Why Use Google Search Console?

Here are simplified bullets of the reasons why you would want to setup Google Search Console for your site. The same points apply to Bing & Yahoo.

• Check site for errors
• See broken pages
• Check site indexing
• Submit a sitemap
• Receive messages from Google about any issues with your site.
• Help us discover problems which might hurt your search result rankings.
• Structured data testing and error reporting. What is structured data? See below.
  • Knowledge Graph

    

  • Featured Snippet

    

  • Sitelinks

    

Citations:
https://neilpatel.com/blog/site-structure-enhance-seo/, https://www.phillymarketinglabs.com/blog/seo-benefits-of-google-search-console/