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:
Google Rich Results Test tool now out of beta
Google is deprecating the old Structured Data Testing...
Regular expression filter support coming to Google Search Console performance reports
This new support is mentioned in the Google help documents but does not seem to be live...
Google updated guidelines to say spam reports are not for manual actions
Google only uses spam reports to improve its spam prevention...
Google tests showing Analytics data in Search Console with ‘Insights’
With deeper integration with Google Analytics, Search Console can show you beyond the search results page how users are interacting with your...
Video: Daniel Waisberg from Google on Search Console and the Search Relations Team
Daniel has a rich history in the search industry, even writing here at Search Engine Land for years before working at...
Google webspam report: Cracking down on renegade linking practices, auto-generated content
“More than 25 billion pages we discover each day are spammy,” the company...
Google Search Console performance report gets recipe filters
Use these new reports to see how well your recipe markup is performing in Google...
Core Web Vitals report replaces Speed report in Google Search Console: What you need to know
If you are looking for the speed report in Google Search Console, it is no longer named...
Google Search Console adds new guided recipes reports
Get your recipe markup in order with these new Google...
Google Discover performance reports data issue
You may see a significant decline in your Google Discover traffic in Google Search Console, this may be a reporting...
Google Search Console API to stop supporting HTTP and JSON-RPC requests
Many SEOs are still using these methods, so please check your implementations so they do not...
Google Search Console now supports SpecialAnnouncement schema
The Rich Results Test tool now also supports SpecialAnnouncement...
Mixed Directives: A reminder that robots.txt files are handled by subdomain and protocol, including www/non-www and http/https [Case Study]
Since robots.txt files impact crawling, it’s important for site owners to understand how they are treated by search engines. Columnist Glenn...
Google Search Console reports may have changed
Google's AMP, Mobile Usability, Speed, all rich result reports have been...
Google testing Question Hub in the U.S. for COVID-related queries
Initially launching in India and other regions where Google had content gaps, Google is now testing this in the...
Schema.org vs. what Google supports: Know the difference [Video]
And, expert SEOs discuss a Google Search Console feature that would ease their anxieties in this clip from Live with Search Engine...
Google ends support for data-vocabulary.org structured data in rich results
A last reminder to switch to schema.org markup before April 6 to maintain rich result...
Google Search Console adds performance report and email preferences
Google added new controls for Search Console. The SEO community will welcome these new...
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Free trial is a great way to get acquainted with pricey SEO software. So here's a list of SEO tools you can try out before spending...
Google Search Console now lets you export more data
Use your exported Search Console data to join datasets, import it into other tools or visualize the data as you see...