GSC Wizard Playbooks
Each playbook is one task done start-to-finish. Goal, time required, what you'll need, step-by-step instructions with screenshots, an example outcome, and a pointer to the next playbook.
Week 1: quick wins checklist
A 7-day plan for brand-new GSC users. One task a day, one real action a day.
Find striking distance keywords
Surface queries in positions 4-20. The cheapest clicks you'll ever earn.
Fix content decay
Spot pages slowly bleeding traffic, decide which are worth refreshing first.
Audit titles & H1s
Find pages where your top query is missing from the title or H1 - and rewrite them.
Fix keyword cannibalization
Two pages fighting for one query. Diagnose the split, pick a canonical winner.
Recover CTR on under-performing pages
Find pages below expected CTR for their rank and rewrite meta descriptions.
Measure AI Overviews on branded queries
Split branded traffic by intent and find where AI Overviews took clicks while rankings held.
Diagnose technical indexing issues
A triage flow for "Discovered not indexed", soft 404s, and canonical fights.
Rank in Brave Search (and get cited by Claude)
How the Web Discovery Project actually decides what gets indexed, and why "Submit URL" isn't a shortcut.
ChatGPT connectors for Search Console data (2026)
Connectors, apps, plugins: what the renames changed, and the four routes that carry GSC data into ChatGPT.
Connect Search Console to ChatGPT: 5 ways compared
CSV exports, DIY GPT Actions, self-hosted MCP servers, no-code connectors, or a purpose-built app.
OpenClaw SEO best practices: 10 rules
Read-only keys, vetted ClawHub skills, trimmed tool lists and a human on every change.
Connect Google Search Console to Grok Bot
Add the server in chat, sign in read-only, and know what the Bot can and cannot see.
Grok Bot SEO routines with real Search Console data
A daily exception watch, a weekly report, a monthly summary and a did-it-work check.
Analyze shopping performance with the Merchant Center MCP
Free listings, invisible products, the feed audit and the market, in Claude or ChatGPT.
Check if your site shows up in AI search
Search Console's Generative AI report, Bing AI Performance and GA4's AI Assistant channel, read together.
Bing AI Performance report explained
Copilot citations, the Topic Portfolio and Citation Range, and how to triage the opportunity queries.
AI referral traffic in GA4, page by page
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Copilot visits by landing page, with a regex for a custom channel group.
(not provided): map Search Console queries to GA4 landing pages
Join Search Console queries to GA4 landing pages, sessions, key events and revenue.
Free rank tracking with Search Console and Bing
Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools as a free rank tracker, and when a paid one is still worth it.
Cluster Search Console queries into topics
Regex rules, n-grams or embeddings, then the topics with impressions but weak CTR.
Site migration in Search Console
Verify both properties, redirect every old URL, file the Change of Address and check traffic week by week.
Choose an AI SEO agency, and check their work
What AEO work should include, the red flags, and how to check the results in your own data.
AEO and SEO reporting for agencies
A section-by-section client report template, and what each number from Search Console, Bing and GA4 can prove.