UtilitySEO

Set up Google Search Console

Get your site into Google Search Console, submit your sitemap, and learn to read the reports that show how people find you on Google.

  • Beginner
  • 5 lessons
  • 37 minutes
  • Certificate on completion
  • Free
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What you will learn

  • Add and verify your website in Search Console
  • Submit your sitemap so Google can find every page
  • Read the Performance report and spot what is changing
  • Check whether a page is indexed and ask Google to crawl it

Lessons

The course in order. Every lesson ends with a short quiz.

  1. 1

    What Search Console is and why you need it

    The free Google tool that shows how your site appears in search, and why every business site should have it.

    4 min
  2. 2

    Add your site and verify it

    Choose between a Domain and a URL-prefix property, prove you own the site, and give others access.

    10 min
  3. 3

    Submit your sitemap

    Find your sitemap address on common platforms and hand it to Google.

    5 min
  4. 4

    Read the Performance report

    Understand clicks, impressions, CTR and position, filter the data, compare dates, and know which reports exist.

    9 min
  5. 5

    URL Inspection, the Pages report and indexing

    Check whether a page is in Google, understand why pages are left out, and ask Google to crawl a page.

    9 min
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Who it is for

Anyone with a website who has never set up Search Console, or set it up once and never looked again. No SEO experience needed, just access to your site or its domain settings.

The certificate

Pass every lesson to get a certificate you can add to LinkedIn.

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Questions

Yes. Every course is free. You need a free UtilitySEO account to track your progress and get certificates. No card needed.
No. Most courses teach SEO and Google's own tools. One course, Getting started with UtilitySEO, is about the platform.
Each lesson is a few minutes. Most courses take under an hour, and you can stop and pick up where you left off.
A certificate with your name, which you can print, save as a PDF or add to your LinkedIn profile.

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