Screenshots from the new Index Coverage Report in Google Search Console (GSC) [Updated]
The new Index Coverage report in GSC (being tested now).

Screenshots from the new Index Coverage Report in Google Search Console (GSC) [Updated]

Update: 9/22/17: I just noticed that Google added export functionality to the new Index Coverage report! That's an awesome addition, and one many SEOs have been requesting for a long time.

It looks like you'll be able to export all pages indexed by property (in addition to exporting all of the other categories of urls in the new Index Coverage report). As of now, you are limited to exporting the standard 1K urls in GSC. But once they add API access (which they hopefully will), you should be able to export all of the urls (well beyond the 1K limit). Awesome:

OK, so just found out it's cool to share some screenshots from the new Index Coverage Status report in GSC (which is being tested now). Here we go:

Have pages indexed, but not being submitted in sitemaps? The new Index Coverage report will surface these for you. No export yet, though.

If Google finds duplicate pages & no canonical tags, it will choose one as the canonical url. It's not always right. These will be surfaced.

Probably the most interesting (to me anyway) is the indexed, low interest report. The urls rarely appear in Search. *Could* be low quality. But *DO NOT* simply nuke these pages. I'm checking some that aren't low quality. Some are def thin or low quality, but not all. Beware.

Or how about pages submitted, but noindexed? These will also be surfaced in the new Index Coverage report. Dig in & make changes, if needed.

And many have asked for this for a LONG TIME. The new Index Coverage report will surface "submitted and indexed" urls. Hopefully with export. So if you've wondered, "which urls are indexed??", this report should help out. Probably not for large-scale sites, but for small to medium.

Here's another interesting category. Indexed, but blocked by robots.txt. These urls actually 404, but Google can't crawl them to know.

Some other items surfaced: urls removed due to legal complaint, queued for crawling, dropped from index, discovered but not indexed (yet). Stay tuned. 

GG

Dylan Howell

Co-founder of an SEO agency.

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Amazing.

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