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Google Search Console is Google's first-party reporting surface for site owners — including its newer generative-AI performance data.
Three items, moving in one direction: Google's own console is becoming the first-party instrument for AI-surface measurement. Search Central announced generative-AI performance reporting in Search Console in June 2026, giving sites impression and click data for AI surfaces rather than third-party estimates. Platform properties finished a staggered global rollout on July 29 — Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube accounts can be verified as Search Console properties with Performance and Insights reports, the first property type requiring no website at all. The same console carries the cost side: its AI opt-out, used to exclude content from AI Overviews, may also remove a publisher from the Top Stories carousel now running inside them, per an analysis Google has not confirmed.
16 items on the wire, newest first. Elsewhere: official · Wikipedia · Wikidata
SEO Cyrus Shepard posted a "small case study" on LinkedIn in which he used Google's Search generative AI opt-out control to block one site from AI…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Oct 30 · · Google Search, Research, SEO
Google's October 21 changelog says it updated the "Control what you share with Google Search" help page to document "existing options such as the robots…
Via Google Search Central ↗ · Oct 21 · · Google Search, AEO
Google's Search generative AI control documentation in Search Console now tells site owners that a top-level domain property will show a notification when…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Oct 6 · · Google Search, AEO
John Mueller and Martin Splitt of Google's Search Relations team said on the Oct. 1 episode of the "Search Off the Record" podcast that a sitemap's…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Oct 5 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google is paying roughly 100 publishers less than 0.1% of their advertising revenue through its AI contribution pilot, The Information reported, per…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 30 · · Google Search, Law & Money, AEO
Google's Search Console performance report help page now gives its Image, Video, and News search-type filters their own one-line definitions: traffic from…
Via Search Console performance report help ↗ · Sep 30 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google's Search Console performance report help page now splits the "Web" search-type filter into two defined categories: "text-based," for ordinary…
Via Search Console performance report help ↗ · Sep 24 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google Search Advocate John Mueller said on Reddit that Search Console does not report where an individual link sits inside an AI Overview — it scores the…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 24 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO, SEO
Google is piloting a program that pays a small group of publishers when their content "contributes significantly" to an AI-generated answer in Gemini, AI…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 14 · · Google Search, Law & Money, AEO
Responding to a Reddit thread, Google's John Mueller said Search Console reports AI Overviews position "as a block" rather than for individual links…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 13 · · Google Search, AEO, Tools & Vendors
Across the 400-plus news publishers NewzDash tracks, Google Discover supplied 67.51% of Google traffic in the fourth quarter of 2025 against 27% for Web…
Via Advanced Web Ranking ↗ · Aug 31 · · Research, Google Search, SEO
Google's Search Console documentation now says the Search generative AI control — the setting that removes a site from AI Overviews, AI Mode and…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 31 · · Google Search, AEO
Google Search Console carries a Search generative AI control under Settings that takes a site out of AI Overviews, AI Mode and generative features in…
Via Google Search Console Help ↗ · Aug 27 · · Google Search, AEO, Law & Money
Search Console's platform properties — which let Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube accounts be verified as first-class properties and show how their posts…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Jul 30 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, SEO
An analysis by NewzDash founder John Shehata, reported by Search Engine Journal, finds Google now places Top Stories carousels inside AI Overviews on…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 28 · · Google Search, SEO
Google's Search Central announced performance reporting for generative-AI search experiences in Search Console, giving sites first-party impression and…
Via Google Search Central Blog ↗ · Jun 3 · · Google Search, AEO
Glossary: AI visibilityAI OverviewsGoogle DiscoverAI Performance (Bing Webmaster Tools)AI Overviews opt-out
