In Search Console, Google is replacing 'Warning' labels

Google Replacing ‘Warning’ Labels In Search Console

Google is streamlining the way it creates Search Console reports in an effort to help users focus more on significant concerns.

Google is making Search Console data easier to understand so you can concentrate on issues that influence how your website appears in search results.

The 'warning' label for URLs and objects will be affected by the planned revisions. It's unclear whether this status indicates a page or item won't show up in Google.

Top-level items will be designated as valid or invalid to clear up any ambiguity.

'Valid' refers to pages or objects that are free of significant flaws, whereas 'invalid' refers to pages or items that have major flaws.

Google summarises how this will assist Search Console users in a blog post:

"We believe this new grouping will make it simpler to determine which issues have an impact on your site's Google ranking, allowing you to prioritise your corrections."

When looking at reports generated by Google's URL inspection tool, you'll find labels like 'valid' and 'invalid.'

Individual concerns are still classed as error, warning, or good, with colour and symbol used instead of a text label to express this information.

This change has an impact on the following reports:

Core Web Vitals: The classifications of poor/needs improvement/good are kept, but pages are divided into good and bad tables.

 

Mobile Usability: There are two types of categories: 'Not usable' and 'Usable.'

 

AMP report: Warning labels have been replaced by 'valid' and 'invalid' labels in the AMP report.

Rich Results Reports: Events, fact checks, logos, and other sorts of reports will all have new labels.

URL Inspection: A URL's top-level verdict will be one of two things:

• URL is on Google.
• URL is on Google but has some issues.
• URL is not on Google.

 

Because this upgrade is being phased in over the next few months, you may not notice any changes today.

 

This is only a change in Search Console's reporting. The way your website is crawled, indexed, and served in search results remains unchanged.

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