- [Instructor] Google Search Console
is a really important tool
for any website looking to rank in Google.
It can help you to identify
where you're currently ranking in the search engines
and what keywords you're showing up for
and how many clicks you're getting
and how many impressions you're getting,
and it can also help you to fix any issues
that Google might be having when crawling your website.
Now, depending on what website platform you are using,
whether that be Joomla, WordPress, Shopify,
or any other platform,
the process of verifying your website
with Google Search Console will be slightly different.
So you may need to contact your web developer
or perform a Google search to see how to verify
your specific web platform with Google Search Console.
Once you have your website registered and verified
with Google Search Console,
the inside will look a little bit like this.
So here, again, you can see your performance
and you can also utilize this URL Inspection here.
And when you click on that, you can actually paste in
a specific page on your website that
maybe is not currently ranking in Google
and you feel like it should be.
You can inspect that URL
and see if there's any issues that arise
why Google might not be ranking that web page specifically.
You should also keep in mind that you want to add
all of the different properties for your website.
So at the moment, I have two here.
I have https://www.psmentoring.com.
I also have the exact same property,
but without the "https", just the "http".
But also, I could have it without the "www.",
as you can see down here, I have it here
with the "https", the colon, the slash, the slash,
but with no "www.", so you want to make sure
that you are adding all of the properties
to your Google Search Console account for your website.
So even though those are all the same websites,
Google sees them as different properties,
so you should add them all.
Another thing to keep in mind is your sitemaps.
So this is a map of your entire website,
and Google can then go and crawl your website
when you submit your sitemap.
Obviously, even if you don't submit your sitemap,
Google are very good at finding your site.
But if you want your site to be crawled quicker,
then it's best to send them and add a sitemap
to your Google Search Console account.