What is Google Search Console?
Google Search Console is a web service by Google which allows webmasters to check indexing status and optimize visibility of their websites. Until 20 May 2015, the service was called Google Webmaster Tools
How do you link Google Search Console accounts on ReportGarden?
In order to link your Google Search Console accounts to ReportGarden, please follow the steps below
Navigate to ReportGarden -> Accounts.
Click on Link Account
Click on Google Search Console
You will be redirected to Google Search Console authentication screen. Enter your credentials, and give access to ReportGarden to read campaign performance data.
You will be redirected back to ReportGarden and the account will be visible in ReportGarden
Google Search Console Metrics and Dimensions
Google Search Console orders a wide variety of analytics, which are listed as below
Dimensions
The following dimensions are available for Google Search Console
Dimension | Definition |
Time | Date - group by daily, weekly, monthly and yearly |
Keywords | Keywords that are used to visit the website |
Device | The device on which the website was visited |
Page | The page of the website visited |
Sitemaps | Sitemap of the website |
Measures
The following measures are available for Google Search Console
Metric | Metric Definition |
Clicks | The number of clicks on your website URLs from a Google Search results page, not including clicks on paid Google Ads search results. |
Impressions | The number of times any URL from your site appeared in search results viewed by a user, not including paid Google Ads search impressions. |
Position | Average organic position in Google search results |
CTR | Click-Through Rate (clicks divided by impressions) |
Warnings | No of pages that show warnings Note: Available only for sitemaps dimension |
Errors | No of pages that show errors Note: Available only for sitemaps dimension |
Submitted | No of pages that show submissions Note: Available only for sitemaps dimension |
Indexed | No of pages that show indexed Note: Available only for sitemaps dimension |
Data Freshness and reporting durations
Google Search Console is a live connector
Data can only be fetched over a window of 14 months.