Search Console - Should I use it or Not?

[homeriscool]

Is it good to use search console and Google analytics or is it a way for Google to spy on you and get your website data?

 

[nutbag1111]

I need an answer to this as well, from an expert.

 

[Gogol]

Blackhat = nope, don't even try.

Whitehat = yepp, use it please!

I need an answer to this as well, from an expert.

Like, a Google employee? How do you define an expert on this subject matter?

 

[Bleach17]

What would make Google spy on you?

 

[nutbag1111]

Blackhat = nope, don't even try.

Whitehat = yepp, use it please!



Like, a Google employee? How do you define an expert on this subject matter?

A Google employee would be nice. But, maybe somebody has some real life experience on ,losing rank/getting delisted after installing site kit.

 

[homeriscool]

What would make Google spy on you?

They can take all of your website data, analytics etc and use it for PPC?
I was talking to people about this the other week....they were saying not to use analytics....so I am wondering if search console should be avoided too....

are web 2.0 sites considered "blackhat" ?

 

[Deleted member 657006]

This is a debate.

They say never leave all eggs in one basket.

If you're doing anything blackhat stay 1 million miles from any Google plugins my opinion.

You can buy separate plugins do the same or even better.

But this is conspiracy talk never been proven that Google does spy

 

[Gogol]

A Google employee would be nice. But, maybe somebody has some real life experience on ,losing rank/getting delisted after installing site kit.

Only if it was reproduceable everytime. Lol. Most of the times, people do not even know why they got hammered. Okay, may be some of you Gurus know.. but not me atleast.. Its better to avoid google console altogether imo. Its like putting your head into a lion's mouth expecting it not to chop your head off.

 

[Deleted member 657006]

They can take all of your website data, analytics etc and use it for PPC?
I was talking to people about this the other week....they were saying not to use analytics....so I am wondering if search console should be avoided too...

are web 2.0 sites considered "blackhat" ?

But you got no real proof have you it all speculation.

I believe we all monitored

We just all 1 big stat server lol

 

[Deleted member 657006]

Only if it was reproduceable everytime. Lol. Most of the times, people do not even know why they got hammered. Okay, may be some of you Gurus know.. but not me atleast.. Its better to avoid google console altogether imo. Its like putting your head into a lion's mouth expecting it not to chop your head off.

Your 100% there even talk about random ban lol

 

[Preon]

Google spying is kinda a moot point. They have most of that data anyway.

The only thing they probably don't have is interactions on your site, but I would assume they can get that data from any Chrome users.

If you come to selling your website, Google analytics is often / sometimes a must have, especially with the big brokers.

 

[Deleted member 657006]

Google spying is kinda a moot point. They have most of that data anyway.

The only thing they probably don't have is interactions on your site, but I would assume they can get that data from any Chrome users.

If you come to selling your website, Google analytics is often / sometimes a must have, especially with the big brokers.

That makes sense.

But surly a private plugin good enough no?

 

[Preon]

That makes sense.

But surly a private plugin good enough no?

Depends on the broker.

I dont know all the requirements for all of them, but I can pretty much guarantee that Google analytics will be always be one of the accepted types of analytics.

 

[bbhhwwuser]

It helps a little bit for seo.

But if you don't rely on Google sending traffic to you, you can use other analytics tool or not use at all.

 

[Roger Marquez]

It´s one of the best tools for any SEO campaign and it´s 100% FREE!

So, why not?

 

[bloggerzone02]

But, Google is already spying everything! LOL

 

[Axeton]

It’s not about Google spying on you or not. The data is worse than useless it will give you the idea that one thing is happening when really another thing is happening entirely. Bad data is worse than no data.

 

[BbHhWwVM]

 

[HenryObi]

A Google employee would be nice. But, maybe somebody has some real life experience on ,losing rank/getting delisted after installing site kit.

Neither analytics nor search console would het your site deranked.

So much paranoia

 

[praetserge]

GSC just shows webmasters the data google already has, i.e. how it sees your website and some stats.
As for GA, I don't use it as google products tend to slow down websites.
As some mentioned before me... if it's a long term project then you can use both. Google uses chrome to spy on your site anyway. Even web vitals data comes from chrome users.