Integrate Google Search Console with Conductor
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Data from this integration appears in the Search Console Analytics and Pages reports. After you integrate Google Search Console with Conductor:
- The platform immediately collects and publishes your keyword data from up to the most recent 16 months in Search Console Analytics. Then, Conductor collects and publishes keyword data daily and adds it to the initial dataset it collected when you integrated. Conductor retains all of this historical data for you to report on.
- Page-level data in Pages appears with the rest of your page metrics during your next data publication.
You can create as many integrations as the number of web properties you've purchased to track in Conductor. Additional integrations may be purchased. Contact your Customer Success Director to get access to creating additional integrations.
Permissions
To configure this integration, users may have any permission level in Google Search Console. However, any changes in your Google account needed to accommodate this integration must be made by a user with Full User or Owner permissions on the account.
How to set it up
- Go to Google Search Console settings in Conductor or follow the path Settings > Google Search Console.
- From the dropdown menu, select the web property group you want to integrate with a Google Search Console account.
- Click Add a New Integration.
A Google authorization page appears. - Enter the email address or username your organization uses for Google Search Console administration and click Next. Note: As a best practice, use credentials for a Google Search Console account that belongs to your organization rather than to you personally. At times, some users use a personal Search Console account. In these cases, integrations fail when the account owner leaves the organization or when their work credentials are deactivated.
- Enter your password for the email or user name you entered above and click Next.
- Click Allow to allow Conductor to create the integration. You are returned to Conductor.
- From the dropdown menu, select a property from those you have access to in Google Search Console.
Note that if you do not see the expected domains from your Google Search Console account among the domains listed here, the email address you used to authenticate your Google Search Console account with Conductor may not have access to that property. Contact your analytics administrator or a user with Full User or Owner permissions on the Google Search Console account to give the email address access to the property or to complete the integration for you in Conductor. - Enter a name for the integration that will appear elsewhere in Conductor.
- Click Save to create the integration. The integration now appears on the Google Search Console page in the Settings section.
Modify a Google Search Console Integration
There are times when you might need to update the Google Search Console integration associated with one of your tracked web properties in Conductor. One common example of this occurs when an organization moves their site from the http protocol to https. Conductor can retain the historical data from the integration with the http site and merge it with data from the integration with the https site.
Permissions
To configure this integration, users may have any permission level in Google Search Console. However, any changes in your Google account needed to accommodate this integration must be made by a user with Full User or Owner permissions on the account.
- In the Setting menu, go to the Connections section and select the web property group you want to integrate.
- Click Google Search Console.
- From the list of your integrations, find the integration you want to modify, and click Modify Integration.
- Click Modify.
A Google authorization page appears. - Enter the email address or username your organization uses for Google Search Console administration and click Next.
Note: As a best practice, remember to use credentials for a Google Search Console account that belongs to your organization rather than to you personally. At times, some users use a personal Search Console account. In these cases, their organizations are unable to access the account in the event the account-owner leaves the organizations. - Enter your password for the email or user name you entered above and click Next.
- Click Allow to allow Conductor to create the integration. You are returned to Conductor.
- From the dropdown menu, select the property you this integration to use going forward.
- If you want, enter an updated display name for the integration
- Click Save.
Delete a Google Search Console Integration
Based on your organization's needs, you may need to delete an integration with Google Search Console. Data from Google Search Console appears in the Search Console Analytics report.
Permissions
To modify this integration, users may have any permission level in Google Search Console. However, any changes in your Google account needed to accommodate this integration must be made by a user with Full User or Owner permissions on the account.
- From the Connections section in the Settings menu, select the web property group with the Google Search Console integration you want to delete.
- Click Google Search Console
- From the list of your integrations, find the integration you want to delete, and click Delete.