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Google Search Console adds new actions to sitemap report

Google is proving that it is continuing to port old features from the old Search Console to the new one.

Barry Schwartz on March 20, 2019 at 10:06 am

Google has pushed an update within the new Google Search Console to the sitemap report to support new actions, the company announced on Twitter. Now you can open the contents of a sitemap in a new tab, delete a sitemap, review more detailed errors and more.

Those actions include:

Opening the sitemap content in a new tab
Deleting a sitemap
Reviewing granular details for sitemaps with errors
Presenting RSS and Atom feed sitemaps

What it looks like. Here it is:

How do I see it? You can click here to login to Search Console and select a property. If your site is not verified, you will first need to verify your site in Search Console and then you can see the sitemap report if you have an uploaded XML Sitemap.

Why it matters. Google is proving that it is continuing to port old features from the old Search Console to the new one. This now gives SEOs, webmasters, developers, site owners more control over their XML Sitemap files directly in the new version of Google Search Console.

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.