Google: Search Console
What is Google Search Console?
Google Search Console is a collection of tools and resources to help website owners, webmasters, web 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 Central and then Google Webmaster Tools until taking the current name in 2015.
Read our How To Guides and tips for using Google Webmaster tools, along with the latest news and feature updates below:
After Google manual actions expire, algorithms may handle some of those site penalties
Google has confirmed again that manual actions, human-driven search penalties, can expire over...
Google Search Console out of beta, adds more features
Google has added a manual actions section to the new Google Search Console, and the URL inspection tool now works in real...
Google updates user management and rights in Google Search Console
Google is making some important changes to the user permissions and roles, please review these changes so you know how you may be...
Google clarifies Search Console query report data changes from August 19th
After much confusion, Google has issued a statement clarifying the changes made to the query reports in Google Search...
Google Search Console query reports now exclude ‘anonymous query’ data from chart totals
When applying a query filter to reporting in Google Search Console, anonymous queries will be removed from click and impression totals....
Google to automatically verify your Google Search Console account if you are the property’s owner in Google Analytics
Google is opening up Google Search Console automatically, so countless webmasters and site owners will have more access to data and important...
New Google Search Console has added the links reports from the old interface
Google continues to port features from the old Google Search Console to the new beta Search...
New Google Search Console adds mobile usability report, manage users & adds site features
Google brings more features from the old version of Google Search Console to the new beta...
Google: The Search Console Index Coverage Report is now more accurate
Do not confuse the Google search algorithm update with the update mentioned in the Google Search Console....
Google to stop supporting public URL submissions to its search index
Google's public form to submit new URLs to Google is going...
Google Search Console Search Analytics API now gives you 25,000 rows per request
Get more from Google faster with some changes to the Google Search Analytics...
Google’s URL inspection tool now available for all users
After launching this tool 15 days ago, it is finally now available for everyone to use within the new Google Search...
Google Data Studio now gains 16 months of Search Analytics data
Now you can get 16 months of Search Analytics data in the Data Studio, Search analytics API and the beta Search Console...
Google web spam report: Less than 1% of sites visited from search results are spammy
Google doubled down on removing unnatural links, reduced link spam by almost...
How to take advantage of strategic PPC audience targeting
Contributor Amy Bishop shows us how to use audiences within paid search campaigns to target and convert prospects more...
Google Search Console releases URL inspection tool
Check out the new tool that shows you details about how Google crawled, indexed and processed a specific URL on your...
Google Search Console Analytics API now has 16 months of data
About 6 months after the historical data rolled out in the Google Search Console user interface, it now has come to the...
Ranking factors session recap from SMX Advanced 2018
If you couldn't attend SMX Advanced, have no fear. Contributor Eric Enge outlines one of the more controversial sessions and reports on what the...
How to determine if you’ve been hit by negative SEO
Knowing you've been hit by a negative SEO campaign is crucial to fighting it. Contributor Joe Sinkwitz outlines the tools and steps you can take...
New Google Search Console adds filter for Web Light search appearance
For the first time, Google is showing webmasters how many of their visitors access their sites in Google search via the Web Light version for...
