Google’s John Mueller confirmed this morning in a webmaster hangout at the 1:09 mark into the video that Google does plan to close down, discontinue, not port, every single feature from the old Search Console to the new Search Console.

This was a question we were not positive on. John Mueller implied back in February that all features would be ported from the old to the new Search Console. Then Gary Illyes said not all – some might be discontinued. Well, now we know some will be discontinued for sure.

John listed one example, the crawl errors section will be going away because it is not useful. Google also might do away with reports that third-party tools have and are redundant to what Google offers. It is not 100% clear.

John said:

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Then about 28 minutes into the video, he said the Search Console team is working on making the link report “more consistent” for whatever that means. He said “I know the Search Console team is working on updating something with regards to the link reports to make it a little bit more consistent.”

So make sure that Google knows which reports you must have that have not been migrated over yet.

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