# What is Google Search Console? | Yungle glossary

> Google Search Console is Google's free tool for monitoring a site's search performance and indexing.

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# Google Search Console

In plain words

Google Search Console is a free tool from Google that shows how a website performs in search results, including which queries drive traffic, which pages are indexed, and any crawl or technical errors. It's a primary diagnostic tool for technical SEO work.

Example

Search Console shows a page ranking 8th for a query with 2,000 monthly impressions and a 1% click rate. A sharper meta title is the first fix to try.

Related resources

-   FAQ

    ## Why Is My Website Not Ranking on Google?

    Your website likely isn't ranking due to a combination of thin or irrelevant content, weak technical SEO, slow load speed, or a lack of quality backlinks pointing to your site. Run a technical audit first — broken links, missing metadata, and slow pages are common and fixable quickly. If technical health is solid, the issue is usually content: not enough pages targeting real search intent, or content too generic to compete with more specific pages.

    [See answer](https://yungle.ai/resources?type=faq#why-is-my-website-not-ranking-on-google)
-   Glossary

    ## Google Tag Manager

    Google Tag Manager lets you add and manage tracking tags on your site without editing code directly.

    [See term](https://yungle.ai/glossary/google-tag-manager)
-   Glossary

    ## Indexing

    Indexing is the process by which a search engine stores and organizes a crawled page for retrieval.

    [See term](https://yungle.ai/glossary/indexing)

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