Google Search Console Review: Features, Pricing & Use Cases

What it does

Google Search Console is a set of tools and reports for monitoring a website's presence in Google Search. It measures search traffic and performance, showing the queries that bring visitors to a site along with impressions, clicks, and position. Site owners can submit sitemaps and individual URLs for crawling, receive email alerts when Google finds issues, and inspect how Google's index sees a specific page. It also monitors AMP pages, Core Web Vitals, and structured-data rich results.

Key features

• Search performance analytics Shows which search queries bring visitors to the site along with impressions, clicks, and average position.
• Sitemap and URL submission Lets a site owner submit sitemaps and individual URLs so Google can crawl them.
• Index coverage review Shows index coverage so the owner can confirm Google has an up-to-date view of the site.
• Issue alerts Sends email alerts when Google finds issues on the site and shows which URLs are affected.
• URL Inspection tool Gives detailed crawl, index, and serving information for a specific page, taken directly from the Google index.
• AMP monitoring Monitors, tests, and tracks a site's AMP pages.
• Core Web Vitals monitoring Tracks a site's Core Web Vitals on both mobile and desktop.
• Rich results monitoring Monitors structured data, such as recipes or job postings, that can appear as rich results in Google Search.

What marketers use it for

• Finding which search queries drive traffic to a site and how they perform.
• Getting new or updated pages crawled and indexed by Google.
• Finding and fixing site issues that Google has flagged.
• Checking how Google's index sees a specific page before or after a fix.

Pricing plans

The official site doesn't list plans on the pages we checked.

Capabilities and integrations