I asked the search community to let me know what features they would like to see within Google Search Console that they do not have yet. I received well over a hundred responses, so I figured I’d highlight and summarize them in a blog post here – Google, are you listening?
The list is about 60+ items after over 100 responses – I removed the duplicates.
Here is the post on X where I asked this, feel free to click through and read the raw answers:
Here are the responses, in no specific order, and I tried to consolidate the repeated requests:
Robots.txt tester (Google dropped it recently)
More complete/robuts crawl stats and ability to see full rendered page snapshots
Bard extension for Search Console
Better Crawl Data
Better SERP Features segmented data
Data accuracy and trusting the data more
Better reliability and less outages and bugs
Better click and impression from ALL search features
Move the Crawl Stats/Robots.txt reports out of “Settings” and make them more visible as navigation links
Be able to submit multiple URL’s for indexing like Bing webmasters tools
Faster indexing tool
SERP behavior data showing last click, pogosticking, etc
Change your default time zone
Open up multiple reports in tabs
Ability to dump out inbound links details into Google sheets rather than having to click through line by line.
Ability to break out subdomains and folders without having to verify each property individually
Top stories reporting
SGE reporting
Featured snippet reporting
People also ask reporting
Sitelinks control (we had this but was removed)
Opt out of title and description rewriting
Controls for stopping SGE from using content
A visual to show % change when comparing date ranges. Would also be nice to be able to copy and paste that % change easily out of GSC.
Bulk export with historical backfill… for Export historical URL inspection data, Export crawl data, Export Google Notes data and Export FAQ data
Annotations
Better comparison options for reporting
Full data, unsampled data, forget privacy
Full page render previews
Authority or domain scores
PageRank scores
Improved link reporting
Improving the API and no API limits
Keyword research tools
Aggregated data by week/month/quarter
Trending lines on charts
Top query-to-page download
URL parameter tool (it was removed
Tell me what to improve and what to remove – do it for me
Algorithm update notices and help (i.e. automated action viewer)
A guide to explain all of this to customers
More in-depth in analysis on search appearance
Mobile app for Search Console
Quality rater decisions/notes
More local data, Google Business Listing/Maps inclusion as a search appearance.
Conversion tracking
Multiple URL removal tool
Location of query data
Growth by keyword charts
Content suggestion improvements
Sitelink reporting
Helpful content update actionable advice
Faster user interface
Competitive benchmark data
Why pages aren’t indexed
Page group reporting
Increase characters limits of regex code.
A/B testing
Disavow files reporting
Sitemap management tools
404 page management; show new vs old
EEEAT meter tool
Website health report
The feedback is still coming in but some of the ideas SEOs responded with.
Again, I tried to group duplicate ideas together and I did not post them in any specific order.
What did we miss?
Forum discussion at X.