Complete Google Search Console Tutorial for Beginners | 2026 📈

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hello guys so welcome to the complete guide for Google search console this has gone really important video for you if you run a website or if you run a Blog because by Google search console you can index your website in Google quickly you can remove the bad URLs and there's so many other important things which you need to know if you are running a website or a Blog so in today's video we're gonna understand all these things I'm gonna show you what you can do with Google search console how you can add your website with Google search console and what are the other different features which will really help you to increase the traffic on your blog or on your website and guys at any point if you likes this video going to buy technical don't worry about it because it's totally normal if you're not aware of Google search console so as you're gonna Deep dive in the tutorial you're gonna start understanding things there can be something technical jargons which you'll not understand but don't worry about it by the end of this video you will have really good understanding about search console so let's start the video we just need to go to Google or you can check the link in description and type here Google search console and then you need to click on this first link Google search console and then you click here on start now and now you need to enter Gmail or Google account ID and click on next and then enter a password and now it will come to paste something like this you can see here welcome to Google search console to start select the property time so first we need to add our website or blog to Google search console you can see we have two methods here first method is domain method second method is UL prefix method this is a new method to use the domain method we need to change our DNS but the another matter your prefix you do not need to change the DNS so we're going to choose the second method it's more flexible so I'm going to type my website URL here then click on continue and now you will see here verify ownership so we need to verify our ownership of this website so that Google know we own this website so here we have multiple methods here first method will be download the HTML file and upload this to our website using filezilla or cpanel what other methods are available here to add a HTML meta tag on your website homepage to verify by Google analytics if you already add this website to Google analytics then you can choose this method then you can verify your search console account using Google analytics then Google tag manager and domain name provider but let's go to simplest way which is going to work for most of the people so we're gonna download this file click on this link and the file will be downloaded to upload this file we have two methods we can login into file manager using cpanel or we can use FTP we're going to do the easy way we're going to log into cpanel and then we're gonna click on file manager then we need to find public underscore HTML directory we're going to go inside this directory and now we're going to choose this option upload so click on select file I'm going to choose this file we just downloaded then I click on open so you can see file is uploaded now what we need to do is we need to go back to search console account then click on verify it can take some time depending on your domain provider you can see my domain provider is really fast so ownership verified very quickly in your case it might take some time so if you cannot verify your domain ownership come back in few minutes and then your domain will be verified so domain is verified we're gonna click on go to property so once you've added your website successfully in Google search console you will see all the data here right now because I've just add this website so there's no data here performance indexing there's no data here only one page to continue this tutorial let me show you some data from my other website which I have already added long time ago in Google search console so we can understand what are these options are and how we can use those options to increase the traffic on your website and guys one very important thing the first thing you need to do is after creating Google search console account and adding your website to it you need to go to sitemaps because Google doesn't know about your new website so you need to add your website site map here so you can find your website map by adding website URL slash sitemap.xml and click here and then you will see the sadma website by any case if you find a error here you cannot find the site map by typing this address that means you might not be using ASU plugin website that's why you cannot see the site map I recommend you to use used SEO plugin really simple plugin does all the work I'll add the link to that video where I explain how you can install used as you plug in your website so once you have installed used SEO Plugin or do you find the site map URL of your website you will take the page name and then paste it here and then click on submit so what it will do you will submit your website to Google and you will tell to Google this set my website if I show you here you can see post sitemap you can see if I click on paste sitemap all the pages website they're submit it to Google Now sometimes you can see error couldn't fetch but if you refresh the page you will see the success messages the sidemen has been submitted to Google so guys guys congratulations you took the first really big step on your website your website is now indexed on Google it might take some time to index all the pages from your website to Google but yes you did the big one okay guys let me take you to another website account which I already did so we got some data here so after few days you will start seeing the data of your website here so here it will be overview in overview it will have General data of your website like how it is doing performance how many pages are indexed you can see here 48 pages are not indexed and then 20 Pages indexed you see the detail video page indexing if you are having video on your website make sure the index on Google and then we have experience data here so page experience for mobile and desktop core web writers and mobile usability and then if you're offering some products on your website you have e-commerce website you will see the product Snippets and Merchant listing here and there will be announcement you see the bed comes and side link search box so this is the overview of Google search console but the main options comes after the second option will be performance if you click on performance you will see how your website is performing in Google research in rankings you can see on this website we have 76 clicks and total impression was 616. every CTR which you can say click through rate of 12.3 percent and average position of 22.3 really bad example I took the wrong website to show you guys but yes you understand we have some data on this website that's why I'm showing you this not very good rankings but yes you understand on performance you see all the data of your website how it is performing Google search engine rankings if you scroll the page here you can go to queries and you can see what are the top queries and how people found your website for example website optimization reboot and somebody type website optimization report my website has been shown 37 times but there are no clicks but you can understand in your case you can see what terms people are searching for and how many times your website is shown to those people then we have Pages you can see the impression here and how many times these Pages got clicked for example my homepage website shown 286 times and I got 75 clicks then you have countries that from which countries people are visiting website you can see the detail of the countries here then we can also know devices desktop mobile tablet and then you go to search appearance so here we can see how many program results we had and then per Snippets these really Advanced guys and doesn't applicable to everybody but in coming days I'm gonna make video on all these topics so make sure you subscribe to the channel and like this video so when I publish all those amazing videos on Google search console you get the notification so the next thing is UL inspection you can analyze any URL of your website