Preferred domain google search console

By Sean Last updated on February 28, 2019 at 05:46 pm Google Search Console has received a number of updates over the past few months, with these updates giving the tool more functionality and introducing a new interface that is more user-friendly and organized. While an AMP crawl bug hampered the tool for a short time, Google Search Console in 2019 remains an essential SEO tool that works efficiently. Speaking of updates, Search Console has received another update in the form of Domain Properties. Here’s what you need to know about this new update, and how it makes using Search Console much more efficient. Domain Properties One of the best features of Google Search Console is the ability to track and verify every version of your website, which comes in handy when identifying individual page performance and issues that need to be optimized. Despite having this feature, one of the issues was how the domains were organized and presented. Listings were separate, which makes it … [Read more...] about Domain Properties Update Now Available on Google Search Console

Jun 15, 2018 by Kristien Matelski Search Engine Optimization Vizion Interactive Google wants your website to succeed. The search engine powerhouse has proved this again and again with the incredible tools it offers businesses and website owners. One tool you shouldn’t pass up is Google Search Console. Google Search Console is the new name for the suite formerly known as Google Webmaster Tools (GWT). Google Search Console is a free webmaster console that generates a wealth of information about your website and its visitors. It lets you track metrics such as the number of site visitors, where they came from, what devices they’re using, and what pages they like the most. It also makes it easy to detect and repair issues with your site, submit a sitemap to Google, and more. If Google Search Console sounds like a tool that could benefit you, set up an account with the following steps. Start a Google Account First, if you don’t have a Google account, you’ll need … [Read more...] about How to Set Up Google Search Console in 5 Easy Steps

Google announced it has removed the preferred domain setting from the old Google Search Console interface. It is gone - I don't see it anymore and you can no longer set this in Google Search Console.The feature, I believe, was part of the toolset from launch - I believe. I know they made some changes to it back in 2006 but I believe it launched with the toolset when it first launched. In 2008 they moved it to the settings section and when Google launched the new Google Search Console - Google decided to not move it along and kill it off.Truth is for years Google has been saying you don't need this setting - you can just use redirects or other methods to communicate the preferred domain to Google. Now Google is saying the same thing "You can find detailed explanations on how to tell us your preference in the Consolidate duplicate URLs help center article. Here are some of the options available to you:"(1) Use rel="canonical" link tag on HTML pagesGoogle added a super important note: … [Read more...] about Google Removes Preferred Domain Setting From Search Console

Updates to Google Search Console are coming fast and furious. Even for the most eagle-eyed of SEO professionals, it can be hard to keep on top of all of the latest developments.As such, I thought it would be helpful to provide an easy-to-digest overview of what we know about Google’s plans to migrate features over from the old version, as well as looking at the evolution of the new version of Search Console.I’ll aim to keep this post updated with the latest releases and developments, but don’t hesitate to drop me a message if I’ve missed anything.What’s Been/Being Migrated to the New Search Console?The chief source of confusion about the new version of Search Console has been around how Google is dealing with the transition from the old version, as not all of the features are being moved directly into the new version.Instead, Google is taking the opportunity to reassess the tools and reports that they provide to be more useful for users and to align more … [Read more...] about The Latest Google Search Console Updates: What You Need to Know

The Search Console (or Google Webmaster Tools as it used to be known) is a completely free and indispensably useful service offered by Google to all webmasters. Although you certainly don’t have to be signed up to Search Console in order to be crawled and indexed by Google, it can definitely help with optimising your site and its content for search. Search Console is where you can monitor your site’s performance, identify issues, submit content for crawling, remove content you don’t want indexed, view the search queries that brought visitors to your site, monitor backlinks… there’s lots of good stuff here. Perhaps most importantly though, Search Console is where Google will communicate with you should anything go wrong (crawling errors, manual penalties, increase in 404 pages, malware detected, etc.) If you don’t have a Search Console account, then you should get one now. You may find that you won’t actually need some of the other fancier, … [Read more...] about Google Search Console: a complete overview