Google Search Console users and permissions management updated
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Google Search Console
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.
Google Search Console adds daily bulk data exports to BigQuery
This will allow you to potentially do more analysis with your data in other platforms.
Google warns against using 403 or 404 status codes for Googlebot crawl rate limiting
Instead, Google recommends you use Google Search Console's crawl rate feature.
Understanding and resolving ‘Discovered – currently not indexed’
Learn potential reasons why you're seeing this status in Google Search Console, plus ways to address related crawling and indexing issues.
Google Search Console Video indexing report gains video impressions overlay and sitemap filter
Google has upgraded the video indexing report to help your videos perform better in search.
Google improves error classification in video indexing report
The total number of errors should not change, this is just a reclassification of those errors.
Product results in Google’s performance report may see an increase in impressions and clicks
This report no longer requires structured data and if Google finds products in your content, it may show in this report starting January 6th going forward.
Google Question Hub to close down
But will it be replaced by the Google Search Console "content ideas" feature?
Content ideas may be coming to Google Search Console
This feature looks and feels a lot like the Google Question Hub.
Subscribe with Google publishers may see an increase in clicks and impressions from Google Search
This started on December 5th, in the search performance report in Google Search Console.
Google Discover performance reports improve accuracy
Google Search Console said click and impression data may appear to increase because of this update.
How to use RStudio to create traffic forecasting models
Learn the basics of producing time series forecasts in RStudio from your Google Search Console click data.
Google Search Console adds Shopping tab listings feature
This gives you more details on your product snippets, merchant listings and the shopping tab listings.
Google Search Console reporting bug with Discover performance report
This was a reporting bug on October 23rd and did not impact the actual search results.
Google fixed a bug with some search features that may impact your site’s visibility
Between October 18th and October 28th, Google Search had a bug with top stories and other search features.
How to get the most out of the Google Search Console API using regex
Learn how to extract the maximum amount of data from the GSC API and filter difficult URLs using regular expressions.
Google Analytics v3 Search Console report query data restored
After about a month, Google has finally fixed the bug where query data was not showing in Universal Analytic's Search Console query report.
Google Search Console mislabeled structured data errors as errors
This was a reporting issue only and did not impact the Google search results.
Google penalties, manual actions and notifications: A complete guide
Learn all about on-page and off-page guideline violations, what Google's messaging means, and how to get a Google manual penalty removed.
4 advanced ways you’re not measuring SEO effectiveness – yet
Measure SEO impact beyond basic traffic and keyword ranking. Learn how your efforts are driving actual business outcomes with these metrics.