Google Admin Console Audit Checklist

An audit checklist for Google Admin Console enables you to audit settings and data within your GSuite domain. This checklist allows you to make sure that Google Workspace follows best practices while protecting company information.

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1. Review the Sitemap
Establishing and submitting an XML sitemap to Search Console is an integral component of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Google uses it to quickly index your content. XML sitemap creation and submission can be accomplished within minutes!

Sitemaps provide search engines with an organized listing of URLs on your website in an XML format to facilitate indexation of its content and crawling by Googlebot. You can monitor when Google read it through the Search Console report.

Admin logs allow you to monitor and identify admin and user activity on a cloud infrastructure, including data access logs that record API calls used to read resource metadata or configuration and policy denied logs that record security violations. They’re essential for maintaining compliance while protecting against potential security threats that might exist on it.

2. Review the Structured Data
Structured data is a method for labeling web pages with specific markup to inform search engines about what their contents are about and display rich results like recipe cards, product ratings and FAQs on SERPs.

Structured data review is vital as it allows search engines and other technologies to understand your content better, creating richer experiences for your users and search engines alike.

Reviewing structured data involves running a rich results testing tool like that found within Google Search Console and checking for errors in the schema markup. Some errors could render you ineligible for rich results while others aren’t critical – though fixing these would still improve its quality and might make your markup eligible for rich results.

3. Review the Content
Your website must be trustworthy and simple for visitors to understand, providing timely and relevant information at just the right time and place. Achieve this takes both expertise and determination – think of your website like a house, with Google acting as your contractor and users serving as appraisers (think home inspection!).

Use the Audit tool to easily check structured data on your pages. It provides an overview and list of issues, along with links to any applicable documentation regarding how you can fix them.

The Admin Log Events Search enables you to keep tabs on all of the activity within your domain involving administrator accounts, including password changes and 2-Step Verification enrollment as well as when an administrator adds users. It even tracks when one of your administrators adds someone new!

4. Review the Mobile Usage
Google Admin Console’s audit log can be an effective tool for monitoring compliance and protecting against inappropriate system access as well as detecting suspicious activity, but with over 1,000 settings to keep an eye on and frequent changes being implemented it may prove difficult to keep up.

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5. Review the Links
Audit checklists equip admins with tools and insights that allow them to keep their Google Workspace domain compliant with EDU best practices, while simultaneously strengthening security while increasing adoption, usage, and efficiency.

Conducting regular Google audits allows administrators to monitor devices, apps and service usage as well as identify any risks such as massive spikes in data storage usage or unauthorise account logins – this allows quick and effective responses in such instances.

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