What Google Search Console offers

Integrating your website with Google Search Console provides valuable insights into how your site performs in Google Search results. This integration, which involves verifying ownership of your site and connecting it to the Google Search Console platform, offers a range of functionalities to enhance your website's visibility and performance.

Several key possibilities become available:

1. Performance Metrics: Google Search Console provides detailed performance metrics, including the number of clicks, impressions, click-through rates, and average positions for your website in Google Search results. This data allows you to assess the effectiveness of your SEO strategies and understand how users interact with your site in search results.

2. Search Queries: You can view the specific search queries that lead users to your site. Understanding the terms users use to find your content helps you tailor your content to better match user intent and optimize for relevant keywords.

3. Indexing Status: Google Search Console provides information on which pages of your site are indexed by Google. Monitoring the indexing status helps ensure that your important pages are crawled and included in search results.

4. Sitemap Submission: You can submit your website's sitemap to Google through Search Console. This helps Google understand the structure of your site and ensures that all relevant pages are crawled and indexed.

5. Mobile Usability: Google Search Console offers insights into the mobile usability of your site. With the increasing use of mobile devices, this information is crucial for optimizing your site's mobile experience and ensuring it meets Google's mobile-friendly criteria.

6. Security Issues: Google Search Console alerts you to potential security issues on your site, such as malware or hacked content. This helps you take prompt action to secure your site and maintain a positive online reputation.

7. Structured Data: You can use Google Search Console to check and enhance the structured data on your site. Properly implemented structured data can enhance rich snippets and improve the display of your content in search results.

About the basic integration

The integration process typically begins by adding and verifying your website through Google Search Console. To add this verification code you could use the out of the box functions from magnolia.

This integration does not offer any type of deep integration with the magnolia cms interface. The main focus of this integration is to verify the ownership of your page agains google search console.