Google in an announcement revealed that there are a number of major updates coming to Search Console over the next few months.
Apart from these updates, Google is also removing some of the legacy features in Search Console.
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New Features to Introduce in Search Console
Google revealed that the following new features will be added in Search Console at the end of March.
1) Crawl Errors will now be found in Index Coverage Report
Google is trying to resolve the issues and patterns utilized for site indexing in order to make the list of crawl errors in Search Console more applicable. As crawl errors are shifted to the index Coverage report, Google believes that site owners can become more capable to find and fix the issues much faster.
2) Sitemaps Data can be found in Index Coverage Report
Now, the sitemaps data will be stored in the Index Coverage Report. According to Google, site owners can easily focus on their URLs. Users can track URLs submitted in sitemap files by targeting and filtering data in Index coverage report.
3) Get as Google through the URL Inspection Tool
Site owners can use refurbished URL inspection tool of Search Console to check and review URLs on their website. Along with offering “Get as Google” capabilities, the inspection tool displays information such as HTTP headers, page resource, and the JavaScript console log.
4) User-management is now in Settings
User management interface of search Console and Setting section are now merged. This has replaced the user-management features in the old Search Console.
List of Old Features to be Removed
Google is removing following features from Search Console. Some of them will be replaced, and some are going away altogether.
1) Old Crawl Errors report
As crawl reports are going to be integrated into Index Coverage report, so the old report will be removed.
2) Crawl Errors API
Google is disparaging the crawl errors API, which relied on the same internal systems as the old crawl errors report. This is not going to be replacement now.
3) Android Apps
This feature will appear no more since most the useful features are now into Firebase console.
4) Blocked Resources
This section is going to remove as it will be found in the URL inspection tool
5) Structured Data reporting
As Structured Data types do not support Rich Results features will not be reported in Search Console.
6) HTML suggestions
Since Google algorithms have improved at displaying and improving titles over the years, Search Console is not going to show information about the short and duplicate title.
7) Property Sets
This feature is going to be removed since has a small number of users.
Hope these updates help you in configuring your search engine optimization procedures effectively and effortlessly.
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