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.

What you can do with Google Search Console:

Review how your site is performing on Google Search
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
Identify your top organic pages
Identify other websites that link to your site (backlinks)
Identify top search queries (keywords) visitors used to find your website
Check your Core Web Vitals scores

Getting Access

To get access to Google Search Console for your UCR websites, please send a request to 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 received 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 should start populating within 1-2 days after tracking is configured, so please check back to see if your reports have been updated.

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Google Search Console

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