Google Search Console is a free service offered by Google that helps you monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot your site's presence in Google Search results. You don't have to sign up for Search Console to be included in Google Search results, but Search Console helps you understand and improve how Google sees your site.

The URL Inspection tool provides detailed crawl, index, and serving information about your pages, directly from the Google index. Enter a URL that you own to learn the last crawl date and status, any crawling or indexing errors, and the canonical URL for that page.

A URL-prefix property specifies the start of a URL. Any URLs that begin with this prefix are included in that property. For example, if your URL-prefix property is https://example.com/pets/, then all the following URLs will be part of your property: https://example.com/pets/puppies.

“Links” is a report within Google Search Console (GSC) that shows how other sites link to your site and how your site links internally. Tracking external links, or backlinks, and internal links is important. It lets you see sites that link to you the most, your most influential pages, and more.