3 underutilized Google Search Console reports for diagnosing traffic drops
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Google Search Console is a collection of tools and resources to help website owners, webmasters, marketers and SEO professionals monitor website performance in the Google search index.
Features include information about search appearance, search traffic, technical status updates, crawl data and additional educational resources.
Google Search Console was formerly known as Google Webmaster Tools until taking the current name in 2015.
We invite you to read our guides and tips for using Google Search Console, along with the latest news and feature updates.
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Check your properties within Google Search Console for manual actions to see if your were impacted.
Google added recipeInstructions and recipeIngredient and thus you may see an increase in warnings for recipe items.
Google says you may see a drop in clicks and impressions for your event search appearance reported metrics in your performance report.
No changes were made to Google Search, this is just a reporting change.
You can no longer set your desired crawl rate within Google Search Console.
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This e-commerce related search reporting will end next month, in January 2024, Google said.
We knew this was coming and now these Google mobile tools are no longer available.
This new vacation rental structured data comes with new Search Console and Rich Results reports.
Google has updated the Search Console and Rich Results test reporting to support these new additions.
Google can show these as rich results in Google Search and Google also added new Search Console reports.
You may be seeing a 500 error when trying to access the tool.
The tool is going away on January 8, 2024 because Google says it is no longer useful.
Google is working on a fix, this has no impact on indexing or ranking.
The reports are within Google Search Console's performance report, where you filter by search appearance.
Plus the good page experience search appearance filter from the Performance report has been removed.
Google's request indexing tool may be having issues due to abuse by spammers.
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With this new structured data, Gogole launched a new rich results report and testing tool support for the markup.
This change comes one month after Google announced HowTo would no longer appear on mobile devices and just for desktop users.
These new reports will show you issues with products not showing on Search and changes in visibility of your product listings.
You may see a drop in click through rates from Google Search if you are impacted.
Two weeks ago Google confirmed its link report had reporting issues, those reporting issues are now resolved.
After numerous reports of Google showing a fraction of the sites links, Google said it will fix an issue with the report.
Google Search Console sent out emails to site owners where their INP scores are not meeting the mark.
Some SEOs began to notice a spike in errors and issues being reported by Google Search Console. Google said it is not an issue, but a reporting change.
In order for you to prepare for when Google replaces FID with INP as a core web vital metric, Google has launched a new report to aid you.
You can use this form to submit search spam reports on spam, paid links, malicious behavior, low quality, and other search quality issues.
Google updated its rich results breadcrumbs report to show more warnings.
These new reasons include video outside the viewport, video too small and video too tall.
This new report is designed to help those who have not associated their Search Console Insights property to their Google Analytics property.
Some have been wondering why their mobile-friendly sites are being crawled using the desktop crawler, well, it might be a reporting bug.
At the time of writing this story, the reports were delayed by over 65 hours.
Between May 4 and May 17, there was a bug with Google Search that caused sites to get less traffic to their video content.
Google has added a new Google crawler to its list, this one is uses for testing tools you use in Search Console or other Google properties.
Empty descriptions will no longer show up as errors in the Search Console reports.
The Core Web Vitals and HTTPS report is staying but the mobile-friendly test is going away.
Google Search Console added a report to monitor and fix the structured data required to enable this display.