How to connect with Google Search Console

Google Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster) is a free service offered by Google that helps you monitor and maintain your site's presence in Google Search results. 

Connecting your store with Google Search Console and SEO Manager helps you understand how Google views your store and optimize its performance in search results. Plus, this connection gives SEO Manager the opportunity to send Google data about your store on a continuing basis.

SEO Manager makes it easy to connect your store with Google. Here's how:

1

In the SEO Manager app, click Settings:

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Next to Google Search Console, click Connect:

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In the next screen, click Sign in with Google:

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Choose an existing Google account to connect your store to, or click Use another account if you wish to create a new account:

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Click Allow to provide access to your store's data on Google:

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After authenticating with Google and providing access, click Add site to add your store to Google Search Console:

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Follow the steps on this page until steps 1 - 4 are completed:

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If an error occurs or you change domain names or Google accounts, click Reconnect with Google at the bottom of this page and repeat the steps above:

Your store is now connected with Google Search Console. Your sitemap has been submitted, and analytics are currently being processed by SEO Manager from the information gathered through our integration with Google Search Console. This may take a few days (you may read further about data not available here), but sit tight- the wait is worth it.