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 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...
9 of the best SEO tools you can try for free
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...
Google Search Console Change of Address tool adds redirect validation & reminder
Google has some new features in Search Console to help you move your...
Google Search Console adds review snippets performance, enhancement and testing reports
If you have implemented reviews on your pages, you won't want to miss out on these new tools and reports from...
Google Search Console fixed a bug with Google Tag Manager verification
Check to see if your properties are still verified in Google Search...
Google Search Console launches new removals tool
The new tool temporarily block URLs from showing in Google, it shows outdated content and content filtered by...
Google Dataset Search is out of beta and adds new features
If you want to capitalize on this speciality search engine, make sure to add datasets schema where...
Google Search Console unparsable structured data report data issue
No need to panic, the errors you may be seeing in Google Search Console might be related to a bug with Google and not an issue with your web...
Google handles reconsideration requests in batches
John Mueller said that the Google team goes through reconsideration requests in batches, so sometimes it can feel like there is a...
Google working on fixing data in URL parameter tool
The legacy URL parameter tool in Google Search Console is having some issues, Google is aware and working on...