Some search/SCO questions from a noob

I take care of the windows that works at small business clients, along with managing 365 licenses and typically hosting their domain name, deal with domain registration and renewal and DNS. My web development skills are a little use of front page eons ago and hand coding. some HTML a decade ago.

Most clients are very small clients and the website is barely a static page.

One client has a 10 page website designed in Wordpress by a former employee.

And it just keeps running flash no one maintains the website, hasn’t updated Wordpress or the plug-ins.

Recently a guy that I didn’t know was involved with the website pointed out iIt has the Japanese malware on it.

Me trying to help, I learned of the Google search console and was able to add the TXT record so I could get into the console.

I could see the fixed with 50,000 pages ; )

I used malcare to clean the site.

The client got a firm that will maintain the website going forward

This new firm talked about wanting access to the Google. Search console to update the site map?

I’ve never deal with this stuff.

The guy that I recently found out about who’s dealing the the website says he’s involved with PPC ads? Pay per click? And says he doesn’t need access to the Google search console? And didn’t have access to the Google search console?

Again, I’m a noob so please bear with me.

If you have a website you can pay Google to be at the top of the search results. And that involves setting up criteria for search words, locations of searcher etc. for the system to decide to show your website as a sponsored result. That doesn’t need access to the Google search castle.

But then there’s a whole different “thing “regarding being in the free search results at all? That’s seo? And that needs access to the Google search console?

And the two parts typically could be handled by separate companies?

From what I’m getting 2nd/3rd hand no one has had access to the Google search engine before?

That said when I did get access to the search console, it did have a bunch of site maps in it – some from before the now wear and some after.

Google just creates that from crawling the web and it’s available when you decide to access the search console and then you can customize it?

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