{"id":5694,"date":"2022-08-24T09:50:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T09:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/24\/google-search-console-to-remove-international-targeting-report\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T09:50:25","slug":"google-search-console-to-remove-international-targeting-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/24\/google-search-console-to-remove-international-targeting-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Search Console to remove International Targeting report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is deprecating the international targeting report in Google Search Console, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/googlesearchc\/status\/1562369672430997504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a>. Google wrote, \u201cThe International Targeting report has been deprecated, and will be removed from Search Console soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report will go away on September 22, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The announcement. <\/strong>Here is the announcement:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The International Targeting report has been deprecated, and will be removed from Search Console soon. We continue to support hreflang and our recommendations for managing multilingual and multiregional sites still stand. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yz4lsHhXhO\">https:\/\/t.co\/yz4lsHhXhO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Google Search Central (@googlesearchc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/googlesearchc\/status\/1562369672430997504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>What was the international targeting report. <\/strong>Google\u2019s International Targeting report was <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-webmaster-tools-beta-international-targeting-reports-195573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched in 2014<\/a> and was used to monitor your\u00a0hreflang\u00a0errors, or to choose a country that should be prioritized for your search results.\u00a0This report had the following sections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Language<\/strong>\u00a0section: Monitor the usage and errors\u00a0of\u00a0<code>hreflang<\/code>\u00a0tags on your site.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Country<\/strong>\u00a0section: Set a site-wide country target for your entire site, if desired.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>International support going forward. <\/strong>Google said they will continue to support hreflang and continue to follow its recommendations for managing multilingual and multiregional sites still stand. You can read more on those <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/docs\/advanced\/crawling\/international-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommendations over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why we care. <\/strong>If you depend on this report for your international SEO efforts, well, you will now need to make the necessary adjustments to your SEO processes. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-search-console-to-remove-international-targeting-report-387477\" target=\"_blank\">Google Search Console to remove International Targeting report<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Search Engine Land<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is deprecating the international targeting report in Google Search Console, the company announced. Google wrote, \u201cThe International Targeting report has been deprecated, and will be removed from Search Console soon.\u201d The report will go away on September 22, 2022. The announcement. Here is the announcement: The International Targeting report has been deprecated, and will be removed from Search Console soon. We continue to support hreflang and our recommendations for managing multilingual and multiregional sites still stand. https:\/\/t.co\/yz4lsHhXhO \u2014 Google Search Central (@googlesearchc) August 24, 2022 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}