Cara Menggunakan Google Search Console untuk Pemula

Metode verifikasi:
1. HTML file upload
2. HTML tag
3. Google Analytics
4. Google Tag Manager
5. DNS record (untuk Domain property)

Recommended: HTML tag atau GA

Data available:
- Total clicks
- Total impressions
- Average CTR
- Average position

Dimensions:
- Queries (keywords)
- Pages
- Countries
- Devices
- Search appearance
- Dates

Functions:
- Check if URL indexed
- Request indexing
- View crawled version
- See enhancement status
- Mobile usability
- Rich results

Status types:
- Valid: Indexed pages
- Valid with warnings: Indexed but issues
- Excluded: Not indexed (various reasons)
- Error: Problems preventing indexing

Information shown:
- Submitted sitemaps
- Discovered URLs
- Indexed URLs
- Last read date
- Status

Reports for:
- Core Web Vitals
- Mobile Usability
- Breadcrumbs
- FAQ
- How-to
- Other structured data

Steps:
1. Performance > Search Results
2. View "Queries" tab
3. Sort by clicks/impressions
4. Click any query for details

Insights:
- Keywords ranking well
- Keywords with impressions but low CTR
- Keyword opportunities

Steps:
1. Performance > Search Results
2. View "Pages" tab
3. Sort by metric of choice
4. Click page for details

Use for:
- Top performing pages
- Pages needing improvement
- Content gap identification

Useful filters:
- Query containing [keyword]
- Page exact URL
- Country specific
- Device type
- Date range

Example workflow:
Filter page → see all queries → identify optimization opportunities

1. Enter URL in search bar
2. Wait for results
3. Check "URL is on Google" status

If not indexed:
- Check coverage details
- Look for issues
- Request indexing

When to use:
- New content published
- Major content update
- Fixed issue

Limitations:
- 10-20 requests per day
- Not guaranteed indexing
- Takes hours to days

1. Click "Test Live URL"
2. Wait for fetch
3. View tested page
4. Compare with indexed version

Useful for:
- Checking JavaScript rendering
- Verifying fixes
- Seeing what Google sees

Common exclusion reasons:
- Crawled, not indexed (quality issue)
- Excluded by noindex
- Duplicate content
- Blocked by robots.txt
- Redirect
- Soft 404

Error types:
- Server errors (5xx)
- Redirect errors
- Blocked by robots.txt
- Marked noindex
- Soft 404

Process:
1. Identify error
2. Fix on website
3. Validate fix in GSC
4. Monitor recovery

Metrics tracked:
- LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)
- FID (First Input Delay) / INP
- CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Status:
- Good (green)
- Needs Improvement (yellow)
- Poor (red)

1. Identify poor/needs improvement URLs
2. Group by issue type
3. Fix highest impact issues first
4. Validate fixes
5. Monitor improvement

Routine monitoring:
☐ Check for new errors
☐ Review impressions trend
☐ Look for coverage issues
☐ Submit new content
☐ Monitor CWV status

❌ Ignoring GSC data
❌ Not submitting sitemap
❌ Not verifying all properties
❌ Missing coverage errors
❌ Not using URL Inspection
❌ Ignoring mobile issues

1. Find low CTR, high impression queries
   → Optimize titles

2. Find pages not indexed
   → Fix issues, request indexing

3. Find mobile usability issues
   → Fix for mobile-first indexing

4. Find top queries per page
   → Better content optimization