Preview
What it is.
Verify a property and you can answer the question most SEO work starts with: which searches already bring people here, and which pages they land on. Google also lists what broke while it crawled.
You'll hit the ceiling on exports before anything else. The API hands back 50K rows of data per day per type of search, which a big site burns through fast, so plan on a daily pull into a sheet or a warehouse.
What you get.
- A ranked list of the queries you already win, with the click-through rate on each.
- The pages Google shows often and clicks rarely, which is your title rewrite list.
- A yes or no on whether a page is indexed, plus a way to ask for a recrawl.
- Core Web Vitals grouped by URL pattern, so one bad template shows as one row.
How to set it up.
Add a Domain property and verify by DNS record, so every subdomain and both protocols report in one place.
Open Performance, set the range to the last 3 months, and switch the table to Queries.
Read click-through rate against average position to find pages that rank and go unclicked.
Switch the table to Pages and sort by impressions to see what Google shows often and clicks rarely.
Run URL Inspection on any page you rewrote, then request indexing to get it recrawled.
Connect the property to Looker Studio when the interface export runs short, since the API is free and returns 50K rows of data per day per type.
Pricing Plans
Search Console
$0
unlimited properties, verification required
Search Console API
$0
50K rows of data per day per type of search
Use cases
Title rewrite shortlist
Sort by impressions with a weak click-through rate, then rewrite those titles before anything else.
Cannibalization check
Filter one query and see which of your pages Google picks, which tells you what to consolidate.
Indexing dispute
Paste a URL that never appeared in search and read Google's own reason it stayed out.
Best for
Pages that rank without earning clicks
Sort queries by impressions with a weak click-through rate, and you have a title rewrite list before you commission anything new.
Diagnosing a traffic drop
Compare two date ranges across the same query set to see whether positions moved or Google simply showed the page less often.
Proving a page is indexed
URL Inspection shows the stored version and the canonical Google picked, which settles most arguments with a developer in a minute.
Open the tool
Opens on Google in a new tab.