I asked the search community to let me know what features they would like to see within Google Search Console that they do not have yet. I received well over a hundred responses, so I figured I’d highlight and summarize them in a blog post here – Google, are you listening?

The list is about 60+ items after over 100 responses – I removed the duplicates.

Here is the post on X where I asked this, feel free to click through and read the raw answers:

SEOs – what features do you wish Google had in Search Console?

— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) January 2, 2024

Here are the responses, in no specific order, and I tried to consolidate the repeated requests:

• Robots.txt tester (Google dropped it recently)
• More complete/robuts crawl stats and ability to see full rendered page snapshots
• Bard extension for Search Console
• Better Crawl Data
• Better SERP Features segmented data
• Data accuracy and trusting the data more
• Better reliability and less outages and bugs
• Better click and impression from ALL search features
• Move the Crawl Stats/Robots.txt reports out of “Settings” and make them more visible as navigation links
• Be able to submit multiple URL’s for indexing like Bing webmasters tools
• Faster indexing tool
• SERP behavior data showing last click, pogosticking, etc
• Change your default time zone
• Open up multiple reports in tabs
• Ability to dump out inbound links details into Google sheets rather than having to click through line by line.
• Ability to break out subdomains and folders without having to verify each property individually
• Top stories reporting
• SGE reporting
• Featured snippet reporting
• People also ask reporting
• Sitelinks control (we had this but was removed)
• Opt out of title and description rewriting
• Controls for stopping SGE from using content
• A visual to show % change when comparing **** ranges. Would also be nice to be able to copy and paste that % change easily out of GSC.
• Bulk export with historical backfill… for Export historical URL inspection data, Export crawl data, Export Google Notes data and Export FAQ data
• Annotations
• Better comparison options for reporting
• Full data, unsampled data, forget privacy
• Full page render previews
• Authority or domain scores
• PageRank scores
• Improved link reporting
• Improving the API and no API limits
• Keyword research tools
• Aggregated data by week/month/quarter
• Trending lines on charts
• Top query-to-page download
• URL parameter tool (it was removed
• Tell me what to improve and what to remove – do it for me
• Algorithm update notices and help (i.e. automated action viewer)
• A guide to explain all of this to customers
• More in-depth in analysis on search appearance
• Mobile app for Search Console
• Quality rater decisions/notes
• More local data, Google Business Listing/Maps inclusion as a search appearance.
• Conversion tracking
• Multiple URL removal tool
• Location of query data
• Growth by keyword charts
• Content suggestion improvements
• Sitelink reporting
• Helpful content update actionable advice
• Faster user interface
• Competitive benchmark data
• Why pages aren’t indexed
• Page group reporting
• Increase characters limits of regex code.
• A/B testing
• Disavow files reporting
• Sitemap management tools
• 404 page management; show new vs old
• EEEAT meter tool
• Website health report

The feedback is still coming in but some of the ideas SEOs responded with.

Again, I tried to group duplicate ideas together and I did not post them in any specific order.

What did we miss?

Forum discussion at X.