Our top recommended free SEO tool
That’s right… Google Search Console (GSC) is one of the best free SEO tools available to you.
It lets you learn a huge amount of information about the people who visit your website. And helps you to find and fix errors on your site.
GSC is your best friend if you design websites, are trying to improve your current site, for business owners making decisions on how to promote your website and… well, for just about anyone with a website - to be honest!
Created by Google itself, GSC allows you to monitor how your website works and gathers information to help you improve it. It also helps you see how visible your website is in search results.
Think of Google Search Console as a way of linking you directly with the search algorithm and search engines that we’re all trying so hard to please. For free!
Adding Google Search Console to your website is Wild SEO’s number 1 recommendation for making your SEO as good as possible.
How can Google Search Console help me?
The list of monitoring, information gathering and website-improving suggestions that GSC provides is a long one. So, we’ve selected a few key highlights below to give you an idea of GSC’s practical capabilities…
You can use GSC to check any URL within your website quickly.
A messages tab gives you updates directly from Google and its moderators with advice on how to increase your visibility in search engines. The messages tab also identifies errors found on your pages, like those ‘Error 404 not found’ messages that sometimes appear when someone’s looking at your website!
Google Search Console makes keeping your website secure easier. It helps you increase its performance and get organised so it’s easier for you to keep on track of what’s where and methodically look after it all.
Other clever things include ‘indexing’ your web pages so you can see your site through the eyes of Google’s bots. Which essentially means you can see how they see, read, interpret and categorise your content.
You can check the navigation of your site with the breadcrumbs feature - making sure your website users are reaching the pages you want them to see.
Oh and the list goes on (we REALLY LOVE Google Search Console!)
You can tighten your security to protect your website from hackers
Build a sitemap to view areas of your website more easily
Repair parts of your site that are broken
You get the picture. Installing GSC on your website is a good thing!
How do I set up Google Search Console?
There’s two ways you can get Google Search Console set up:
You can ask us to do it for you. Fill in our contact form and we’ll get back to you right away.