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Google Search Console Tutorial (2026): The Complete Guide
Google Search Console is free, and this tutorial goes through 12 situations, from pages missing from the index to sudden traffic drops, plus the new Generative AI report.
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Some Google searches show a short AI-written summary above the usual links. Google calls these AI Overviews. For a site owner the open question is how they affect clicks, and what can be measured about them. The feature keeps changing, so any figure about it ages fast.
The sources on this page are SEO software makers, so they show their own tools and describe what they have seen, not what Google has said. A beginner can start with the Surfer Academy tutorial on Google Search Console, which includes the new Generative AI report and is a way to look at a site's own data. Next, the Surfer explainer on AI search describes hidden extra queries. After that, How to Recover Lost SEO Traffic from 2025 asks whether a drop came from an update, a fault or AI Overviews.
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Google Search Console is free, and this tutorial goes through 12 situations, from pages missing from the index to sudden traffic drops, plus the new Generative AI report.
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How do answer engines choose their sources? Bernard Huang gives an answer engine optimisation (AEO) playbook aimed at Google AI Mode, AI Overviews and Gemini as well as ChatGPT.
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Why might a brand miss out on AI mentions even when it ranks first on Google? Surfer's study of over 1,600 queries says AI tools quietly expand typed queries into hidden fan-out queries.
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How do you recover lost SEO traffic? Matt Kenyon walks through a framework for working out whether algorithm updates, technical faults or AI Overviews caused the drop, then rebuilding visibility.