Getting started with Search Console If you're interested in improving your site's appearance on Google Search, and you're willing to put in a little time learning about search engine …

Basic Search Console usage for website owners If you're a light user of Search Console (meaning that your website isn't your business, it just describes your business), here's a good way to …

Who should use Search Console? Business owners: Even if you won't be using Search Console yourself, you should be aware of it, become familiar with the basics of optimizing your site for …

How you use Search Console depends on your role, your site, and your personal needs. Read the appropriate section to get started.

New to Search Console? Never used Search Console before? Start here, whether you're a complete beginner, an SEO expert, or a website developer.

When you file a change of address request using Search Console, it tells Google to emphasize crawling and indexing your new site over crawling your old site. It also forwards various signals …

Request an update to outdated content in Google Search resultsOverview Use the Refresh Outdated Content tool to have Google update search results for pages or images that no …

If you're a developer, check out and build Google's open source robots.txt library, which is also used in Google Search. You can use this tool to test robots.txt files locally on your computer.

The Performance report shows important metrics about how your site performs in Google Search results, for example: See how your search traffic changes over time, where it’s coming from, …

Google works hard to prevent other site owners from being able to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. If you're concerned about another site linking to yours, we …