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Google Search Console – Glossary

Google Search Console is Google’s dashboard for discovery, indexing, and visibility.

Google Search Console is a free Google tool to verify ownership, monitor discovery and indexing, and diagnose issues affecting search visibility. Use it to submit and validate your sitemap, inspect URLs, review page indexing and coverage, check crawl stats, and track performance for queries and pages. It surfaces technical and content problems so you can fix crawlability, indexation, structured data, and performance.

Capabilities

  • Core: Verification, URL Inspection, Page Indexing and Coverage, Crawl Stats.
  • Performance: Queries, pages, countries, devices, CTR, position.
  • Enhancements: Rich results and structured data reports.
  • Integrations: Sitemap submission, domain properties, users and permissions.

Further reading

Reference

Google Search Console overview

Official overview of Search Console, features, and property types.

https://search.google.com/search-console/about

Reference

URL Inspection Tool

Official guide to indexed versus live results, canonical selection, crawl and indexability, and requesting indexing.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289?hl=en

Related terms

Indexing

Indexing is how search engines discover, select, and store your pages so they can appear in results. Ensure correct d...

Sitemap

An XML sitemap lists important URLs, use an index for large sites, and auto generate it to stay fresh.

Robots.txt

Robots.txt tells crawlers which paths they can request. Use it to manage crawl access, protect staging with appropria...

Parameter handling

Handle filters and tracking params without creating duplicate content, prefer clean canonical URLs.

Core Web Vitals

LCP, CLS, and INP measure loading, visual stability, and interactivity against practical thresholds.

Structured data

Schema markup, often Organization, LocalBusiness, and FAQPage, that helps machines parse content.

Search queries

The exact words people type, analyze them to shape topics, titles, and navigation.

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I’m building this glossary to become a better developer and website strategist, in my ongoing quest to build clearer, better websites. It maps how terms relate, adds practical examples, and highlights best practices so I can communicate more clearly with clients. If it helps others too, great.

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