for example I entered this URL of my website and Google is going to analyze this URL and you can see here URL is on Google if you enter a URL of your website here and you see it's not listed you will have this option request indicing so this is how you index the page your website on Google normally we already use sitemaps so we already added inside my website but still in any case you cannot see your website page on Google you can just click here on request indexing and then you can see if there's a problem with your website page that will be listed here you can see mobile usability is perfect but it comes the perfect site link search by perfect and everything looks really good and now come to indexing this is really important guys this shows how your pages and website is indexed on Google so if we click on pages here you can see 48 not index and 20 index and then if you click here view data on index pages so you can see all the pages of website index on Google search engine but if you go back to page indexing you can see I have 48 pages not indexed on Google searching and the five reasons why they're not indexed if you scroll the page you can see here we have all these errors or Warnings I'm going to make video on all these topics very soon so keep checking the channel when I publish all these videos so for example you can see extrude by no index tag if I click on this error I scroll the page you can see they're all free URLs I don't want them to index on Google if I click on page with redirect then you can see I read all these pages so I don't want them to react on Google however I really need to fix those issues how you can do that I'm gonna show you in another video so from here Pages you can find all the errors with your website and that can be reason your website is not ranking Google so you need to fix all these errors they're really important to fix so once you're gonna fix all these errors you have so many chances that Google go on your website to many many visitors and second if you have some videos on pages you can see those pages here I have just one page with video so we can see that page here then sitemap we already covered at any point if you change the site map URL of your website you can add the newer URL here and then you can click on submit so a new site map will submit it normally you don't need to check this option but yeah make sure you have one submitted site map here so if you have one entry here that's totally fine your website is indexed in Google and you click on sideworm index you can see all the subpages of the sitemap are index on Google then we have this option removals guys it's really important sometime what happens that somehow there's data from your website is indexed on Google and you don't want it to be indexed for example a cart page or anything which you don't want to be in Google for example you want to remove a page I click here on new request then I enter the URL of that page then I have two options either I can remove only this URL or remove all urls with this prefix for example if I about us and then I saw Pages under about us they all will be removed in safe case just choose remove this URL if you want to remove the pages in bulk you can choose this remove all urls in prefix and then click on next and then you submit your request I'm not going to do this this is a perfect page on website but you understand how you can remove your website URL from Google search and after that we have experience so we have page experience here so I don't know why they're showing here zero percent URLs because my website has very fast Pages the website really fast and optimized but in case you're gonna see the data here that how many pages are fast on your website and how many pages are slow and also you see the link to inside here if you click on core web vitals then you'll see how many pages needs Improvement so I have this one issue here if I scroll they say LCP is longer than 2.5 seconds desktop and if I test my website a replacement side you can see my website is going 95 and if I go to FCP LCP they are really really good but if you go back on code web Idols you can see I have no data here sometime what can happen there's not enough data in last 90 days for this device type so you cannot see the data here but with time the data gonna appear here so don't worry if your website is ranking fine in page speed inside and here you see the error that's not a big deal so don't worry about it then we have mobile usability here you can see how many pages on website are good to mobile usage so if you click here view data about usable Pages you will see all the pages on website they're good to use on mobile devices and then if you go back to mobile usability if there is a page which has problem in my case 0 if it in your case there is some page which has some problems then you will see the error here and if somebody is selling some products on the website then your product Snippets and Merchant listing here if I click here product Snippets I have two personal website if I click on view data about value items you can see there are two pages on website where I sell some products this is the website speed optimization Consultation Services or if you want to have website detailed report if I click on this link you can see where I sell this service if anybody of you watching this video you want the optimization report for your website you can buy this from here it costs only 25 dollars and I've provided like complete detailed report what you can do to optimize your website completely so that you can also have better search engine rankings I highly like window to check out this product so just to explain you if you have some personal website you're selling then you can see all the data here if I go back on press Snippets if there's some issue here you can see here so it is a warning it's not an error that's why it's in yellow if there's a warning you see that in Red so a great rating and review field can be added on my products I haven't received any rating yet but in your case if you have e-commerce website and you have some ratings and review on your purse you will not see this error here and then we have Merchant listing so I have one valid Merchant listing if I click here then you can see this service from my website is listed on Google Merchants and after that we have breadcrumbs you can see I have 13 valid breadcrumbs like all other option in Google search and console you can see a data about barrier items and then we have side link search box then you can see the same data here how many varied items you got so I have like 11 valid items here and there are one more really important thing security and manual actions so if you click on menu elections you will see if there's issue with your website for example website is hack or do you have any other issue with your website you will see all this here I'm gonna create some videos very soon where you will see how you can solve this manual actions so make sure subscribe to the channel and turn on the notification Bell because I'm going to make those video very soon and then you have secured issues if your website is hack or you have any other vulnerability website you will see the security issues here and in the end the Legacy tools and reports they really doesn't matter because they're old ones and maybe in the future Google gonna remove these options from here then you have links here you can see the external links here internal links here and top link side which are linked to your website it's really interesting to know let me in comments how many external links you have on your website and if you've got like really famous website which is linking to your website let me know in comment that too so this is the overview of Google search console I hope you are able to add your website if you get some help from this video don't forget to like the video subscribe to my channel subscribe is totally free that really boosts my morale and guys make sure turn on all the notifications because I'm going to create many more videos on search console I'm going to show you how you can solve different kind of Errors we see in Google search console that will really help you to increase your website traffic and if you want to watch a video on used SEO plugin to improve your search in ranking check out this video on screen and we want to know how you can get perfect score for page speed inside check this other video on screen