SearchSeal vs Google Search Console
Search Console is Google’s free tool for how Google crawls and indexes your site: crawl stats, indexing status and search performance.
How SearchSeal and Google Search Console differ
Search Console is the ground truth for Google Search. SearchSeal adds simple website analytics, human AI referrals, conversions, and equivalent first-party evidence for AI crawlers.
Google Search Console measures
- Googlebot crawl activity and crawl stats for your site
- Indexing status, coverage issues and sitemap health
- Impressions, clicks and position in Google Search
SearchSeal measures
- Pageviews, privacy-safe daily visitors and sessions, and acquisition sources
- Human referrals from AI products, goals, conversion rates and same-day attributed revenue
- Real requests from AI crawlers, including requested paths and HTTP outcomes
- Observed evidence with explicit limits: crawler unknown is never rendered as zero
Side by side
| Decision factor | Google Search Console | SearchSeal |
|---|---|---|
| Crawlers covered | Google’s crawlers | AI crawlers: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot and others |
| Answers the question | Can Google see my site | Can AI systems see my site |
| Data source | Google’s own crawl and search data | Your own browser traffic and real crawler requests |
| Programmatic access | API | REST API and MCP server |
This is not an either-or. Keep Search Console for Google. SearchSeal covers the crawlers it will never show you.
When Google Search Console fits
Always. If you have a website, you should have Search Console. It is the ground truth for Google.
When SearchSeal fits
When you want first-party website outcomes and the same kind of ground truth for AI referrals and crawlers.
Run both. One for Google, one for AI.
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SearchSeal is in private beta. Public plans and pricing will follow.