Google Search Console adds performance report and email preferences

Google added new controls for Search Console. The SEO community will welcome these new preferences.

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Google announced this morning on Twitter that it has launched a couple of new features in Google Search Console including a new way to choose whether to show performance data for your property directly in search results. Google also now lets you choose which types of emails you want to get.

Performance data controls. Google said you can now choose to show performance data for your property directly in the search results. You know, that is when you do a search in Google and Google shows that box at the top from Google Search Console.

Here is what that looks like:

Google Search Console Stats Search Results2

You can control if you see this now in these settings:

Gsc Email Properties

Email preferences. You can now also tell Google which types of emails you want to get from Google. Here is a screenshot:

Gsc Email Modified Preferences

Why we care. One of the bigger pet peeves some SEOs have with Google Search Console is getting too many emails from Google and seeing this box pop up for all their clients in Google search results. Now you can control these notifications. You can learn more over here.


About the author

Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and 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.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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