The new Search Console is graduating out of Beta 🎓

Tuesday, September 04, 2018

Today we mark an important milestone in Search Console’s history: we are graduating the new Search
Console out of beta! With this graduation we are also launching the Manual Actions report and a
“Test Live” capability to the recently launched URL inspection tool, which are joining a stream of
reports and features we launched in the new Search Console over the past few months.

Our journey to the new Search Console

We
launched
the
new Search Console
at the beginning of the year. Since then we have been busy hearing and responding to your
feedback,
adding new features such as the
URL Inspection Tool, and
migrating
key reports and features.
Here’s what the new Search Console gives you:

More data:

• Get an accurate view of your website content using the
  Index Coverage report.
• Review your Search Analytics data going back 16 months in the
  Performance report.
• See information on links pointing to your site and within your site using the
  Links report.
• Retrieve crawling, indexing, and serving information for any URL directly from the Google index
  using the
  URL Inspection Tool.

Better alerting and new “fixed it” flows:

• Get automatic alerts and see a listing of pages affected by Crawling, Indexing, AMP, Mobile
  Usability, Recipes, or Job posting issues.
• Reports now show the HTML code where we think a fix necessary (if applicable).
• Share information quickly with the relevant people in your organization to drive the fix.
• Notify Google when you’ve fixed an issue. We will review your pages, validate whether the issue is fixed, and return a
  detailed log of the validation findings.

Simplified sitemaps and account settings management:

• Let Google know how your site is structured by
  submitting sitemaps
• Submit individual URLs for indexing (see below).
• Add new sites to your account,
  invite and manage users.

Out of Beta

While the old Search Console still has some features that are not yet available in the new one, we
believe that the most common use cases are supported, in an improved way, in the new Search
Console. When an equivalent feature exists in both old and new Search Console, our messages will
point users to the new version. We’ll also add a reminder link in the old report. After a
reasonable period, we will remove the old report.

Read more about how to migrate from old to the new Search Console, including a list of improved
reports and how to perform common tasks,
in our help center.

Manual Actions and Security Issues alerts

To ensure that you don’t miss any critical alerts for your site, active manual actions and
security issues will be shown directly on the Overview page in the new console. In addition, the
Manual Actions report
has gotten a fresher look in the new Search Console. From there, you can review the details for
any pending Manual Action and, if needed,
file a reconsideration request.

URL Inspection – Live mode and request indexing

The
URL inspection tool
that we launched a few months ago now enables you to run the inspection on the live version of the
page. This is useful for debugging and fixing issues in a page or confirming whether a reported
issue still exists in a page. If the issue is fixed on the live version of the page, you can ask
Google to recrawl and index the page.

We’re not finished yet!

Your feedback is important to us! As we evolve Search Console, your feedback helps us to tune our
efforts. You can still switch between the old and new products easily, so any missing
functionality you need is just a few clicks away. We will continue working on moving more reports
and tools as well as adding exciting new capabilities to the new Search Console.

Posted by Hillel Maoz and Yinnon Haviv, Engineering Leads, Search Console team