Preferred domain google search console

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. … [Read more...] about Domain Properties Update Now Available on Google Search Console

Select “Manage Property” from the main Search Console dashboard. Select your website (it should say “Not Verified” next to it), then press “Verify this Property.” Google will list the methods it recommends. If “HTML tag” doesn’t appear here, check in the “Alternate methods” tab. Google will give you the HTML code you’ll need to add, save, and publish to your website’s homepage for verification. Revisit the Search Console dashboard and press “Verify” next to your website. Google will then check for the verification HTML code. Do not remove the code from your homepage after verification, or this will make your site unverified. … [Read more...] about How to Set Up Google Search Console in 5 Easy Steps

Google added a super important note: "Note that with the deprecation we will no longer use any existing Search Console preferred domain configuration." That means Google won't be listening to this anymore and you should double check the Google search results to make sure Google is selecting the correct canonical URL for your site going forward. … [Read more...] about Google Removes Preferred Domain Setting From Search Console

Old Search Console to be out of action by 2019: This month, Mueller informed us that the team was planning to phase out the old version of Search Console by the end of 2019.Consolidating your website traffic on canonical URLs: This month, Google has also decided that data in the Performance report is to be consolidated to canonical URLs. The benefits are that it “unifies all search metrics for a single piece of content into a single URL”, however, it would be nice to have the option to access the raw data as well (this toggle is being phased out on April 10).Planned move to Domain Properties: In November 2018, Google started giving invite-only access to a new Domain Properties feature that will give a more comprehensive view of domains in Search Console and will replace Property Sets.Search Console stats in SERPs: In October 2018, Google started to show metrics from the Performance report directly in SERPs.User management: In August 2018, Google launched a more … [Read more...] about The Latest Google Search Console Updates: What You Need to Know

When you ‘Fetch’ a page, Google will simulate a crawl and you can quickly check any network connectivity problems or security issues with your site. ‘Fetch and Render’ does the same as the above, but it also lets you check how the page itself looks on mobile or desktop, including all resources on the page (such as images and scripts) and will let you know if any of these are blocked to Googlebots. … [Read more...] about Google Search Console: a complete overview