Announcing domain-wide data in Search Console

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Google recommends verifying all versions of a website—http, https, www, and non-www
—in order to get the most comprehensive view of your site in
Google Search Console.
Unfortunately, many
separate listings can make it hard for webmasters to understand the full picture of how Google
“sees” their domain as a whole. To make this easier, today we’re announcing
domain properties
in Search Console, a way of verifying and seeing the data from Google Search for a whole domain.

Domain properties show data for all URLs under the domain name, including all protocols,
subdomains, and paths. They give you a complete view of your website across Search Console,
reducing the need to manually combine data. So regardless of whether you use m-dot URLs for
mobile pages, or are (finally) getting the
migration to HTTPS
set up, Search Console will be able to help with a complete view of your site’s data with regards
to how Google Search sees it.

If you already have DNS verification set up, Search Console will automatically create new domain
properties for you over the next few weeks, with data over all reports. Otherwise, to add a new
domain property, go to the property selector,
add a new domain property,
and use
DNS verification.
We recommend using domain properties where possible going forward.

Domain properties were built based on your feedback; thank you again for everything you’ve sent
our way over the years! We hope this makes it easier to manage your site, and to get a complete
overview without having to manually combine data. Should you have any questions, you can
drop by our
help forums,
or leave us a
comment on Twitter.
And as always, you can also use the feedback feature built in to
Search Console
as well.

Posted by Erez Bixon, Search Console Team