Analytics & Reporting
Google Search Console Review
Google's free tool for monitoring site health in organic search — impressions, clicks, rankings, indexing, and Core Web Vitals.
Starting at Free
Google Search Console Pros
- ✓Free forever
- ✓Ground-truth data from Google directly
- ✓Impressions, clicks, CTR, and average position by query
- ✓Indexing status and Core Web Vitals reporting
Google Search Console Cons
- ✗Data is limited to 16 months
- ✗No competitor or keyword-research data
- ✗UI is dense for first-time users
- ✗Query data is capped (only shows top queries per page)
Product Overview
Google Search Console is the ground-truth source for how Google sees your real estate site — not a crawler estimate, not a scraper, but Google's own data. It's free, and every real estate site should have it wired up before spending a dollar on paid SEO tools. GSC shows which queries your neighborhood pages rank for, where you're losing click-through to Zillow/Realtor.com, and which pages Google has indexed. Best paired with GA4 (traffic) and a keyword research tool (Semrush/Ahrefs) for full picture.
Google Search Console features
- ✓Website Traffic Analytics
- ✓Keyword / Rank Tracking
- ✓Backlink Analysis
- ✓Technical SEO Audit
- ✗Competitor Analysis
- ✗Heatmaps / Session Replay
- ✗Custom Dashboards / Reports
- ✓Free Tier Available
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Semrush's main competitor — known for the largest backlink index in the industry and strong keyword research across 200+ countries.
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Hotjar
A premium behavior-analytics platform with heatmaps, recordings, and on-site surveys — the paid competitor to Microsoft Clarity.
$32/mo (Observe Plus)
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