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Google Search Console

Google's free report on how your site shows up in search, including AI results.

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What is it?

Search Console is Google telling you, directly, which searches bring people to your site, which pages Google has indexed, and what's broken. It's free and it's the only source of this data that isn't an estimate.

Check it weekly for the queries you're gaining or losing, pages that have dropped out of the index, and whether your site appears in AI Overviews and AI Mode. It has an official data interface, so Claude Code can pull your search performance into a report or a spreadsheet.

It only covers your own site, and the data lags by a day or two. For competitor research you'll need Ahrefs or Semrush.

Who it's for

Anyone with a website. There's no reason not to set it up.

Best for

  • Seeing which searches bring visitors
  • Finding indexing problems
  • Checking AI search visibility
  • Submitting sitemaps

Why it made the list

The ground truth for how Google sees your site, and the first thing every other SEO tool wishes it had.

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