About Google Search Console
Google Search Console is a free service offered by Google that helps you monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot your site’s presence in Google Search results. You don’t have to sign up for Search Console to be included in Google Search results, but Search Console helps you understand and improve how Google sees your site.
Search Console Tools and Reports
- Confirm that Google can find and crawl your site.
- Fix indexing problems and request re-indexing of new or updated content.
- View Google Search traffic data for your site: how often your site appears in Google Search, which search queries show your site, how often searchers click through for those queries, and more.
- Receive alerts when Google encounters indexing, spam, or other issues on your site.
- Show you which sites link to your website.
- Troubleshoot issues for Accelerated Mobile Page (AMP), mobile usability, and other Search features.
Who Should Use Search Console?
Anyone with a website! From generalist to specialist, from newbie to advanced, Search Console can help you.
Business Owners
Even if you won’t be using Search Console yourself, you should be aware of it, become familiar with the basics of optimising your site for search engines, and know what features are available in Google Search.
SEO Specialists or Marketers
As someone focused on online marketing, Search Console will help you monitor your website traffic, optimize your ranking, and make informed decisions about the appearance of your site’s search results. You can use the information in Search Console to influence technical decisions for the website and do sophisticated marketing analysis in conjunction with other Google tools like Analytics, Google Trends, and Google Ads.
Site Administrators
As a site admin, you care about the healthy operation of your site. Search Console lets you easily monitor and in some cases resolve server errors, site load issues, and security issues like hacking and malware. You can also use it to ensure any site maintenance or adjustments you make happen smoothly with respect to search performance.
Web Developers
If you are creating the actual markup and/or code for your site, Search Console helps you monitor and resolve common issues with markup, such as errors in structured data.
About Our Service
FLOSSNet provides a service whereby we will signup a client’s website with Google Search Console. In order to use this service, a client must have a valid Google account; in other words, a Gmail e-mail address.
We can use the client’s Google account to signup a client’s website or we can use the FLOSSNet account to sign up a client’s website. If we use the client’s Google account, then the client must provide the login details. If we use the FLOSSNet Google account, then FLOSSNet can make the client a co-administrator with the same rights as that of FLOSSNet.
Also, the client will require access to their hosting control panel (cPanel, KonsoleH, Plesk, etc) in order to upload a verification file supplied by Google Search Console to ensure that whoever is signing up the website has valid access to the website.
The client must also have access to the backend of their website (WordPress or Joomla) in order to install a plugin or extension in order to create a sitemap that must be submitted for indexing.
Cost of Our Service
The cost of rendering this service is as follows:
- FLOSSNet signs up a website on behalf of the client – R750.00 per website (There is a sliding scale for 3 or more websites)
- Client signs up their website using step-by-step videos from FLOSSNet as guidance – R250.00 (no support)
- Client signs up their website using step-by-step videos from FLOSSNet as guidance – R500.00 (support provided)
Google Search will send the client and/or FLOSSNet an e-mail if it encounters any errors. The client will be responsible to fix those errors. FLOSSNet can fix the errors for an additional fee.
