Google Search Console is a free online platform used to monitor Google Search results data for your website. Google Search Console features several useful tools and reports that can help you better understand, and ultimately improve, how Google’s crawl bots view your website.
Sharing access to your Google Search Console property with your digital marketing agency is crucial. This allows the team of experts to monitor, maintain and troubleshoot your website’s presence within Google’s search results, which can help improve visibility and rankings.
How to add a user to Google Search Console
1. Login to your Google Search Console account. Make sure that this is the account that is the Owner of the website property.
2. Select the website property that you want to share access to. If you have more than one website property in Google Search Console, select the correct one in the drop-down menu under the Google Search Console logo on the left-hand side of the screen.
3. In the column on the left-hand side of the screen, scroll down to Settings.
4. On the settings screen, select ‘Users and Permissions’.
5. On the Users and Permissions screen, click the blue ‘Add user’ button.
6. A dialogue box will open. Here, you need to enter the email address of the user you want to grant access to your website property in the email field. If you’re working with Engage Web, this is the email address provided in our onboarding email.
Next, you need to open the dropdown field and select the appropriate permission level between Owner, Full and Restricted. If you’re adding Engage Web as a user, select Full. When you click add, the user will receive an email notification providing access to the property in Google Search Console.
What is the difference between Google Search Console permission levels?
When providing a user with access to your website property in Google Search Console, there are three different permission levels to choose between, with five different levels of access. These include Owner, Full and Restricted.
Owner
Users with Owner permission have full control of the property in Search Console. There can only be one Verified Owner; however, additional users can be provided with Owner permissions, but are referred to within Search Console as Delegated Owners.
Owners can add/remove users, configure settings, use tools and view data.
Full
Users with Full permission can view all of the Google search result data stored within the property, and can take some actions, including submitting URL requests to be indexed.
Restricted
Users with Restricted permissions may only view some of the data stored within the website property.
You can find more information on the permission levels of Google Search Console properties in Google’s handy guide.
How to change a user’s permission level on Google Search Console
To change the ownership permissions of a user already added to your website property within Google Search Console, repeat the steps above to navigate to the Users and Permissions screen.
The users with access will appear in a list, featuring their name, email address and permission level. Select the three dots on the right-hand side of the screen on the row of the appropriate users and then click ‘Change permissions’. A dialog box will appear when ‘Change permissions’ is selected. Use the drop down to select the appropriate permission level.
To remove a user, select the three dots of the appropriate row and click ‘Remove access’. Before the change is made, you will need to confirm the removal of access in the popup box.
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