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Google Search Console

What is Google Search Console?

Search Console is a tool from Google that can help anyone with a website to understand how they are performing on Google Search, and what they can do to improve their appearance on search to bring more relevant traffic to their websites.

Search Console provides information on how Google crawls, indexes, and serves websites. This can help website owners to monitor and optimize Search performance.

Google Search Console

What you can do with Google Search Console:

  • Review how your site is performing on Google
  • See which pages Google can find and index on your site
  • Submit sitemaps and individual URLs for crawling
  • Identify technical SEO errors/Fixing usability issues
  • Identifying your top organic pages
  • Seeing which other websites link to your site (backlinks)
  • Seeing top search queries (keywords) visitors used to find your website
  • Checking your Core Web Vitals scores
Dashboard of Google Search Console

Getting Access

To get access to Google Search Console for your UCR websites, please send a request to University Relations' Marketing Data Manager (Stephanie Nguyen, stephanie.nguyen@ucr.edu) or Digital Team (webteam@ucr.edu).

Please provide the following:

  • UCR Net ID email address(es) that should have Google Search Console access
  • List of ucr.edu websites that you would like access to in Google Search Console

Logging In

After you've recieved access, log into search.google.com/search-console with your NET ID email address.

  • On the left hand side, you will see a drop-down menu with all of the ucr.edu website you have access to.
  • Data for your websites will be processing and populated within 1-2 days so please check back to see if your dashboard has been updated.

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