Google Search Console error reporting for Breadcrumbs and HowTo structured data changed
This change may result in seeing more or less errors in your Breadcrumbs and HowTo structured data Search Console enhancement and error reports.
Google Search Console
Google Search Console is a collection of tools and resources to help website owners, webmasters, 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 Tools until taking the current name in 2015.
We invite you to read our guides and tips for using Google Search Console, along with the latest news and feature updates.
Google releases URL Inspection Tool API
You can now programmatically access the data you'd request from the URL Inspection Tool within Google Search Console.
Google Search Console logging issue may cause drop in image search performance data
The issue started on January 24 and is still ongoing, so please note this in your reports.
Google Search Console launches desktop page experience report
We now have a tool from Google to see how well our desktop URLs do with page experience.
Shopify chat bug leads to titles with (1) in Google’s search results
The issue is resolved but it might take time for your titles to be reprocessed.
Google’s page experience update coming to desktop next month
This won't be a big update, but do expect new Search Console reports soon as well.
Why server logs matter for SEO
Server log analysis can provide unparalleled insights into crawl prioritization, enabling SEO teams to finetune their crawl budget management for better rankings.
3 ways to check technical SEO health issues on your website
Technical SEO is vital to keep your website healthy. At SMX Next, Ashley Berman Hale shows how marketers can review their site's crawl stats, rendering and indexing.
Google fixes user and permissions issue with Search Console
Full user permissions no longer shows as delegated owners for some - this is now resolved.
Google Search Console products rich result report error handling updated
On December 28, 2021 Google made a change to how it evaluates and reports errors in product structured data, so you may see a change in errors in that report going forward.
Google Search Console testing announcement bar
Google looks to be testing a new announcement section at the top of the Search Console interace.
SEO 2021 in review: Endless updates, title rewrites, GMB becomes GBP and more
Despite facing a still-raging pandemic and a slew of updates, SEOs rose to the challenge. Here’s our recap of the year’s most important SEO stories and news.
Messy SEO: Fixing site structure while a Google title change sinks clickthroughs
In Part 5 of our Messy SEO series, we look at the results from Google's title tag changes and other SERP issues affecting MarTech.
Google Search Console accessibility issues fully resolved five days later
Although, it seems most of us have been able to access this tool for the past few days.
How to optimize your site for better findability
An optimized site structure serves as the foundation for SEO success. At SMX Create, Niki Mosier shared how to strengthen those foundations and identify opportunities for greater search visibility.
Google Search Console inaccessible for some users
Many SEOs have reported being unable to access Google Search Console.
Google confirmed serving issue with Google Search results
If you see your content not showing up in Google Search this morning, you are not alone - it is a confirmed Google bug.
You can now link Google Analytics 4 to Google Search Console
The ability to associate GA4 and GSC properties gives SEOs more time to assess GA4’s capabilities ahead of the eventual deprecation of Universal Analytics.
Google Review Snippets rich results report updated
You may see a reduction in the number of review objects in this report starting on December 14, 2021.
Google News performance report updated for accuracy, expect impression reductions
This is not a ranking change, this is just a change in how Google reports on your rankings.
How expired landing pages kill your Google rankings
Soft 404s can lead to a poor user experience, fewer conversions and impact your site's visibility more than the loss in PageRank from maintaining them. Here's how to properly deal with expired landing pages.
Seismic event or overblown rebrand: Local search experts weigh in on ‘death’ of Google My Business
Google’s recent rebranding and new profile management options may be a sign that it’s improving features for multi-location brands, while driving adoption with SMBs via profile controls in Search and Maps.
Google drops its mobile-first indexing deadline, leaves it open-ended
Google said because of some difficulties that some sites may have moving to mobile-first indexing, it has decided to not move those sites over yet..
Google had a crawling issues that impacted some sites
Between November 11th and November 17th, Googlebot slowed crawling on some websites.
6 tactics to rank better in Google Discover
While you can’t target users or interests, you can increase your chances of ranking better in Google Discover. At SMX Next, John Shehata shared the tactics he uses to up the odds and analyze what works.
Google Search Console rolls out new design
Google has rolled out a new look for Google Search Console aimed at improving accessibility and user experience.
SiteGround Google’s crawling and indexing issues fixed
After numerous days where sites hosted on SiteGround were blocking Google from indexing, the issue has been resolved this morning.
Google to add page experience ranking signals to desktop search in February 2022
The rollout will be complete by the end of March 2022.
Google Search Console overcounted mobile page experience data since June 29th
For over four months, Google has been overcounting some of this data - make sure you communicate this to your clients when you send them your next batch of reports.
How Google’s continuous scroll can affect impressions and CTR
Reporting remains the same in Search Console, but eliminating the line between pages may result in new user behaviors, which can create winners and losers.
Google tool for reporting domain verification and user management issues with Search Console
Google is piloting a program to allow some users to contact Google over Search Console domain verification and user management issues.
Interpretation of complex and foreign topics; Wednesday’s daily brief
Google app campaigns, podcast knowledge panels and more.
Makes you miss the ‘Don’t be evil’ days; Tuesday’s daily brief
Plus, Facebook's aging user base and what it means for advertisers.
Google Search Console Search Analytics API gains Discover, News and Regex
This data and the features were already in the web interface but now they are also available in the API.
Google Search Console’s public-facing tools to match URL Inspection tool; Tuesday’s daily brief
Plus, Microsoft adds some nifty features to its Smart Page site builder.
Google Search Console testing tools to match URL Inspection tool
The AMP, Mobile Friendly, and Rich Results testing tools will "align" with the URL Inspection tool, said Google.
Something is off with this morning’s newsletter; Friday’s daily brief
Google Search Console beefs up rich results errors.
Google Search Console adds new rich results status reports errors
Here are some details for the rich result reports from Google to help you perform better in the search results.
We asked, you answered: Should Google add noindex support to robots.txt? Poll results
In total, 84% of the 87 respondents said “yes,” they would like this feature.
Comin’ out of my cage, and I’ve been doing just fine; Monday’s daily brief
Gotta, gotta be down because I want it all