[lars_francke]

A link to the Search Console would have been great to have in the blog post.

[mkl]

Agreed. The article was pretty opaque.

"Google Search Console is a free service offered by Google that helps you monitor and maintain your site's presence in Google Search results." -- https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/4559176?hl=en

[lars_francke]

As posted in another thread here the link seems to be https://search.google.com/search-console

[samat]

Shows zero of my properties and property selection menu appears to be broken.

Available only to select few users, maybe?