New rich result status reports: Google Search Console announces adding ‘more actionable errors’

Google has announced the addition of more information to the rich results status report issues in its search console. The update of new features aims to assist you in figuring out how to deal with some specific issues. According to Google, this additional information includes five new mistakes as well as improved details across a wide range of error types making them “more actionable.”

Rich results are Google experiences that go beyond the usual blue link on Google surfaces like Search. Carousels, pictures, and other non-textual items can be included in rich results. In the menu carousel, under Enhancements, you’ll see rich result reports for your site. For each rich result type, there is a distinct report.

Google took to Twitter and announced:

Today we're adding more details to some errors on Search Console Rich Results status reports to make them more actionable and help you understand how to solve those issues. Learn more about using the rich result reports and try it out! https://t.co/8pVYPCW6Oy
— Google Search Central (@googlesearchc) October 6, 2021

Google’s Daniel Waisberg highlighted the new detailed mistakes in a tweet:

The new errors that can appear in some SD types. If you have them you'll get more details in the UI:
1. Invalid attribute string length
2. Invalid attribute enum value
3. Invalid object
4. Type conversion failed
5. Out of numeric range@rrlevering to keep me honest https://t.co/FRxv3oGd0o
— Daniel Waisberg (@danielwaisberg) October 6, 2021

Google’s Ryan Levering also suggested that it is important to note that these aren’t new mistakes. Rather, this is improved information on a number of existing cross-type problems. These are items that may have been revealed in SDTT but have yet to appear in reports. These are fairly common mistakes, and they should now be easier to correct.

Google features are stricter definitions but comply with https://t.co/hh6DiyKwVD. So a property might accept only one value type that is valid in https://t.co/hh6DiyKwVD to use in the feature.
— Ryan Levering (@rrlevering) October 7, 2021

The key is that it's not new errors, just better details on a bunch of cross type errors. These are things that may have been exposed in SDTT but we haven't had in reports yet. These are very common errors and now they should be more actionable.
— Ryan Levering (@rrlevering) October 6, 2021

It is worth noting that the introduction of ‘more additional errors’ to rich results status reports indicates that there is a dire need for all web owners to update a website’s structured data. As properly structured data is qualified to be served as a rich result in Google’s search results.

Google has provided also provided a visual guide on how to monitor rich results in Google Search Console. Here it is: