How to Use the New Google Status Dashboard
Sara Taher
SEO Manager @Digital Sisco. SEO Speaker & Author, Python DS ML Enthusiast, Ex Startup Founder, MMSc
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Google just released a new tool called "Google Search Status Dashboard" to help SEOs understand more about what's happening on the Google systems side (what we previously called google updates are now called google systems). As per documentation, the tool is for:
"The Google Search Status Dashboard provides status information on the systems that power Google Search. The dashboard shows issues that affect many sites or users, so if you see an issue listed in the dashboard, it may be related to the problem you're experiencing."
You can access the tool here.
What is the Google status dashboard?
The dashboard is a way for Google to communicate when there's an issue on their end that maybe impacting your website. This is definitely more useful and a faster way to get information about what's going on with Google search than the Google Search ranking updates resource and the Data anomalies in Search Console report.
How to use the Google Status Dashboard?
When the Google search relations team detects a widespread issue, they'll update this dashboard for you, so you can understand what's happening.
Here's a screenshot of the dashboard right now, notice the date, the type of issues that can be reported, the the status:
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The status in the screenshot represented with the green tick shows that at the moment, crawling, indexing and serving functionalities are up and running as usual with no issues.
This green tick can change to any of the following statuses:
Here's what each of those statuses means:
So if your website is experiencing an issue, and you want to check if that's part of a widespread issue, this dashboard is your place to check. This dashboard will not be helpful for you though, if the issue your website is facing is not a widespread issue or is impacting a limited number of websites.
Next steps:
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