Your Guide to Google Search Console
This mini-course walks you through everything a website owner needs to know about Google Search Console. It shows you how to set GSC up, how to understand the data it gives you, and what to do about errors.
Welcome & intro
The What and Why of Google Search Console
Check if your site has been indexed
How it's different from Google Analytics
Setting up GSC on your Squarespace website
Setting up GSC on your WordPress website
Setting up GSC on other website platforms
How to link GSC to your GA4 account
Some things to keep in mind about this data
Exploring and understanding your GSC data - pt. 1 (settings & the graph)
Exploring and understanding your GSC data - pt. 2 (the tabs below the graph)
Page Experience and Core Web Vitals
Looking at your GSC data in GA4
The basics of page indexing
You have pages that you DON'T want indexed
You see important pages that are not indexed (how to decipher the reasons)
You make changes to your site and wonder if you should resubmit your sitemap
Google notifies you about errors on your website
How to set up Bing Webmaster Tools