Get your Website Ranked on Google using this Search Console Android App

Getting your website ranked on Google Search is a dream of many bloggers and website owners. However, this can be quite overwhelming initially specially if you are some body like me who just started up with a new blog and have no idea about how to get your website ranked on Google.

Before starting up here we recommend you to go through this blog to set up required plugins in case you are using a WordPress CMS for your blog. 8 Best SEO Plugins for WordPress to Get Higher Rankings on Search Engines.

Google Search Console App

Getting back, to getting website ranked on Google, So once your website or blog is built you need to make it easier for Google bots to search and crawl your website. To make this happen either ou need to wait for few ages to make Google bots index your website or you can use a free tool called Search Console where you can submit and verify your website and get it quickly (utmost 3 days) crawled indexed by Google bots in Google Search.

However Search Console tool initially can seem to be quite overwhelming so we guys at Faultinmycode.com didn't wanted you guys to face similar problem like us to have to login daily, wait for 5 mins and see if 3 days ago your website got some clicks or not. Therefore we made an app for you guys. Yes, Its The Search Console App (but for Android users only currently!).

Get your Website Ranked on Google using this Search Console Android App

Google Search Console App

This blog is a tour to how you can Get your Website Ranked on Google using this Search Console Android App.

1. So to start you can first download the app from the link here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fimc.searchconsole

2. Open the app and you'll be greeted with a Login screen like shown below, Though you can have a tour but we will skip that here and simple click on 'Sign in with Google'. You must have Google Chrome App to continue.

Google Search Console App

3. Here Google will show ask you if you want to permit the app to access and manage your Google Search Console data. Scroll bottom, Click OK to continue.

4. Once the app is successfully authorized and connected, you'll be directed to main activity of the app where you can see Property list or list of your verified and non- verified websites or apps. If you see nothing here, click on the '+' plus sign in the bottom right to add a new Website or App.

Adding new Website or App to Search Console App

4.1. Once here. you'll be directed to activity where you can write your Website name or Android App package name. (Look for respective tabs.)

4.2. Make sure that you add all versions of your website, so for example if your website name is 'google.com', you've to add all four versions:

https://www.google.com

http://www.google.com

https://google.com

http://google.com

4.3. However, once submitting your Android app, you've to just submit your Android app package name once only.

4.4. If successful, you'll be shown a Toast message with a Green Button to 'Verify Ownership' of your website. Click button and you'll be directed to a link in a web browser where you have to follow certain steps by Google to verify your website ownership.

4.5 Android Apps are however automatically verified as developer account is linked with your account.

Search Console App Tour

Google Search Console App

5. In the main 'Property List' tab you can view all your verified and non- verified websites or apps. In 'SEO Blog' tab you can read and learn more about SEO and in 'App Info' developer provides certain information about the app version and app credits.

6. Click on any of your Websites or App to go to overview activity where you can view details about your property. The app lists here important details like:

Clicks in Last 7 Days.
Top Countries who viewed your website in Google Search
Manage Crawl Errors
Manage Sitemaps
Conduct Website Speed Test (Important for SEO)

7. Every card has a 'View More' Button below it where you can find more details about your website respective property.

8. If you click on Click property, you can view Impressions, Average Position and Click through rate of your website.

9. If you click on Top 5 Countries property, you can view Top Keywords, Top Countries, Search Appearance, Devices and Top Pages of your website.

10. If you click on Crawl Errors, you can manage Errors and mark them as fixed in your Website.

11. If you click on Sitemap property, you can view and manage active Sitemaps of your website. You can also submit one more sitemap if you wish to and enable Google bots to easily crawl all pages or blogs of your website and rank in onto their page.

12. Not only this, The app has a Website Speed Test Card in the Overview activity where you can test the respective homepage of the website. Doing this will help you to know how Good your website is performing on different devices.

Alternatively, you can download this other App from Play Store Web Page Speed Test to check your website Speed Score and implement different suggestions provided by the app as this can help you make sound decisions.