Google Search Console: Free Grit for the SEO Grind – Ever curious how Google sizes up your site? Performance reports unpack 16 months of raw data—clicks,impressions,CTR (1,200 impressions at 3% ain’t bad)—for every page or query,ripe for a CSV dump. URL Inspection’s your quick fix: peek at crawl status,catch indexing hiccups,and ping Google for a reindex that lands in a day. Coverage roots out 50+ gremlins—404s,server flops—with logs and a “resubmit” button to iron it out. Mobile Usability calls out tiny text or layout messes,while Enhancement tracks schema or AMP flair. A café owner I chat with over coffee wrestled 80% indexed pages to a clean 98% in a week after sitemap tweaks—pure clutch for site owners or newbies keeping Google on their good side,no wallet needed.