Google wrote, “We are excited to announce Search Console recommendations, a new feature that provides websites with optimization opportunities and suggests actions they can take to improve their presence on Google Search.”
Google Search Console is introducing a new feature that offers recommendations to help improve your site’s performance on Google Search. These suggestions are based on your site’s data within Search Console and aim to enhance its visibility and efficiency.
This feature is still experimental, so not everyone will see it right away. There are two main reasons you might not have access yet: either Google doesn’t have any recommendations for your site (perhaps because your SEO is already top-notch) or the feature hasn’t been rolled out to your account yet. Google is gradually releasing this feature over the coming months, and it will only provide recommendations when there’s something specific to suggest for your website.
When available, these recommendations will appear in the Overview section of your Search Console dashboard. They are regularly updated, so you might see new suggestions appear or disappear from one day to the next.
It’s important to remember that just because Google offers a recommendation, it doesn’t mean you must act on it. As a site owner or SEO expert, you might have insights that override Google’s automated suggestions.
The types of recommendations you might see include issues to fix, opportunities to boost traffic, and configuration tips to streamline your work. These can help you prioritize tasks like using structured data, adding sitemaps, and exploring trending queries and pages.
John Mueller from Google noted that sites affected by the helpful content update won’t receive special treatment in these recommendations. He acknowledged that some early suggestions might not be perfect but emphasized that no struggling site would be excluded.
There’s some skepticism about the usefulness of these recommendations, drawing comparisons to the sometimes-questionable suggestions seen in Google Ads or AdSense. Nonetheless, this feature aims to provide actionable insights to enhance your site’s search performance.
