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Learn how SEO Perception crawls your site, uses Search Console, and what each part of the workspace shows you.
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getting started 4 articles
- A holistic approach to SEO in SEO Perception
Learn how SEO Perception combines site health from crawling with Google Search Console performance so you can fix what matters.
- Adding a website
Connect a Search Console property in SEO Perception: prerequisites, the websites page, property picker, and what happens next.
- Connecting Google Search Console
Connect your Google account to Search Console in SEO Perception, match your property to your site, and when performance data appears.
- Getting started on the dashboard
After you sign up, the dashboard shows a simple three-step guide: connect Search Console, add a website, then wait a few minutes while data is collected.
crawler 3 articles
- Crawl scope and subdomains
How SEO Perception limits crawling to your Search Console property hostname by default, and when to include subdomains.
- How the crawler works
How SEO Perception crawls your site: start URL, Playwright rendering, user agent, robots.txt, feeds, and what we collect at a high level.
- Sitemap URLs and HTTP 200
Why URLs listed in your XML sitemap should answer with HTTP 200 on the first request, and how SEO Perception checks discoverable sitemaps.
foundation 2 articles
- Favicons and touch icons
Why favicons matter for branding and search listings, why multiple icon files and link tags help across devices, and how to generate them reliably.
- On-page and technical signals
High-level groups of on-page and technical signals SEO Perception evaluates from crawled pages—metadata, content, links, and structured data—without a full rule list.
google search console 1 article
- Search Console data in SEO Perception
Why we store Google Search Console metrics, how they combine with crawl data to power possibilities and charts, and the practical details (retention, search types, geo).
plans and limits 1 article
- Tiers, pages, and data retention
Subscription tiers in SEO Perception: websites, GSC accounts, max pages per site, and labeled data retention. Crawl throughput notes.
website workspace 4 articles
- How we find possibilities
Possibilities combine what we learn from crawling your pages with performance context from stored Search Console data—when both line up for a URL.
- Site overlay
What the Site overlay is, who can use it, and how to install the snippet and launch it from your website workspace.
- The Websites list
How to read the Websites page at /websites: plan usage, filter, table columns for sync, crawl, possibilities, and actions.
- What you see on a website
A simple tour of the website workspace: Overview, Possibilities, Pages, Country, and Site overlay—what each tab is for and how plans affect what you see.
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