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 Page Experience report and filters for Search Performance report
These new reports give us more information to prepare for the new timeline for the page experience update...
Google Search Console performance report image impression change
Google changed how it counts impressions for image search in the performance reporting, you may notice a drop in...
Google Search Console adds regular expression support and more data filtering to Performance reports
More ways to slice and dice your organic search data in Google Search...
Google adds practice problems and math solver structured data and Search Console reports
Online education businesses may want to leverage these new structured data types to get more exposure in Google Search...
Google Search Console users experience crawl stats report data issue
Between March 10th and March 23rd there was a data issue with the crawl stats report, no Google Search performance issues were associated with...
Google clarifies the SharedArrayBuffer notification
After much confusion, Google explained why it send out these notifications and what your next steps should...
Google Search Console rich results report updated
Google tweaked some of the job posting structured data requirements and also how it checks the validity of FAQ and Q&A structured...
Google Search Console adds ‘associations’ so you can link with other Google accounts
These can give you a better and wider view of your data across your various Google...
Google updated metric boundaries for core web vitals in Search Console
You may see more green scores in your core web vitals report in Search...
Quest for more coverage: Making a case for larger exports from Google Search Console’s Coverage reporting
Google Search Console's Coverage reporting only allows one thousand row exports, which limits the ability to see pattens on larger-scale...
Google Search Console Discover performance report now includes all data
Also be on the look out for the new origin referrer for Chrome Google Discover...
Google crawl stats report now showing more crawls
Google said this is just a reporting change and the change you see in crawling is not reflective of any change in search...
Google News performance report added to Google Search Console
Google Search Console now lets you dive in to how well your news site performs in Google News and the Google News...
Google updates the Search Console coverage report
The updated report now gives you very specific categories and labels for errors and...
SEO year in review 2020: COVID forces platforms to adapt their local and e-commerce offerings, and more
Even a pandemic couldn’t slow down developments in the search industry. Here’s our recap of the year’s most important stories and...
Google Search Console brings back request indexing tool
After 69 days of it not working, it is now back up and...
Google temporarily disables issue validation in Search Console
Yet another feature has been disabled in Google Search Console, this comes months after Google disabled the request indexing...
Google to move the Structured Data testing tool to schema.org
After the SEO backlash around Google announcing it would deprecate the tool, Google decided to migrate it...
Google Search Console API gains fresh data & more
Not only can you get fresher data via the API, you can also manage your domain properties and...
Google launches new crawl stats report in Search Console
Google has revamped the crawl stats report to provide actionable and useful data to your crawling...