If you are one of those struggling with the fact you have to have four different properties (or more!) for a single site in Google Search Console, Google is still working on a solution. In today’s webmaster office hours, I asked whether there were any updates on solving the issue of having multiple properties for […]
Search Results for: search console
AMP Reporting Updated in Google Search Console: More User Friendly
If you have struggled to sort out some of the AMP errors in Google Search Console, you are in luck. John Mueller has announced that Google has updated their AMP reporting to give clearer explanations of AMP errors and to sort them together. Today, we updated the categorization used there to better group similar issues, […]
New Mobile Friendly Test from Google Search Console
Google is testing a brand new mobile friendly testing tool. Dan Shure from EvolvingSEO was the first to spot the test, which seems to be added as part of a transition to new /search-console/ URLs in the search.google.com subdomain. He shared these screenshots with TheSEMPost, showing the new design and features. Here is what the […]
Google Search Console Transitioning to New /Search-Console/ URLs
Google might finally be transitioning Google Search Console away from the /webmasters/ directory to /search-console/, to match their name change from Google Webmaster Tools last year. Dan Shure, while running some mobile friendly tests, came across a link to the new mobile friendly tester, which was under search.google.com/search-console/ rather than google.com/webmasters/ Here is his screenshot […]
Turn Off Some Types of Notifications in Google Search Console
If you are tired about being notified for what you consider to be “unimportant” notifications from Search Console, Google has announced that you can now disable some types of notifications from being emailed to you. Here are the ones you can opt out of: To opt out, there should be an option in the email […]
Google Updates Search Console API
Using Google’s Search Console API? John Mueller has posted about some updates Google has made to their Search Console API for site owners. # Pagination in Search Analytics. Now you can request more than 5000 rows of data for your site, without having to iterate through filters. Check out the “startRow” field documented in https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v3/how-tos/search_analytics […]
Google Search Console Sending Update Alerts for PageSpeed
Are you using the Google PageSpeed module on your site? If you haven’t updated it recently, you will probably receive an alert from Google reminding you to update it. Here is a copy of the letter that Glen Gabe shared. It seems that many were sent because there are a lot of reports from others […]
Google Working on Consolidating WWW, Non-WWW, HTTPS Properties in Search Console
One of the major pain points for webmasters with Google Search Console is the rather clunky way site owners need to verify – and check – www and non-www versions of their websites in Search Console. Many site owners can get along fine with simply verifying a single property in Google Search Console. In fact, […]
AMP Errors Take Up to a Week to Show in Google Search Console
John Mueller shared some important tips about aggregated reports in Google Search Console. You can find his entire post here, but I am highlighting some of the most important pieces for webmasters. When you are implementing AMP pages for your site, the AMP error reporting within Google Search Console can be handy to help figure […]
Check Google Search Console for New Errors in Hreflang Tags
If you use hreflang on any of your pages, you might want to double check Google Search Console for errors. Many webmasters received “Errors in hreflang” emails from Google yesterday, even for sites/pages that previously passed. You can check for messages from Google, or you can also check the “International Targeting” section in Google Search […]