Google's migration of Search Console properties to an updated item classification is now complete, the company announces.

Google finishes migrating all Search Console properties to an updated system that simplifies how pages, items, and issues are classified.

An announcement that the migration is complete was published on Twitter today:

We completed the migration. Read more about all the changes related to Search Console's updated issue categorization, including new changes to the Coverage (Page indexing) report https://t.co/m2CakCmVoe https://t.co/FWHxLcoNfl

— Google Search Central (@googlesearchc) August 15, 2022

Two months ago, Google began this effort to help Search Console users focus more on critical issues.

To accomplish that goal, Google Search Console no longer groups URLs or items at the top level by three or more status categories.

Previously, Search Console reports classified URLs with Valid, Warning, and Error labels.

You’ll see items in Search Console reported grouped into two broad statuses to indicate whether they’re valid or invalid.

Invalid means there’s a report-specific critical issue in the page or item, and valid means the item has no critical issues (but may still contain warnings).

Implications for the new valid and invalid identifiers vary by report type. Google breaks down what this means for each report affected.

Search Console still categorizes individual issues as error, warning, or good. What’s changing is these classifications are now implied through color and icons rather than a text label.

These are the changes rolling out to individual Search Console reports:

To be clear, Google Search Console isn’t adding or removing data from reports. This change only affects how issues are classified.

You have access to all the information available before this update rolled out.

For more details regarding changes to the above Search Console reports, see Google’s new help page.

Matt G. Southern, Senior News Writer, has been with Search Engine Journal since 2013. With a bachelor’s degree in communications, ...

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