Google Search Console Mastery course

BONUS: Using AI to help you with GSC
5 Lessons
ChatGPT is a game-changer for your SEO
First rule: don’t fully trust chatGPT about Google Search Console
5 EXTREMELY useful AI prompts to analyze your GSC data
Optimizing titles for better CTR
[Free ebook] – Mastering ChatGPT for SEO
Bonus: GSC tips from top SEO specialists
4 Lessons
News SEO tips
Geeky GSC tips from top SEO specialists
General GSC tips from top SEO specialists
GSC tips – managing huge websites
Course Introduction & additional materials
7 Lessons
Welcome to the course!
What you will get from my course
[Additional material] GSC checklist to ensure you don’t miss important steps
[Additional material] GSC Cheatsheet – list of the most useful GSC features and sample use cases
[Additional material] – Best GSC Dashboards to let you analyze GSC data easier and faster
[Additional material] FAQ about Google Search Console to answer most of your questions
Course changelog [last update: 20th August 2024]
Why you MUST use Google Search Console
3 Lessons | 1 Quiz
7 reasons why you MUST use GSC
6 GSC reports that aren’t available in other tools
Comparing Google Search Console and Google Analytics
Quiz:  Why you should use Google Search Console 
Setting up & understanding GSC
11 Lessons | 1 Quiz
GSC overview
How to add your website to GSC? 
Don’t have access to GSC? Request permission from admin!
P.S. don’t forget to control who has access to your Google Search Console!
Understanding the Two Types of GSC Properties
Best practices for managing GSC accounts
How to add a sitemap to Google Search Console
Why it’s a good idea to switch GSC language to English
How to switch the language of Google Search Console? 
 ???? [Geek out!] Learning to live with the GSC delays
Key metrics to focus on in GSC
Quiz: Setting up & understanding GSC
GSC health check
4 Lessons
Importance of your website health check
Workbook: analyzing traffic trends
[Workbook] Check if your website suffer from indexing issues
GSC Benchmark – compare your website to other websites [beta!]
Analyze and grow your traffic
12 Lessons | 1 Quiz
The MOST important GSC report
4 platforms to analyze traffic data
Overview of the performance report
How to check which URLs lost the most traffic
8 crucial checks after traffic drop
Essential metrics to understand your SEO traffic 
Be careful with average position 
Why you MUST use GSC filters
 ???? [Geek out!] 6 causes of click drops
How to bypass GSC limitations
Increasing CTR
Bonus: 8 Ways to Increase SEO Traffic
Quiz: Analyze and grow your traffic
Entering the cheat mode
3 Lessons
Let’s enter the cheat mode!
My GSC dashboard
Other best GSC dashboards
Basics of indexing
9 Lessons | 1 Quiz
Why indexing is crucial
Navigating indexing reports
How to quickly check if indexing problems are severe
How to check if a page is indexed in Google
How to index a page quickly
Do this if index coverage shows too many trash URLs
 ???? [Geek out!] How to calculate number of indexed pages the right way
Discrepancies in reports about indexing
Commonly overlooked: indexing LQ content
Quiz: fix indexing issues
The High Five system to solve indexing issues
1 Lesson
The High Five system to solve indexing issues
Fixing most common indexing issues
3 Lessons
How to fix Crawled – currently not indexed
How to fix Page not found
How to fix Excluded by ‘noindex tag’
Bonus: Fixing other indexing issues
15 Lessons
How to fix Blocked by robots.txt
How to fix Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt
Huge differences between robots.txt and noindex
How to fix soft 404
Basic soft 404 detector in ChatGPT
How to fix Page with redirect
How to fix URL is unknown to Google
How to fix Page indexed without content
How to fix Server error
How to fix Blocked due to access forbidden (403)
3 commonly confused duplicate content reports
How to fix Duplicate without user-selected canonical
How to fix Duplicate – Google chose different canonical than user
How to fix Alternate page with proper canonical
Bonus: how to quickly remove a page from Google
Improving User Experience
2 Lessons | 1 Quiz
Overview of the Page Experience report
Finding the cause of problems with Core Web Vitals
Quiz: User experience
Use GSC to Improve security
2 Lessons | 1 Quiz
Security issues report
Understanding the HTTPS Report in Search Console
Quiz: improving security via GSC
Other GSC reports
3 Lessons
Manual Actions: Keep Your Site Penalty-Free
Links report in GSC
Master the URL Inspection Tool: Diagnose and Fix Issues Instantly
Overcoming the limitations of GSC
11 Lessons | 1 Quiz
Introduction: overcoming GSC limits
Bypassing the limit of 1000 URLs in the performance report
How to exceed the 16-month traffic data limit
Bypassing the limit of 1000 URLs in Index Coverage
Integrating with SEO crawlers to get more data
How to integrate GSC with ScreamingFrog
Bypassing the limitations of the URL Inspection Tool
Why GSC won’t help with pages that don’t rank in the top 10 and what do do instead
How to Track Featured Snippets and AI Overviews
 ???? [Geek out!] top recommended GSC API resources
 ???? [Geek out!] How to bypass the limit of 2000 in the URL Inspection API 
Quiz: overcoming GSC limits
Practical SEO audits
13 Lessons
Intro: Real Life Audits
GSC tips for WordPress
GSC tips for e-commerce stores 
3 steps to diagnose JavaScript SEO issues
Auditing your crawl budget
Checking crawl statistics – a hidden gem
Fixing keyword cannibalization
How to compare desktop vs mobile traffic
How to perform mobile audit
Why do ranking on mobile and desktop differ? 
If you see traffic drops: compare brand traffic vs non-brand traffic
Conducting international SEO audit
Quick way to check if you’re sabotaging your SEO traffic
Bonus: CSI: 2 minute GSC analyses
7 Lessons
Introduction: finding inspiration
Better ranking, fewer clicks
Data delay. Really?
99% of SEOs diagnose this incorrectly
Traffic drop caused by….
4 more interesting GSC cases
How JavaScript can harm your website
Bonus: Understand core updates
5 Lessons
What are core updates? Why should you care?
How to check in 3 minutes if you’re affected by core updates
The real challenge with Core Updates [4 causes of ranking changes] 
One thing that MOST people overlook about core updates 
How to recover from Google updates
BONUS: exporting GSC data to Google BigQuery – for advanced analyses and data storage
3 Lessons
Why exporting to BigQuery is BETTER than Google Search Console API? 
Exporting to BigQuery in under 10 minutes
Sample BigQuery queries for navigating GSC data efficiently
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