GSC Pulse
Search Console, SEO, AEO, GEO, and Technical Glossary
Every technical term used across the site has a practical definition and a path to deeper guidance.
Google Search Console
Google Search Console is Google’s free service for monitoring how a verified website performs in Google Search.
Search Console portfolio
A Search Console portfolio is a working set of related properties reviewed together to decide where attention should go first.
Clicks, impressions, CTR, and position
Clicks, impressions, click-through rate, and average position are the core Search Console performance metrics.
Click-through rate (CTR)
CTR is clicks divided by impressions for the selected Search Console grouping and period.
Search Analytics API
The Search Analytics API is the Search Console API resource for querying clicks, impressions, CTR, position, dates, and supported dimensions.
Sitemaps API and diagnostics
The Sitemaps API exposes submitted sitemap resources and fields such as path, status, timestamps, type, warning count, and error count.
Search Appearance
Search Appearance is a Search Console dimension describing supported ways a result appeared in Google Search.
AI Overviews and AI Mode
AI Overviews and AI Mode are generative AI experiences in Google Search that use core Search systems to retrieve and ground supporting web sources.
SEO, AEO, and GEO
SEO improves a site for users and search systems; AEO and GEO are industry labels for visibility in answer and generative experiences.
Structured data and schema.org
Structured data is machine-readable markup that describes entities and page content; schema.org provides the shared vocabulary.
Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed
Core Web Vitals are field metrics for loading, responsiveness, and visual stability: LCP, INP, and CLS. PageSpeed Insights combines field and lab diagnostics.
llms.txt and Markdown mirrors
llms.txt is an experimental community proposal for a concise Markdown map of a website; Markdown mirrors are plain-text versions of canonical HTML pages.
Local-first and read-only OAuth
Local-first means working data is stored on the user’s device; read-only OAuth grants access to retrieve data without permission to modify it.
Internal linking
Internal linking connects pages within the same site using crawlable HTML links and descriptive anchor text.
robots.txt and AI crawlers
robots.txt is a public crawl-control file; AI crawler user agents are the identifiers used by services that may retrieve public web content.