email to you where you will be able to track your blogs impression, clicks, visits, and so on.
Now pages from your website are now appearing in Google search results for some queries. Here’s how you can monnitor your site’s performance in search using Search Console.
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Track your website’s performance:
1 Check your top pages on Google Search
Check your top pages in Search Analytics to monitor how many impressions they get.
2 See which queries trigger your site
See which queries show your website’s pages in Google search results.
3 Monitor errors on your pages
Pages with errors may not appear in search results or provide a bad experience to your users. Make sure to check the crawl errors report and fix any issues you find.
OTHER FEATURES INCLUDES;
▷ Search Trafic
▷ Search Analytics
▷ Links to Your Site
▷ Internal Links
▷ Manual Actions
▷ International Targeting
▷ Mobile Usability
Conclusion
Using this tool you will be able to:-
- Create and Submit and check a sitemap
- Check and set 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 site - Get a list of links which Googlebot had difficulty 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 click through rates of such listings.
- Set a preferred domain (e.g. prefer example.com over www.example.com or vice versa), which determines how the site URL is displayed in SERPs.
- 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.
NB:
Although blogger dashboard it self has tracking features that track visit stats, contents source, the country from where click comes, contents ranking with a statistical chart.
With this, bloggers will be able to know where and exactly what keyword rank most, the country where most of your visits comes from. Google console provides more features including clicks on images, crawling, total impression on your contents, mobile and destop view stats, broken links and many more.
I urge you to start using this amazing blogger tool to track your blog or websites for easy and effective ranking over competitors.
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