How to Use Google Search Console for Resolving SEO Issues

How Google Search Console can help you resolve SEO issues.

When you check your site's reports in Google Search Console, you might notice some pages with error messages. These errors could be related to Google having trouble going through your site. Some errors impact how your pages appear in search results, while others don't affect your SEO ranking and can be disregarded. In this article, we will review common errors and warnings.

This article covers crawl errors and warnings, as well as other errors that may appear in your Google Search Console, and how to resolve them.

Note: Using Google Search Console requires verification of domain ownership. Click here to learn how to verify your domain ownership with Google Search Console.

⚠️ Crawl Errors and Warnings:

You can view crawl errors and warnings details in the Google Search Console's Pages section. If Google encounters a 404 or 5xx error, it means that it couldn't check your page and may exclude it from search results. On the other hand, errors like 'page resources couldn't be loaded' might not impact your page's SEO.

To learn more about a specific error, click on the article below:

⁉️ Additional Error Messages

Google Search Console can also assist in spotting errors that impact how easy it is to use your pages or reveal security concerns. For instance, you can use it to find problems that affect how well your site works on mobile devices.

🆘 Contacting Support for Further Assistance

If you encounter any issues with Google Search Console that you cannot resolve, have questions about specific SEO concerns, or receive an indexing issue report, our customer support team is here to help!

When to Contact Customer Support:

You have followed the steps outlined above in this article, but are still experiencing indexing or crawl errors.
You receive error messages that you cannot identify or understand.
If you have received an indexing issue report.

How to Contact Customer Support if You Received an Indexing Issue Report

If you've received an indexing issue report, please follow these steps so we can better assist you:

Open the indexing report from your Google Search Console email
Click on the specific message under "Why pages aren't indexed"
Select one of the errors or warnings
Note the affected URLs and crawl dates (or take a screenshot)
Click each URL and then the "Inspect URL" button
Take a screenshot of each URL Inspection page

Next, send us an email at service@fmgsuite.com with a detailed description of your issue, including all the information described above. After contacting support, keep an eye on your email for a response from our team.

💡 A Friendly Note About Your Website: Some pages from our FMG web content library and syndicated content on your site are not indexed by Google. This is completely normal and won't negatively impact your SEO or search rankings. These pages are designed as informational resources for your visitors rather than for search engine optimization.