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:
The old Google Search Console is no longer available
After over two years since the new version of the Google Search Console has come out, Google has finally removed access to the old...
Google Search Console adds auto-DNS verification
Here is yet another, possibly faster, method to verify web sites in Google Search...
Bing Webmaster Tools allows site verification via Google Search Console
The beta option enables site owners to skip verification by...
Google Search Console API drops more app features
If you are using the Google Search Console API, please make sure to update your tools for these...
Traffic from Image’s Swipe to Visit feature now appears in Search Console
Data is available under the new ‘Amp on Image Results’ search...
Google Search Console sending performance report emails
Your clients may be getting emails from Google Search Console with their performance for the...
Google testing tools now support evergreen Googlebot
After three months, the Google testing tools are now using the latest version of...
Google Search Console doesn’t show data for featured snippets read by Google Assistant
In the second episode of #AskGoogleWebmasters, John Mueller explained some voice search nuances in...
SMX replay: Create dashboards that inform and persuade
Sam Marsden of DeepCrawl explains how to use data visualization to get faster buy-in from management and...
Google Search Console adds mobile-first indexing features
Google adds the date your site switched over to mobile-first indexing to Search Console...
Google Search Console adds search within markup and copy with tweaking
Check out these two new features in Google Search...
Google Search Console drops preferred domain setting
Make sure to watch your Google search results to see if this impacts the canonical URL Google shows in its search...
Google Search Console image search reporting bug June 5-7
Google Search Console had yet another data bug, this one impacted your image search...
Google Search Console performance overview report now shows 90 days of data
There is now more data at a glance within the Google Search Console overview...
There’s a new Speed Report coming to Google Search Console
You can request beta access to this new speed report...
Sitelinks searchbox, logo enhancement and unparsable structured data report added to GSC
Check out these three new reporting goodies Google just added to Search...
Some April Google Search Console data lost, manual actions disappeared
Most of the reports are missing data during the de-indexing bug...
Google Search Console reports back on track after multi-week delay
You can finally now check your coverage and enhancement reports in Search Console after a three-week...
De-indexing bug hits Google Search Console reports, tools
Don't trust the Google Search Console coverage and enhancement reports, nor the URL inspection tool until Google fixes ongoing indexing...
Google Search Console adds Discover report
If your website gets a lot of traffic from Google Discover you may see a new report in the Google Search Console to help you analyze that...