{"id":2125,"date":"2018-08-14T19:59:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.travelpayouts.com\/en\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2021-10-02T20:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T17:51:27","slug":"lifehacks-for-google-search-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelpayouts.com\/blog\/lifehacks-for-google-search-console\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifehacks for Google Search Console"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Is Google Search Console?<\/h2>\nGoogle Search Console<\/a> is a special webmaster tool for collecting website performance and visit rate data. Its last update was in January 2018.\n\nThe console has a user-friendly interface and accessible panels with graphs conveniently representing analyzed website statistics.\n\nThis is a great solution for SEO experts as well as those wishing to single-handedly promote their resources in the Google search results. We will tell you how to use Google Search Console to your advantage by highlighting several lifehacks that will help you get the most out of it.\n

Leverage Rich Cards to Your Advantage<\/h2>\nRich Cards is a Google Search Console section that helps create visually attractive user content. It is a new option for search appearance. It employs rich fragments and a special type of markup \u2013 schema.org<\/a>. Web resources designed using it are decent competition for websites that don\u2019t involve rich cards. You can make your meta data include not only a title and description but also an image.\n

Find Ideas for a Blog After a Current Content Analysis on the Search Page<\/h2>\nThe Search page is another very useful section in Google Search Console. It\u2019ll help you learn more about how your site appears in search results. Based on the analysis, you can put effort into enhancing the resource\u2019s SERP ratings. This section also indicates in which requests your resource appears in the SERP.\n\nYou can learn which requests are the most popular, which third-party resources have links to your website, and whether your site is accessible from mobile browsers.\n

Tool for Page Indexation<\/h2>\nThe \u2018Index Status\u2019 section can help you define which page URLs related to your website were indexed by Google and blocked by search bots. In fact, there are a couple of tips for increasing your page ranging and preventing them from being indexed by Google.\n\nTo learn the exact number of indexed pages, take a look at the following graph. The exact number is situated in the upper left corner.\n\n
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Simple Google Search Console Tips for SEO Experts<\/h2>\nSome additional Google Search Console tips to help you conduct an all-around analysis of your web resource are as follows.\n

Internal Links \u2013 You Could Check<\/h3>\nInternal links are crucial for your search rates. The more internal links leading to other pages your website has, the greater the chance that SERP will regard it as relevant.\n\nHowever, use links wisely, especially in a blog. For blog-like types of resources, SERP often lists primarily old pages (because most internal links lead to them).\n

Outbound Links \u2013 Google Start Show More & Fresh Links<\/h3>\nDid you know that Google can fine you for using links to third-party resources in your web resource (e.g., for advertising purposes or a reference to an integral source)? This fee is issued for “unnatural outbound links.” Watch a very useful video about this type of link:\n

[youtube v=”3mdMXdQ_VyU”]<\/p>\nTo avoid this, follow these rules:\n