Top 10 Ways to Optimize Your Google Search Console

Google Search Console:

If you have a website on Wordpress or any other platform, then for its ranking you should have to submit your website to Google's search console. So, what is Google Search Console? Search console is nothing but a tool provided by Google that can be used for indexing your site in Google search. It means it enables your website that it can appear on your Google. So, you need to optimize your search console for better indexing and increase the chances of ranking your website.

In this article, we will cover about top 10 ways to optimize your google search console for your website ranking in Google searches.

Authorize Property:

In this step, you have to set up your website with your Google search console account, an HTML Code will be provided to you by the search console and you have to paste that code into your head section of the website code. Once you have added that code, the Google search console will allow you to manage your website on the search console.

SiteMap:

You have to make a sitemap of your site and submit this sitemap to the Google search console. When you submit your sitemap to the Google search console, it will automatically fetch your whole website and will start indexing your pages and posts. But It will not index low-quality content or any content that violates the policies of Google. It will take time about 24 to 48 hours to load the data on your site. So, be patient while submitting your site.

If you don't know what is sitemap and how to make a sitemap then you can find a blog on our website that will really help you in this regard.

Manual Indexing:

Sometimes Google search console will not be able to index your article or page even if it is unique for some reason. Then you have to take some actions in this regard to handle this problem. You have to try manual indexing of those links if they are not automatically indexed by the search console. Then it will either index it or either tell you the problem that why it is not indexed like

• Crawled - Currently not index
• Discovered - Currently not index
• Redirect error 
• Alternative page with proper canonical tags
• Not found (404)
• others

How to Do Manual Indexing?

To index your URL manually, you have to find the option of  URL Inspection in your search console. You have to paste your URL there and click to check whether it is indexed or not. If it shows it is not indexed then you can select the option of request index, then it will automatically be added to the search console queue that will show you results for that article within 48 hours. 

Performance and Overview:

Once you have submitted your website then you have to wait for 24 hours and then visit the options of overview and performance, where you can see all the detailed positions and performance of your website and you can use this information for further use and enhancements in your website. You can find how much traffic is coming to your website and on which article you catch the higher rank in Google search.

Removals:

This is a very important thing to optimize your Google search console, when your website is completely connected with the search console and it starts indexing your article then there may come some faulty URLs that will not be indexed like a 404 error URL. And this will not be a good thing for your Google search console, then you have to copy that URL and paste into the removal section. This will remove that URL from your site and increase the optimization of your site.

Mobile Usability:

After some time you may face the issue of mobile usability that your article or your site is not mobile responsive or is not user-friendly. In that case, you have to navigate the actual problem in your site and make it mobile-friendly. You have to check this section regularly to update your site from time to time.

Links:

In the links section, you are actually interacting with your site's SEO performance. You will see how many internal and external links you have built on your site. you can control the link insertion of your website using this option that which link is inserted as internal and which is inserted as external in your site. This option is actually telling you the SEO performance of your site because link building is the main part of the SEO of your site.

Manual Actions:

You to check regularly for this option that,is your website gets any violence action on your site or you get any penalty by Google. This will protect your site from de-ranking or further actions on your site by Google.

Settings:

In the part of settings, you can verify your ownership with the website to search console. This can be done using different methods:

• Insert HTML tag in Header Section
• Upload an HTML file to your Website
• Verify Analytic & Google Tag Manager

You can also check your general information like username, crawl stats of your site, and some other information.

Conclusion:

 To start a bright career in the field of blogging and web development, You need to learn how to use Google Search Console for the indexing and the ranking of your website. You should have to know the tips for the optimization of your search console which I have discussed earlier.

I hope this article will help you in understanding of  Google Search Console and Ways to Optimize your Google search console. If you have any questions or suggestions you can leave a comment for us below.