How I Fixed My Blog Traffic Using Google Search Console (Without Knowing SEO)

Posted on: June 4, 2025

If you’ve ever felt invisible on Google, you’re not alone.

When I started my blog, I expected traffic to magically appear. I posted content, added images, even shared on social media. But Google? Silent.

Then I discovered something powerful (and free): Google Search Console.

🔍 What Is Google Search Console?

It’s a free tool by Google that lets you:

  • Track how your blog appears in search results
  • See what people are searching to find you
  • Fix crawling or indexing errors
  • Submit sitemaps and URLs for faster indexing

You don’t need to be an SEO expert — I’m proof of that. 😄

🧩 My Traffic Problem

Even after publishing 8 blog posts, none of them showed up on Google.

I submitted my sitemap, added a good robots.txt — and still, nothing. So I opened Search Console and clicked around until I saw this:

Excluded – Discovered, not indexed

It meant Google had found my posts, but decided not to show them. Why? Because I had duplicate content, broken links, and weird titles.

🛠️ What I Did To Fix It

  1. I removed unnecessary label/tag pages from my blog using robots.txt
  2. I updated post titles to match what real people search on Google
  3. I used the “URL Inspection Tool” to manually request indexing for each blog post
  4. I checked the Mobile Usability section to make sure everything worked on phones

Within a week, my blog posts started showing up in Google — slowly, but surely.

📈 Where To Start (Beginner Steps)

Here’s what I recommend for every new blogger:

  1. Verify your blog in Search Console
    → Go to Search Console and use your Blogger URL.
  2. Submit your sitemap:
    → yourblog.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml
  3. Check “Coverage” section
    → See if there are errors like “Excluded”, “Blocked by robots.txt”, or “Soft 404”.
  4. Inspect your URLs manually
    → Use “URL Inspection” to submit your blog posts for re-indexing
  5. Check “Performance” tab
    → See what queries people use to find your blog (you’ll be surprised)

💡 Pro Tips (From My Mistakes)

  • 🚫 Don’t block your own blog with robots.txt
  • ✅ Use simple, human-friendly post titles
  • 📲 Make sure your site works well on mobile (Google cares!)

🙌 Final Thoughts

You don’t need to know SEO to improve SEO. You just need a tool like Search Console, a little patience, and a lot of curiosity.

Today, I check Search Console once a week — not obsessively, just to stay informed. And honestly? That’s enough.

If this post helped, let me know! And if you want help fixing something in Search Console, drop a comment — I’ll reply :)

Tags: google search console, blogger seo, crawl errors, index issues, traffic boost, crawlcraft

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