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 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...
Measuring the quality of popular keyword research tools
Contributor JR Oakes measures the quality of popular keyword research tools against data found in Google search results and performing page data...
Google sent 45M notifications through Search Console, 6M of which were search spam-related
Google sent about 3 million fewer manual actions this past year than the previous...
Priorities for diagnosing JavaScript-powered websites
Contributor Maria Cieslak digs into JavaScript and some of the chaos associated with it and compiles a detailed checklist you can use as a...
Google updates mobile-friendly test, rich results test tools to better support JavaScript sites
Is your site heavily built in JavaScript? No worries. Google just updated two of its popular tools to support...
New Google Search Console adds Search Appearance filters and more
You can now filter your Google Search Performance reports by Rich results, AMP non-rich results, AMP article, job listings and job...
UK webmasters prepare for #Brexit – the EU is coming for your .eu domains
You may want to consider migrating to a new domain now, so you can set up your redirects and new marketing push a year in...
Hijacking Google search results for fun, not profit: UK SEO uncovers XML sitemap exploit in Google Search Console
SEO wins bug bounty from Vulnerability Reward Program, Google search team confirms the exploit no longer...
Google begins rolling out mobile-first indexing to more sites
Sites that follow the best practices for mobile-first indexing will be migrating over now, and Google will send notifications via Search...
Getting results from your website means asking the right questions
Contributor Dianna Huff explains that blending website data, smart online and proven offline marketing tricks of the trade will generate new...
Google confirms bug with crawl stats in ‘time spent downloading a page’ Search Console report
No need to worry, the Google Search Console crawl stats drop last week was indeed a...
Google Search Console blocked resources report had processing error
You may notice decreased counts of pages with blocked resources in Google Search Console. Google has fixed it, but the reports may be off for...
Google changes request recrawl limits, noting daily limits versus monthly quotas
Google has finally disclosed the new recrawl limits by revising the help document over the...
Monitoring web migrations: A checklist for moving from one site to another
Contributor Aleyda Solis walks through what to monitor during a web migration and explains how to fix issues so you don't lose traffic and...
Google Search Console request indexing limit removed from interface
Google won't comment on why quota details in the fetch tool are no longer...
Google officially announces the new Google Search Console is available for everyone
The Search Console UX team shares how user feedback played a role in the evolution of the new...
Google Search Console AMP report error now corrected
Users should see updated data this...
