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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 Search Console Performance report filters now stick
There is a "reset filters" option to remove the filters you previously set.
How to use Google Search Console to unlock easy SEO wins
Steps for using GSC to review your traffic, analyze the search landscape and make impactful optimizations for quick results.
How to fix ‘Crawled – Currently not indexed’ error in Google Search Console
Uncover the reasons behind the 'Crawled – Currently not indexed' error in Google Search Console and solutions to get your pages indexed.
Google Search Console launches recommendations
This is an experimental feature, so you might not see it yet.
Google Search Console now lets you set your shipping and return policies
Search Console shipping and return settings take precedence over other methods, like structured data.
The SEO’s guide to Google Search Console
Dive into Google Search Console's features and reports, plus how to navigate the tool like a pro, from basic setup to advanced SEO analysis.
Google working on fixing latency issues with the Search Performance reports
The reports within Search Console are now delayed by over 52 hours.
Google Search now supports return policy markup at the organization-level
A year ago, Google added support for return policy structured data support for merchant listing and now Google is expanding that support to the organization level.
Google Search Console Performance report adds merchant listings to images report
Google now will show the merchant listing performance within the Google Search Image tab in Search Console data.
Google’s link reporting tool is now fixed
Last week there was a bug with the Google Search Console report.
Google Search Console link report may be broken today
Many are noticing huge declines in the number of links reported in the link report within the Google tool.
Google Search Console reporting error for product snippets
You may have noticed a spike in impressions and clicks between May 15 to May 27 - it was a bug.
Google rolls out AI Overviews in US with more countries coming soon
AI Overview link cards get a higher click through rate than normal web search results but Google won't break out click data in Search Consoles for content creators.
Google Search Console security update improves management of ownership tokens
You can now more easily see and remove which have access to your Search Console profiles.
3 underutilized Google Search Console reports for diagnosing traffic drops
Decode your website's traffic declines with GSC's detailed reports, covering device segmentation, search appearance and crawl stats insights.
Google issues search ranking penalties through manual actions
Check your properties within Google Search Console for manual actions to see if your were impacted.
Google Search Console recipe rich result report adds two new properties
Google added recipeInstructions and recipeIngredient and thus you may see an increase in warnings for recipe items.
Google Search turned off some event rich results
Google says you may see a drop in clicks and impressions for your event search appearance reported metrics in your performance report.
Google performance reports updates how it counts clicks and impressions for job listing and detail pages
No changes were made to Google Search, this is just a reporting change.
Googlebot crawl rate tool is now gone
You can no longer set your desired crawl rate within Google Search Console.
How to link GA4 with Google Search Console
Combine the power of Google Analytics 4 and Google Search Console data for a deeper analysis of your site's organic search performance.
Google Search Console to stop reporting on product results search in performance reports
This e-commerce related search reporting will end next month, in January 2024, Google said.
Google officially drops Mobile Usability report, Mobile-Friendly Test tool and Mobile-Friendly Test API
We knew this was coming and now these Google mobile tools are no longer available.
New Google Search vacation rental rich result
This new vacation rental structured data comes with new Search Console and Rich Results reports.
Google Search Organization markup adds name, address, contact information, and other business identifiers
Google has updated the Search Console and Rich Results test reporting to support these new additions.
Google Search now supports discussion forum and profile page structured data
Google can show these as rich results in Google Search and Google also added new Search Console reports.
Google Search Console was down today
You may be seeing a 500 error when trying to access the tool.
Googlebot crawl rate tool in Search Console is going away
The tool is going away on January 8, 2024 because Google says it is no longer useful.
Google Search Console experience and enhancement reporting bug
Google is working on a fix, this has no impact on indexing or ranking.
Google adds reports for learning video rich results
The reports are within Google Search Console's performance report, where you filter by search appearance.
Google page experience report updated in Search Console
Plus the good page experience search appearance filter from the Performance report has been removed.
Google sees spike in failed hostload exceeded error in Search Console
Google's request indexing tool may be having issues due to abuse by spammers.
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Google adds new vehicle listings structured data
With this new structured data, Gogole launched a new rich results report and testing tool support for the markup.
Google Search stops showing How-to rich results on desktop
This change comes one month after Google announced HowTo would no longer appear on mobile devices and just for desktop users.
Google Search Console rolling out new Merchant Center integrated reports
These new reports will show you issues with products not showing on Search and changes in visibility of your product listings.
Google reduces the visibility of HowTo and FAQ rich results in search
You may see a drop in click through rates from Google Search if you are impacted.
Google Search Console link report fixed
Two weeks ago Google confirmed its link report had reporting issues, those reporting issues are now resolved.