If you're interested in improving your site's appearance on Google Search, and you're willing to put in a little time learning about search engine optimization (SEO) and Search Console, here is your getting started guide.

Read the developer documentation for Search to learn about structured data, AMP in search, mobile best practices, API access to Search Console's tools and reports, and more.

New to Search Console? Never used Search Console before? Start here, whether you're a complete beginner, an SEO expert, or a website developer.

Check Search Console whenever you make important site changes to monitor your site’s behavior in Google Search. Adding new content to your site: Test that Google can access your pages using the URL Inspection tool. Tell Google which pages to crawl by updating your sitemap. Tell Google which pages not to crawl using robots.txt or noindex tags.

Rich result reports in Google Search Console show structured data (and its validity) found on your site. Valid structured data is eligible to appear as rich results in Google Search. Search Console provides a separate report for each type of rich result found on your property.

Here are some simple tools to measure your performance on Google Search: Search Console Insights is a simple version of Search Console available to all websites. Search Console Insights provides simple statististics and performance milestones for your website. All you need to do is prove ownership of your site in Search Console.

New to Search Console? Never used Search Console before? Start here, whether you're a complete beginner, an SEO expert, or a website developer.

New to Search Console? Never used Search Console before? Start here, whether you're a complete beginner, an SEO expert, or a website developer.

Site owners in Search Console have access to sensitive Google Search information about a site. Site owners can also perform actions that can affect a site's presence and behavior on Google Search and other Google services.

YouTube: Here is the official playlist of YouTube videos for Search Console beginners. Twitter: There is a Twitter feed that posts issues with Google Search and Search Console. Blog: There's also a blog for site owners about Google Search in general .