Google Search Console is a free service offered by Google that helps you monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot your site's presence in Google Search results. You don't have to sign up for Search Console to be included in Google Search results, but Search Console helps you understand and improve how Google sees your site.

The URL Inspection tool provides information about all types of issues, including indexing, AMP, HTML, and scripting issues. Read the developer documentation for Search to learn about structured data, AMP in search, mobile best practices, API access to Search Console's tools and reports, and more.

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Search Console chooses the top 20 hosts, sorted by crawl rate. For each domain, the report may show up to 2 origins, which means the table can show up to 40 rows.If you can't find the robots.txt URL for one of your hosts, create a domain property for the missing subdomain.

Check Search Console whenever you make important site changes to monitor your site’s behavior in Google Search. Adding new content to your site: Test that Google can access your pages using the URL Inspection tool. Tell Google which pages to crawl by updating your sitemap. Tell Google which pages not to crawl using robots.txt or noindex tags.

That's the only requirement to use Search Console. Open Search Console, then add and verify ownership of your site. You'll need to prove that you are the owner of your website, because Search Console shows information about your site that only site owners should see, and allows you to make changes that can affect how your site appears on Google.

If the URL status starts with "URL is on Google", then the page should be available in Google Search. You can verify this by searching for the URL in Google. If the page isn't in search results: Check the Manual Actions report and Security Issues report for issues affecting that page. Issues on either report can prevent your page from appearing ...

Use the Change of Address tool when you move your website from one domain or subdomain to another: for instance, from example.com to example.org or example2.com. This tool tells Google about your change, and helps to migrate your Google Search results from your old site to your new site. Use this tool after you've moved and redirected your site.

Outdated image or page still appears in Google Search. If your refresh request has been approved but you still see that outdated content in our search results, confirm that the URL that appears in Google search results is exactly the same as the one you submitted for a refresh (including capitalization).

In most cases, Google can assess which links to trust without additional guidance, so most sites will not need to use this tool. You should disavow backlinks only if: You have a considerable number of spammy, artificial, or low-quality links pointing to your site, AND