Monday, December 12, 2016
Since initially
announcing property sets
earlier this year, one of the most popular requests has been to expand this functionality to more
sections of Search Console. Thanks to your feedback, we’re now expanding property sets to more
features!
Property sets
help to show how your business is seen by Google across separate websites or apps. For example, if
you have multiple international or brand-specific websites, and perhaps even an Android app, it
can be useful to see changes of the whole set over time: are things headed in the expected
direction? are there any outliers that you’d want to drill down into? Similarly, you could monitor
your site’s hreflang setup across different versions of the same website during a planned
transition, such as when you
move from HTTP to HTTPS, or
change domains.
With
Search Console’s property sets,
you can now just add any verified properties to a set, let the data collect, and then check out
features like the
mobile usability report,
review your
AMP implementation,
double-check
rich cards, or
hreflang / internationalization markup,
and more.
We hope these changes make it easier to understand your properties in Search Console. Should you
have any questions—or if you just want to help others, you can drop by our
Webmaster Help Forums.
How we apply this
Google announcements age. We keep this post here for the record, and we note for clients whether the behaviour it describes still applies today or has since been superseded.
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