BONUS: Using AI to help you with GSC

5 Lessons

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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Finding the cause of problems with Core Web Vitals

Google Search Console Mastery course Improving User Experience Finding the cause of problems with Core Web Vitals

Summary

Problems with Core Web Vitals are commonly caused by a slow server.

When I see problems with core web vitals, oftentimes I go to the crawl statistics section to see if the server is prepared for high-traffic demand.

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