Getting Started with Google Search Console
Previously known as Webmaster Tools, Search Console is a free tool offered by Google to website owners to give insights into how Google crawls, indexes and ranks a particular website.It is a valuable tool for WordPress users and is probably the best free SEO tool for WordPress sites after SEOPress! In fact, you may obtain the best results by combining both, using SEOPress Pro…
Track SEO Performance and Find Keywords with Search Console
Google Search Console is a free tool offered by Google to website owners and creators. As well as being a means for Google to contact you in case it detects a problem with your WordPress site, it can also be used as an SEO tool to help you rank better in Google for your keywords. In this chapter we will delve into how you…
Managing WordPress sitemaps in Google Search Console
A sitemap is a file listing all the URLs that we want a search engine to index and include in their search results. Google first introduced the concepts of sitemaps in 2005 and it has since been adopted by all search engines. Previously Google only discovered new pages on websites by crawling those websites regularly. Sitemaps gave them a quicker method for identifying new…
How to troubleshoot indexing issues in Google Search Console
Using Google Search Console’s Page indexing report, you can get a full list of all the URLs that Google has discovered on your website and their current status in the index. URLs that are not in Google’s index cannot be ranked in Google search results. For non-experts, Google says that you can ignore this report if your site has fewer than 500 pages. In…
Top Tips for Using Google Search Console with WordPress
If you use WordPress to manage your website, we strongly recommend that you register it with Google Search Console (previously known as Google Webmaster Tools). This may help get a new site indexed and it will give you access to important information about your SEO performance and eventual indexing issues. Here are our top tips for using Google Search Console with WordPress sites. Setting…
